Ian Bailey: 'The whole story is a tragedy'

Mr Bailey watched the first two episodes of the Sky Crime series Murder at the Cottage, which focuses on the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier

Ian Bailey, who called for the Taoiseach, the Justice Minister and the Garda Commissioner to order a probe into the garda investigation of the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Picture: Barbara McCarthy

Ian Bailey has asked the Taoiseach, the Justice Minister and the Garda Commissioner to conduct another probe into the garda handling of unsolved Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder case, alleging he was victim of a conspiracy to frame him.

Bailey said the garda focus on him as a suspect in the weeks after the French film-maker’s murder in West Cork in 1996 has cost him 25 years of his life and has taken away all of his reasonable and legitimate expectations.