
A thirty-year cold case… A beautiful victim seeking refuge from her high-society life. A handsome drop-out with a history of domestic violence.
When the wife of a wealthy French film-maker was murdered in her Irish holiday home on a remote Irish peninsula, a local freelance journalist thought he had the ‘scoop’ that would revive his career.
Instead, he was arrested for the murder of the mother-of-one.
The only strong evidence was retracted after the chief witness claimed police had coerced her to frame her neighbour (an allegation the officers have consistently denied). Ian Bailey was never charged with murder in Ireland, because three consecutive Directors of Prosecutions felt the case against him was, at best, local gossip. He voluntarily gave DNA samples which came back negative. He had no motive or opportunity to carry out this brutal attack on the far side of a mountain within a half-hour time-frame.
Yet he spent the next thirty years trying to clear his name, a decade fighting extradition attempts – and the last five years of his life living under the shadow of a sentence handed down in Paris after he was convicted in absentia.
He died in a public street at the age of sixty-six, destitute, alone – and still protesting his innocence.

Cash kills people…
Oliver Hayes abducted widow Anne Corcoran from her remote farmhouse, bludgeoned her to death, buried her in a shallow grave – and went on holidays with the cash he had stolen from her bank account.
Christy Hanley was tied to a chair and beaten to death after he had sold his horses.
James Cahillane’s battered body was found in a burning house.
Tommy Casey, Tom Niland, Mary Nolan and many others died as a result of their injuries.
