Sophie Toscan du Plantier

2022 - 7 - 11

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Gardai to fly to France to speak to new suspect in Sophie Toscan du ... (Buzz.ie)

“It is the first time we have another suspect in the case other than Ian Bailey and we want to find this person, interview them and get their DNA. Promoted ...

He was sentenced to 25 years prison but the Irish courts have refused to extradite him. Gardai know his name and have been given the address where he lives. Bailey’s lawyer Frank Buttimer has always maintained her late husband had some act or part in her death. Sophie had split up with her lover, French artist Bruno Carbonnet, several weeks earlier, while Daniel then went on to marry the model he had been seeing behind his wife’s back. The French police have promised to give full cooperation. Gardai will fly to France to track down and speak to a new suspect in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder, The Irish Mirror reports.

Gardaí head to France to track down new Sophie Toscan du Plantier ... (JOE)

Sophie was killed in 1996. Gardaí are expected to fly to France to track down a new suspect in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case. Advertisement.

The man is believed to have been identified as the suspect after Farrell assisted Gardaí with a photofit. She was killed by blunt force trauma and the murder weapon was discovered to be a rock found outside her home. Last month, Gardaí confirmed that the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier is active and ongoing, with the Garda Serious Crime Review Team set to conduct a full review of the case, following a review by the Assistant Commissioner of the Organised and Serious Crime division.

Gardai To Fly To Paris To Interview New Sophie Toscan Du Plantier ... (Extra.ie)

Detectives aim to take a statement as well as a DNA sample from the suspect who was identified after Ms Farrell worked on a photofit with investigators. In a ...

and both of those, in my experience, have fell well-short of an independent and objective review of the case. 'I welcome the news that, in effect, there's going to be a cold case review,' Mr Bailey said. Retired Assistant Commissioner John O’Driscoll, has said the emergence of a new suspect was one of the reasons they sanctioned the a cold case review to go ahead. He has long argued Daniel played a role in his estranged wife's death and pointed to his 'very strange' behaviour at the time of the murder including the fact that he never travelled to West Cork to bring the body home. Gardai leading the cold case review into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier are due to fly to Paris to interview a new suspect in the case. The man was a known associate of Sophie's late husband Daniel who was having an affair at the time of Sophie's gruesome death.

Gardai will travel to France to track new suspect in Sophie Toscan ... (Cork Beo)

The revived investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in her holiday home in a remote part of West Cork will take Gardai officers to France ...

He was sentenced to 25 years in prison but the Irish courts have refused to extradite him. Tragic Sophie was bludgeoned to death with the rock and concrete block 100 yards from her home. He believed Mr Du Plantier’s behaviour was “ very strange” around the time of the murder. He was sentenced to 25 years prison but the Irish courts have refused to extradite him. He said: “I genuinely believe the blood on the concrete block and rock used to take her life will in the end help catch the killer. Instead, he made a statement to the Garda via the French police.

Gardai to fly to France to track new Sophie Toscan du Plantier ... (Sunday World)

The man was identified after Ms Farrell assisted with a photofit and film director Jim Sheridan, who made the Sky documentary Murder At The Cottage about the ...

French police have also promised to give full cooperation. “I am hoping that the latest most up-to-date forensic technology will help get a DNA blood sample match and we will solve this riddle once and for all.” “For all we know he could be the killer, we have to check it all out.”

'Nothing will be left to chance' in review of Sophie's murder (Southern Star Newspaper)

BANTRY and Bandon are going to be the base of operations for a cold case review of the investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, ...

‘This is going to be a forensic investigation,’ he added, ‘nothing will be left to chance. He said the gardaí have been in contact with Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud, the son of the late Sophie Toscan du Plantier, and they are keeping him apprised of the review. ‘We will be looking at that and new methodologies – we will be looking at everything,’ he said.