A Garda Sergeant has denied that Ian Bailey's partner Jules Thomas was treated aggressively when arrested in connection with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier and that the arrest of her teenage daughter was designed to put pressure on her.
Mary Burbage was giving evidence in Mr Bailey's High Court action for damages for wrongful arrest.
Sgt Burbage, who was a detective with the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in 2000, agreed that she had gone to Ms Thomas' bedroom on the morning of her second arrest and remained in the room while she dressed.
She denied that she had stood over Ms Thomas while she used the bathroom.
She denied that she had commented on Ms Thomas' previous partners describing them as "hopeless men".
Sgt Burbage said she would not have made such a comment or judged Ms Thomas.
She said she did not believe Ms Thomas was frightened during her arrest or that she would have signed memos because she was terrified.
She said at no time did Ms Thomas present as someone who was frightened and she had seen her solicitor a number of times during that day.
She would not agree that the arrest of Ms Thomas' then 17-year-old daughter Frenella was over the top.
She said it never crossed her mind to suggest that Frenella should be simply questioned rather than arrested on suspicion of covering up for Mr Bailey.
It was put to her by counsel for Mr Bailey, Ronan Munro, that it was nonsense to suspect her of covering up for Mr Bailey because it was clear that she had a poor relationship with him.
Sgt Burbage said this was not known to her before the arrest of Frenella Thomas.
She denied that when Frenella Thomas became upset during her interrogation that a Garda Bernie Hanley an "expert witness breaker" was brought in.
Sgt Burbage said Garda Hanley had dealt with Frenella in a very kind way.
Mr Munro said Garda Hanley's area of expertise was to use females to break suspects as had been shown in another unrelated investigation.
She denied that the arrest of a 17-year-old was to show Ms Thomas that the gardaí were in charge and they could arrest her children if they wanted to so they could put further pressure on her.
Mr Munro put it to her that gardaí did not mind if a 17-year-old child got caught in the cross fire.
Sgt Burbage said: "That is very untrue."
Acquaintance believed Bailey admitted murder
The High Court has heard an acquaintance of Mr Bailey's understood he was admitting to the murder of Ms Toscan du Plantier during a visit to Mr Bailey's home in 1998.
Richard Shelley said on New Year's Eve in 1998 Mr Bailey cried as he said "I did it. I went too far."
He said he and his wife had met Mr Bailey and Jules Thomas in a pub on New Year's Eve and had gone back to their house.
He said Mr Bailey took out newspaper cuttings of the murder and they looked at them for about an hour.
He said Mr Bailey and Ms Thomas went to bed and then Mr Bailey came out of his room and took away blankets he had given them earlier.
Mr Shelley then phoned his father to collect them and while he was waiting he said Mr Bailey came out of his room crying and put his arms around him and said: "I did it. I did it."
When he asked him a number of times what he had done, he said Mr Bailey said "I went too far." Mr Shelley said he believed Mr Bailey was referring to the murder.
He believed the murder was weighing heavily on his mind because it was the main topic of the night.
He said his wife became nervous and they decided to leave before his father arrived and walked half a mile before they met his father on the road.
He also said he met Marie Farrell on the street one day and she said she had been offered thousands from a newspaper to give an interview.
He said Ms Farrell asked him if he thought she should take the money before saying "f**k it, I'm taking it. It will pay for my windows and doors".
During cross-examination, Mr Shelley said he would remember what Mr Bailey said that night until he died because he was shocked by it.
Mr Shelley said he decided not to tell his father what had happened. He did not make a statement to gardaí until six months later.
Counsel for Mr Bailey, Ronan Munro, suggested to Mr Shelley that on the night they had been talking about Mr Bailey's violence towards his partner Ms Thomas.
Mr Shelley said this had not come up in conversation that night.
Mr Munro said if the things he said had been said the first thing he would have done was tell his father and gardaí.
He did not accept that.
Mr Munro suggested that in the seven months between the incident and the making of the statement it would be impossible to put down an accurate record. He denied this.
Mr Shelley also denied claims by Ms Thomas that he was so drunk on the night that he could not have remembered what exactly was said.
He also denied telling Ms Farrell that Mr Bailey "could have said anything to him that night" and that the gardaí "twist everything". He said that was a complete lie.
Earlier, a former employee of Ms Farrell's, Geraldine O'Brien, told the court that in 2014 Ms Farrell told her that Mr Bailey was involved in a court case and would receive a substantial amount of money from it.
Ms O'Brien said Ms Farrell mentioned a couple of million and said she would probably get some of it too.
During cross examination she said she was aware that Ms Farrell had denied this.
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