Murder at the Cottage | Sky

Of course they found no evidence, it was destroyed!

You'd have to be particular bad at covering your tracks to be caught out by GSOC, who cannot question retired Gardai.

35 pages were removed from the evidence book, if this is typical in straightforward cases, why would GSOC have considered referring it to DPP?

In its report, GSOC says it is most concerned with pages that went missing from the original garda ‘jobs book’ while in the custody of gardaí.

The commission said it had considered whether the interference with the Jobs Book warranted sending a file to the DPP, but they had chosen not to on the basis that one of the main gardaí who had responsibility for the documents had since died.

There was no explanation offered by gardaí for the missing pages. GSOC concluded that there was “a lack of administration and management of the incident room” during the murder investigation, but found no evidence of malpractice or corruption.

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... It is interesting to note that a number of members of the guards were able to shield behind their retirement as a way of refusing to co-operate.”

Also speaking to this paper, Mr Bailey’s solicitor, Frank Buttimer, said: “The reality of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission as an organisation is that it is powerless, in any meaningful way, to carry out any form of proper investigation into garda corruption."

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30859712.html

Are you sure Bill wasn't the one projecting and Ian accusing him?

Or was it perhaps the simplest explanation. Two people after a night in the pub, a few more drinks at a house party. After a night of baiting in the pub and Bill repeating rumours that were being spread in the area, Ian giving a sarcastic retort to Bill saying he (Bill) did it.

How anyone can construe it as a confession baffles me.

It seems there's only one type of projection going on - convolutedly twisting the most innocent of events in the most negative way remotely possible to fit a preconceived guilt.

After all if Ian Bailey wasn't locked up immediately there was sure to be a string of similar murders and soon there wouldn't be a woman left alive in West Cork.

When you put the statement in its full context you can see why Bill Fuller considered it to be IB talking about himself. After IB said this Bill Fuller says he said 'that sounds like something you would do' and IB replied with something like 'that's how I met Jules, but she let me in'.

Bill Fuller would have no way of knowing that Sophie was hit on the back of the head as she tried to escape either, and he never previously claimed to have seen her in the Spar himself that day. In one of the statements, which JT says she did not actually say, the garda report says JT said IB had told her he had seen Sophie in Spar that weekend. Ceri Williams gave a statement that she saw Sophie coming out of Spar and IB was across the road. The gardai just joined the dots.

Don't know if your naive or deliberately being silly. There is a history of AGS corruption. The recent Dublin gangwar led to 3- 4 corrupt AGS members being unearthed. One committed suicide in a police station before being found out.

There is police corruption in almost every country. Why do you think Drew Harris was appointed in the first place??

Even with this case from what we know we've evidence being stolen from evidence room and being used to bribe a member of the public. We've tampering with case files removal of witness reports, loss of evidence. This isn't negligent either as its selective. This is covering up.

I suspect Jim Sheridans season two will go this route and cerain members of AGS will be begging for impunity. As detective Dwyer said himself "there's no timelimit on justice".

Fyi you cant delete and can only edit it for first 24 hours.

Sophie's son on the Late Late tonight.

Do you have children? Are you divorced? Usually, in such situations, the years alternate - one Xmas with Mom, the next with Dad. No reason to disparage Sophie in this manner.

OMG, you're way off. But thanks for the laugh.

Read my post again.....I never mentioned corruption. I said coverup. There is a difference. The only good conspiracy is a conspiracy of one. The idea that there are a number of Gardaí covering for one of their own is nonsense. So is the unsubstantiated story of the blue Fiesta from Gemma Wotsername. Furthermore, Farrell didn`t have a cop in her car on the night because if she did she would have said so by now, particularly as she now seems to be working at getting Bailey off the hook.

Ah yeah....sure it`s all a big joke isn`t it.