There WAS something disquieting about my eccentric old colleague Ian Bailey. But do I believe he battered beautiful socialite Sophie Toscan du Plantier to death? I don't think so, writes DAVID JONES

Ruthlessly ambitious and with an air of arrogance, he boasted of spy contacts at GCHQ but ended up 'hounded to his grave' after being accused of a shocking murder, writes DAVID JONES.

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