{"id":92252,"date":"2024-01-22T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/ian-bailey-british-journalist-suspected-of-sophie-toscan-du-plantiers-murder-dies-in-west-cork-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T00:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:59:18","slug":"ian-bailey-british-journalist-suspected-of-sophie-toscan-du-plantiers-murder-dies-in-west-cork-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/ian-bailey-british-journalist-suspected-of-sophie-toscan-du-plantiers-murder-dies-in-west-cork-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Bailey: British journalist suspected of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder dies in West Cork | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ian Bailey, the British journalist sentenced in his absence for the murder of a French film producer in Ireland, has died of a suspected heart attack aged 66, according to his solicitor.<\/p>\n

Bailey was given a 25-year sentence in 2019 after a court in Paris found him guilty<\/strong> of killing Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork in 1996.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old, who was married to celebrated French filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier – who worked with the likes of Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman – was found bludgeoned to death outside her holiday home near the coastal village of Schull on 23 December.<\/p>\n

Bailey, who lived a few miles away and was the first reporter on the scene, covered her death as a journalist before being first questioned over her death in February 1997.<\/p>\n

He became the key suspect because of scratches on his arms, which he said he got while cutting down a Christmas tree, an alleged history of domestic violence, and a local resident’s report of seeing a man resembling his description on a bridge near the murder scene.<\/p>\n

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Read more: Why murder of French film producer is shrouded in mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n

But no forensic evidence ever linked him to the crime and he was never charged with the murder by Irish police.<\/p>\n

In 2020, the Irish courts blocked<\/strong> his extradition to France – where the law allows suspects to be tried for murdering French citizens abroad – for the third time.<\/p>\n

When Bailey was convicted, he had no legal representation for the case, did not attend court and described the whole situation as farcical.<\/p>\n

He always maintained his innocence, continued to live in West Cork, and died in the coastal town of Bantry, where Irish media said he was living.<\/p>\n

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His solicitor Frank Buttimer, who has known Bailey since March 1997, said he was “very upset” to hear of his death.<\/p>\n

“I knew Ian was very unwell, we were in communication in the past five days, but I didn’t know he was terminally unwell,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He had a very severe heart condition, a very bad heart condition, and had cardiac events prior to Christmas.<\/p>\n

“He was a candidate for surgical intervention but wasn’t well enough, so he was trying to become well enough.”<\/p>\n

Bailey, who was born in Manchester, worked as a journalist in England before moving to West Cork in the mid-1990s where he also turned his hand to poetry, gardening and running a pizza stall with his former partner.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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