Ian Bailey

The claim, if true, would mean Bailey knew the French film producer - contrary to his insistence that he never met her.

I think he said in a statement that I had told him that on one occasion that Jules and myself had hosted a dinner party at which Sophie Toscan du Plantier and her lover Bruno were present. “I think this new investigation is in a way that the gardai recognise that there have been some mistakes during the original investigation and so they need to do a new one with new technologies. Despite that Bailey says for now he remains “open minded” about the new investigation - and he is waiting to be contacted by the cold case team. “It’s a dirty, rotten, stinking lie. It’s a piece of erroneous misinformation. According to new claims, a man told gardai that Bailey once confided in him that he and Ms Thomas had Ms Toscan du Plantier and her then lover Bruno Carbonnet over for dinner prior to her murder in December of 1996.