This is it, I thought. He’s going to kill me’ — my four days in Schull with Ian Bailey, well Brigid, you are alive and well, thank God.

Six months after the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, Brighid McLaughlin found herself alone on an isolated mountainside with the chief suspect in the case

Brighid McLaughlin

Yesterday at 02:30

“Apart from the fine lads who tried to save him on the street in Bantry, I can tell you now — no one else was rushing to call an ambulance,” said a farmer friend of mine who lives outside the town. This rather harsh comment last week really reflects the divisive nature of prime suspect Ian Bailey’s life in West Cork. And now that he’s dead, the case has raised its fascinating, grotesque head once again.

All week, people are asking me: “You met him, Did he do it or no