Irish Examiner view: Two murders, two contrasting responses, for what reason?

The name Belinda Pereira does not have the same recognition as Sophie Toscan du Plantier, though both were murdered while visiting Ireland in December 1996

Sophie Toscan du Plantier, with her son Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud. Her case has received a considerably more media coverage than that of Belidna Pereira. Picture: Netflix/Sophie: A Murder in West Cork

The name Belinda Pereira does not have the same immediate recognition factor as that of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, although both women were murdered, just six days apart, while visiting Ireland in late December 1996.

As gardaí this week renewed an appeal for information about the murder of Toscan du Plantier to help them solve a decades-old case, it is timely to recall that the murder of Pereira, who died aged 26, has never been solved either.