Cold Case Review of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier murder to proceed

I was guessing that's what you've meant.

I was only dragging it out to a ridiculous and absurd level.

Even if they did, and even if they believed every word, they still can't charge a person or prosecute in the courts if there is no corroborative evidence whatsoever. And in this case, there isn't.

I could turn up at a Garda station and claim that I had done this: showing my holly-scratched hands as evidence.

No witnesses, no fingerprints, no bloodstains except my own….

there's just no proof! Not even the "Beyond reasonable doubt" level.

Not enough!

No surprises there - he knew he could be re-arrested at any stage so his possessions would have been gone through with a fine tooth comb - there was never going to be anything found - either because he had no involvement in the first place or that he simply didn’t write about or save anything that would connect him to the murder- a complete waste of Garda time yet again in my view - I don’t care how much they insist on pressing on with this case with Bailey at the centre, they missed the boat on a proper investigation many years ago - harping on about Bailey 30 years on doesn’t change that

"The identified caller gave early statements to gardaí that contained major contradictions and anomalies. At one point she was arrested and questioned about these differences and discrepancies.

Years later she complained to gardaí that she was being intimidated by Ian Bailey, long the chief suspect in the murder, until his death almost two years ago."

It seems this would have to be Jules, or is this referring to Marie Farrell, but was she ever arrested? I can't make sense of it at all, but these statements are independent of the actual phone call itself.

As for the phone call itself, the hackney driver was in bed with the flu, and now recollecting nearly 30 years later, the whole thing seems to be some delirious dream.

That's all true.

If you want to get clean away with murder of a woman alone in a remote location you better shut up, lay low, or quietly slip away, back to England, France or the likes and do some proper planning before, - unless you want to rely on sheer luck and coincidence.

Luck and coincidence are rarely at your side.

Based just on that, I never thought Bailey could ever have done it.

Yours thoughts, match those of many locally.

I see some parallels, in terms of the authorities rushing to judgement, between this case and the Jonbenet Ramsey murder case in the US around the same time. In both cases, the authorities jumped to conclusions. DNA evidence later exonerated the parents but the police and the media dragged their names through the mud.

The way Bailey was named as a suspect without a trial going ahead seems very different from how cases have been handled since then.

They know they feiced up - it’s an inconvenient truth that they don’t wish to admit to right now - maybe in 70 years time they might say, “oh that case? Yeah we royally feiced that one up”

No former neighbours of Sophie Toscan du Plantier have ever been publicly identified as having moved abroad. So who we talking about here?

Rainbow coalition ministers still alive should be asked to give evidence to an inquiry into the handling of this case.

Seperately, the 2018 GSOC report said that a number of Gardai involved in the case refused to cooperate with their investigation of the case.

Not only was the gate destroyed, but other physical evidence, including a coat and a wine bottle found in the field months later, went missing too.

One piece of evidence going missing might be called an accident. Two might be called just carelessness. But what is three?

Guilty or not, I think it's a credit to the Irish judges that they refused to dignify a botched investigation.

In the report, GSOC says its deliberations had been hampered by the refusal of a number of garda detectives involved in the case to co-operate with them and the fact that some of the gardaí who investigated the murder have since retired or died.

The ex-wife of Karl Heinz Wolney, moved back to Europe when she left him. But I think that was before the murder and she wasn't in Ireland on the night it happened.

The Gardaí have interviewed her.

And I still think that KHW needs to be investigated in regard to this matter. Even if only to finally eliminate him from the inquiry.