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

The killer could have been male or female, one or more persons. Nothing is confirmed, neither the motive nor the age or where the killer is from or could have been from. It'd say a man in his 50s or 60s could also have done it as well.

There has been the suggestion by some Irishman that an animal could have been involved, such as a horse and she could have been kicked to death by a horse.

The suggestion is not impossible, there was one case like this in some other country, I think somewhere in Scandinavia, where one was arrested for murder but later on released upon new and strongly convincing evidence that it was actually a horse.

However I believe this can be ruled out in this case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOS1ALsW-08

Couple of interesting photos - taken shortly after the scene was released. They show the left hand gatepost, but what is on the ground at the base of it? Photo of pumphouse for context.

I think the killer knew well that Sophie would be alone and that the neighbours would both be fast asleep in bed so he may well have entered the house confident that there was no chance of him being noticed or disturbed under cover of darkness. He had just committed a brutal killing requiring significant physical effort on his part so, maybe, he felt exhausted and wanted to sit down for a spell and have a drink of water or some food. Making a hasty escape from the scene would not have been a priority. He had plenty of time.

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MultIple posters on the thread have stated they were able to find the location. Your claims of what is nigh on impossible have no credibility.

Dwyer and Gilligan in recent documentaries are contradicting or misrepresenting actual evidence collected and submitted in the case. Gilligan claiming such and such was found in the remnants of the fire for example when no such item was mentioned in the actual report he submitted as sworn evidence. Dwyer pretending they didnt get a jacket from Bailey, when one was taken in in evidence.

I wouldnt put my faith in such airs.

It can be found now by anyone who has had an interest in the case, some might still have difficulty finding it. There's been maps and directions and descriptions on Tv, Newspapers, Forums like this etc. Sophie's house and the Prairie Cottage were even marked and named on Google Maps like tourist destinations up to a couple of years ago, believe it or not.

The route and distance were mine, but the two houses (white writing)were on the Google map.

Some Murder Tourists armed with maps even had to ask locals for directions, and got sent on wild goose chases around the Mizen. There's even one on here who found the place "easy enough after one or two wrong turns" in broad daylight. If someone going to visit Dreenane that night took a wrong turn and finished up in the wrong cul de sac in a farmer's yard, or had to ask for directions, they would have explaining to do.

From a few of the pictures of the site there does seem to be a few of those rectangular concrete cavity blocks in the area in different locations, there was at least one more I think in the field beside Sophie's body among other blocks and boulders. I expect that there was a few other spares laying around. Perhaps there were some left over after the pump-house was built, or just being an agricultural location there is always a need for concrete blocks.

With regards the pictures, the block is in a different location in the 2 photos of the gate/post box, does it mention anywhere who may have moved it? Did the forensic team look at it I wonder?

Understood, has it been established when approximately the post box, and block were moved?

I'm a little confused re the photos of the gates. Were these images taken before the murder? If not, wasn't the gate removed for forensic examination (and subsequently lost or destroyed)? And there's no sign of the chicken wire that was reportedly covering the lower section of the gate which allowed it to remain propped open without the need for a concrete block to prop it open. Or perhaps this is a replacement gate installed after the original gate was removed.

Or do I just have my gates mixed up?

You’d wonder what is motivating them.

Yes. There were a couple of different sets of gates which led onto Sophies immediate property/garden.

Hence, the possibility for confusion.

Hope that's cleared up for you.

Bailey seems to have spent a lot of time around the scene after the murder, would it not be very unusual for a murderer to return like that?

"My point is that there are breeze blocks openly lying around which tends to negate the need to remove one from the pump house."

There wasn't really any lying around there by the pier. The red circled block in the picture below was part of the post box, the post box appears to be fixed to a plank of wood which in turn is jammed into the cavity of a cavity block, it's in different positions in different photos relative to the pier. The green block looks to be part of the wall between the ditch and the pier. If the block on the pumphouse was dislodged in a scuffle with the gate it would make more sense to go for that one rather than go hunting around for one.

Here's a still from a video from much later. It shows the top course of cavity blocks removed and used to weigh down the corrugated iron roof of the pumphouse. The sliding bolt that would have kept the gate closed can be seen and would have engaged with the 'missing' block. A scuffle with the gate - Sophie trying to close it - intruder trying to open it, or vice versa dislodged the block and Sophie's first blood shed on the lawn just there.

I think the point I'm trying to make is that the blocks seem to be a bit of a moveable feast, and there were obviously more lying around than just those in the pump house and that they had several different purposes so there would not necessarily be a reason for the murderer to take one from the pump house.

Yes! I've always felt that for a murderer to go to the trouble of dismantling a structure to acquire a lethal weapon when there was a surplus of potential weapons lying around to be completely incongruous.

So now we're left with the seemingly rough removal of the felt roof from the pump house.. for what other reason?