Treatment of Sophie’s body was ‘scandalous’

The mother of murdered French documentary producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier has described as scandalous the way her daughter’s body was treated in the hours after her death.

Marguerite Bouniol makes her comments in a rare interview for a television documentary on her daughter’s murder, due to be screened on TV3 tonight.

Ms Toscan du Plantier was murdered outside her holiday home in West Cork in Dec 1996, two days before Christmas.