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

I type what I think and I was merely asking you your thoughts behind what you typed.

It's blatently obvious that all you want to discuss is Marie Farrell, regardless of whether you are contradicing yourself or not once you can steer the conversation around to her that seems to be your only goal.

OK Thanks.

I didn't realise that they had identified a particular garda who bore responsibility.

I haven’t adopted an attitude you seem to have an attitude about anything I post

as you said it’s a discussion forum

Daniel is the only one who had motive I agree

in other words Daniel was the one who would gain financially from her death

Or the person who carried out the murder was not scratched at the scene... This is the suggestion the DPP was discussing in the relevant section:

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

And concluding:

If Bailey had murdered Sophie, he would have known that there was a definite possibility of forensic evidence such as blood, fibres, hair or skin tissue being discovered at the scene. His voluntary provision of fingerprints and a specimen of his blood is objectively indicative of innocence.

Here's an example of a "prime and only suspect" in a murder case, who was found innocent at trial, and was subjected to abuse and harassment by the public after the police named him as such in the death of his wife. The acquittal was unanimously upheld by a court of appeal.

Zero forensic evidence against him apart from one item which the judge set aside and appears to have been planted by police.

Police ignored recommendations from their own medical examiner.

There were questions earlier in the thread about such cases.

Trying to summarise...

"The focus of the interview was Bailey’s reaction to Thomas’s decision to sue Frank Buttimer, her former ­solicitor who continued to act for Bailey. Ms Thomas is taking action against Mr Buttimer to get her legal files."

Also relates to claims by Jules of not being paid by Netflix for filming of documentary at her house. And Bailey seemed to think he is owed money from Jules for separation - not sure if it relates to Netflix angle or not.

Bailey before he died signed a statement supporting her case v Netflix.

Many thanks for doing that🙂

Yeah it sounds like Bailey was starting a right b1tchfest against Joules- her main response was he can’t control his drink anymore and no-one can help him- which I’d say was pretty much 100% true.

As for her civil legal cases, entirely a matter for her- has no baring on this topic thread and obviously sub-judice anyway- but does give a great insight into Baileys very self centered personality even towards his death. Even without the violence, Must have been incredibly difficult living with him day to day - all about him and nothing else

The one written by Mark Tighe, the legal affairs and specialist investigative reporter that was twice awarded The News Reporter of The Year Award?

What do you disagree with?

He is an accomplished award winning journalist, they are the facts, interpet the post anyway you want.

That's not correct.

She first made contact on Christmas Day using her real name saying that she saw someone watching Sophie in town on Saturday and the same person on the road as she was going to Cork Sunday morning.

She then made contact later as Fiona saying she saw a man at Kilfadda Bridge.

There was an appeal on Crimecall a few weeks later for Fiona to ring back, and then Farrell rang back from her home phone as Fiona, thus the Gardai figured out Fiona was Farrell.

Interestingly when Bailey was first interviewed, shortly after the murder, he said he went home from the pub and to bed and stayed there on both the Saturday and Sunday nights.

We know that was not true of Sunday night, he got up and wrote.

But it's also not true of Saturday night.

Instead of going straight home after the pub he actually went to a party in Murphy's house and left there in the early morning.

Murphy's house is close to where Farrell claimed to see a man Sunday morning, and it was around the same time Bailey claimed to have left the house.

Why did Bailey lie to the Gardai about where he was Saturday night?

As hard as it is, for those who support the "Bailey did it" theory, there is absolutely nothing on Bailey to convict him on.

Bailey doesn't even owe an explanation to his scratches, whether he was killing a Turkey or cutting down a tree doesn't matter, his DNA isn't on the scene. ( that is if he was still alive )

In absence of any decent DNA evidence it's very likely this crime will never be solved.

It could have been anybody, Alfie and Shirley, Leo Bolger, the German musician, ex husband sending somebody, horny Guard from Bantry, somebody travelling in from France, even Bruno ( I wouldn't consider that signature as a good piece of evidence taken by a phone technician who sees many clients on any given day )

One theory is as good or as bad as the other. We can't say if the killer knew Sophie or not, we don't know if the murder happened after an argument, or if the killer planned to kill her because he wanted to stop her from doing something, ( filing for an expensive divorce, or complaining about drug activity in the area ).

Fact is, we don't know anything, just a whole lot of theories and phantasies.

Men with dark coats and unshaven beards loitering in dark alleyways or being out at Kaelfadda bridge in the dead of night doesn't prove anything at all, nor does a bottle of expensive French wine.

Not all theories are created equally when the volume of circumstantial information is a factor of the output\focus of the Garda investigation... an investigation is which they engaged in unsafe practices, and whipped up hysteria in the local community. An investigation in which they deliberately destroyed the record meant to show how Bailey was identified as a suspect, along with other suspect information.

Once Ian Bailey was believed by the public particularly in the local area to be responsible for the murder the fear thereby engendered was bound to create a climate in which witnesses became suggestible (from the DPP report)

Witness the hysterical wreck Bill Fuller was reduced to at the thought he glimpsed Bailey from a distance.