Actress tells Bailey trial she never felt afraid of him
A charity worker and former West End actress has told Ian Bailey's High Court action that she spent a lot of time alone with the journalist and never felt afraid of him.
Claire Wilkinson likened two detectives working on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder to "The Blues Brothers" and said they tried to make her feel scared of her friend.
Wilkinson said she befriended Ian Bailey in West Cork when they worked together on a community film project.
She said she spent time alone with him, never felt afraid and found him to be a "bit pathetic" when drunk rather than aggressive.
The actress said after the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, two detectives told her exaggerated "ridiculous things" about how she should be afraid of Ian Bailey, that 200 women had made statements saying they were scared and that he had jumped up and down on a stick at moonlight in the middle of the road.
The jury heard she was told to think about it deeply by the detectives who she likened to the blues brothers, one tall, one small, who later said they wouldn't need a statement from her.
Ian Bailey's wrongful arrest action continues next week.
