Okay. Seeing as nobody else would buy it.
The Indo story is a local elderly man who has previously given statements to the gardai yesterday gave a "consolidated statement" which took three hours on foot of a "sworn deposition". This after contacting a solicitor having seen documentaries.
He said he was "told the story of the bloodied clothes in complete confidence". This happened "face-to-face" in 2001.
The person making "the confession" seemed scared.
"At least partial proof of his allegations can be obtained" it is understood.
The old man discussed it with someone "now living in Europe" last year. This person is expected to talk to gardai.
Sophie's family welcomed development and want official action "as soon as possible".
AGS "no comment"
From about 16:40 here her plans are spoken about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZQTOaqwXk
Thinking about that, Shirley Foster AFAIK in her statement on finding the body didn't say she stopped to open the gate. If the gate was open then if Sophie was opening it for early departure she had already done it.
Or perhaps Sophie had closed it when she got back the previous evening but heard someone open it and went down to close it again in high dudgeon.
Sophie's normal preference was gate closed so it being open is of significance.
If it wasn't an early departure for flight home ergo she wasn't the last person to arrive back to Dreenane that evening.
I believe she had an open ticket back to Paris,
she had made arrangements to meet her housekeeper on Monday morning and
had changed her plans to fly back later in the week.
If she was leaving at 4 a.m. for Cork Airport I'd say she was opening it just before bed for fast exit in the morning.
If you wanted to define hearsay "someone told me they helped someone else do something" is pretty accurate.
Well this seems like a new development and not from MF: https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/new-statement-about-alleged-cleaning-of-bloody-clothes-after-sophie-murder-40727240.html
it’s paywalled and I didn’t pay for it.
I didn’t realise it had become a PCT thread, my apologies.
Is this Gemma’s imaginary Garda sergeant who beat up women and had loads of affairs with foreign females and somehow drove a very old blue fiesta etc. I’m surprised her man wasn’t known for carrying around a concrete block in his boot and was also noted for his irrational hatred of French cinema.
There is a conspiracy theory forum for this stuff.
In other words, there’s no legal basis or logic for the DPP’s opinion on this point.
The question was asked as to whether Jules or her family would notice traces of blood in the car, he delivered butchered turkeys the day before the murder.
Seems odd there was no blood in the car if he did it.
you think the forensics would not know the difference between turkey blood and human blood in the car?
It was never tried in court. GSOC is not court. I've expalined that.
There's also the possibility she already had the boots on. Maybe she hadn't gone upstairs to bed yet and was sitting reading in her robe with the boots still on. Just offering another scenario. Without a time of death it's hard to narrow anything down.
Her son reportedly feels she opened the door to her killer cos she felt safe in west cork. But the housekeeper said she'd warned her about someone breaking in, when no one was there though.
would you step out and look at the moon over Dunmanus bay on a starry night John,
or perhaps the sunrise on a clear winter's morning,
or just breathe in the fresh air?
It points to a figure of authority in the local area who she likely knew from before. She was known to have been quick to complain about things in the area. Sounds like a senior gard to me and explains the cover up also. Otherwise its hard to explain why she left the house in the middle of the night. Also the boot imprint on her face was consistent with those worn by gards.
Also, for all MoonUnits talk about GSOC, because the majority of his other points & theories have been discredited. He conveniently forgets to mention GSOC has said it has grave concerns that a large number of original statements and exhibits relating to the murder investigation of Sophie Toscan du Plantier are missing. Not just concerns but grave and this is from an organisation as toothless as it is useless when it comes to investigating the corruption amongst the gards
From the look of them they were walking/hiking boots so not that easy just to slip your feet into. It wouldnt be usual for anyone to put on shoes just to answer the door - If im in my nightwear answering the door my feet are the last thing Im worrying about. If the floor was cold Im sure she would have slippers, socks or shoes more suitable for indoors rather than walking boots. She was lured out of the house for some reason.
Who knows
We'll just never know.
Also Ive just had a thought does any of the reports mention where her car keys were? If the killer was on foot surely he would have taken her car to get away from the area fast. Makes me believe the killer had their own transport.
Good point,
A light frost on the ground in the morning.
So it's possible she had her boots on in the house and opened the door to a visitor.
May also account for the unopened bottle of champagne on the table.
re the breakfast cereal as her last meal , it's not unusual to have a bowl of cereal at night time.
Why just the light dressing gown when she had a decent coat hanging on the back of the door? What was the temperature that night anyway?
Or simply wanted a smoke of a cigarette or a joint and if you don't like to smoke in the house, you do it outside. My wife smokes and will always go outside. And if the wellies are by the door, she'll have them on.
Nobody knows and we'll probably never know.
No answers. Only speculation. We don't know that there was a knock or a person at the door. She could have been lured outside with just an unusual noise she went to check out.
the sad thing about this case is that it should have been relatively easy to solve. a team of competent murder squad detectives would have been able to wrap this up fairly quickly......instead we got the keystone cops! and now here we are all these years later still going around in circles.
I see, that explains why the podcast said she probably put the boots on just to answer the door then.
How did she get past the person at the door then though? Without disturbing anything there. Or why would she step out at all
Someone address this please!! Except MoonUnit!
Tell that to MoonUnit75, takes sounding like a broken record to a whole new level
Remember that Ian killed turkeys that weekend, any blood traces noticed at home or in the car could be explained to them in that context. Jules did say she saw clothes stained with ‘turkey blood’ which were not found during searches.
First lessonn you learn in Hogwarts eh?
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