Du Plantier’s mother confident justice will be done

THE mother of murdered Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier yesterday said her family still lives in hope of seeing her daughter’s killer brought to justice.

Sophie’s mother Marguerite Bouniol was speaking after a memorial Mass in Goleen, West Cork, yesterday just ahead of the eighth anniversary of her daughter’s death.

Earlier, Ms Bouniol, her husband George, Sophie’s aunt Marie Madeleine Opalka and her husband Roman, who are staying at Sophie’s house in Toormore, laid a bouquet of white lilies at the Celtic cross that marks the spot where Ms du Plantier’s battered body was discovered on December 23, 1996.