'A dirty, rotten, stinking lie': Ian Bailey hopes cold case review will clear his name

Ian Bailey: 'All I know is that I had nothing to do with this.' Picture: Michael Mac Sweeney/Cork Courts

Ian Bailey has welcomed the decision by An Garda Síochána to open a cold-case review of the Sophie Tuscan du Plantier case. 

In 2019, Mr Bailey was convicted in absentia by a court in Paris of Ms du Plantier’s murder, but he has always denied having anything to do with it. Ms du Plantier’s body was found near her holiday home in Toormore, West Cork, on the morning of December 23, 1996.