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A 23-year investigation: What next for the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case?
- Crime & Law
- December 23, 2019, 12:00
The full story of Ian Bailey’s conviction in a French court and the next steps in the legal battle Monday December 23rd marks the 23rd anniversa(...)

The Paris high criminal court has convicted Ian Bailey of French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder, more than two decades after her badly beate(...)

Evidence against Bailey ‘overwhelming’, Paris court hears
- Crime & Law
- May 31, 2019, 18:01
Prosecutor Jean-Pierre Bonthoux said there was “overwhelming” evidence that Ian Bailey murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier in his summing up at the cl(...)

From Paris to west Cork and back: The story of the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation
- Crime & Law
- May 31, 2019, 12:40
The body of 39-year-old Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found close to a laneway near her holiday home, in the isolated townland of Drinane, outside (...)

French court finds Ian Bailey guilty of murdering Sophie Toscan du Plantier
- Crime & Law
- May 31, 2019, 06:44
English journalist, Ian Bailey has been found guilty by a court in Paris of the murder of French film producer, Sophie Toscan du Plantier almost a qua(...)

Ian Bailey trial hears Toscan du Plantier planned to meet ‘a poet’
- Crime & Law
- May 28, 2019, 13:03
Murder victim Sophie Toscan du Plantier revealed a week before she was due to go to west Cork in December 1996 that she was due to meet “a weird guy w(...)

Ian Bailey’s trial in France puts Ireland in difficult position
- Irish News
- May 25, 2019, 01:00
The murder of a French woman in west Cork dominated the news at the end of 1996. I spent the holidays in Dublin and still remember the moment I first (...)

Ian Bailey’s partner among witnesses asked to testify at murder trial
- Irish News
- May 21, 2019, 01:00
Ian Bailey’s partner Jules Thomas and Marie Farrell are among the witnesses whom the French authorities have asked to come to Paris next week to (...)

Court overturns decision to allow Ian Bailey retrial of civil action
- Courts
- March 14, 2018, 10:50
The Court of Appeal has overturned its decision permitting a retrial of part of Ian Bailey’s civil action for damages over the conduct of the Garda in(...)

Court’s decision on partial retrial of Ian Bailey case an ‘error’
- Courts
- December 13, 2017, 13:26
The State has urged the Court of Appeal to overturn its decision permitting a retrial of part of Ian Bailey’s civil action over the conduct of the Gar(...)