Ian Bailey spoke at length to Máiría Cahill in the west Cork town of Schull where he was the main suspect in the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. He was polite, edgy, guarded, a performer who could be chilling.
Jules Thomas, the estranged partner of Ian Bailey, is gearing up to sue streaming giant Netflix and the makers of the miniseries about the murder of French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier. The Welsh-born artist is representing herself as a lay litigant.
High Court records show the makers of the esteemed West Cork podcast about the death of the French film producer are planning to take legal action against the streaming giant in Dublin.
In the year preceding the Frenchwoman's killing in west Cork, Sam Smyth covered OJ Simpson's trial in similar circumstances of media frenzy and failure by the authorities to secure any murder conviction. The latest interview of Ian Bailey by Sinéad O'Connor rekindles his unease at the way journalists have repeatedly approached the case.
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