Cold Case Review of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier murder to proceed. **Threadbans lifted - see OP**

You either haven't read the report in full or haven't read it with understanding.

It is the Garda case it was a frenzied attack and Bailey was scratched at the scene. The DPP is rejecting it (the part in bold) because there was no sign of Bailey being scratched at the scene.

Yet you somehow try to twist that as a criticism of the DPP!

It's not the DPP's theory. It is pointing out the contradictions in the Garda scenario tying Bailey to the scene.

If in fact the attack was carried out in a frenzied manner one might have expected that the assailant would have left traces of blood, skin, clothing fibres or hair at the scene. No such material was discovered.

Careful now Tom.

I agree that it was a frenzied attack.

I do not agree with your view on the DPP analysis.

The point about the DPP report is that the Garda case is that it was a frenzied attack, and that Bailey was scratched at the scene, and that Bailey went up there with a sexual motive. That is the case the DPP is critiquing \ assessing.

The DPP rightly points out if Bailey is supposed to have carried out the attack in a frenzied manner, and scratched at the scene - yet there is zero forensics tying him to the scene. Not on Sophie. Not on the briars. It doesn't add up.

Similarly the DPP rightly points out there was zero evidence of a sexual element to the attack.

No Tom. They didn't say that.

No forensic evidence linking Ian Bailey to the scene was found despite the fact that the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier was the direct result of an apparently frenzied and furious attack upon her in a briar-strewn location. If in fact the attack was carried out in a frenzied manner one might have expected that the assailant would have left traces of blood, skin, clothing fibres or hair at the scene. No such material was discovered.

I thnk your misinterpreting the text.

On the West Cork podcast Bailey produces a letter that was sent to him suggesting it was a Bantry Garda.

The letter writer goes on to say that if Bailey wants more information then he would have to "make it worth his time"

So from that I am concluding that the Bantry Garda story is coming from none other than Ian Bailey.

If you have been hearing about it in west Cork then it's probably because Bailey has been spreading it.

If you read the full section in context it is clearer imo:

The Gardaí suggest that Ian Bailey is the murderer and was scratched on his hands and arms by the briars during the struggle.

No forensic evidence linking Ian Bailey to the scene was found despite the fact that the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier was the direct result of an apparently frenzied and furious attack upon her in a briar-strewn location. If in fact the attack was carried out in a frenzied manner one might have expected that the assailant would have left traces of blood, skin, clothing fibres or hair at the scene. No such material was discovered.

No, Odysse's interpretation is correct.

If you read it in the full contex, the DPP are refuting the Garda claim that the scratches were a result of Bailey attacking Sophie in the briars.

The briars were taken away and forensically examined in the UK and no forensic material was recovered.

Had the scratches been caused by the briars, then there would have been forensic traces left.

And because there wasn't, the arssertion is rejected.

It is clearly wrong cherry picking a paragraph out of the section in the report, and leaving this out:

The Gardaí suggest that Ian Bailey is the murderer and was scratched on his hands and arms by the briars during the struggle.