Cold Case Review of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier murder to proceed (Threadbans in OP)

She probably came to challenge them at the gate and they panicked.

Some form of closure to be sure, which is a great thing, although still not true justice. Good point on the timeline though, I don't remember whether there were any leaks before the arrests came about.

Crazy timing, but we finally have an update on that story, and the gardai have submitted a file to the DPP, again no further leaks after they interviewed the parents a year or two ago. We certainly can hold out some hope for Sophie in this case I would say.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41822255.html

Edit: I just now see you updated the other thread with the same story.

It certainly gives a lot more hope for justice in Sophie's case. Especially since there were minimal leaks during the cold case investigation, and in addition it seems that they were able to get the file to the DPP without anyone in the press getting wind of it, which is pretty incredible really. There were interviews with family members and friends etc. which shows that the gardai must have been really coming down hard to prevent information getting out. This is particularly relevant when you want to get charges to stick, and take a case to court, because information getting to the public discourse can undermine the case.

Makes it much more palatable that we haven't heard from the DNA findings etc. I imagine more things are going on behind the scenes in Sophie's case.

The cold case review team are still waiting DNA results from America

From someone involved in the cold case

I don't think it's slow, it's more that basically they don't have anything on anybody. Possibly only a lot more DNA samples and a lot more questions about "could have happend" but nothing beyound reasonable doubt.

Yep, but I don't think it would take that long to get something from the M-Vac team in America.

Maybe but which of us actually knows? Maybe it takes ages. Maybe they have to do technical things to it.

I believe that they may well have to do legal things - as far as I know, in Europe because of Privacy laws you can't just upload a stranger's DNA to a genealogy website (like eg Ancestry or whatever) just in order to find out who they are related to.

Seems a shame when there is murder involved, though I can see the threat to personal privacy, of course.

"Whether there was any concealment of knowledge" LOL LOL

Clearly there was, of course there was!

(Otherwise we would know who did it)

Accounts by witnesses or those who claim to be witnesses will probably not be accpted anymore at this point. It's too many years back. Nearly 30 years onward, I doubt anybody can be certain and credible having heard or seen something and worst of all not spoken about that until now. A real cross examination in a court room won't go anywhere.

It's also a bit hard to have "heard something" that night. Except for Alfie and Shirley, the Richardsons were not there that night. The place was far to remote for somebody having heard something, unless one was out roaming the wilderness during that night….

And by all accounts I wouldn't trust anybody's verbal statement for that night. The locals are all far too filmsy, too local, knowing each other well, or one or the other having a grudge against the other, most having had a brush with the law in the past. Anybody could also have a motive to incriminate the other for whatever reason.

I did finish the whole video. There isn't anything substantial new. Many things are hearsay of course.

There is most likely a simple explanation why the chairs in the house were placed opposite and beside the window, like Sophie was sitting there, reading something and had her feet up on the chair oposite. Nothing unusual.

Of course Bailey could have done it, but he would have to have known that Sophie was home at her cottage in the first place, and Bailey to a degree certain that she would have opened up the door to him at rather odd hours of the night. That would have been no earlier than 2 to 2:30 am in the morning, if he walked and didn't drive. And if he did drive, chances of blood inside the car would have been a very strong risk, same of the car being seen.

If Bailey did it, I don't think the motive would have been to enhance his journalistic career, - theoretically it's a possibility, but it doesn't seem credible to me.

Bailey also most likely would have had some police radio scanner. Most journalists back then had them to listen in, if they were to report on something first. So him knowing something at a time when most haven't wouldn't be any surprise. It's certainly not evidence.

It was reported back last August that the M-Vac had found DNA profiles on Sophie's evidence. if that's true it must mean that the matching is the delay?