Sheridan film will focus on new suspect
FILM director Jim Sheridan is to focus on a new suspect in his next documentary on the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
He promised to give details about the man seen following the French film producer on the last day she was seen alive – but won’t name him.
It is understood the individual had connections to Sophie’s former late husband Daniel. Both he and Sophie were having affairs at the time she was killed.
Sheridan said he knows who the man is and the name was given to the gardai by another person in an affidavit.
He has called on the gardai to track down the man and get his DNA to see if he was the killer.
He was identified after a photo-fit was drawn up in co-operation with witness Marie Farrell, who made a statement to gardai saying she saw the man following Sophie in Schull, Co Cork, on December 23, 1996.
It is believed an extensive interview with her will also feature in the programme.
Sheridan said he and his team now believe Sophie was dead before she was bashed 50 times with a rock just 100 yards from her holiday home.
The award-winning filmmaker has spent eight years investigating the case.
He said: “I do not believe Bailey did it and there was no evidence to back it up.”
Sheridan has the last filmed interview with the Englishman in which he once again proclaims his innocence.
Gardai have Bailey’s DNA but could not match it to blood at Sophie’s house or the crime scene.
It is understood they still have over 20 fingerprints taken from both locations that they have never identified. None of them matched Bailey’s.