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1991: English journalist Ian Bailey moves to Ireland and settles in west Cork where he meets Welsh artist Jules Thomas and sets up home with her and her three daughters at the Prairie, Liscaha, Schull.
1993: French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier buys a holiday home in the isolated townland of Drinane near Toormore outside Schull, and she uses it as a quiet retreat from her busy life in Paris where she is married to French film mogul, Daniel Toscan du Plantier.
1995: Marie Farrell moves to Schull from Glanmire near Cork city with her husband, Chris Farrell, and their five children following their return to Ireland from London, and they open a craft shop and ice cream parlour in the west Cork village.
1996, December 23rd: The badly beaten body of Sophie Toscan du Plantier (39) is found in her night clothes near the laneway leading to her holiday home by her neighbour, Shirley Foster. Gardaí, under Supt JP Twomey of Bantry Garda station, begin a murder inquiry.
1997, January 11th: Marie Farrell rings Bandon Garda station from a public phone box in Cork city, using the alias Fiona, to tell gardaí that she saw a man by Kealfadda Bridge around 3am on the night that Ms Toscan du Plantier was murdered.
1997, January 20th: Chief Supt Noel Smith of west Cork Garda Division issues an appeal on Crimeline asking “Fiona” to contact them in confidence at Bandon Garda station regarding her information.
1997, January 21st: Marie Farrell again rings Bandon Garda station about her sighting of the man at Kealfadda Bridge. She again uses the alias Fiona for this call, which was made from a public phone box in Leap in west Cork.
1997, January 24th: Marie Farrell makes a third phone call, again using the name Fiona to tell gardaí that she will not be calling into Bandon Garda station to meet the investigation team as they requested. Gardaí trace the call to the Farrell home at Crew Bay in Schull.
1997, February 4th: Schoolboy Malachi Reid gives a statement to gardaí that when giving him a lift home, Ian Bailey told him that he killed Ms Toscan du Plantier, saying that he “went up there with a rock and bashed her f**king brains out”.
1997, February 10th: Ian Bailey is arrested at his home at for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. He is taken to Bandon Garda station where he is photographed by freelance photographer Mike Browne going into the Garda station. He is later released without charge. Jules Thomas is also arrested at the Prairie and taken to Bandon Garda station. She too is later released without charge. She later says that Det Supt Dermot Dwyer meets her in the station and tells her that “the forensics will sort it out”.
1997, April 17th: State Pathologist Dr John Harbison tells an inquest into Ms Toscan du Plantier’s death that she died from multiple injuries including laceration of the brain and a fracture of the skull, caused by a blunt instrument.
1997, September 29th: State Solicitor for west Cork Malachy Boohig sends a 2,000-page file on the murder to the DPP. He receives a letter back on October 8th from law officer Robert Sheehan with a series of questions for gardaí and no charges are brought.
1997, December 18th: Fine Gael spokesman on justice Jim Higgins claims in the Dáil that a series of requests by Ms Toscan du Plantier’s family for information on the murder file has been ignored, but this is denied by Minister for Justice John O’Donoghue. The Minister confirms the Department of Justice had received “a request for mutual assistance in a criminal matter” from the French authorities in April at a time when the rainbow coalition government was in power. He said the French were seeking “very sensitive material relating to the Garda investigation” and “clearly it would be important not to prejudice the Garda investigation or any subsequent prosecution by the premature disclosure of information to third parties”.
1998, January 27th: Ian Bailey is arrested a second time at the Prairie and again brought to Bandon Garda station for questioning about the murder. He is again released without charge.
1998, February 10th: John O’Donoghue insists in the Dáil that there is no possibility of handing over the Garda file on the murder to the French authorities while the investigation was ongoing and there was a possibility of charges arising.
1998, March 9th: Malachy Boohig attends a meeting in Bandon with senior gardaí after which he says he is approached by Det Chief Supt Sean Camon who asks him to get Mr O Donoghue to get the DPP to charge Mr Bailey.
1999, March: French film maker Guy Girard comes forward to tell gardaí how Sophie Toscan du Plantier had told him in early December 1996 about a friend she had in Ireland called Ian Bailey who was exploring themes of violence in his writings.
2000, September 22nd: Jules Thomas is arrested a second time at her home at the Prairie for questioning about the murder while her daughter, Fenella, is arrested at her rented flat off Shandon Street in Cork. Both are later released without charge.
2001, August 18th: Ian Bailey assaults Jules Thomas at their home. He is arrested at Cork airport and later charged and prosecuted. He receives a three-month suspended sentence at Skibbereen District Court. He later admits it was his third time assaulting her.
2001, November: Solicitor at the DPP’s office Robert Sheehan writes a 44-page analysis of the Garda evidence in the case against Mr Bailey and is highly critical of aspects of the Garda investigation before concluding the evidence does not warrant a prosecution.
2002, January: Commissioner Pat Byrne appoints a review team under Chief Supt Austin McNally to examine the Garda investigation into the murder following Mr Sheehan’s analysis of the original investigation.
2002, December 19th: Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s parents, Georges and Marguerite Bouniol, and her son, Pierre Louis Baudey, begin a civil action against Ian Bailey over her death.
2003, March: A new file is submitted to the DPP following the McNally review but the DPP, James Hamilton, again decides against a prosecution due to lack of evidence but says that the matter will be reviewed if any new evidence comes to light.
2003, December: Ian Bailey starts a libel action at Cork Circuit Court against eight newspapers over their linking of him to the murder of Ms Toscan du Plantier. He loses six of the actions but wins against two papers. Some eight witnesses testify for Mr Bailey, and 20 testify for the newspapers, among them Marie Farrell who proves a key witness, confirming her statement to gardaí that she saw a man she later learned was Ian Bailey at Kealfadda Bridge on the night of the murder. In his judgment, Judge Patrick Moran comments that it appears from media interviews that he gave after his first arrest “that Mr Bailey is a man who likes a certain amount of notoriety, that he likes perhaps to be in the limelight, that he likes a bit of self-publicity”.
2004: Ian Bailey sends a solicitor’s letter threatening legal action against Marie Farrell if she does not retract comments she made about him in the media following the conclusion of the libel action. Ms Farrell sends a solicitor’s letter in response refusing to retract her comments.
2004, March 1st: Ian Bailey’s solicitor Frank Buttimer says he learns that Marie Farrell is lying about his client when she makes a complaint to gardaí that he threatened her in Schull at a time when Mr Bailey was attending a consultation with him at his office.
2005, April: Marie Farrell contacts Mr Buttimer and alleges she was coerced by gardaí into making a false statement incriminating Ian Bailey and recants her statement that the man that she saw at Kealfadda Bridge was Ian Bailey.
2005, October: Mr Buttimer writes to Minister for Justice Michael McDowell who asks Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy to carry out an inquiry into the investigation. A review is carried out by a team of officers under Assistant Commissioner Ray McAndrew.
2006, April 25th: Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s brother, Bertrand Bouniol, confirms that his parents and nephew have withdrawn their civil action against Ian Bailey for the unlawful killing of his sister.
2007: Ian Bailey begins a High Court appeal over his libel action against the newspapers. The case is settled after three days with the newspapers acknowledging that they never intended to suggest that he murdered Ms Toscan du Plantier.
2007, May 1st: Ian Bailey lodges a High Court papers suing the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, conspiracy, assault, battery, trespass to the person, harassment, intimidation and breach of his constitutional rights
2007, November: Relatives and friends of Ms Toscan du Plantier form a lobby group in France, the Association for the Truth about the Murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier (ASSOPH) to campaign for justice for her.
2008, June: French magistrate Judge Patrick Gachon, recently appointed to investigate the murder, orders the exhumation of Ms Toscan du Plantier’s body from the family plot at Combret in Lozere for a postmortem and forensic examination by French scientists.
2008. July: DPP James Hamilton recommends no prosecution following the McAndrew Inquiry into the Garda handling of the original murder investigation. The inquiry involved the McAndrew team interviewing more than 90 witnesses, including 50 serving and retired gardaí. Garda Commissioner Facthna Murphy directs that the Garda file on the murder be made available to the French authorities.
2008, August: James Hamilton confirms in a letter to Ms Toscan du Plantier’s parents that he has again decided not to bring any prosecution in the case in the absence of fresh evidence.
2009, June: Judge Gachon, as part of his investigation, travels with his colleague Judge Nathalie Dutartre to west Cork to inspect the murder scene and meet gardaí investigating the killing.
2009, October 19th: Det Garda Jim Fitzgerald and Supt Liam Horgan, who was the family liaison officer at the time of the murder, travel to Paris where they are interviewed by Judge Gachon about the murder and the Garda investigation.
2010, February 19th: Judge Gachon issues a European arrest warrant for Ian Bailey’s arrest. Under French law, French authorities can investigate crime against French citizens committed outside of France.
2010, February 21st: Ian Bailey confirms he is to appeal an order by Master of the High Court Edmund Honohan refusing an application for discovery of the Garda file on the investigation for his High Court action for damages.
2010, April 23rd: Mr Justice Michael Peart endorses the European arrest warrant, and gardaí arrest Ian Bailey at his home in Schull and bring him to Bandon Garda station He is brought before the High Court where is granted bail pending a hearing of the extradition case.
2010, December: Ian Bailey graduates with a Honours Degree in Law from UCC. He later goes on to complete a Masters of Law at UCC in February 2013 after completing a thesis entitled Policing the Police - Garda Accountability in Ireland.
2011, March 18th: Mr Justice Michael Peart in the High Court rules in favour of the French authorities and orders Ian Bailey’s surrender on foot of the European arrest warrant but grants him leave to appeal his decision to the Supreme Court.
2011, October: A team of French police investigators, including forensic scientists, visit Ireland where they interview and take statements from up to 30 witnesses including Marie Farrell.
2011, October 12th: Former DPP Eamonn Barnes writes to his successor, James Hamilton regarding a report he received in 1998 from State Solicitor for west Cork Malachy Boohig about an improper approach by a Garda seeking to get Ian Bailey charged.
2012, March 1st: The Supreme Court rules in Ian Bailey’s favour in his appeal against extradition on a number of grounds , including that the French authorities failed to specify that the arrest was for the purpose of charge.
2012, March: Ian Bailey makes a complaint to the Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc) regarding the Garda investigation into the murder.
2012, September: Lawyers for the Bouniols lodge a formal complaint against Ireland at the European Commission over the decision not to extradite Ian Bailey to France in connection with the murder of their daughter.
2012, October: The Bouniols’ lawyers, Alain Spilliaert and James MacGuill, write to Garda Commissioner Martin Callanan seeking a cold-case review of the murder and meet Det Supt Christy Mangan of the Garda Serious Crime Review Team in Dublin in November.
2012, October: Ian Bailey makes a formal complaint to the authorities that his phone has been illegally tapped for the past 16 years, and Judge Carroll Moran is appointed to investigate the complaint.
2013, May 10th: Mr Justice John Hedigan in the High Court orders the State to give over documents to Ian Bailey in his civil action for damages, and he describes aspects of the Garda investigation into the murder as “very disturbing”.
2013, August: The French authorities award damages of €150,000 to the family of Ms Toscan du Plantier for her death. Lawyer for the family of Ms du Plantier Alain Spilliaert welcomes the award and says it will help fund the family’s ongoing campaign for justice for their daughter.
2014, April 8th: The Government confirms that the recording of phone calls at Bandon Garda station as part of the investigation into Ms Toscan du Plantier’s murder will be investigated by former Supreme Court judge Niall Fennelly.
2014, October: Gsoc is ordered by the High Court to share material it has gathered in its investigation into complaints by Ian Bailey against gardaí.
2014, November 4th: Ian Bailey begins his High Court action for damages against the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner.
2015, March 30th: Ian Bailey loses his civil action for damages against the Garda and the State. His solicitor Frank Buttimer says his client still believes he can prove that gardaí conspired to implicate him in the murder and will consider an appeal over his unsuccessful court case,
2015, March 31st: The decision by the High Court jury to dismiss Ian Bailey’s action is welcomed by the AGSI and by Ms Toscan du Plantier’s family who call on the Department of Justice to lift a suspension on co-operation with a French inquiry into the murder so French investigators can return to Ireland to interview witnesses.
2015, April 4th: Gsoc says it sees no benefit in re-interviewing Marie Farrell as part of its investigation into Ian Bailey’s complaint of Garda corruption after she retracted a statement made to Gsoc during his High Court action.
2015, April 13th: The State moves to halt a High Court action for damages brought Jules Thomas, alleging she was twice wrongfully arrested by gardaí in 1997 and 2000 as part of their investigation into the murder. Barrister for the State David Lennon told Mr Justice John Hedigan that the State would bring an application to have Ms Thomas’s case struck out on grounds it was brought outside the applicable six-year time limit set by the Statute of Limitations.
2015, May 12th: Ian Bailey is ordered to pay all the legal costs, estimated at between €2 million and €5 million, of his failed civil action over the conduct of the Garda investigation into the murder.
2015, July 1st: Ms Toscan du Plantier’s son, Pierre Louis Baudey-Vignaud, writes to DPP Claire Loftus, requesting a meeting to outline his belief that the DPP should look again at bringing charges against Ian Bailey “to definitely establish or invalidate the guiltiness of Mr Bailey”.
2015, September 2nd: Witness James Camier dies. He had made a statement to gardai in 1998 that he met Jules Thomas on the morning of December 23rd, 1996, between 11am and 11.30am and that she told him that Mr Bailey was busy reporting on the murder. Mr Camier’s evidence contradicted both Mr Bailey and Ms Thomas, who said they only learned of the murder at 1.40pm when informed of it by Eddie Cassidy. His evidence supported similar statements by Caroline Leftwick and Paul O’Colmain that Mr Bailey told them of the murder that morning.
2015, September 28th: Three French police officers arrive in Ireland to meet senior gardai investigating the murder and to interview upwards of 20 civilian witnesses and retired gardaí who were involved in the original investigation. It is the second such visit to west Cork by French police.
2015, October 1st: Judge Patrick Gachon visits west Cork for a second time and spends eight days in the area, meeting witnesses and revisiting the murde scene.
2015, October 5th: Ian Bailey lodges an appeal to the Court of Appeal against the outcome of his unsuccessful High Court action against the State in relation to his arrest over the murder.
2015, November 4th: Mr Justice John Hedigan refuses an application by Jules Thomas to recuse him from deciding any further matters in her separate action for damages against the Garda Commissioner and the State.
2015, December: Judge Gachon sends his file of 17 volumes and statements from more than 40 witnesses to the public prosecutor for Paris, François Molins, following a six-and-a-half-year investigation.
2016, January: The French authorities appoint Judge Nathalie Turquey to replace Judge Gachon in heading up the investigation into the killing. The appointment is welcomed by Alain Spilliaert, who says Judge Turquey is “a very experienced magistrate”.
2016, January 26th: Pierre Louis Baudey-Vignaud expresses his frustration and disappointment at the failure of the DPP to meet him to discuss the investigation into his mother’s killing.
2016, March 15th: Mr Justice John Hedigan rules that Jules Thomas must hand over all her medical records spanning a 20-year period for her forthcoming civil action for damages against the State over her arrests in 1997 and 2000. Under the statute of limitations, Ms Thomas had six years to initiate an action, but her lawyers had sought to amend her claim on the basis of her psychological capacity to instruct lawyers prior to 2007, arguing she was too traumatised to do so. Mr Justice Hedigan makes the ruling after the court heard from a psychiatrist’s report in which he said he believed Ms Thomas suffered from a depressive illness from 1996 until 2011, which affected her ability to instruct lawyers.
2016, July 6th: The Court of Appeal dismisses an appeal by Ms Thomas aimed at preventing a preliminary application by the State to strike out her case for damages.
2016, July 27th: Judge Nathalie Turquey issues an ordonnance de renvoi summarising evidence against Mr Bailey and sending him to trial for voluntary homicide in the Paris assize high criminal court.
2016, August 5th: Mr Baudey-Vignaud welcomes the decision by the French authorities to seek Ian Bailey’s extradition and says he will wait another 20 years if necessary to get justice for his mother.
2016, August 6th: Mr Bailey’s solicitor, Frank Buttimer says he may seek a High Court injunction in a bid to stop a French magistrate from obtaining his extradition to France to go on trial for the killing.
2016, August 8th: Ian Bailey reveals that he plans to write to the DPP asking her to reconsider a decision not to charge him with the murder of Ms Toscan du Plantier in a bid to clear his name as he faces the prospect of a trial in France.
2016, September 2nd: Mr Bailey’s French lawyer, Dominque Tricaud, predicts that his client will be convicted in absentia of voluntary homicide and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
2016, November 19th: The Bouniols’ Irish lawyer, James McGuill, tells the General Assembly of ASSOPH that the latest European arrest warrant for Mr Bailey will fail unless the Dáil changes what he said was a defective Irish law transposing the EU directive on extradition.
2019, May 27th: The trial of Ian Bailey in absentia for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier begins at the Cour d’Assises in Paris before before presiding magistrate Judge Frédérique Aline and her colleages Judge Didier Forton and Judge Geraldine Detienne. Two Irish witnesses attend.
2019, May 31st: Judge Frédérique Aline and her two colleagues, Judge Didier Forton and Judge Geraldine Detienne, find Ian Bailey guilty of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier and sentence him in absentia to 25 years in jail.
2019, June 21st: French authorities issue a third European Arrest Warrant for the extradition of Ian Bailey to France.
2019, December 9th: Witness Rosie Shelley dies at Cork University Hospital. Ms Shelley testified along with her husband, Richard, at Ian Bailey’s libel action in 2003 that they believed he was confessing to the killing when he broke down on New Year’s Eve 1998 and told them “I did it, I did it, I went too far.”
2019, December 16th: Mr Justice Donald Binchy endorses a French European Arrest Warrant at the High Court and Ian Bailey is arrested but later released on bail.
2019, December 19th: Ian Bailey says he fears that he will die in a French prison if the Irish courts allow him to be extradited to France. “ Clearly there is a possibility that I might finish up in France and if that happens, just do the sums – I’m 62 years old and have a 25-year sentence hanging over me, so yes, it is a fear that I have.”
2020, July 15th: A hearing opens at the High Court in Dublin to consider a European Arrest Warrant to have Ian Bailey extradited.
Mr Bailey’s lawyer, Ronan Munro SC, says the French application is an “abuse of process” and argues his client has an “ironclad right” not to be surrendered to France and it had not been threatened in any way by subsequent developments in law.
Counsel for the State Robert Barron SC says that the family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier feel they have not achieved justice and that the court had a “prima facie” obligation to surrender Mr Bailey. In a “bizarre way”, Ireland has become “a safe haven” for Ian Bailey, he says.
2020, October 12th: The High Court rules that Ian Bailey cannot be extradited to France. Mr Justice Paul Burns finds his surrender remains precluded under Section 44 of the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003 while he also finds that the surrender is prevented because of an “accrued or vested right” on the part of Mr Bailey.
2020, October 27th: Robert Barron tells the High Court that the State will not be appealing the decision.
2020, October 31st: The European Commission calls on Ireland to comply with the requirements of the European Arrest Warrant (Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA), in particular the mandatory time limits but also to address other grounds for refusal of a EAW in the wake of the Bailey judgment. It gives Ireland two months to take the necessary measures to address the shortcomings identified.
2020, December 18th: Former state pathologist Prof John Harbison dies. He carried out the postmortem on Sophie Toscan du Plantier, arriving 26 hours after her body was found because he was celebrating his birthday in Dublin. This delay led to much criticism.
In a book published in France in 2013 by the campaign group ASSOPH, the authors note Ms Toscan du Plantier’s body lay under a tarpaulin at the scene overnight. “The late arrival on the scene of the only person able to establish a forensic report had devastating consequences. The investigation was compromised to the point that John Harbison estimated the time of the murder as the night previous to the discovery of the body with no further detail given.”
2021, February 22nd: The Department of Justice sends a detailed response to the European Commission.
2021, April 18th: Ian Bailey’s partner, Jules Thomas confirms they have separated. “I’ve had enough . . . that’s all . . . I’ve put up with him for far too long and I realise now that it was a waste of time. It was always a one-way flow; men like him don’t ever bend or accommodate . . . it’s to do with their egos.”
However, she says she still believes his is innocent of any involvement in the murder.
2021, May 23rd: Ian Bailey confirms that he has written to Garda Commissioner Drew Harris seeking a new review of the Garda investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, alleging a conspiracy to frame him for the killing.
“For 25 years, my life has been blighted by a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by putting me in the frame for a crime I had nothing to do with,” he said.
2021, June 19th: Ian Bailey tells the Irish Mirror he believes Sophie Toscan du Plantier was killed by a French hitman hired by her late husband, Daniel, who died in 2003. “I suspect the hitman is from France, it was always one of the theories in the case, but it was never seriously followed up by the gardaí,” he says..
2021, June 20th: Six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan releases his documentary on Sky Crime on the killing. Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie was made with the co-operation of Ian Bailey who gave the film maker personal access to him at his home at The Prairie, Liscaha, Schull.
Sky confirms it had agreed to a request from Ms Toscan du Plantier’s family to remove interviews with them from the documentary after they expressed their unhappiness over the manner in which they felt the five-part series portrayed Ian Bailey and Jules Thomas as victims in the case.
2021, June 27th: Jim Sheridan tells the Sunday Independent he has passed on information to gardaí that Marie Farrell has identified the stranger in the dark coat that she saw in Schull on December 21st, 1996, and Kealfadda Bridge on December 23rd, 1996.
2021, June 30th: John Dower’s documentary Sophie: A Murder in West Cork begins airing on Netflix. The documentary is made with the co-operation of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s family.
2021, July 1st: Alain Spilliaert, lawyer for the family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, challenges Ian Bailey to come to France and says that if he has information that the killing was carried out by a French hitman, he should come to Paris and present it at a new trial.
2021, July 9th: Gardaí confirm they must obtain DPP approval to request French assistance to investigate the latest statement by Marie Farrell that the man she saw at Kealfadda Bridge on December 23rd, 1996, was an associate of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s late husband, Daniel.
Gardaí will, under Section 62 of the Criminal Justice Mutual Assistance Act 2008, have to submit a report on their investigation of Ms Farrell’s latest statement to the DPP, who must approve any request for the formal taking of statements or gathering of evidence by the French police.
2021, August 11th: Jules Thomas tells the Irish Daily Star that a statement by a local man in west Cork that she confided in him that she had helped Ian Bailey clean bloodied clothes after the murder was “total rubbish”.
Ian Bailey also says the statement is false and says he does not think gardaí will seek to interview him about it or give any credence to the allegation. “This idea that Jules somehow confided in this man that she helped me wash bloodied clothing after the murder is ridiculous.”
2021, August 26th: French president Emmanuel Macron pays his first official trip to Ireland and says that a new trial could be organised for Ian Bailey if he agrees to come to France to answer the charge he murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
“It is such a tragedy and so much suffering remains,” he says. “Should the person condemned agree to come to France, a new trial could be organised but so far he had been refusing to do so, The French court is now considering what to do next and it’s leaving a window, a period of time, for the Irish and French courts to decide what to do next.”
2021, August 27th: Frank Buttimer says that there are “no circumstances” in which the Irish courts would agree to extradite his client and there was absolutely “no chance” of Ian Bailey agreeing to go to France voluntarily as he would not receive a fair trial there.
2021, August 31st: Ian Bailey reveals he is writing his life story for The Big Issue that will appear monthly from September to December and will tell how he came to live in west Cork and his life since the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
2021, September 3rd: Pierre Louis Baudey-Vignaud appears on RTÉ’s The Late Late Show and appeals to anyone with information about his mother’s killing to contact gardaí, not just for the sake of her family but “for all the women” who are living in Ireland. “It’s been 25 years, the truth has not arrived yet – we must end this story, for me, for my mother, for Irish people. . . . You, the Irish people, you have a murderer living in Ireland,” he says.
2021, September 13th: Ian Bailey appears on Virgin Media One and again denies any involvement in Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s death and says that he believes her murderer was a man from the Bantry area, who is now deceased.
2021, December 16th: Gardai confirm four detectives from the Serious Crime Review team have been appointed to carry out a preliminary assessment of the investigation into the murder to ascertain whether a full cold-case review is needed.
Pierre Louis Baudey Vignaud, who met Chief Supt Con Cadogan of West Cork Garda Division in October, welcomes the news that a Serious Crime Review team in Dublin is examining a digitised version of the 4,000-plus page file on his mother’s murder.