PARIS (Reuters) - A French court on Friday sentenced a British journalist in absentia to 25 years in jail for the murder of a French film producer in Ireland 22 years ago, and issued a new European arrest warrant to try to press Ireland to extradite him.
Sophie Toscan du Plantier's body was found bruised and battered while she was on holiday in the small Irish coastal village of Schull, in December 1996.
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