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Nicola Donnelly

Netflix declines to comment as Ian Bailey's former partner sues streaming service over portrayal in Sophie Toscan Du Plantier documentary

Netflix has declined to comment on legal proceedings issued by Jules Thomas understood to be over its documentary series on the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Ms Thomas, who is the former partner of Ian Bailey, has also issued proceedings against the show’s director John Dower and production company Lightbox Media Ltd.

Ms Thomas, who is an artist living in Schull, Co Cork, is representing herself in the action.

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It is understood the legal proceedings are over how she was depicted in ‘Sophie: A Murder in West Cork.”

The three part series on the French filmmaker’s murder was released on the streaming service last year.

“Netflix never comments on legal proceedings,” a spokesperson for Netflix told this paper today.

Lightbox Media Ltd has not yet responded to our query for comment.

Ms Thomas, who separated from Mr Bailey in April of last year after almost 30 years together, was twice arrested for questioning by gardaí investigating the murder of Ms Toscan du Plantier at her holiday home at Toormore near Schull in December 1996. She was released without charge on both occasions.

Mr Bailey was twice arrested by gardaí in 1997 and 1998 for questioning about Ms Toscan du Plantier’s murder but has repeatedly denied any involvement in the killing.

However, he was in May 2019 convicted in absentia in France of the voluntary homicide of Ms Toscan du Plantier.

Mr Bailey described the French case as a show trial designed to find him guilty.

In 2020, the High Court ruled that he could not be extradited to France. It was the third time French authorities tried, and failed, to have him extradited.

Irish film maker Jim Sheridan has also made a documentary series on the murder of Ms Toscan du Plantier. His five-part series Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie featured interviews with Ms Thomas and Mr Bailey and aired on Sky Crime in June of last year.

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