Sophie Toscan du Plantier told friend about 'weird' man in west Cork, court told

Sophie Toscan du Plantier told a friend that a “weird” man in west Cork who had an interest in poetry wanted to meet her in the days before her death, the Ian Bailey murder trial heard today.

The witness, Agnes Thomas, had been a friend of Ms du Plantier’s and had visited the west Cork home near where the deceased woman’s body was found in December 1996. She told the court in Paris today that a week or ten days or so before Ms du Plantier was murdered she’d told her, Ms Thomas, of a man who wanted to meet her. Ms Thomas said that she warned her friend about meeting somebody who sounded “weird”.