Murder at the Cottage | Sky

No, you're missing the point. It could apply to IB or anyone else. Not JUST IB. But for those who adamantly defend him with the "no motive" line - this negates that logic. And you can be sure this didn't happen just one time. I just happened to see this latest story in the news.

Its not the same or similar situation at all.

Sophie was at home.

Bailey knew of her before the attack and lived in the locality.

I dont believe for one second the killer had no recollection in the incident you describe.

This attacker could well have gone on to be a serial killer or offender.

Bailey had no motive and Sophies death has no hallmarks of serial offender for which the crime itself is the motive.

It does not negate the 'no motive' logic as far as Bailey is concerned... because 'no motive' is a key indicator re tge type of crime and suspect.

Sorry, not wasting time responding to any of this. You've missed the point.

Can't really see this, Cowgirlsboots.

The case you use to illustrate your point ( I'm assuming that its the "no motive" issue) , if anything, proves the opposite.

ie. that there is virtually always a motive.

Or am I misinterpreting something?

I am making a comparison between this statement made by Bailey to Bill Fuller:

"You saw her in Spar and she turned you on, walking up the aisle with her tight arse. You went to see what you could get and she was not interested."

and the same type of targeting by the man in the news article.

i.e.; Man sees woman, man wants woman, man tries to engage with woman, woman rejects man, man flips out and murders woman. That's it. End of comparison.

Yes, there is. It's right there in Bailey's statement.

In fairness I think most people have heard this before ( re the death bed confession ). It is the first time though I have seen the name of the alleged Garda. I would hope the family do get the courage to approach the authorites with this and that they are taken seriously. This probably needs to be reported higher up the chain of command of the Gardai Siochana and political ladder rather than the local Garda Station. Its a real tough one for the family to decide who to go to with this info as there is a section of the Gardai who may want this buried and forgot about.

Senan Moloney, Irish Independent has been working this case donkey's years.

Are you saying Ian Bailey accused Bill Fuller of the murder in his statement?

Smh. Improper use of the word "disingenuous". You are missing the point. Your "objective" analysis is entertaining though.

Sorry. It's not worth wasting anymore time trying to explain. Maybe the lightbulb will go on for you at some point.

The Garda incompetence and corruption throughout the investigation was obvious from the get go and became more and more obvious over time. Ie. The reams of missing evidence job books etc.

It was always going to be littered with AGS involvement. Good people don't cover up murder unless they are covering their own. I.e. under direct instruction.

Drew Harris is probably the ideal AGS commissioner to sanction a proper and final investigation. I'd suggest he draws up terms of impunity for any AGS member involved provided full disclosure if all is forcoming, ening this farce once and for all.

Unfortunately it's completely useless, both parties in the alleged conversation are now apparently dead. If the man died in 2001 he was probably quiet old and frail just four years earlier? If he died while still in the force there would surely be some mention of it, even in the local press. But there's no results for such a person that I can find.

Bill fuller's statement and testimony in court was that he believed IB was describing what he did in the third person. He seems to be known for this, they mention in the West Cork podcast that he gave them tapes of audio diaries and a recording made with Martin Graham in which he talks about himself in the third person.

Of course they found no evidence, it was destroyed!

You'd have to be particular bad at covering your tracks to be caught out by GSOC, who cannot question retired Gardai.

35 pages were removed from the evidence book, if this is typical in straightforward cases, why would GSOC have considered referring it to DPP?

In its report, GSOC says it is most concerned with pages that went missing from the original garda ‘jobs book’ while in the custody of gardaí.

The commission said it had considered whether the interference with the Jobs Book warranted sending a file to the DPP, but they had chosen not to on the basis that one of the main gardaí who had responsibility for the documents had since died.

There was no explanation offered by gardaí for the missing pages. GSOC concluded that there was “a lack of administration and management of the incident room” during the murder investigation, but found no evidence of malpractice or corruption.

In the report, GSOC says its deliberations had been hampered by the refusal of a number of garda detectives involved in the case to co-operate with them and the fact that some of the gardaí who investigated the murder have since retired or died... It is interesting to note that a number of members of the guards were able to shield behind their retirement as a way of refusing to co-operate.”

Also speaking to this paper, Mr Bailey’s solicitor, Frank Buttimer, said: “The reality of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission as an organisation is that it is powerless, in any meaningful way, to carry out any form of proper investigation into garda corruption."

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30859712.html