Sophie’s son: My obligation is to bring her killer to trial

The only son of murdered Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier has insisted somebody must stand trial for his mother’s death.

Pierre-Louis Baudley-Vignaud, who was 15 when his mother was beaten to death outside her holiday home near Schull, Co Cork, two days before Christmas in 1996, said he felt an “obligation” to ensure her killer was found.

But he said he had drawn no conclusions about the only man publicly identified as a suspect in the case, Ian Bailey, and only wants to see him brought before the courts to account for himself.