Ian Bailey, a suspect in the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, has died in West Cork.
The sixty-six year old fell ill and collapsed while walking in Bantry at lunchtime today.
Emergency services were called and paramedics performed CPR on Mr Bailey without success.
It's understood he was pronounced dead at the scene and his body has since been removed to the morgue at Bantry General Hospital.
Mr Bailey denied any involvement in the murder of Ms Toscan du Plantier, a French film producer, at her holiday home near Schull in December 1996.
He was convicted in absentia by a French court in May 2019 of the killing.
On three occasions the Irish courts refused to extradite him to France and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) ruled over 20 years ago that he did not have a case to answer here.
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