Toscan du Plantier son criticises DPP over refusal to meet him

Pierre Louis Baudey-Vignaud, 34, told The Irish Times that he had written to Claire Loftus on 1 July 2015 and received a response on 31 July 2015 stating that she was conferring with Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan on the case.

A second letter received in December 2015 confirmed that this remained the case.

Mr Baudey-Vignaud has said he found it firstly “disappointing but also disrespectful”.

He added: “After 19 years when nothing has happened to get justice for my mother, I think I am owed at least a meeting and I want to meet someone who is responsible for the decision that no one is charged with her murder and the DPP is that person.”

Ms Toscan du Plantier, a little-known film producer, was beaten to death outside her holiday home in Cork in December 1996.

The initial investigation into the controversial murder was dogged with mistakes and the killing remains unsolved.