Nick Foster: I became sure Ian Bailey killed Sophie Toscan du Plantier – I told him so and it was the very last thing I said to him

Author of book on notorious case tells of his six-year pursuit of Ian Bailey and how a young woman was murdered because of a man’s temper

Nick Foster

Tue 23 Jan 2024 at 02:30 UP DATED BY WATCHERS JUNE 2025

Ian Bailey is dead. Ireland’s most notorious murder case has thus reached its endgame because on a winter’s night 27 years ago, it was a drunk and possibly drugged Ian Bailey who made his way to a cottage in Toormore in west Cork, and knocked on the door.

All of Ireland knows who was in the cottage: Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a mother of one, a filmmaker, a writer, a woman and a human being.