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Dublin will accept an Irish High Court ruling not to extradite a British man to France following a conviction for murder in a known case dating back decades, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Last year, Ian Bailey was convicted in his absence by a Paris court of killing Sophie Toscan du Plantier, the 39-year-old wife of film producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier.
Her body was found outside her holiday home in Southern Ireland in 1996, beaten on the head with a concrete block and dressed in nightwear.
Bailey has consistently denied any involvement. Although arrested and questioned, he was never charged in Ireland in connection with the case.
On 12 October, the Irish High Court rejected a third extradition request from the French authorities.
A judge said it cannot be allowed because while France claims jurisdiction over the murder of a French citizen in a foreign country by a foreign citizen, Ireland does not do the same.
And on Tuesday, Frank Buttimer, Bailey’s attorney, told AFP that the Irish minister of justice had decided that “there would be no request for a certificate from the high court to get permission to appeal.”
“In the absence of some extraordinary event … this is the end of the extradition nightmare,” Buttimer said, adding that his client had expressed “enormous relief.”
A spokesperson for the Plantier family said he was surprised by the latest twist in the long-running saga.
Irish prosecutors said the original Irish police investigation was “completely flawed” due to long delays in reaching the crime scene.
In 2014, Plantier’s family described the Irish investigation as a “judicial fiasco” and a “denial of justice”.
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