Ian Bailey died with little or no money and had not made a will

Bailey also complained publicly in the months before he died that many people profited from Sophie Toscan du Plantier's murder except him

Ian Bailey survived on a weekly social welfare payment and then the State pension and cash income from the sale of his poetry books that he sold around the farmers' markets in Skibbereen, Schull and Bantry.

Ian Bailey died with little or no money and had not made a will, having complained publicly in the months before he died that many people profited from Sophie Toscan du Plantier's murder except him.

The main suspect in the case, who was convicted in absentia in a French court of the murder in 2019, lived in a tiny rented flat paid for by the State and was due to be evicted within weeks as his landlord was selling the building.