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Government not to appeal Ian Bailey verdict.

  • 27-10-2020 3:19pm
    #1
    StackSteevens
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    The thread on this subject -

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058038838&page=24

    - was recently locked by a Mod. so I'm opening this one to continue - or hopefully draw down the curtain - on the Bailey saga.

    The government has today announced that it has decided not to appeal the High Court decision to refuse France's request for Bailey's extradition to France.

    Your move, Froggy!

    (Both side's legal costs will, of course, now be be paid by the hapless Irish taxpayer .)


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  • #2
    political analyst
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    You beat me to it!

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058126058


  • #3
    StackSteevens
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    political analyst wrote: »
    You beat me to it!

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058126058

    Photo finish! :)


  • #4
    Muahahaha
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    StackSteevens wrote: »

    Your move, Froggy!

    (Both side's legal costs will, of course, now be be paid by the hapless Irish taxpayer .)

    Well at least the taxpayer wont have to stump up any more money on this folly

    Hope Bailey can finally get on with his life, he's had this hanging over him for 25 years now which is a third of his whole lifetime. Id say he will be very careful about leaving Irish soil though.


  • #5
    JustAThought
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    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Well at least the taxpayer wont have to stump up any more money on this folly

    Hope Bailey can finally get on with his life, he's had this hanging over him for 25 years now which is a third of his whole lifetime. Id say he will be very careful about leaving Irish soil though.

    And where he goes walking at night.


  • #6
    hoodie6029
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    Don't know why anyone would stay in a country after being wrongly arrested for murder. And then make a big show of going to college to study Law, suing newspapers and suing a market trader who slandered him. Bailey could have left Cork or Ireland 25 years ago and no one would have ever heard about him again.

    This is water. Inspiring speech by David Foster Wallace https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=GS5uDvegp6Er1EOG



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  • #7
    BattleCorp
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    hoodie6029 wrote: »
    Don't know why anyone would stay in a country after being wrongly arrested for murder. And then make a big show of going to college to study Law, suing newspapers and suing a market trader who slandered him. Bailey could have left Cork or Ireland 25 years ago and no one would have ever heard about him again.

    His choices are limited now because the French will slap an arrest warrant on him as soon as he sets foot outside of Ireland.


  • #8
    Galwayguy35
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    BattleCorp wrote: »
    His choices are limited now because the French will slap an arrest warrant on him as soon as he sets foot outside of Ireland.

    He can always go back to his own country.


  • #9
    JJayoo
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    It is a ridiculous situation.


  • #10
    BattleCorp
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    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    He can always go back to his own country.

    He'd be an idiot to do that as France would probably try get him extradited from the UK.


  • #11
    BattleCorp
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    JJayoo wrote: »
    It is a ridiculous situation.

    The whole situation makes our cops look like keystone cops and the French justice system looks like it's anything but fair too.


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  • #12
    Steviesol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ✭✭Steviesol


    Bailey is a broken Man. Heavy on the drink. He has broken up with Jules. She wants him out of the house, in fact he is facing homelessness.


  • #13
    spaceHopper
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    There is a lot not to like about him but the lengths the Guards went to to make the evidence in the case fit him makes me think he's probably innocent and they got the wrong person either due to incompetence or they they were protecting somebody else.


  • #14
    Steviesol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ✭✭Steviesol


    A podcast done recently. An interview with Bailey in West Cork

    Listen to Ep# 34 - Ian Bailey (opens up days before his European Arrest Warrant case) by Strong Roots Podcast on #SoundCloud
    https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/rpo68


  • #15
    Muahahaha
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    spaceHopper wrote: »
    There is a lot not to like about him but the lengths the Guards went to to make the evidence in the case fit him makes me think he's probably innocent and they got the wrong person either due to incompetence or they they were protecting somebody else.

    Would feel the same except for some possibility that he could be guilty but because of Garda skullduggery there isnt a hope of a conviction. Like imagine a farm gate with blood on it vanishing into thin air from Garda custody, you couldnt make this stuff up. Then youve the Gardai coercing statements to create witnesses. In theory he could have done it and the Gardai went about creating evidence to 'prove' it but thats obviously not going to work. It was a royal cock up and because of it there is a murderer on the loose to this day.

    I see he is being convicted of drug driving and possession of cannabis at the moment, he is being sentenced next month.


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