'NO EVIDENCE BAILEY DID IT'

Director Sheridan says 'Sophie death never avenged

- BY SANDRA MALLON Showbiz Editor

OSCAR-NOMINATED movie director Jim Sheridan has said he believes Ian Bailey was “probably innocent” of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

The French filmmaker was bludgeoned to death outside her holiday home in Toormore on the outskirts of Schull in west Cork on December 23, 2006.

Bailey who always denied the killing of mother-of-one Sophie - was the key suspect in her horrific death, but was never charged by gardai.