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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

Ian Bailey, suspect in one of Ireland’s most notorious murders, dies aged 66

Ian Bailey
Ian Bailey, pictured in 2019, was twice arrested for the French film-maker’s murder, but never charged. Photograph: Johnny Savage/The Guardian

Ian Bailey, an English former journalist who was the prime suspect in one of Ireland’s most notorious murders, has died near his home in Bantry, County Cork, at the age of 66. He suffered a heart attack on Sunday.

Bailey had lived in the public eye for almost three decades as the main suspect in the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a French filmmaker who was battered to death near her holiday home in West Cork.

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