Sophie: A Murder in West Cork - Netflix.

One meaning of ‘would be’ is ‘having the potential to be’, and that is the sense in which it was being used here. The point is it is a viable hypothesis and where that motive is backed up with evidence that Bailey was at the scene on the night, then taking that together with the other supporting evidence, there ‘would be’ sufficient evidence to ground a conviction.

"Time has proved him to be spot on."

Twenty witnesses who presented themselves for cross examination by Bailey`s counsel and directly contradicted Bailey`s testimony under oath at the libel trial say no.

"I repeat, there is no credible evidence of an association between Bailey and Sophie."

According to the Epistle of Saint Iano to the Gullible Minions.

"Both Daniel and Sophie had lovers."

They appear to have had an open marriage. You have provided no evidence of an upcoming divorce. I have provided evidence that indicates there was no upcoming divorce.

"If Bailey`s assault on Jules puts him under suspicion, then Bruno`s attack on Sophie is even more concerning".

Except that Bailey was up the road and Bruno was in France.

"They were known to be in dispute over the gate."

Can you provide evidence for this? As far as I am aware, there is no evidence of an altercation, either physical or verbal, between Alfie and Sophie about the gate.

"There is no evidence that he knew her."

Yes there is. You choose to believe the liar.

"He didn`t take a concrete block to Jules`s head"

She is very lucky there wasn`t one at hand.

"Nor did he kill her".

He thought about it though, didn`t he. The diary..."One act of whiskey induced madness and in an act of awful violence I severely damaged you and made you feel that death was near." Two weeks after an assault in May `96..."I actually tried to kill her."

"Fine detail, trivia, minutiae"

It was Albert Reynolds who said that it was the little things that get you in the end. When Bailey rang Caroline Leftwick before 12-30 and told her he couldn`t come over because he had to report on the death of a local woman, he never thought that he would have to explain how he knew about Sophie`s death over an hour before he was actually told about it, nor for that matter how Jules was able to tell James Camier about it in Goleen at 11-30.

"No associations, no links"

You`re just a broken record who believes a liar.

"No forensics"

Nothing to run away from, there are no forensics. In fact, the absence of forensic evidence is either due to sheer dumb luck or a killer who knew how to leave a clean crime scene. Now which local violent headcase knew quite a lot about forensic evidence?

"No motive"

A question. What motive did Bailey have to assault Jules, to almost take her eye out, rip the hair from her scalp, detach her lip from her jaw?Answer. Sweet feck all motive. He was a dangerously violent and angry man who needed little provocation to make him lose the plot.

Another question. Why didn`t he kill Jules? What was it that made him repel those murderous urges that he clearly had? Answer. He knew that he couldn`t get away with it and there were witnesses to at least some of the assaults. The only witness to Sophie`s assault was Sophie.

There’s far too much sense in this post altogether, it’s not fair on the amateur psychiatrist’s, fantasists and crime scene analysts.

You’ll be lucky if the resident stalker doesn’t invite you to pm him so he can arrange to fight you and break you in two.

Rhetorical question, innit!

repeat, there is no credible evidence of an association between Bailey and Sophie."

According to the Epistle of Saint Iano to the Gullible Minions.

There is no evidence of any association between Sophie and Bailey. If you believe there is, please enlighten me.

They appear to have had an open marriage. You have provided no evidence of an upcoming divorce. I have provided evidence that indicates there was no upcoming divorce.

You could not possibly know whether a divorce was in the offing. Nor have you provided any evidence. He married his pregnant girlfriend shortly after Sophie's demise. Most curioius of all, he refused to come to Ireland with the rest of the family. I contend that there was a motive for DTDP.

"If Bailey`s assault on Jules puts him under suspicion, then Bruno`s attack on Sophie is even more concerning".

Except that Bailey was up the road and Bruno was in France.

Yes, but I'm not saying he killed her. I'm saying he had motive and he had form for attacking her in a fit of jealousy. So he knew her well, he had previous and he had motive. As distinct from Bailey, who didn't know her and had no motive.

News like this travels like wild fire. Its highly probable Alfie and Shirley was on the phone telling all the locals and friends what had just happened immediately after contacting the gardai. It is possible for Bailey to have heard the news by 11am. This was big news and would have spread rapidly in the local area. I dont think the fact that Bailey knew about it at 11 means anything. He was a journalist - of course he was going to cover the story.

Also it is possible that these 'witness's' got their times confused and it was actually later than they thought.

Ah right. I thought you might have been implying something else.

"Caroline Leftwick remembered the date and time after nearly 5 months."

I`m sure she still remembers it today after 26 years.

"It took James Camier 2 years to remember the date and time"

Not true. You are phrasing this to imply these witnesses had an epiphany of recovered lost memories which just is not the case at all.

"Bailey called him while he was still asleep"

A man who was not a shift worker who would have had to be still sleeping after 1-40 pm.

Well Bailey likes to highlight Cassidy`s memory difficulties and make him a liar but the reality was that Cassidy had a busy day on his phone that day and couldn`t realistically be expected to recall what exactly he said to whom and at what exact time. It is a very different scenario to what the people Bailey called had to remember which was a singular event. He may well have told Bailey that the dead woman was French in that first call, but there is no getting away from the fact that the first contact was 1-40 pm. Maybe you`re referring to something else. I don`t what you mean about Twomey.