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Ex-pat Briton to be extradited to France for TV producer's murder

Ian Bailey, 62, an expatriate British former journalist living in Ireland who was found guilty in absentia by a Paris court for the murder in 1996 in County Cork of French TV producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a crime he denies, has been ordered to be extradited to France by Dublin's High Court.

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Ian Bailey was arrested in Dublin on Monday afternoon over the 1996 murder of filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier, after an Irish  High Court judge endorsed the third warrant seeking his arrest and extradition to France, reports The Irish Times.

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