A garda who taped conversations with a witness in the Sophie Toscan Du Plantier murder investigation has denied that gardaí engaged in inappropriate propaganda rather than investigation.
Garda Michael Coughlan was giving evidence in Ian Bailey's High Court case against the Garda Commissioner and the State for wrongful arrest.
Gda Coughlan, who was responsible for taping garda calls and conversations, said he was "just making conversation" with the witness, Martin Graham, during a car journey in May 1997.
He denied that his asking Mr Graham if he had ever seen Mr Bailey lose his temper or his suggestion that he was seething under the surface was inappropriate.
Counsel for Mr Bailey, Ronan Munro, said statements by another garda during the same meeting claiming women were afraid of Mr Bailey was "propaganda not investigation".
He said Gda Coughlan's contribution to the conversation in the car showed he was not merely drafted in on the day to do the taping and he was familiar with the witness.
Gda Coughlan said Mr Graham was a very different person to the one portrayed in the witness box.
He said he was ex-British army with specific skills who was very tuned in and "not the down and out druggie portrayed in court".
Asked if he regarded Mr Graham as a witness or an informant, he said he regarded him as a witness in the case if he had made a statement.
However, Gda Coughlan said he was aware Mr Graham may have been working on both sides of the fence.
It was suggested to him that gardaí were trying to make the case against Mr Bailey look good on paper and they had a strategy to get him charged and remanded in custody. He said the strategy of the time was to solve the case.
Asked if he had an open mind or believed Mr Bailey was guilty, he said he had an open mind.
A woman who video-taped Ian Bailey at the Christmas Day swim in Schull in 1996 has told the High Court she got a fright when she saw scratches on Ian Bailey's hand as she shook it.
Florence Newman denied that the issue of the scratches must have been put into her head by someone else because she never mentioned it in her first two statements to gardaí.
Counsel for Mr Bailey, Jim Duggan, said Ms Newman had not mentioned the scratches until 9 years later.
Ms Newman said she remembered seeing the scratches and thinking "wow, how did they get there?"
When asked why she would wonder something like that she said "because of the climate at the time".
It was two days after the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier.
She said the reason she did not mention the scratches to gardaí at the time is because it was "out there a couple of days later" that he had scratches on his hand.
Ms Newman denied the atmosphere she was referring to was an "anti-Bailey" atmosphere. However she agreed that Mr Bailey was viewed differently by people after the murder.
She said on the day Mr Bailey had his hands deep in his pockets before he took out his hand to shake hers. She denied that she had said this to convey that he was attempting to hide his hands.
Mr Duggan showed a video tape to the jury in which Mr Bailey waves his hands around as he recited poetry.
He said Mr Bailey's hands were on display for all of Schull to see.
Ms Newman agreed his hands could be seen in the video but said he then put them in his pockets.
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