Cold Case Review of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier murder to proceed

Hi all. Would it not be certainty at this stage that the Mvac results are now ready and that it is either IB or not.

At least an initial statement to indicate weather it is not IB then AGS are pursuing other angles following the current results of Mvac analysis or if there was nothing at all...then the AGS would have accept and publish that and say nothing of any evidential value has been found. Just seems extensive delay. Were the Mvac team not gathering evidence in August/September?

Thanks for that. Yes guess lot more logical approach there and in them points you have raised. Hopefully there will be something or anything to go on to proceed with evidence. It will have be seen as one of most anticipated pieces of information to come out in Irish history or any criminal case...if it does. It's truly sad the feelings the family must be going through to have wait for so long.

I guess all eyes are focused on the DNA testing completed in late summer/early autumn -hopefully some form of breakthrough was made - if there’s a statement around saying nothing for operational reasons then you would hope that progress has been made

Shirley they would have thought this through when they announced the testing earlier this year - it raised people’s hopes of a breakthrough on a murder in one of our communities - they can’t just keep their mouths shut now- that’s just feicing pathetic if they do

I'm not sure they even still have the profiles of the previous suspects (except Bailey of course), and in addition I wouldn't expect them to have obtained anyone else's profile ahead of time.

Having said that I think if they do find a new profile then it will come out sooner or later, whether by a leak, court order, or just an announcement. I still believe if they had found Bailey's DNA we would already know about it.

I hope that they will do a new push for witnesses coming up to her anniversary (which they have done periodically in these types of cases), and that would be the perfect time to announce they had found DNA, but maybe that's just wishful thinking.

They basically have nothing new, quite possibly a whole lot of data, but nothing pointing to one specific suspect. And suppose they found DNA matching somebody in France, there could be a perfectly innocent explanation, a friend of the family visiting, and having touched that block at some point for whaetever reason, etc…

There is always the possibility it was a Guard and they certainly won't ever admit that.

It doesn't sound likely agreed, but there could be the issue of public trust in the police, with a portion of pride as well. Not impossible. It's also possible that the mentioned Guard from Bantry was simply unpopular and involved in a whole lot of other things so the locals always implicated him.

they wouldn’t release that information normally - they may well have had a number of “suspects” through the years- but Gardai don’t tend to publicly point fingers at people (albeit I’m aware of the irony of when Bailey was first arrested and the absolute b0ll0x statement issued by the Gardai at the time around Bailey being a danger) -it would ruin their investigation and jepordise any subsequent legal proceedings - this guard and others could well be suspects and we wouldn’t know .

But given the passage of time and the inordinate cost of this investigation, the Gardai should be held to account in some way- even if it’s through a closed session from the minister for justice office - they’ve spent decades telling us it was Bailey - so what’s changed now- all interested parties including the public deserve answers

They were denied the right to interview all French persons of interest. It's beyond unlikely they have DNA profiles for them.

Exactly, it's farcical really. They ruled out suspects without ever even having interviewed or investigated many of them at all. Like it's understandable to some extent that they ruled in Bailey/Jules, but how they whittled everyone else out to just leave them, and only them, doesn't really add up.

The French were uncooperative, and in fact they were the ones who already found new DNA in the past.

It's very obvious ( even without evidence ) that the whole investigation and the later following legal matters were rigged from the French side by powerfull friends with influence, and hampered by an incompetent police force from the Irish side continuing on without any disciplinary consequences.

That's the main reason the killer couldn't be found and convicted.

Thus the cold case investigation has a farcical connotation.

Personally I still think there was a strong likelyhood of a "French connection", like husband sending somebody or similar, maybe even relating to her work? Fact is even without evidence, there is far more power, influence and money on the French side and a woman with certainty alone at a precisely known and rather remote location in another country.

If this is true, then it's dynamite.