{"id":44848,"date":"2025-09-05T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44848\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:12:07","slug":"gardai-will-prepare-dpp-file-after-new-dna-tests-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/44848\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed will prepare DPP file after new DNA tests \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garda\u00ed<\/a> will prepare a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions<\/a> (DPP) when they receive results of DNA tests<\/a> by Irish scientists on various exhibits from the Sophie Toscan du Plantier<\/a> murder investigation.<\/p>\n

According to sources close to the Garda Serious Crime Review team examining Ms Toscan du Plantier\u2019s murder in west Cork<\/a> in 1996, results from the Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) laboratory in Co Kildare are still awaited.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed hired American company, M Vac Systems, to come to Ireland to see if its advanced DNA collection system could find any DNA traces that might enable them to identify Ms Toscan du Plantier\u2019s killer.<\/p>\n

Ms Toscan du Plantier had been bludgeoned to death with a rock and a concrete block.<\/p>\n

M Vac chief executive Jared Bradley travelled to Dublin in July with forensic scientist Suzanna Ryan, who used the DNA technology to examine various exhibits including clothing and the rock and concrete block.<\/p>\n

The process involves applying a wet solution to exhibits and then vacuuming up the solution along with any dislodged DNA samples. <\/p>\n

When the results are delivered, the cold case investigation team will follow standard procedure and prepare a file for the DPP.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to be kept very tight, but it will just be like any other case where garda\u00ed get back DNA results from FSI \u2013 the results will be included in the file that will be sent to the DPP and the DPP will make a decision then on the evidence that garda\u00ed have gathered for the file,\u201d a source said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of media reports recently that Sophie\u2019s killer\u2019s DNA has been found, but the cold case team have yet to hear back from FSI and they are happy to let them go about their work and they\u2019re not into speculating on anything until they receive results from the scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0\u2018We await with interest\u2019: Family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier supportive of fresh DNA tests in murder inquiryOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Another source close to the investigation said the M Vac technology may turn up nothing other that Ms Toscan du Plantier\u2019s own DNA, or it might return several DNA profiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite possible they draw a blank, but equally it might return two or three samples \u2013 the concrete block had been used to build a pump house, so it might well yield some skin cells from whoever built the pump house or maybe from the scenes-of-crime examiners who removed it,\u201d the source said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibits were also examined by a French forensic team in 2011 so it might well return something that turns out to be from someone on the French team \u2013 they just don\u2019t know at this stage, and if there is one thing garda\u00ed in this case have learned, it\u2019s to be patient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed will prepare a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) when they receive results of DNA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[956,9,10,3286,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,3608,7,8,22676],"class_list":{"0":"post-44848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-dna","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-sophie-toscan-du-plantier","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-west-cork"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}