I GOT TO CARRY OUT IAN'S DYING WISH WITH SIS..

Bailey's ex-partner Jules tells of scattering his ashes into the sea

- BY JOHN KIERANS

JULES Thomas got to say a private goodbye to her longtime lover Ian Bailey and threw most of his ashes into Dunmanus Bay as was his dying request.

She and his sister Kay Reynolds met up several days after a memorial service for the former journalist and longtime suspect in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder, was held for his friends in West Cork.

Artist Jules, who lived with Bailey for more than 30 years until they split up in 2021, got very upset when she discovered she wasn't invited to the original service.

She revealed: "It was all a bit of a misunderstanding. I heard from a journalist up in Dublin the day before that this get-together for Ian was going ahead and I could not believe I wasn't asked.

"It turned out that his sister Kay did not have a telephone number for me and a few days later she made contact.

"One of Ian's dying wishes was to have his ashes released in Dunmanus Bay.