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THE heartbroken mum of murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier is hoping new DNA testing methods can solve the 29-year mystery.
Marguerite Bouniol, who is in her 90s, is battling Parkinson’s disease.She lost her husband Georges, 98, who passed away in Paris last December just a few days after the 28th anniversary of Sophie’s murder, following nearly three decades seeking justice for his child.
Newly advanced DNA testing methods may lead to answers as to who killed French filmmaker Sophie.
A team from the US — led by Jared Bradley, chief executive of M-Vac Systems — flew to Ireland this month.
They are understood to have focused tests on a bloodstained flat rock and a concrete block used in the shocking attack which claimed the 39-year-old’s life.Sophie’s uncle Jean-Pierre Gazeau told The Irish Sun on Sunday that not a day goes by without Sophie crossing her mother’s mind.
Jean Pierre said: “Sophie’s mother is now very old. She has Parkinson’s and is fragile, but she is good mentally and she is still fighting. She thinks about Sophie every day, all the time, you know?
“She has a very close family, so she is very well supported.”
Sophie, a mum of one, was battered and left to die at the gateway to her holiday home on December 23, 1996, near Schull in Co Cork.It is understood Mr Bradley’s team carried out extensive new testing with members of Forensic Science Ireland after travelling from its headquarters in Utah to Ireland earlier this month.
Their new M-Vac system works using wet vacuum principles to release and capture cells.
A substance is sprayed directly onto the surface while vacuum pressure is simultaneously applied around the pattern, to collect the buffer and suspended particles in a collection bottle.
Before travelling over to Dublin, Mr Bradley said: “Praying for a fantastic outcome from this trip.
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