00:00In the headlines in County Cork are treating as suspicious the death of a woman whose body has been found in a remote area near Skull.
00:17The circumstances surrounding the murder of Madame de Plantier are quite mysterious as to why she should decide to spend Christmas alone in West Cork.
00:25Sophie's husband was a very powerful man in France. It was huge publicity when the staff did.
00:41My name is Jim Sheridan. 20 years ago this story caught hold of me and it won't let me go.
00:49It is a story about primal fear, about the existence of evil among us.
01:00I just never saw anything as brutal and as horrific.
01:04I didn't lock the door to go to bed, I didn't lock the door when I went out and that went all gone overnight.
01:13People were scared. Would you strike again?
01:17There was no fingerprints, there was no blood spatters.
01:26It was as if all forces conspired to protect the murder of Sophie.
01:32The police hoped and prayed for a break.
01:35And then they got one.
01:36Mr Bailey, how do you feel about your repetition now?
01:39Family have spent 22 years waiting for justice for Sophie.
01:44Ian Bailey being tried in absentia.
01:46He's not being represented by a legal team at the trial.
01:50The Bailey case has led to a clash of two legal systems.
01:54The question is, your whole thing of that night, you left the house and your alibi doesn't hold up.
01:59Shall we leave the alibi from the night itself?
02:01So, actually can we cut for now?
02:08She died here, in the brambles, in the briars, and now those hills call out for justice.
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