EXCLUSIVE: Sophie's uncle Jean Pierre Gazeau told the Irish Mirror it's time for 'urgent action' from the Irish State, as he says its possible Ian Bailey had help with his niece's murder
The parents of murder victim Sophie Toscan Du Plantier are in poor health and ‘urgently’ want an Irish inquest to happen now, her family say.
Mr Gazeau spoke to us after welcoming comments made by Tanaiste Michael Martin that the evidence against dead suspect Ian Bailey was “broad and deep” and that he should have gone on trial here while he was alive. Now he says it's up to the Irish State to quickly launch a major inquest into his niece's infamous murder and give her elderly parents peace.
Mr Gazeau says he also hopes the answers to the crime lie in Ian Bailey’s own many interviews over the years, in which he says he routinely contradicted himself. “For all his life until his death in January he never stopped lying all the time. He was changing his version all the time. We don’t know if people around him either told the truth or not,” Mr Gazeau said.
Mr Gazeau also commented on the revelation in journalist Senan Molony’s new book "Sophie: The Final Verdict” that Ian Bailey was nearly arrested for drink driving on the night she was killed. "It’s interesting, it's another fact proving that Bailey was drunk. But I cannot tell more. We cannot predict the future. When he was arrested, the Garda could not predict the future,” he said.
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