A neighbour who found the body of tragic Sophie Toscan du Plantier has put her West Cork home on the market.
Shirley Forster, who made the horror discovery at the front gate of Sophie's house on Christmas Eve in 1996, had lived just 100 yards away.
The two-bedroom farmhouse in Toormore near Schull, Co. Cork has gone on sale at the market price of €250,000 and is said to be in need of renovations.
The house shares a laneway with the holiday home where Sophie was murdered 25 years ago.
The release of two separate documentary series about the unsolved murder of the French filmmaker has brought the case back under an international spotlight.
The first of the two documentaries titled 'Murder at the Cottage' was released on Sky shortly followed by the release of 'Sophie: A Murder in West Cork' on Netflix.
The documentaries have generated a huge interest in the case and has already been streamed in 190 countries worldwide.
Ms Forster's late partner Alfie Lyons, who is mentioned in the documentaries as being Sophie's neighbour, passed away a few months ago.
Ms Forster told The Irish Times that people interested in the case have been coming to the scene long before the documentaries were released.
She said she now fears that more people will begin to turn up after the attention the documentaries have given the case.
She said: “We had people bringing their grannies and their small children to look at the cross marking where Sophie was found, and then some of them were cheeky enough to drive up to the house and peer in the windows.”
The main suspect in the case, Ian Bailey, has always maintained that he had nothing to do with the murder.
He was found guilty of the murder in his absence in a trial in France in 2019.
The French government have attempted to have Mr Bailey extradited on three occasions but have been rejected by the Irish High Court.
