Murder at the Cottage | Sky

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It's Leo Bolger, not Leo Bulger, I take it. He's the one doing cannabis and in the end, didn't go to jail, even though what he had would have given him at least a 10 year if not life sentence. I wouldn't rely on Leo Bolger as a witness same as I wouldn't Marie Farrell.

Regarding Drew Harris, I don't know anything wrong or corrupt about him? Only he's from the North and been appointed to the Garda in Ireland. That was some international selection process, I think? Father got killed by the IRA?

"GSOC said it was unable to clarify when the interference may have taken place other than believing it was likely to have occurred since a review of the file in 2002, but possibly as far back as the 1990s.

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."

Had the McNally Review of 2002 been a genuine review, with access to these pages, it would without doubt have placed serious emphasis on the reason Ian Bailey became a suspect early on. There is an attempt by objectionable people to suggest that either they were a) seen but considered of so little importance they didn't warrant a mention or b) were simply overlooked. Neither is credible . They were obviously so explosive that it was decided to take the risk of removing them, whether before or after makes no difference as their contents were not going to be allowed get near the DPP. If after, it was very likely on the instruction of somebody carrying out the review.

Shouldn't GSOC have alerted the DPP in any case? Wouldn't the DPP have been more qualified in deciding on how to proceed? This more than any other element of the GSOC review indicates why it took so long. As with all the reviews, unreliable witnesses and the original joke of a file sent to the DPP, everything about this case has been about muddying the waters and dragging it out for all it's worth.

Even if one has decided on Ian Bailey's guilt, it indicates a complete indifference to Jules Thomas for all the faux sympathy expressed about her experience of domestic violence.

Thanks for that. I didn't have that insight. I'd say for one who's been educated in Oxford, and Harris having a degree from Cambridge, it could have mattered... :-)

As with so many things in this case, like the 'honest' investigator who took Jules Thomas' statement being maligned on a recorded conversation by his colleagues, something was committed to paper that was so regretful the law had to be broken to rectify the mistake. Ms Johnson? WTF? it's the way you tell 'em

No question that he is qualified and that there were many sound reasons for his appointment.

However, the choice of an ex RUC man would have been humiliating for the Senior Gardai. And, I suspect, intentionally so.

After the catastrophic tenures of Messrs Callinan and O'Sullivan, the scandals of the Kerry babies, the Donegal fiasco, Maurice McCabe, the breath test caper, the driving licence points circus, Sophie's murder etc. etc. the government had to be seen to get to grips with these cowboys.

It would seem more and more that Sophie really stumbled into something just by buying the house and then spending time there. On one of her hikes in the countryside things didn't go unnoticed for long.

I don't know if Mary Jane grew in plain sight? The thing is that the houses are all isolated and other than the owners/residents only visitors would have come. And there was no fear from the Gards as well.

I am pretty certain that even Today, there are no dwellings at all on the entire length of that "main" road bar one abandoned caravan. So, there were none in 1996.

Location on google maps to give people an idea of the location.

I'm not sure what it was like in 1996.

Picture is present day

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5295255,-9.6767708,228m/data=!3m1!1e3

Also interesting is the fact Leo was allowed through what was still a crime scene to visit Alfie, who was still confined to his property,

to deliver -ahem- groceries.

Another theory. A gentleman caller spent the night at Sophie's. Half way through the night Sophie realizes this guy is a big mistake but has to gracefully see 'the date' through until his morning departure. Happen all the time with one night stands. The guy is parked down below the gate. In the morning she decides to walk him down to the gate. He is like "great night, let's do it again sometime". She tell him straight it won't be happening again. He takes this news very very badly.......

Let the hole picking begin.

Isn't it remarkable that a few months before IB's High Court case against the state begins in 2014, this story about a blue fiesta that gardai apparently never looked for appears out of nowhere. Adds in a lie about a german man having an affair with Sophie and then killing himself yet names no sources and later disappears from the web, only to be captured on a news scraping website. How mysterious.

Anyone could allege or speculate that she slept with Neil Armstrong in a replica of the lunar landing craft.