Ian Bailey’s former partner Jules Thomas yesterday said she won’t take him back if he is made homeless.
The 66-year-old was given notice to quit his apartment in Bantry, West Cork, before Christmas but was able to remain there due to the eviction ban.
The lifting of the ban yesterday means Mr Bailey, who was arrested twice over the 1996 murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier, will soon have nowhere to live.
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Yesterday, Ms Thomas said she no longer speaks to Mr Bailey and won’t be offering him a place to stay.
She told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “No, I certainly won’t be taking him in. We broke up a while ago and we’ve gone our separate ways.”
Ms Thomas, who is a talented artist, also said she was unaware he faced being evicted from his apartment, adding: “I haven’t spoken to him in a while.”
It is understood the landlord wants to sell the property, leaving Mr Bailey with just more than four weeks to find somewhere else to stay.
In recent days he said he could be forced onto the street and was fearful of the future.
Mr Bailey said: “After all I have been through I do not know what I am going to do. It is extremely worrying and stressful.
“I have been given until May 1 to vacate and I am trying to find alternative accommodation in West Cork where I have lived for 30 years.
“Accommodation in Ireland at the moment is rarer than hen’s teeth. The situation is causing me severe anxiety, fear and apprehension.”
Mr Bailey became homeless in 2020 when he had to move from the house he shared with his former partner. She owned the property.
At one stage he was the prime suspect in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder but Mr Bailey always denied he had anything to do with it and maintains to this day he never knew the 39-year-old.
Film director Jim Sheridan, who spent seven years probing the case, strongly believes he is innocent and the killer came from France.
Mr Bailey was convicted of murder in absentia by a French court over three years ago and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
He never showed up for the trial which was branded a “kangaroo court” by his lawyers said to include hearsay evidence which would not be admissible in an Irish court of law.
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