Ian Bailey’s interview will be a part of Sophie: A Murder in West Cork.

Streaming giant Netflix has confirmed that it will not bow to Ian Bailey’s request to remove an interview with him from their new documentary series.

Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, Netflix’s documentary on the Sophie Toscan Du Plantier case, is available to watch on the streaming service from this morning (June 30th).

Production company Lightbox have worked closely with them family of Toscan du Plantier in the making of the documentary. Speaking to the Irish Times, series director John Dower said “We are making this film with the family, we are not making it for the family, they have no editorial control over it but we were making it with their point of view in mind and that becomes clear particularly in the final episode.”

Last night Bailey, who recently set up a Twitter account, tweeted “Still waiting, anticipating, hope ing, that tomorrow may bring or response from Mr. Simon Chinn of Lightbox Entertainment and Ms Kate Townsend of Netfevkers [sic]… Sorry hate that predictive text.” As of this morning, Bailey confirmed that Netflix have not responded to his requests to remove the interview.

He claims that the interview was given under the pretence that it was merely for a “teaser,” rather than for a fully fledged documentary. Netflix and Lightbox have denied this, and said they are satisfied they have obtained the proper releases to use Bailey’s interview.

The drama follows the release of Sky Crime’s documentary on the same subject last week, which focused heavily on Bailey, and explored what member’s of Sophie’s family called “conspiracy theories” surrounding the Garda Síochána handling of the case. As a result, family members asked that their interviews be removed from the documentary, a request to which distributors Sky agreed.

Bailey has never been charged in Ireland in relation to the death of Toscan du Plantier, but a court in France tried him and found him guilty in absentia. Ireland’s High Court has since ruled that Bailey cannot be extradited.

The three-part series was uploaded to Netflix today, and is available to watch now.

Header pic from Twitter/@IanKennethBail1