listermint wrote: » I know how much they were I used to sell them for a living. My point was they were not ubiquitous.guards didn't carry them around in their pockets or even in their cars. It wasn't a must have thing and especially not for taking reference noted and sketches. Don't confuse holiday makers who purposefully had cameras to capture their holidays that was an entirely different mind set . Witness or scene photography was a specialist job then and is now for the most part.
fryup wrote: » who said it was a hire car?
MoonUnit75 wrote: » It was a hire car, it's in the witness statements as well. Alfie Lyons and another neighbour commented on it. The other neighbour said it was the first time they ever saw a hire car outside the house where Sophie had not come out to talk to them so it stuck out in their mind. I'm almost certain I read it was an Avis car.
Mantis Toboggan wrote: » Are Bailey and Jules still together?
Creamy Goodness wrote: » no, they split in Feb 2021. It was mentioned in the credits of the final episode. It'd be interesting to know the reasoning behind the split and who/where IB is staying now.
listermint wrote: » This was West cork. It's not a regional division nor a metropolitan city. Don't confuse the two. I really don't think people are in the mindset of 1996. And no one said it's the stone age so don't use hyperbole to make a point. It doesn't make any point.
Yurt! wrote: » This one time, while picking up a rental at Prestwick Airport (Avis gold card member here) I noted that the passenger seat of the tan colored Mondeo was set-back and "The Best of Roxy Music" was still in the tape deck. A cold shiver ran down my spine and I turns to me wife and I says to her: "There's been a murder." Put it to the back of my mind and we had lovely holiday in the end.
JimmyVik wrote: » Imagine traveling all the way from her home in France to that house for 2 nights and one full day in it. She was definitely meeting someone.
FrankN1 wrote: » Did they not do any DNA tests from the wine glasses?
Tipsy McSwagger wrote: » A female guard washed them
MoonUnit75 wrote: » One interesting factoid noted by the gardai was that the small Fiesta hire car had the passenger seat pushed back almost all the way to accommodate a tall person. They felt it was unlikely the hire car company handed it over like this after it was valeted, makes sense not to obstruct the back seats like that.
Bannasidhe wrote: » Ah jayzuz, it wasn't the Stone Age. A disposable 35mm camera could be bought in any chemist for a few quid. Especially in a tourist area like West Cork.
MoonUnit75 wrote: » It was noted by the gardai that morning that the seat had been pushed all the way back. There were no suspects or leads at the time. I remain doubtful that a car hire company would valet a car and leave the passenger seat pushed all the way back.
JimmyVik wrote: » So because a car hire valet may or may not have put a seat back, or as another poster says, she didnt have some shopping in the front then IB must have been in the car? Thats a stretch. Mine is back right now because i got takeaway last night and pushed the seat back to make the space in the back smaller so the takeaway on the floor wouldnt fall over on my way home. Imagine being framed for a murder because i bought a takeaway.
Space Dog wrote: » According to the podcast, she had asked her husband, family and her friend to come along, but no one could or wanted to fly over with her so close to Christmas. I recall her best friend saying on the podcast that she still feels awful for not going over with her, I think she had the flu or something.
Marcusm wrote: » I can remember going to weddings in Kerry and west Cork in the Summer of 1996 where each table had bowls of said disposable cameras for guests to take photos which the couples could process and view later. They were very much available and at a cheap price. The quality might not have been the best but no doubt the Gardai could hve used them. Or they could have pressganged Jules Thomas who was there as photographer!
MoonUnit75 wrote: » The gardai noted the seat was pushed all the way back as though to accommodate a passenger, Sophie herself was small. That's all. Nobody said Bailey was or might have been in it.
JimmyVik wrote: » Are they sure she asked them on that trip? And that she didnt already know they would not go. All sorts of permutations here.
JimmyVik wrote: » How do they know it was to accommodate a passenger. Seems as flimsy a leap as the rest of the leaps in this case.
Idioteque wrote: » She said she was fed up with Ian (drinking, ego, media coverage) and also that her kids wouldn't bring grandkids to visit while Ian was still in the house.https://extra.ie/2021/06/21/news/irish-news/jules-thomas-ian-bailey
MoonUnit75 wrote: » The gardai spoke to her family in the days after the murder and they said she had asked her friend Agnes Thomas and her cousin, Alexandra Lewy to go with her but they were both already tied up with their own Christmas arrangements.
Marcusm wrote: » I wonder is it relevant that her children (all adults) will not visit while he remains in situ but at least one of them was willing to go on camera and say it wasn’t him.
JimmyVik wrote: » And bring your kids into the media circus that is IBs world. I wouldnt put my kids through that.
