Sophie: could a cold case review solve the mystery?

 Two TV documentaries into the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier have revived calls for a new garda inquiry.

Sophie Toscan du Plantier, who was murdered in Toormore, near Schull, west Cork, in 1996

July 11 2021 02:30 AM

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Detectives at Bandon garda station have been kept busy with a stream of callers phoning in their tuppence worth on a brutal crime that has haunted all those touched by it for nearly 25 years.

Most are armchair sleuths offering theories about how the killer got away with it.

A garda source said detectives will sift through the information, separating the wheat from the chaff, before deciding on the next steps.