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

You tell me. I'm just pointing out your scenario assumed she knew. She doesn't have to. Of course it is a risk, but any course of action from that point on is a risk isn't it? There's no risk free course of action. You tell the other person - they might give the game away. You don't tell - they might twig it. You put the evidence in the rubbish bag. You stash it somewhere else that may be discovered.

Probably it didn't happen, but you don't know it didn't happen.

The point being made with Alfie is how easy is it is to paint someone as a suspect, if you view all behaviour through the prism of suspicion by assuming they are the murderer.

You're probably wasting your time. Oddessy has a record of portraying Bailey as a wronged saint. He even denied Bailey was a known violent hothead at one stage, despite Bailey admitting to beating up his partner on a number of occassions! Then argued for a couple of days that a hitman hired by her husband was possibly responsible, jammed gun and everything! Then said he didn't think it was Daniel who was responsible. Then moved on to questioning whether the neighbours might be involved. Something about going to the dump at the time. He'll point to everything and anything except the most obvious. So to answer your question objectivity is not his strong point!

Regards Bailey, if you go back over everything, there is far more to indicate his guilt than any other suspect..in fact the more you read about him the worse it gets!

As for Marie Farrell she is a proven fantacist...her statements are so unreliable that no serious person would believe her or even rely on her, except the incompetent gardai and one or two others.

Sounds like the story line to Hot Fuzz, a town council got together to carry out the murder. Everyone within a 10 mile radius is involved we just can't prove it yet. Maybe the rock was a meteorite and fell from the sky and she was just outside and closing the gate late at night. I still go with the guy who said a number of times he did it.

I would say some of the most interesting pieces of self incrimination came from what Bailey said to Bill Fuller less than 2 months after the murder when Bailey first became a suspect.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30927348.html

Once more Bailey plays the sarcasm/black humour card but most people have seen through it. Bailey spelled out what Bill allegedly did to Sophie but using facts that only the murderer could have known and were not made public until I believe 2011 when forensics and post mortem evidence was released. No one saw the back of Sophies head and there was evidence she was chased down the lane due to blood on a stone half way down.

Fuller also could have not known this information so his testimoney is plausible. Interesting that Bailey said he first approached Thomas in a similar manner but she let him in.

Fuller also said Bailey and Jules had dinner with Sophie twice. We only have Baileys word for this, but Fuller was only relaying what he was told.

Regards Baileys "black humour", giving him the benefit of the doubt he was not a stupid man. He was for example a reasonably successful journalist in the UK at one time and also earned a law degree in Ireland.

So to go around repeatedly saying "I did it" was either monumentally stupid, since not everyone would see the funny side of this black humour after a horrific and tragic murder or else he was brazingly taunting people and felt he couldn't be touched regardless of what he said.

You're saying all that points to that a member of AGS ?

The only person saying that witnesses were coerced is Marie Farrell.

Are we supposed to believe what she says now?

The only person with the Martin Graham story is Martin Graham, and for some reason his recording device failed the one day he was supposed to catch the Gardai in a "gotcha".

Even The Sunday World were not willing to run his story without more proof.

The block in the bag is, as they say in the West Cork podcast "what looks like hash", no one ever said it was hash.

And the Bandon tapes were not the treasure trove many hoped for, what they mainly reveal is Garda frustration with not being able to get more on Bailey, and Farrell's unwillingness to name who was in the car with her.

Bill Fuller 🤣

This is the same Bill Fuller who was so paranoid about Bailey that he ran away screaming when he mistook a local farmer for Bailey? Solid witness there bud! And the tale about Sophie being over for dinner with Bailey and Jules - well, that's a new one for me! And like much of the most incriminating testimony at the French trial, conveniently "remembered" years later - and didn't Fuller get himself a free trip to France for his bother?

Did you actually read the whole article you linked?

You're just making stuff up again . There was no blood found half way down the lane.

A drop of her blood was found on a stone in the field 6ft in from the pumphouse.

If it's the Malachi Reid story you're referring to, like a lot of the reports just cherry picking bits to suit.

I don't know how the conversation commenced but Bailey's reply to a question from Malachi was something like;

'I was all right until they said "I went up there and bashed her head in" '. Obviously that part never made it's way into the statement his mother made at the French trial.

Malachi Accepted the lift from Bailey in spite if the fact bailey was at that stage suspected of murdering Sophie, and continued to do so after this "confession"

How come you don't know how the conversation commenced but you know what Bailey's reply was?

Would it be more accurate to state you don't know anything about the conversation at all because you weren't there, but you prefer to believe Baileys version?

And you talk about cherry picking in the same post. LOL.

Yes, something like that would significantly alter the landscape of the case. Its new evidence which would then raise the validty of the existing circumstantial stuff.

There's also this confession he made to the editor of The Sunday Tribune during a serious conversation....

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/ian-bailey-told-newspaper-editor-5144646

Bailey isn't guilty, he never was.

Only a jury can find him guilty and that never happened.

You're innocent until proven guilty. That's in the UK as well as in Ireland.

There is just speculation that he may have done it, but there is lot's of other speculation as well.