'Not a shred of evidence'

Director Sheridan says Bailey 'probably innocent' of Sophie murder

- SANDRA MALLON

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.

However, he was convicted of murder in absentia in a French court in 2015 and sentenced to 25 years in prison.