Husband of French murder victim dies of heart attack

FRANCE’S most celebrated film maker Daniel Toscan du Plantier died unexpectedly yesterday without seeing justice done in the investigation into his murdered second wife, Sophie.

In the wake of the West Cork killing more than six years ago, Mr Toscan du Plantier once stated: “There’s a devil somewhere in the hills of southern Ireland.”

Married since the tragedy, he and his third wife Melissa, ex-personal assistant, had a four-year-old daughter named Tosca. Mr du Plantier died of

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