It's difficult to believe anything here purporting to be from a "local" I'll believe it when I see it. Or people believe what they really want to believe
So what? that was in a libel trial and the Judge is looking after the team.
As far as we know, none of Sophie’s blood was found on briars either. They were scrape wounds not puncture wounds.
’looking after the team’, are you suggesting Judge Moran was a collaborator with the newspapers? I think this thread should have moved to the conspiracy theory forum a long time ago.
From the crime scene
I can’t see where there is blood visible on them?
I heard he brought a picnic with himself too and ate it by Kealfadda bridge. Murder is hungry work.
That theory is daft, drive to the house. Commit murder. Walk 3km to wash. 3km back to drive home. Leave the car there for a couple hours meters from a murder scene and meters from Alfie Lyons' house. Come off it.
No blood.
I don't think it has to be visible, just present
This also kept me wondering. If she was chased running through the dark fields she would most likely screamed very loudly and under the idea of being frightened for her life. It's beyond my imagination that nobody heard a thing, even though one of the neighbours ( apparently the one who was visually impaired ) noted hearing a car. Maybe the scratches and clothes shredded by wire and brambles came when she may have been dragged and was already unconscious or even dead?
Regarding the blue Fiesta which has been mentioned. As far as I know it wasn't an unmarked police car, but a privately owned car. The "horny Gard" who lived apparently in Bantry and had an apparent interest in foreign women did own such a car. However this may also be coincidence, the Fiesta car was very popular at that time. A license plate number was never known, and the colour was always described as "blue-ish" as far as I know.
I'd imagine the blood coloured sticks that a person from forensics is pointing at is a bit of a giveaway
Bailey mentioned in his Virgin interview that the licence plate was red and that Martin O' Sullivan had some of the numbers too.
Is he alive? Can someone do us a huge favour and go and interview him. Preferably not someone from Virgin.
I knew you'd rise to that. It wasn't the newspapers the eminent Judge was helping out it was the forces of law and order. Say Bailey had won the case, what was coming next? Conspiracy you think? Ask Fr. Molloy's family.
It`s a cul de sac. The chance of someone arriving on the scene at that hour is almost nil. The gate is the murder scene. That`s Alfies house all the way up there in the upper left corner.
26th LOLz. Fair bit of rain and wind I'd imagine in the 3 days it took the crime team to get out there.
@lintdrummer I'm not into the drugs angle. I do think though that our Bantry detective may have been spotted with Sophie the previous day buying fuel. It's reasonable on this basis to suggest he had some sort of relationship with her. It's also not a great stretch that the French wine was bought to impress Sophie. The rumour is he was an alcoholic and fond of the ladies. I think it's possible that he drove to hers under the influence and when rejected it got violent and she met her grim end. Hence then the car speeding off in the morning and the discarded wine. I'd like to see this mans family interviewed about the confession, and I'd like to see Martin O' Sullivan's witness account in granular detail. It's awfully odd nothing more was made of the Fiesta sightings. It's as if they didn't exist at all.
All the way up in the corner? The same house all the way up in the corner that Ian Bailey was purported as having seen Sofie from while gardening at Alfie Lyons' place?
To murder someone, leave your car parked at the scene next to their corpse with a house in relatively close proximity, a house where it is claimed the accused murderer knew an Xmas party was on earlier that night and had seen lights on there. Then walk a few kms to the sea to wash the blood of the victim off your clothes. Walk back to the car soaking wet and covered in tidal mud and then drive home is simply incredulous.
Good spot. I suppose we should be glad they took photos rather than just sketching the brambles.
Watching the interview now for the 1st time on Virgin 1
He wasn`t spotted with her the previous day. The bottle of wine was found months later and couldn`t possibly have been near the murder scene. It would have been found in the searches in the days after the murder. The only deathbed confession to this crime might come from Bailey. Wouldn`t surprise me in the least. It will go along the lines of..."You f****ng morons.....of course I did it."
They must have used up all their West Cork annual allocation of camera film.
There was a sighting of Sophie with a man in a fiesta filling fuel. The bottle was found cast away from from murder scene in field next door. Enlighten us on your theory for how a full bottle of expensive wine ends up there? Allegedly the rogue bantry detective made a confession. Bailey just did Bailey. Blathering bullshit to anyone willing to listen. I'd say yourself and himself would get on famously.
how does the murderer walk kilometres down to the bridge - to wash blood off himself - yet none of this blood is on the road he has to walk down to the bridge?
the MF sighting at the bridge should be totally ignored - no theory is required to fit in with it -
1) She is a proven liar;
2) Who by unbelievable chance stumbles across a murderer who has just committed the only murder in the area pretty much ever;
3) At 4 in the morning;
4) In the middle of nowhere;
5) And her only corroborating witness to this incredible event... is Jimmy Hoffa...
It is a million times more likely that she made the whole thing up.
I didn't know that the Gard from Bantry made a confession? When was this? And to whom? What precisely did he confess?
There was a potential sighting of Sofie the day before with a tall man. There are problems with this because the car the witness described had no hubcaps and Sophies did. There are also problems with timing. She couldn`t have been at the scene of the sighting at the time the witness said, based on the time that it was known she collected her hire car. The man is unidentified. The witness didn`t see his face. Yet you come on here to tell us it was the Bantry detective. More Chinese whispers.
Can you quote the solid source that corroborates your claims
and he left dna on the bridge too but the garda lost the bridge
I raised this previously with Moonbrain and he said that the gloves that Bailey was wearing were probably a "heavy wool" that would allow a briar to penetrate to cause a scratch but would then wipe the blood clean off the briar: I kid you f*cking not 😂
What’s with the primary school names? I said if you are wearing wool gloves you would still get scratched and the material of the gloves will wipe the briars due to friction as they make contact. That can very plausibly remove skin cells from the thorns. The tips are like needle points and are smooth.
Course I can.
Just not willing to with a random on a forum
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