A retired Garda who worked on the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier has told the High Court that no inducements were offered to witness Marie Farrell in return for evidence against Ian Bailey.
Jim Slattery was giving evidence in the action by Mr Bailey against the Garda Commissioner and the State for wrongful arrest.
Mr Slattery said he had no recollection of Ms Farrell being told that a summons against her husband would be taken care of if she identified Mr Bailey as the man she had seen at a key location near the murder scene.
He also said Ms Farrell was not shown a video of Mr Bailey in a garda's house.
He said there was a television on when he arrived at the home of Kevin Kelleher, where Ms Farrell was talking to gardaí.
However, he said there was "no movement on it and no discussion about it."
During cross examination he said the television was "paused".
He accepted he could not say what happened before he arrived.
He said no notes were taken at the house because Ms Farrell did not want anything written down at that stage.
He was asked if he thought it was unusual to interview a witness in a garda's house and said he believed that was what Ms Farrell had wanted to do.
However, he denied that Ms Farrell had been told to say this.
He also denied that gardaí told Ms Farrell they knew Mr Bailey was the killer and they just needed her to place him at Cealfada bridge.
"No such discussion took place'" he said.
He said he had no recollection of anyone telling Ms Farrell that all they needed was two lines of a statement and no one would ever know about it.
He agreed it was unusual that no memo of the meeting was taken at the time by any of the three gardaí who were present.
He said this was at the request of Ms Farrell who did not want notes taken.
He denied the reason for this was because Ms Farrell was told she would never have to go to court and that gardaí hoped to get an admission from Mr Bailey if they arrested him.
He also denied a claim by Ms Farrell that he had suggested "rounding up" the height of a man she saw near her shop in the days before the murder.
He said he would have had no reason to suggest this as he did not even know Mr Bailey at the time.
Jim Slattery said they were later asked to take a statement from Marie Farrell. He was asked if Marie Farrell was told to sign pages and told that gardaí would "work it out later".
He replied "that never happened".
Earlier, a woman told the court she contacted gardaí after her son told her he took a lift from Mr Bailey but had not given gardaí "the full story".
Amanda Reid said her then 14-year-old son Malachi did not mention anything after taking a lift home from Mr Bailey on 4 February 1997.
But the following day he was questioned by gardaí at school and seemed agitated when he arrived home.
He told her he had been questioned by gardaí about taking a lift with Mr Bailey but he had not told them everything.
She said she considered the matter so serious she decided to call gardaí and make a statement.
The jury has already heard that gardaí cited an admission by Mr Bailey to the 14-year-old as one of the grounds for him being a suspect.
Mr Bailey has denied this.
Ms Reid was giving evidence in the action for damages by Mr Bailey against the Garda Commissioner and the State for wrongful arrest.
Billy O'Regan, who worked at a creamery near Schull said he saw scratches on Mr Bailey's hands when he came to the shop on Christmas Eve 1996.
Mr O'Regan said Mr Bailey asked to have the blade on his saw changed because it was cutting crooked and said he would return to collect it later.
He noticed Mr Bailey had scratches on his hands which he considered might be got from cutting or clearing briars.
Frank Looney, a retired garda, said he had filled in questionnaires with Ms Farrell on 17 January 1997, which included references to her seeing Ms Toscan du Plantier in her shop trying on an Aran sweater.
Ms Farrell said she had seen a man across the road at the time Ms Toscan Du Plantier was in the shop.
On the day she answered the questionnaire she saw the same man in the street in Schull and pointed him out to gardaí.
Mr Looney said this was Mr Bailey.
He said Ms Farrell kept talking and talking and he was writing as fast as he could.
He noted on the questionnaire that Ms Farrell was very helpful and had said detectives should call to her to her.
Mr Looney said the questionnaire, which contained two different coloured pens, was filled out on the one day.
He said while answering questions about the first two sightings of the man she then left the shop and went onto the street and said he was out there.
He said she then pointed out a man he knew to be Ian Bailey but Ms Farrell did not mention a name.
However he said he could not explain why there was a reference to Ian Bailey on a second page of the questionnaire when at the time Ms Farrell would not have known Ian Bailey.
He was asked by counsel for Mr Bailey "How did that get in there?" Mr Looney said he could not explain it.
He agreed it would tend to suggest that she knew Ian Bailey.
