Murder at the Cottage | Sky

This thread summed up perfectly. The gardai were 'on trial' for the way the investigation was conducted, IB brought them to court himself and it's been discussed at length. He lost, the judge said the gardai would have been derelict in their duty if they had not arrested him as the suspicion was so strong. You can draw people's attention to the facts over and over again but you still see this kind of illogical nonsense. It's like a collective case of goldfish memory.

Can someone tell us what the "missing link" is so I can keep my €15?

Case closed so. 😂

Do you really believe the murder investigation was handled correctly & professionally..??

Do you?

Seriously?

I can only assume you are a fervent fan of the series Kestone Cops - But I can assure you, that is not how real investigations are conducted.

Interesting.....French President Emmanuel Macron has said a new trial could be arranged for Ian Bailey if he travelled to France.

https://twitter.com/IrishMirror/status/1430938095411728384?s=19

In Foster's book, Bailey floats the possibility with the cameraman of confessing to a crime of passion.

As far as I can make out, the DNA was not identifiable ie. there was not a complete profile but there was enough there to specify it was male. It doesn't really change anything since it was on her boot and there's no reason to think the killer ever needed to touch her boots. It makes no sense. It's probably from when her boots were pulled off during the autopsy.

The DPP report is mostly nonsense. They got the location of the studio wrong, either incompetently or deliberately, to make it sound like IB's original 'alibi' might be considered truthful when it wasn't. It doesn't mention that five people saw IB up close in a well lit bar over the course of the night of the murder and none saw the obvious scratches that many witnesses saw after the murder. It regards many witness as unreliable when their testimonies were vindicated by Judge Moran in court. It falsely claims Jules Thomas was arrested illegally and therefore any incriminating statements they made would be inadmissible, this was not the case. It says IB agreeing to give hair and DNA samples indicated innocence when a man had been justly convicted for rape and murder after volunteering his DNA sample to gardai before the DPP report was written.

It's also very condescending about the people of West Cork, it says they seems to be especially 'suggestible' and eager to please the gardai, yet this hardly prevents prosecution of notorious gangsters and other high profile killers.

Jeez this thread has turned into a bit of an Ian Bailey love in! I'm guessing Ian himself is at least one of the posters on this thread right?

Join away the Ian Bailey appreciation facebook page all you like. There are two reasons I won't be joining and by the way I have no idea who committed the crime so I will go along with innocent until proven guilty.

He has repeatedly beat his partner to a pulp.

He has brought most of the attention on himself. Sarcastically telling people he did it on multiple occasions. Come on, this is an unsolved crime where the victim was brutally murdered, you are suspected of said crime (rightly or wrongly). What do you do? Have a bit of humility, keep the head down, aid the investigation as best you can? Or... how about, for the laugh, going round the place telling people you did it, courting all publicity possible. Keeping yourself in the spotlight for all these years. How about coming up with a few theories on the murder... French hitman anyone? Sophisticated drug ring involving Alfie and Leo (this one made me laugh). Local detective in the speeding Fiesta...etc.

I think it's time for Bailey to take a step back. An innocent man like him has no reason to be throwing allegations towards other people. I hope the murderer is found and convicted in her parents lifetime.

Surely any DNA collected was collected at the scene rather than in the hospital?