Jules Thomas has denied pressuring her daughter to change her statement made to gardaí about the movements of her mother and Ian Bailey on the morning the body of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier was discovered.
Frenella Thomas had told gardaí that Ms Thomas and Mr Bailey went out for about two hours on the morning of 23 December 1996.
This has been disputed by both Ms Thomas and Mr Bailey who say they did not leave the house until after they learned about the body being found.
In cross-examination today it was put to Ms Thomas that she had phoned her daughter in May of this year and tried to pressure her to change that statement but Frenella had declined to do so.
Ms Thomas denied pressuring her daughter but accepted she had telephoned her this year.
She said her daughter would not have known her movements that morning as she never got out of bed before 12 and had told gardaí anything because she was pressured and was very young at the time.
She said the fact that her daughter would not change her statement had caused her sadness.
Mr O'Higgins said Frenella Thomas' husband Tadgh O'Driscoll "will give evidence that in his presence you tried to get Frenella to change her statement and she wouldn't do it."
Earlier, Ms Thomas told the High Court she was "terrified and traumatised" during her second arrest in September 2000 and signed statements that were partially concealed by gardaí.
Ms Thomas is still under cross-examination in the action by Ian Bailey against gardaí and the State arising out of the conduct of gardaí during the investigation of the murder of Sophie Toscan Plantier in 1996.
In response to questions from senior counsel for the State Paul O'Higgins, Ms Thomas said she signed the statements because she was terrified by gardaí shouting at her and pressuring her very heavily.
She said she had no opportunity to read the statements before signing and they were put in front of her with gardaí partially concealing them with their hands.
Mr O'Higgins put it to Ms Thomas that it was unlikely she would have signed inaccurate statements having already complained about statements from her first arrest being inaccurate.
Mr O'Higgins said at the time of the second arrest she had been dealing with solicitors for years and had had legal advice not to sign any statements.
"In no circumstance is that true," Mr O'Higgins said, adding: "You were extremely well rehearsed in these matters by that time and had years of contact with solicitors at that stage.
"You were well versed as to what you could do and that was simply to refuse to sign it," he said.
Ms Thomas replied: "I felt under enormous pressure they were not going to take no for an answer. They were shouting at me very loudly. I was very frightened of them."
Mr O'Higgins said it was "wholly incredible" that she did not report her allegations about garda behaviour to her solicitor whom she had seen during that day and afterwards.
Ms Thomas said after her interrogation she was "in too much shock to speak".
Ms Thomas also denied that visitors to her home in January 1999 heard Mr Bailey say: "I did it, I went too far", during a conversation about the murder of Ms Toscan Du Plantier.
It was put to Ms Thomas that friends Richie and Rosie Shelley had been drinking with them and had planned to stay in their home that night but left in the early hours of the morning after the conversation with Mr Bailey.
Mr O'Higgins said gardaí were told that Mr Bailey had been obsessing about the murder and produced a scrapbook about it and that he later cried while saying he did it.
In the witness box this morning Ms Thomas said that was not correct because Mr Bailey was talking about his violence towards her when he said "I went too far."
She also said he never said "I did it", but was instead referring to what gardaí constantly said about him.
She said the Shelleys were "out of it" that night and would not have been compos mentis at the time.
She did not accept they were upset and that was the reason they left in the early hours of the morning when they had earlier planned to stay.
She denied saying to gardaí that what they said was true or that they left because they had heard enough.
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