Killing Sophie: An Explosive Investigation into the Murder of Sophie du Plantier

A French victim. A British suspect. An Irish town. On December 23 1996 French documentary maker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier was brutally murdered outside her holiday home in a remote part of West Cork, Ireland. For 25 years the crime with twists and turns that crime fiction would not match has attracted international attention and fascination including two major documentary series on Sky Television and Netflix. In 2019, Ian Bailey, a journalist who had reported the crime was convicted in his absence by the Paris criminal court for the murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He has always maintained he had nothing to do with the killing and yet did not turn up in court to defend himself. He still walks free in West Cork as the Irish judicial authorities refused to charge him and also extradite him to France. Is he guilty or innocent? Elio Malocco provides the indisputable answer with an explosive forensic examination of the facts and delves into the twisted mind of Ian Bailey with the aid of exclusive extracts from the prime suspect's violent and sex obsessed journals and diaries.