Du Plantier: aunt pleads for change in law

THE aunt of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, Marie Madelaine Opalka, said it appeared that Irish women are treated as second-class citizens and called for a change in law, claiming that the DPP has substituted itself for the judge and jury.

Ms du Plantier, a 39-year-old film executive, was murdered outside her holiday home near Schull, West Cork, on December 23, 1996.

Despite a massive garda investigation nobody has ever been charged with her killing.