Murder at the Cottage | Sky

Calling Nick Foster a journalist is stretching it. If he's what accounts for journalism nowadays, we really are screwed. I just dont know how you can insert yourself into someones life like he did with Bailey, pretend to be his friend, while all the time, looking to do him in anyway possible so he could sell more books essentially. It takes a particular type of low level cretin & sociopath to do that. He is about as reliable as Marie Farrell in this case or even less so.

The only impartial report on the case against Bailey was the DPP report, it completely savaged the gards, it rightly showed how the so called witnesses were inconsistent in anything they said & were completely untrustworthy. (Not to mention they were being bribed, intimidated, coerced by the gards), Eamon Barnes initially and then James Hamilton were the DPP'S with regard to this case, two excellent DPPS while the current one leaves a lot to be desired, I can only imagine if this happened in Claire Loftus's reign, Bailey would definitely be going to trial and costing the state millions.

Buttimer (Baileys Solicitor) said that Gsoc was a “rather powerless and toothless organisation that doesn’t have much by way of capacity to enquire and police the police in the way I think it should be done”.

He said that Bailey doesn’t accept that the gardaí’s actions were not unlawful, or that the investigation actions weren’t corrupt in some cases.

As far as official Ireland is concerned [it's an example of a] shameful lack of accountability in this point in time.

The report by Gsoc says that there’s no accountability in this disgraceful [incident] of policing.

“If these things occurred now there would be absolute uproar, but the fade factor suited An Garda Síochána and it suited Gsoc to produce this relatively limited report.”

So for anyone, relying on GSOC reports or a judge who has been found to have a serious conflict of interest in the case against Bailey, you need to have a good look at yourself in the mirror. They hold absolutely no weight at all.

Bailey actually wrote a very good thesis on the need for the police in Ireland to be policed themselves. GSOC are certainly not going to do it.

A full independent inquiry should be opened into this case now. This case isnt even about Sophie anymore, this is about how seriously corrupt our police force is in this country and its needs to be properly exposed. Just like the Catholic church were a number of years ago.

Laughable, Bailey didnt actually he say he went up there and bashed her brains in, he said everything was going well until people said I went up there and bashed her brains in. Even if he did say he went up there and bashed her brains and thats why things arent so good at the moment, only the most naive or idiotic type of individual would believe that, it was clearly said in scarcasm. So after everything, hes just going to pick up a young boy and admit to one of the most high profile crimes in recent times, really???

Judge Moran accepted his version, ya of course he did, now we know what he was like & what he was up to. A judge that so obviously had in it for bailey that he suspended a mandatory 10 year sentence of a drug supplier just so he could help the gards in implicating bailey falsely in this crime. After that, this judge has absolutely no credibility and to top it off he said he thought it was probable that bailey was the man seen down by kelfadda bridge that night by Marie Farrell. Yah sounds plausible, walk an extra 4km after murdering someone in the most horrific fashion, wash himself off, walk home, make the missus a cup of coffee, then head down in the morning and report on said crime. Not to mention, Marie Farrell was a blatant perjurer. I wouldn't be taking a blind bit of notice of what that judge had to say.

The only fantasists on this thread are the ones who continually expect everyone to believe nothing dodgy happened that would have implicated a gard.

He's the lowest of the low, a drug supplier, gas you are clinging to him now since your gsoc & Judge reports have found to be completely bogus. He'd say anything to anyone for a bit of money, wouldnt be one bit surprised if the papers paid him a couple of grand. He has zero credibility in anything.