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

He, the local peeping Tom, has been dead a couple of years now, so discussing him shouldn't be a problem.

Maybe there's another reason @bjsc has gone quiet.

I saw it aswell, if anything it showed just how out of touch Harbison was at the time in terms of his organizing & familiarity with more modern gruesome murders.

Is the autopsy report a matter of public record? I don't recall ever reading it in detail - only references to it.

I imagine it must have been submitted at the inquest. The inquest took place on April 17th, 1997, according to The Irish Sun.

(Not the most respectable source, I know)

Their timeline also mentions that " A French magistrate orders the exhumation of Sophie’s body for a post-mortem and forensic examination. " We have to wonder who conducted this, did they write a report, and what were their findings?

Probably not much, and no different from the original examination, but it would be interesting at this stage to read and compare the two reports.

Especially, I think, regarding the position in which the deceased was found.

@chooseusername Ah thank you! Very much obliged.

Seems that the director is convinced of Bailey's innocence..

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/famous-irish-filmmaker-vows-clear-29034183

A more intriguing idea would be, will he propose an alternative theory for who DID commit the crime?

The closer I examine the evidence available to me, the less likely it seems that it was Bailey; but it doesn't particularly reveal the identity of the real culprit.

Ian Bailey trending on Google again... must be due to the Jim Sheridan article.

Does anyone know when we can expect the results of this case review?

I guess it will run for a bit yet..

'The deaths of key figures in the
original investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier are
among the major issues facing the garda cold case review team.

After the passing of Ian Bailey on Sunday afternoon — the key suspect in the 1996 killing — gardaí have stressed that the probe will continue.

Sources
said the credibility of the cold case review process has to be
protected by ensuring that reviews continue “until they get to their own
logical conclusion”.

Another source said: “It would make a mockery of what the cold case was supposed to do in the first place by not continuing.”

Leo Bolger came to check his horses on Sunday afternoon and visited Alfie for a drink. The postman delivered to the Alfie’s postbox around 6:30, but he wouldn’t need to go through the gate.

Edit:

Sophie herself would have come in the gate around 5 or 6 pm.

I don't think that the case could ever be solved.

It's just a basis for film producers and writers to make money.

There will be many theories coming up but none has any proof.

People will talk and the story continues…..

The thing is, the gate in the lane was a common gate for all 3 properties, it was not Sophie's gate. It might have bothered her in the past if someone left it open, but in the year or two before the murder she had put up two gates, one into her lawn from the lane, and one at the back wall of her house near her back door. There was also a fence by the Eastern gable of her house at the boundary with Richardson's property. She actually parked her car on Richardson's land. She should have had no issue with visitors to the other houses using the common gate in the lane.

(Sophie's gates/ fences in red, green gate is common gate in the lane).

Had she a torch in the house? The killer could have turned the lights off and it was a full moon so easy enough to see about..

When Shirly Foster Drove down the lane, she was suprised that the gate was open and then she spotted the Body at the side of the lane

That Video proves nothing and we haven't got Shirley's proper statement.

But your comment in the second post I quoted above "Sophie was most likely the last person through the gate Sun evening, and would have closed it"

Suggests the gate was probably closed and it was posted numerous times in threads on this subject before.

Without her proper statement we will never know the actual truth on what she actually said