The family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier asked for their interviews to be removed from Jim Sheridan’s Sky documentary because “everything is focused on Ian Bailey”. The French documentary filmmaker was 39 when she was beaten to death at her isolated holiday home near Schull in West Cork on December 23, 1996. In a case that shook the world, no one has ever been found guilty in Irish courts of her murder. After expressing their unease with Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan’s documentary, Sky agreed to remove Sophie’s family’s interviews before it aired. “The objective of this documentary was not Sophie, it was Mr Bailey.

Source: Irish Independent July 10, 2021 12:00 UTC