‘I would have liked closure for Ian, that his name was cleared over Sophie’s murder’: Ian Bailey’s ex-partner Jules Thomas on writing book about their life. The Story, the Unsolved Murder, that will Haunt West Cork, for Years to Come.

Welsh artist says she did not feel emotional during recent ash-scattering ceremonyan Bailey’s former partner is ­writing a book about her life and the impact the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier had on her as well as Bailey, who remains the chief suspect for the unsolved killing.

Jules Thomas (73), a Welsh artist who lives in west Cork, also outlined how she was involved in a private scattering of Bailey’s ashes at his ­favourite spot on Dunmanus Bay, west Cork, in recent weeks.