Ian Bailey has revealed he is getting attention from “big bosomed” female admirers since his split from long-term partner Jules Thomas.
The former journalist, who was a key suspect in the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, said he had received a raft of messages from women online.
He added: “I was a social media virgin until recently and then I put up posts and went from zero to 100 in 60 seconds.
“I put up a Twitter account, Facebook account and Instagram and I noticed I am getting quite a lot of contact from members of the female sex through my Facebook page.
“I just happened to notice that I’ve had a lot of contact through Facebook and the majority of the contacts are from ladies and a lot of the ladies have big bosoms.
“But you have a lot of women out there who are not real and are actually men. All of this is completely novel and new to me.”
However, he claimed his involvement with the high profile case has hindered his search for alternative accommodation and he still resides at Jules’ West Cork home.
He said: “I couldn’t be sure but a couple of places I have looked at, when they became aware that it was me, all of a sudden, without any explanation, the places were no longer available.
“I can see things from the other side. If I had a place and I came, unless I was extremely sympathetic to the situation, I would probably say no as well.”
Bailey also told how on Monday he was refused entry to a restaurant he has frequented for years in Schull.
Meanwhile, the Englishman revealed he is furious with Netflix bosses after it was claimed in their documentary, Sophie: A Murder In West Cork, that he washed a black coat in a bucket at his home the day after the murder.
The three-part series is one of two documentaries on the subject to have been released in the last month, the first being Sky’s Murder At The Cottage by Jim Sheridan.
An Italian woman who was staying with Bailey and Jules at the time of the killing told Netflix she saw a coat being washed in a bucket at the house.
However, in her statement to gardai, she had said she saw clothes being cleaned in the bath.
Another witness interviewed in the documentary, former Detective Superintendent Dermot Dwyer, told Netflix the coat was actually burned by Bailey.
But Bailey insisted it was “a fictitious story” and that his coat was among the items seized by gardai from his home.
He said: “I haven’t watched [the Netflix series]. I don’t intend to watch it. Although somebody has drawn to my attention a particular scene in it which features what appears to be a coat in a bucket.
“This is an absolute load of b******s. You have somebody making up a fictitious story. That is before the Christmas Day swim. And yet on the Christmas Day swim in the Jim Sheridan project, I can be quite clearly seen to be wearing a long dark coat.
“Also, you have I believe a retired superintendent Dermot Dwyer saying in the Netflix documentary – and I think in Jim’s documentary – that I had burned the coat and yet in the list of items that were seized from me, the first item on the list is a long black coat.”
Bailey said he was considering suing the streaming giant over the claims.
A spokesman for Netflix said it would be making “no comment”.
