The region of West Cork in Ireland was shaken to its core on December 23, 1996 when one of its residents, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a French television producer, wife, and mother of one, was murdered at her isolated cottage. The cottage as documented in the award-winning Acast podcast, West Cork was decorated in a relaxed, minimalist manner. Her husband got remarried in France, on the same day her family erected the stone cross memorial that stands at her place of death in Cork. The 297 recorded calls regarding the investigation which had survived a flood were investigated by the Fennelly Commission. Locals have had to deal with the morbid fascination over the home as the case has stretched on over the last 25 years. , Awesome, Youre All Set! Mon, 19 Jan, 2004 - 00:00. Who was Sophie Toscan du Plantier? Justice is abstract when its not your loss, Gazeau says, but for a family, it is something in your blood. Frances Murphy, Health and Safety Inspector, previously told Cork Circuit Criminal . Located on the far westerly coast of Ireland, its full of magnificent views as the rugged coastline gives way to the wild Atlantic sea. We all get on with our lives, people come down from Cork, but whenever I go, say, down to Kerry, the murder comes up when I tell people Im from Schull and everyone mentions it. She was 39 years old and a regular visitor to Ireland from Paris, where. 08/08/2021. People were flabbergasted that she, a mother, would be there by herself so late in December. The location was so remote, the community so tight-knit, that such violence seemed incongruous. Schull postmaster Tom Newman, who works in the centre of the village, has followed the many twists and turns in the long-running story over the past 25 years. Several witnesses have contradicted this. While Ian Bailey, a local journalist during the time of the murder, remains the sole suspect in the investigation, the true-crime case is still legally unresolved. Graham McGrath. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. By Samantha Bambino / Jan. 19, 2022 11:32 am EST. 4 hours ago, by Eden Arielle Gordon Sophie Toscan du Plantier was born in 1957 and lived in Paris with her parents Georges and Marguerite Bouniol, and brother, Bertrand Bouniol. But the director of public prosecutions was never satisfied that there was enough evidence to bring him to trial. An ex-lover of du Plantier's, who'd been upset at the end of their affair years earlier, also had an alibi. Yet unavoidably, Sophies loved ones cannot rest until they know who murdered her. The announcement to her husband . He found "laceration and swelling of the brain, fracture of the skull, and multiple blunt head injuries". Unfortunately, the name Toormore is now infamous for being the location of the 1996 violent murder of French citizen Sophie Tuscan du Plantier. [8], While under investigation, he continued to write news articles alleging the victim had "multiple male companions" and steering suspicion for the murder away from West Cork toward France.[9]. Im here 40 years the overwhelming sentiment and my grasp of it, such as it is, is that people feel sorry for him [Bailey]. He thinks most locals don't believe Bailey had anything to do with Ms Toscan du Plantier's murder and that he was treated unfairly by the Garda. And the person who is the suspect, he loves the publicity and thrives on it.. Twenty-five years ago a French producer on vacation in West Cork, Ireland, was murdered. Various true crime accounts have been produced: "Eoin Bailey" redirects here. Schull postmaster Tommy Newman thinks the good, decent people of Ireland want somebody to be charged they want the murderer to be found. However, Bailey.css-47aoac{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#A00000;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-47aoac:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;} always officially denied any involvement in the death, and no forensic evidence has tied him to the crime. In true crime, that tends to mean talking heads spouting platitudes about how the deceased lit up a room and, often, how . Ive had people coming in to me wondering where the murder happened. No signs of sexual assault were found. A neighbour who found the body of tragic Sophie Toscan du Plantier has put her West Cork home on the market. It has never become a cold case it always comes back to life its just an unresolved situation that is going on now for over 20 years and I think the older people here, who know about it, have that sense of the incompleteness of it. We have to live with the fact that well never actually know what happened. Liberated from the what?, this true crime instead asks who?, Sophie: A Murder in West Cork is on Netflix from 30 June, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The landscape becomes a character the West Cork scenery. The executive producer is Simon Chinn, the double-Oscar-winning documentary producer behind Man on Wire and My Scientology Movie (which shares this projects director, John Dower). Baudey-Vignaud still visits and spends time there every year and, in Skys documentary Murder at the Cottage, he shows that his mothers coat still hangs on the back of a door in the kitchen where she left it over 25 years ago. It was close to Christmas. Sophie's blood was also found on the door of her cottage. Photograph: Eric Luke, It's just taking away from the horror of what happened and how violent and brutal it was because it was a shockingly violent crime. In 2007, the Association for the Truth on the Murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier ne Bouniol was founded by her family in order to advance the investigation. We had people bringing their grannies and their small children to look at the cross marking where Sophie was found, and then some of them were cheeky enough to drive up to the house and peer in the windows that sort of thing. Advertisement In 1996, Sophie was was found dead outside her . With support from du Plantier's friends and relatives, such an investigation gained momentum in 2008. On 11 January 1997, a woman who lived in Schull rang the Garda from a payphone using an alias to state she saw a man on Kealfadda Bridge at 3am on the night of the murder. France was hoping to secure an extradition from Ireland on the basis of this sentence but on October 12, 2020, Ireland's High Court ruled that Bailey could not be extradited. For the American actor, see, Last edited on 15 February 2023, at 01:38, phone calls at Garda stations had been secretly recorded, Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform v Bailey, "Statuant Selon la Procdure de Dfaut Criminel; Affaire Ian Bailey: motivation insrer l'arrt criminel", "The Murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier", "From Paris to west Cork and back: The story of the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation", "Sophie Toscan du Plantier tue en Irlande", "Where is the 'Sophie Tuscan du Plantier house' in West Cork? Jules Thomas owns two separate properties in Lissacaha. Two days before Christmas 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier's body was discovered by a neighbour in an isolated laneway beside the house her husband, Daniel, had bought her in west Cork. Another three witnesses stated they were offered crime scene photographs at about 11am. The most obvious and straightforward road route is "over the top" via Dunmanus, but there is a road route that goes via Kealfadda Bridge too. [4], Toscan du Plantier was found at 10 a.m., dead, dressed in nightwear and boots, in a laneway beside her house, by a neighbour. The renewed conversation about the murder may have had an impact as a new statement has now been given to Gardai about the infamous case. The filmmakers life and murder are the subject of a new Netflix documentary. She was found dead on the morning of 24th December just outside her holiday cottage in West Cork. By Roger L. Kennedy The most obvious and straightforward road route is over the top via Dunmanus, but there is a road route that goes via Kealfadda Bridge too. A woman living nearby had found her body there on the morning of December 23. Ian Kenneth Bailey was born in Manchester, England. Ms Toscan du Plantiers former neighbour, Shirley Foster, who discovered the film producers body that fateful morning, says she wont be watching the documentaries but she has seen it all before media publicity leading to a surge in people coming to the house. Authorities in France received the Irish case files and exhumed du Plantier's body to conduct their own examination. Bailey and his partner gave conflicting accounts of his whereabouts on the night of the murder. There had been no indication of forced entry at du Plantier's home, indicating she willingly opened her door. The house belonging to Sophie du Plantier and the cross which marks the spot where she was murdered. She was 39 years old and a regular visitor to Ireland from Paris, where she lived with her husband, a celebrated film-maker, and 13-year-old son, Pierre Louis Baudey-Vignaud. Pierre-Louis Baudley-Vignaud, the only son of murdered French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier, pictured in Bantry. The victim becomes three-dimensional again, her character restored. He had pressed for a cold case review when he met senior officers in west. The Garda file on the case remains open and unsolved. That sense of responsibility for what happened to Sophie here still lingers because people knew Sophie and she was lovely and I feel for her family because its still unsolved and I dont think these documentaries are helping. He was not extradited from Ireland following this conviction. She was one of my best friends. View our online Press Pack. In 2015, under oath, she named the man as a since deceased man from Longford.[12]. The 39-year-old was found brutally murdered outside her holiday home in West Cork, Ireland, in 1996. Her death transfixed the media in both Ireland and Paris, partly because it was just so jarring. Now, a house in Toormore that shares a laneway with the Tuscan du Plantier house has been listed for sale. He was tried in absentia in France after winning a legal battle against extradition on May 31, 2019 and convicted of murder by the Cour d'Assises de Paris and sentenced to 25 years prison. Published: Wednesday, 30th June 2021 at 2:40 pm. A transcript of her testimony was referred to the DPP to examine whether she had committed perjury.[15]. All Rights Reserved. There has been a 'dynamite' new development in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case, which could prove to be very significant going forward. Our wish was to give to her a real place in the story Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Unsolved murders pull the attention towards the vital missing puzzle piece, the under-interpreted clue. In fact, the case has never been solved. Thomas subsequently retracted that account and said Bailey had got out of bed about an hour after they had gone to bed at 10pm, and returned at 9am with a new injury to his forehead. As new Netflix documentary Sophie: A Murder in West Cork details, the small town of Schull was rocked by the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier back in December 1996. The 2-bedroom farmhouse style dwelling has gone on the market with an asking price of 250,000 (which is still less than what some watches sell for at auctions). She was found dead on the. People were fascinated, remembers Lambert, who grew up in Ireland and was a child when the murder happened. During a French state visit to Dublin in August 2021, President Macron suggested that a new trial for Bailey could be arranged should he wish to travel to France. Where is the West Cork house where Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered? Mum-of-one Sophie, 38, had bought her holiday home near idyllic Toormore on Irelands rocky West Cork coast in 1993. She was not carried there. Previously the location of the Tuscan du Plantier house was extremely difficult to find. The 39-year-old was bludgeoned to death at her holiday home in Ireland, with her body discovered near the remote cottage with her skull crushed. We have no choice.. Sophie was murdered after her head was brutally bashed with a concrete block on her driveway, 100 yards from the front door of her holiday home near Schull on December 23, 1996. And Daniel, who spoke to du Plantier on the phone a short time before the attack, was in France. The Studio is a fully-fledged house around 150m along the lane and is where Ian Bailey now lives. However, now, in 2021 internet mapping is quite advanced and Google Maps easily shows the location of anywhere on the globe. But the quiet setting turned deadly. She often wore her boots inside the cottage, perhaps as some people wear slippers. Bloodstains were present on a gate as well as a nearby piece of slate and a concrete block. The warrant sought to extradite Bailey to France to stand trial for the voluntary homicide of Sophie Toscan du Plantier and the High Court of Ireland endorsed the warrant. Despite lengthy investigations, the murderer was never found. No forensic evidence was found to tie him to the murder. the property known as The Studio. There has been a 'dynamite' new development in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case, which could prove to be very significant going forward. My wish was to give to Sophie a real place in the story, to have a balanced treatment between the main suspect and the victim. In January 1998, Bailey alone this time was again arrested, but again was released without charges. You would have to be someone who was part of that landscape to love it there.. But as Chinn says: Were not here to do the job of the police or the lawyers. 3 July 2021 Bailey denied knowing du Plantier, saying he had only seen her while gardening for her neighbor, though this assertion was contradicted by others who said the two had been introduced. [6] The facial injuries were so severe that her neighbour could not formally identify her. She was having/had an affair, and had brought her lover to Ireland before. The French filmmaker was murdered in a quiet part of Ireland one night in December 1996, and despite years of investigation, questions remain about who killed her. We look forward to other new developments within a short time.'. Under French law, extraterritorial jurisdiction applies to the murder of a French citizen anywhere in the world. [3] She arrived alone in Ireland on 20 December 1996, with plans to return to Paris for Christmas. Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered in west Cork 25 years ago. Du Plantier's family remain convinced of Bailey's guilt, but his conviction hasn't resolved the mystery surrounding du Plantier's death for everyone. A public appeal was made on television for her to come forward to give a statement. The eyewitness who'd placed Bailey near the scene of the crime recanted her testimony in 2005, with the explanation that she had been pressured by police to name Bailey. The film producer. Sophie was born in Paris on July 28, 1957. Despite the passage of time, Sophie Toscan du Plantier's West Cork holiday cottage looks much as it did on that fateful evening in 1996. He also lost a wrongful arrest case against the Garda, Minister for Justice, and Attorney General in 2015. So I expect it will be the same now with people coming up the driveway on foot of these documentaries., The house belonging to Sophie du Plantier and the cross which marks the spot where she was murdered. The magistrate issued a warrant for Bailey's arrest in 2010. These were the worst possible crime-scene circumstances: outdoors, in the middle of the road, when it takes 12 hours to get there and there is a community culture of staying quiet. There has been a new development in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case, which could be significant going forward. "This case crops up so much between the various court cases [involving Ian Bailey], the libel case, the High Court case and the extradition case. In a statement given to The Irish Times, Shirley Foster, the neighbor who discovered Toscan du Plantier's body, spoke out about the situation. The 39-year-old was bludgeoned to death at her holiday home in Ireland, with. As the documentary progresses, it becomes a subtle but searching inquiry into grief, whose entire focus is the particularity of the lost person. The third was to treat the story with dignity and humanity to talk about emotions rather than evidence.. [1] She was a French television producer[2] and lived in Paris with her husband and a son from her first marriage. The landscape becomes a character it sounds like a cliche but it really does. That sheds its own light on Sophies idiosyncrasy: The view from her window in Toormore [an outcrop six miles west of Schull] is incredibly stark, it is just so isolated. "We had people bringing their grannies and their small children to look at the cross marking where Sophie was found, and then some of them were cheeky enough to drive up to the house and peer in the windows," Shirley Foster, Toscan du Plantier's former neighbor who found her body, told The Irish Times. GP Wood Ltd operates a timber yard in EnnisKeane in West Cork. Decades later, the case remains a hot topic of discussion among true crime enthusiasts, which made it a prime subject for a Netflix documentary: "Sophie: A Murder in West Cork.". Enjoying spectacular panoramic views to the Fastnet Rock the property is c. 1 mile north of Toormore on the scenic Mizen Head peninsula.. 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Whats fascinating about this documentary is that it manages to elicit both responses by turns. SOPHIE Toscan du Plantier was found murdered at a cottage in Cork in December 1996. Their relationship had experienced problems, but was considered a happy one at the time of her murder. 1 day ago. Netflix's 'poisonous propaganda' series is gripping", "Death in December: The story of Sophie Toscan du Plantier", "The Murder of Sophie: How I Hunted and Haunted the West Cork Killer", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_Sophie_Toscan_du_Plantier&oldid=1139420637, The murder was the subject of a 2018 true-crime podcast miniseries titled, This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 01:38. Questions also arose about the amount of detail in Bailey's articles. Fundamental to rebuilding Toscan du Plantier as a character is what we see of her family; they are, in the Tolstoy sense, just another happy family, very close. In a blue bathrobe and hiking boots but no socks she had fled out of. Any tourists who happens to be near the area should note there is nothing to actually see there apart from a small cross. Alfie Lyons lives with Shirley Foster in a house around 80m from Sophies in the same lane. Her body was severely battered, suggesting a crime of passion rather than necessity. Photograph: Eric Luke . Great, Click the Allow Button Above She obviously arrived at the gate under her own free will. Sophie's House in relation to Bailey & Thomas The distance between the two properties is around 2.5km as the crow flies, but the two possible road routes are much further. She might have been chased there, but I do not think so. A timber yard company has been fined 90,000 having pleaded guilty to three charges under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act following an incident in which a 53-year employee died in 2019. In promotional interviews, the producers of A Murder in West Cork provided the usual talking points about wanting to humanize Sophie Toscan du Plantier. But beautiful women in stories always have to be very simple. Toscan du Plantier was a complicated person gothic in her sensibilities, dark and witty in her interests, as described by her cousin Frdric Gazeau, an associate producer on the documentary. More so in Ireland than a lot of other countries, Christmas is such a family time. Sophie was found bludgeoned to death outside her holiday cottage near Schull, County Cork, in December 1996 - two days before Christmas. She called the station from her house to say she would not come forward, the call was traced and she was subsequently identified. Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a French film-maker, was brutally killed outside her isolated holiday home in West Cork in 1996, destroying a small community's image as an ideal haven from the. 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