The High Court has heard that a recorded phone call between a garda and a key witness in the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier suggested a very close relationship.
Retired detective garda Jim Fitzgerald is being cross examined for a fifth day in Ian Bailey's case against An Garda Síochána and the State for wrongful arrest.
The jury has been hearing a telephone conversation between Mr Fitzgerald and Marie Farrell in October 1997.
Mr Fitzgerald agreed during cross examination that the conversation suggested a very close relationship.
He agreed he was a regular visitor to her home but denied that he often drank whiskey with her husband.
He said he was helping the family with their problems but denied it was part of a pattern of him fixing things up for Ms Farrell.
He said she had asked him to phone gardaí about driving offences and had dropped his name at check points but he never fixed anything up for her or her husband.
During the conversation Mr Fitzgerald refers to a babysitter and said: "It's a good f***ing job she has nothing to throw at me".
Asked to explain how her babysitter would have anything on him he said: "She didn't."
Asked what he was afraid of he said: "Nothing. Except hassle and trying to sort out the family problems."
He said the reference to the babysitter going to the gardaí related to an incident with one of Ms Farrell's children who was slapped by the babysitter.
He denied that he had made this up and instead was suggesting to her that it would be easy to say he was slapped.
Mr Fitzgerald agreed his friendship with Ms Farrell came to an end after she had given a statement to another garda having twice refused to make a statement to him.
The jury heard a recording of a long phone conversation during which the detective was angry and emotional and said he was at the lowest point ever because of the investigation.
Several times during the call he expressed anger that she had given the statement to another garda.
He denied there had been a plan to present Ms Farrell to the DPP as a non cooperative witness and that her statement had interfered with that.
He also denied that he had orchestrated statements from Ms Farrell alleging intimidation by Mr Bailey.
He said Mrs Farrell's claims that he needed her to help build up a profile of Mr Bailey as a dangerous an intimidating person were incorrect. He said the intimidation had taken place.
He said Ms Farrell was so panicked by it that she had telephoned his home number to report it.
The calls from Ms Farrell caused his wife to put their home phone on a "do not answer" setting, he said.
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