Bailey writes to embassy to offer Du Plantier sympathies

IAN BAILEY, who has described himself as a self-confessed suspect in the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, has written to the French authorities offering condolences ahead of next weekend’s 10th anniversary of her death.

The former journalist was twice arrested and released without charge over the murder of the French documentary maker, who was found battered to death on a laneway near her holiday home in West Cork.

Now Mr Bailey has contacted France’s embassy in Dublin, asking for his sympathies to be conveyed to the family of the dead French woman.