Appealing to locals in West Cork to travel to Paris to testify at the forthcoming trial of English journalist Ian Bailey, the son of murdered French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier said it was time to find peace. Pierre-Louis Baudey Vignaud travelled to Goleen, West Cork, with his uncle Betrand for a Mass in memory of his mother. He told Mass-goers that his idyllic childhood had been blighted by the violent killing of his mother in West Cork in 1996. My mother, Sophie is not a ghost, she is the victim of human cruelty and violence which has no place here. Mr Bailey, who has consistently protested his innocence, will not travel to France for the trial, which starts on May 27.

Source: Irish Examiner May 20, 2019 05:15 UTC