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Ian Bailey case: Our civil liberties threatened

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,283 ✭✭✭✭Scofflaw


    How about a fully independent judge for a start.
    Resorting to name calling doesnt become you. On top of this i have spoken of my admiration for many elements of the american system which is a foreign system i presume. :D

    You seem to be alright with it as long as they speak English - I wonder if your fear is simply of being brought to court in a foreign language?

    regards,
    Scofflaw


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭BetterLisbon


    Scofflaw wrote: »
    You seem to be alright with it as long as they speak English - I wonder if your fear is simply of being brought to court in a foreign language?

    regards,
    Scofflaw

    Not dealing with the point then. Would you rather have a fully independent judge? i most definitely would.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    Excellent article in today's Irish Times. (sorry folks, it's behind a paywall)

    Ian Bailey case heading towards miscarriage of justice
    The Government has shown an exceptional willingness to cede the prosecution of Irish crime to other states
    [/URL]


    EDIT - apologies - my earlier link was to the wrong article.


    Irrespective of Bailey's guilt or innocence (and he seems to be a loathsome creature) and the stunning incompetence of the gardaí (which is beyond argument) a crucially important legal principle regarding National Sovereignty is at stake here and the craven attitude of successive Irish Governments is both gutless and contemptible. We should never have allowed our country get into a situation where Johnny Frog can try someone in a case which took place in this country and where our DPP has concluded that there isn't a case to answer. Unsurprisingly, the roots of the sellout took place in 2003, when Bertie was Taoiseach.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Excellent article in today's Irish Times. (sorry folks, it's behind a paywall)

    Ian Bailey’s trial in France puts Ireland in difficult position

    Could you maybe set out a bit more what the specific argument is please (not a mod note, just it would help me understand your point a bit more)
    Irrespective of Bailey's guilt or innocence (and he seems to be a loathsome creature) and the stunning incompetence of the gardaí (which is beyond argument) a crucially important legal principle regarding National Sovereignty is at stake here and the craven attitude of successive Irish Governments is both gutless and contemptible.

    Im not sure what the specific legal principle is. Countries have always had extradition treaties. Some such treaties exclude own nationals or limit it to requesting state's nationals e.g. country A can only ask country B for the return of a citizen from country A only.

    If its about France prosecuting an offence which allegedly occurred in Ireland, many countries, including Ireland, have offences of extra territorial effect. Ireland has jurisdiction to try an Irish citizen who commits murder abroad. The difference in France is that they allow the extra territorial prosecution of someone who murders a French citizen. It seems like a fairly reasonable law to have, maybe Ireland should bring in a similar law.
    We should never have allowed our country get into a situation where Johnny Frog can try someone in a case which took place in this country and where our DPP has concluded that there isn't a case to answer.

    Why not? France is one of our closest allies, and I think we respect their soverign right to conduct criminal prosecutions. While not commenting on the specifics of the French trial, as that is sub judice, either the proofs are there or they are not. I havent heard any compelling argument that France is in breach of Article 6 ECHR (right to fair trial).
    Unsurprisingly, the roots of the sellout took place in 2003, when Bertie was Taoiseach.

    Why 2003? When the EAW Act came into law? Ireland sends eaws to other European countries and surrenders people to other countries. The system works reasonably well, and having no extradition/rendition procedure would be worse. Imagine a notorious murder accused could live in the other EU states and Ireland could do nothing about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    Not being bad here but the thread is 9 YEARS old. Pretty big necrobump there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    Infini wrote: »
    Not being bad here but the thread is 9 YEARS old. Pretty big necrobump there.


    Time may indeed have moved on, but the threat to our civil liberties remains the same as it did when the first reference to the Bailey situation was raised here 9 years ago.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    Could you maybe set out a bit more what the specific argument is please (not a mod note, just it would help me understand your point a bit more)



    Im not sure what the specific legal principle is. Countries have always had extradition treaties. Some such treaties exclude own nationals or limit it to requesting state's nationals e.g. country A can only ask country B for the return of a citizen from country A only.

    If its about France prosecuting an offence which allegedly occurred in Ireland, many countries, including Ireland, have offences of extra territorial effect. Ireland has jurisdiction to try an Irish citizen who commits murder abroad. The difference in France is that they allow the extra territorial prosecution of someone who murders a French citizen. It seems like a fairly reasonable law to have, maybe Ireland should bring in a similar law.



    Why not? France is one of our closest allies, and I think we respect their soverign right to conduct criminal prosecutions. While not commenting on the specifics of the French trial, as that is sub judice, either the proofs are there or they are not. I havent heard any compelling argument that France is in breach of Article 6 ECHR (right to fair trial).



    Why 2003? When the EAW Act came into law? Ireland sends eaws to other European countries and surrenders people to other countries. The system works reasonably well, and having no extradition/rendition procedure would be worse. Imagine a notorious murder accused could live in the other EU states and Ireland could do nothing about it.

    Didn't we recently extradite a man to the US despite him committing crimes in this state, crimes any other man would stand trial form, yet the dpp chose not to pursue?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    Could you maybe set out a bit more what the specific argument is please (not a mod note, just it would help me understand your point a bit more)



    Im not sure what the specific legal principle is. Countries have always had extradition treaties. Some such treaties exclude own nationals or limit it to requesting state's nationals e.g. country A can only ask country B for the return of a citizen from country A only.

    If its about France prosecuting an offence which allegedly occurred in Ireland, many countries, including Ireland, have offences of extra territorial effect. Ireland has jurisdiction to try an Irish citizen who commits murder abroad. The difference in France is that they allow the extra territorial prosecution of someone who murders a French citizen. It seems like a fairly reasonable law to have, maybe Ireland should bring in a similar law.



    Why not? France is one of our closest allies, and I think we respect their soverign right to conduct criminal prosecutions. While not commenting on the specifics of the French trial, as that is sub judice, either the proofs are there or they are not. I havent heard any compelling argument that France is in breach of Article 6 ECHR (right to fair trial).



    Why 2003? When the EAW Act came into law? Ireland sends eaws to other European countries and surrenders people to other countries. The system works reasonably well, and having no extradition/rendition procedure would be worse. Imagine a notorious murder accused could live in the other EU states and Ireland could do nothing about it.


    I'm not a lawyer. So instead of trying to batter me with legalese and big words, why not carry out a daring raid on your piggy bank, buy the IT, read the two related articles* and make up your own mind!

    * my link is to one by Dermot PJ Walsh, professor of law at Kent Law School and author of Walsh on Criminal Procedure

    The other is by Lara Marlowe - the IT's Paris correspondent for about sixty years.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    I'm not a lawyer. So instead of trying to batter me with legalese and big words, why not carry out a daring raid on your piggy bank, buy the IT, read the two related articles* and make up your own mind!

    * my link is to one by Dermot PJ Walsh, professor of law at Kent Law School and author of Walsh on Criminal Procedure

    The other is by Lara Marlowe - the IT's Paris correspondent for about sixty years.

    Well you dont have to be a lawyer but if youre saying that there is a threat to national soverignty, you should be able to set out what you see as the problem in broad, non legal terms. The Dermot Walsh article raises a variety of isssues, the fact that the Bailey scenario is unorthodox is without question. But you want to discuss the political impact of a loss of soverignty. The closest I can find in that article to that point is this:
    When the Bill implementing the EAW was first introduced in the Oireachtas in 2003, it strongly asserted Irish control over the prosecution of Irish criminal offences. It contained an absolute prohibition on the execution of an EAW where the offence was committed in Ireland. Strangely, and without explanation, this provision was quietly dropped in the course of the Bill’s passage. The net effect is that the Irish authorities cannot resist a French EAW solely on the basis that the offence in question was committed in Ireland. The implicit surrender of sovereignty is obvious

    With the greatest of respect to Prof. Walsh, he is using a definition of soverignty that I dont agree with, but which is used a lot by pro brexit people in the UK. Soverignty is the supreme power of the State to pass its own laws, and he acknowledges that they did have the power to prevent such surrenders but the Dail chose not to put that in. Thats the very definition of a soverign decision and to say that it amounts to a surrender of soverignty is a meaningless phrase. One might as well say that bin charges are a surrender of soverignty if one does not personally agree with them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    Well you dont have to be a lawyer but if youre saying that there is a threat to national soverignty, you should be able to set out what you see as the problem in broad, non legal terms. The Dermot Walsh article raises a variety of isssues, the fact that the Bailey scenario is unorthodox is without question. But you want to discuss the political impact of a loss of soverignty. The closest I can find in that article to that point is this:



    With the greatest of respect to Prof. Walsh, he is using a definition of soverignty that I dont agree with, but which is used a lot by pro brexit people in the UK. Soverignty is the supreme power of the State to pass its own laws, and he acknowledges that they did have the power to prevent such surrenders but the Dail chose not to put that in. Thats the very definition of a soverign decision and to say that it amounts to a surrender of soverignty is a meaningless phrase. One might as well say that bin charges are a surrender of soverignty if one does not personally agree with them.

    Your view is noted.

    However, if you want to put me down properly, then it's not sufficient simply to make a trite and infantile analogy with bin charges; you also need to know how to spell sovereignty correctly!


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Your view is noted.

    However, if you want to put me down properly, then it's not sufficient simply to make a trite and infantile analogy with bin charges; you also need to know how to spell sovereignty correctly!

    Im not trying to put you down. Youve said that you think its a big problem with something, but yet havent been able to identify what your issue is.

    As for my misspelling - thanks for that but to a certain extent Im glad I misspelled it. It has become the chosen phrase for the undefinable loss felt by far right nationalists and extremists, who rarely care to elaborate on what exactly they mean.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    whether he did it or not the show trial going on in France the moment is something else. They have psychiatrists who have never met Bailey doing profiles on him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭JonnyF


    any idea why RTE aren't covering the French trial? no mention of it on the news all week


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    JonnyF wrote: »
    any idea why RTE aren't covering the French trial? no mention of it on the news all week

    They have been covering it - on TV, radio and online.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    So let's have three hearty cheers for Johnny Frog and the Code Napoleon-based legal system that has just found Ian Bailey guilty of murder following a stitch-up trial that a West Belfast kangaroo court would admire and one that makes the Birmingham Six conviction seem watertight and legally sound!

    If Leo had a set of cojones, then he'd have sent a gunboat up the Seine to put manners on Macron and his herd of slack-jawed judicial macaroons. :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    whether he did it or not the show trial going on in France the moment is something else. They have psychiatrists who have never met Bailey doing profiles on him.

    Not to talk of the parish priest of Goleen allowing Toscan du Plantier's son to address the congregation at Sunday mass urging them to stitch up the Brit!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    Im not trying to put you down. Youve said that you think its a big problem with something, but yet havent been able to identify what your issue is.

    Sorry, but as I'm neither a qualified lawyer or a remedial teacher, I regret that I am wholly unable to assist you with your comprehension problems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    a shock conviction there!
    i wonder if they would have bothered with this punch and judy show had it not been a rich well to do family pushing for it?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    What evidence did they have over in France that wasn't found in Ireland


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,553 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    What evidence did they have over in France that wasn't found in Ireland

    What evidence did they have in general.

    Did anything get handed over.


  • Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭ash2020


    I was listening to the news at 5, on the radio, and apparently Ian bailey had a film developed with some man (now deceased) some photos was that of a dead female body lying on the ground, the man that developed the photos made a statement to the guards.

    That alone is one damning piece of evidence.
    Ian bailey had scratches on his forehead, hands and arm, in his defence it was caused when he was supposedly plucking a Turkey 2 days before Christmas, however the judges denined this story and said the scratches were likely to be from the murder victim while she was struggling in self defense


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Varik wrote: »
    What evidence did they have in general.

    Did anything get handed over.

    I wonder if he’d agreed to co operate and brought a full legal team to defend himself, what would the verdict have been?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    ash2020 wrote: »

    I was listening to the news at 5, on the radio, and apparently Ian bailey had a film developed with some man (now deceased) some photos was that of a dead female body lying on the ground, the man that developed the photos made a statement to the guards.

    Did Bailey kill him too?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    splinter65 wrote: »
    I wonder if he’d agreed to co operate and brought a full legal team to defend himself, what would the verdict have been?

    The verdict was arrived at long before the show trial commenced.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Varik wrote: »
    What evidence did they have in general.

    Did anything get handed over.

    That's my point really. Complete farce.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,551 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    What evidence did they have over in France that wasn't found in Ireland

    Stuff that would be inadmissable in Ireland as hearsay mostly it seems


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    I don't know if Bailey did it or not, but there is something very strange about the massive focus always placed on this case.

    There's something we are not being told about this case.

    There's lots of murders in Ireland that end up going unconvinced, why is there such a massive fuss about this case compared to all the other unconvicted murderers in Ireland ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,551 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Nobelium wrote: »
    I don't know if Bailey did it or not, but there is something very strange about the massive focus always placed on this case.

    There's something we are not being told about this case.

    There's lots of murders in Ireland that end up going unconvinced, why is there such a massive fuss about this case compared to all the other unconvicted murderers in Ireland ?

    Bailey kept himself in the media with the legal challenges


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    If Leo had a set of cojones, then he'd have sent a gunboat up the Seine to put manners on Macron and his herd of slack-jawed judicial macaroons. :mad:
    Leo has a lot to answer for but WTF could he have done here? It has absolutely nothing to do with him plus would be wrong for any Taoiseach to take a side in a criminal trial.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,646 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr



    If Leo had a set of cojones, then he'd have sent a gunboat up the Seine to put manners on Macron and his herd of slack-jawed judicial macaroons. :mad:

    Did you really just suggest that ireland should invade France? :rolleyes:


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    L1011 wrote: »
    Bailey kept himself in the media with the legal challenges

    There's a lot more to it than that


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,567 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    So let's have three hearty cheers for Johnny Frog and the Code Napoleon-based legal system that has just found Ian Bailey guilty of murder following a stitch-up trial that a West Belfast kangaroo court would admire and one that makes the Birmingham Six conviction seem watertight and legally sound!

    If Leo had a set of cojones, then he'd have sent a gunboat up the Seine to put manners on Macron and his herd of slack-jawed judicial macaroons. :mad:

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    With the greatest of respect to Prof. Walsh, he is using a definition of soverignty that I dont agree with, but which is used a lot by pro brexit people in the UK. Soverignty is the supreme power of the State to pass its own laws, and he acknowledges that they did have the power to prevent such surrenders but the Dail chose not to put that in. Thats the very definition of a soverign decision and to say that it amounts to a surrender of soverignty is a meaningless phrase. One might as well say that bin charges are a surrender of soverignty if one does not personally agree with them.

    I think you are confusing sovereignty with sovereignty of Parliament which actually doesn’t apply in Ireland. The dail is constrained by the constitution and thus by European laws that are encoded in it.

    sovereignty in general would mean that a country would decide its own laws and taxes without interference. In that sense Ireland isn’t legally totally sovereign, since we pool powers with the EU. That’s fine. We agreed to it.

    There is another sense where the state may be less than sovereign, political pressure from outside sources. Why didn’t we put that exemption in the codification of our response to the EAW?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Leo has a lot to answer for but WTF could he have done here? It has absolutely nothing to do with him plus would be wrong for any Taoiseach to take a side in a criminal trial.

    The amount of people who don’t understand the very basics of international diplomacy is staggering and only matched by the amount who don’t understand basic justice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Simple_Simone


    Did you really just suggest that ireland should invade France? :rolleyes:

    Nope - just a warning shot or three should suffice. Although we could also consider arresting a few French trawlers while we're at it.

    Either we're an independent country or we're a French colony. And if Johnny Frog wants to treat us like a colony by pissing all over our legal system then we need to put manners on him.

    Interestingly, it is reported that "Within minutes of that verdict, a new arrest warrant had been dispatched electronically to the extradition section of the Department of Justice in Dublin." Further evidence that Johnny Frog knew what the verdict of this show trial would be long before it was arrived it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,646 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Nope - just a warning shot or three should suffice. Although we could also consider arresting a few French trawlers while we're at it.

    Either we're an independent country or we're a French colony. And if Johnny Frog wants to treat us like a colony by pissing all over our legal system then we need to put manners on him.

    Interestingly, it is reported that "Within minutes of that verdict, a new arrest warrant had been dispatched electronically to the extradition section of the Department of Justice in Dublin." Further evidence that Johnny Frog knew what the verdict of this show trial would be long before it was arrived it!

    So Ireland, with it's tiny navy and small army should put it up to France, a nuclear power? A country that (if it chose) could be in total control of the island of ireland withing 48 hours? :pac:

    Also your use of the derogatory term "johnny frog" isn't really all that brave/edgy or even intelligent.


  • Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭ash2020


    What evidence did they have over in France that wasn't found in Ireland

    In Ireland the cops are lazy sods!


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    ash2020 wrote: »
    In Ireland the cops are lazy sods!
    ...almost as lazy as your post!


  • Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭ash2020


    ...almost as lazy as your post!

    Check my previous post few pages back!


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    ash2020 wrote: »
    Check my previous post few pages back!
    erm, this one?
    ash2020 wrote: »
    I was listening to the news at 5, on the radio, and apparently Ian bailey had a film developed with some man (now deceased) some photos was that of a dead female body lying on the ground, the man that developed the photos made a statement to the guards.

    That alone is one damning piece of evidence.
    Ian bailey had scratches on his forehead, hands and arm, in his defence it was caused when he was supposedly plucking a Turkey 2 days before Christmas, however the judges denined this story and said the scratches were likely to be from the murder victim while she was struggling in self defense
    Is that meant to mean something? Think it through...
    Someone claimed to have seen incriminating photos but the gardai who want to frame Bailey didn't use them?

    Still doesn't mean anything in terms of your lazy comment.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭ash2020


    erm, this one?

    Is that meant to mean something? Think it through...
    Someone claimed to have seen incriminating photos but the gardai who want to frame Bailey didn't use them?

    Still doesn't mean anything in terms of your lazy comment.


    Any man that can do this to his wife, is liable for anything else. He is a vile human been and she be hung from the tallest tree.

    (Ms Thomas had a closed, blackened right eye. Another picture showed a bandage over her eye, in another bruises could be seen on her hand and she had a 4cm clump of hair pulled from her head)


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    ash2020 wrote: »
    Any man that can do this to his wife, is liable for anything else. He is a vile human been and she be hung from the tallest tree.

    (Ms Thomas had a closed, blackened right eye. Another picture showed a bandage over her eye, in another bruises could be seen on her hand and she had a 4cm clump of hair pulled from her head)
    FFS grow up!

    If the photos are as you say damning evidence, why didn't the gardai/DPP make use of them, especially since the gardai wanted him to go down?

    Your earlier post is a lazy snide remark and completely without any foundation. Unable to defend this, you then go on to refer to the horrible assault (allegation?) of his partner and try and assume that this means he is also a murderer.
    Let's hope that you're never placed in front of such a biased jury!


  • Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭ash2020


    Stop been so childest, it is hardly an allegation when
    he admitted it himself

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/ian-bailey-admits-assaulting-partner-4615565.amp

    Aswell as a 3 judge jury finding him guilty
    I have also given you 4 pieces of information that you are finding it very hard to swallow, information of battery, a living eye witness, another journalist witness statement and a deceased man's statement with photograph evidence of a woman dead body lying on a ground

    The guards and dpp where obviously not doing there job fully or somebody had them all believe the cock and bull alibies from a man that thinks hes the pillar of society, hes not so clever now that judgement has been served

    How is that his a lazy post, have a nice day!

    FFS grow up!

    If the photos are as you say damning evidence, why didn't the gardai/DPP make use of them, especially since the gardai wanted him to go down?

    Your earlier post is a lazy snide remark and completely without any foundation. Unable to defend this, you then go on to refer to the horrible assault (allegation?) of his partner and try and assume that this means he is also a murderer.
    Let's hope that you're never placed in front of such a biased jury!


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    ash2020 wrote: »
    Stop been so childest, it is hardly an allegation when
    he admitted it himself

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/ian-bailey-admits-assaulting-partner-4615565.amp

    Aswell as a 3 judge jury finding him guilty
    I have also given you 4 pieces of information that you are finding it very hard to swallow, information of battery, a living eye witness, another journalist witness statement and a deceased man's statement with photograph evidence of a woman dead body lying on a ground

    The guards and dpp where obviously not doing there job fully or somebody had them all believe the cock and bull alibies from a man that thinks hes the pillar of society, hes not so clever now that judgement has been served

    How is that his a lazy post, have a nice day!
    Christ almighty!
    How does any of that show how the gardai are lazy sods?

    You also make the incorrect assumption that because he hit his partner, he is guilty of murder. You also state that "she be hung from the tallest tree". For fecks sake - talk about victim blaming!
    Now please go away!


  • Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭ash2020


    Christ almighty!
    How does any of that show how the gardai are lazy sods?

    You also make the incorrect assumption that because he hit his partner, he is guilty of murder. You also state that "she be hung from the tallest tree". For fecks sake - talk about victim blaming!
    Now please go away!

    And what , an eye witness dosnt mean anything any more in the court of law? What about baileys fello journalist who remembered having a discussion to bailey about the time and place of the murdered victim, bailey claimed he didnt know about it until such a time, yet he told the journalist a different time, it's all on court record


    More truth will prevail of this man, and when it does I will come back and remind you of it!

    Good bye for now
    Watch this space


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Two separate DPPs do not believe that Bailey has anything to answer for.
    The DPP report released in 2012 found that there was "no evidence linking him to the crime, including a chronic lack of forensic evidence against the Englishman"
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/how-dpp-demolished-garda-case-on-bailey-26827539.html


    I presume that what you're referring to are the recollections fromPadraig Beirne and Michael McSweeney. What the DPP reports states regarding this is:
    Michael McSweeney in his statement dated 18 February 1997 says that Padraig Beirne phoned him at 2 p.m. approximately on 23 December 1996 and advised him to go to West Cork in relation to the incident.
    At 2.10 p.m. Padraig Beirne phoned Michael McSweeney back to say that he had been contacted by Ian Bailey who claimed he had photographs of the scene.
    At around 2.15 to 2.20 p.m. Bailey phoned Michael McSweeney stating that he had taken photographs of the scene. At statement 74(A) McSweeney states that Bailey was vague about the content of the photos and then went on to say that his girlfriend had taken them.
    No reference to Bailey having a picture of the deceased is to be found in any of McSweeney’s three statements. McSweeney is the witness who D/Sgt. Hogan described as not being co-operative. However, his statements appear objective, balanced and fair.
    ...and...
    Padraig Beirne’s statement is made five months after the murder.
    He states that Bailey phoned him at about 1.55 p.m. and offered him a picture of the deceased.
    Beirne says that he told Bailey that Michael McSweeney would collect the picture of the dead woman.
    Beirne says that Bailey also offered him pictures of the scene where the body was found but he was not interested in them.
    Beirne says that he gave Bailey, Michael McSweeney’s mobile phone number.
    We know from Michael McSweeney’s statement that Bailey phoned McSweeney.
    However, Michael McSweeney makes no mention of Bailey stating that he had a
    photograph of the deceased.
    Beirne says that he contacted Michael McSweeney and advised him of the
    conversation -agreement with Bailey.
    Michael McSweeney in his statement makes no mention of being told by Beirne that Bailey had a photograph of the deceased taken prior to her death which was to be picked up by him.
    Padraig Beirne’s statement is strange. With regard to the alleged pre-death photograph of Sophie, he is not supported in his recollection by Michael McSweeney, Dick Cross, Bailey or indeed anyone else.
    If Bailey had stated that he had a pre-death photograph of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier it is not credible that McSweeney would have forgotten such an important item from a media perspective.
    Michael McSweeney’s statement is taken less than two months after the murder. His recollection appears more logical and reliable than that of Beirne whose statement was taken five months after the murder.
    On balance it appears probable that the photograph never existed.
    It is clear from the file that Bailey had been trying to establish a journalistic career in this country.

    https://syndicatedanarchy.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/30/
    https://edoc.pub/sophie-toscan-du-plantier-dpp-file-2001-pdf-free.html

    But hey, let's not let the facts get in the way of your witch-hunt!
    Let's just assume that all gardai are lazy sods and that someone is guilty despite all the evidence to the contrary. :rolleyes:


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    ash2020 wrote: »
    And what , an eye witness dosnt mean anything any more in the court of law? What about baileys fello journalist who remembered having a discussion to bailey about the time and place of the murdered victim, bailey claimed he didnt know about it until such a time, yet he told the journalist a different time, it's all on court record


    More truth will prevail of this man, and when it does I will come back and remind you of it!

    Good bye for now
    Watch this space


    Doesn't prove anything though


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    Ok, I'm not seeing much, if anything in the way of constructive political discussion so I am locking this.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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