The Plot gets Darker, the Man in the Black coat … Jim Sheridan is alleged to have given the Gardai New information, which came from Marie Farrell? Will the French work alongside the Gardai? Time will Tell??

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Murdered French TV producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Picture by Patrick Zimmerman/ AFP

August 01 2021 02:30 AM

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Gardaí have asked the French authorities to help investigate a potential new lead in the murder of French TV producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

The new information was passed to gardaí by the Oscar-nominated film director Jim Sheridan, who made Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie, one of two recently released documentaries about the crime.

The information came from Marie Farrell, a former Schull shopkeeper, once the garda’s key witness whose evidence was later discredited.