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Fair play to VM1 airing a full interview with Ian Bailey on Monday night.

The recent national broadcast with Sophie's Son, demanding Ireland repay the some of the favours the French have bestowed upon Ireland, was a little bit stomach churning to be honest...

We don't present sacrificial lambs just to appease the froggies, we have a capable justice system in place thanks very much...

Of course you can feel his pain, and we all want justice for Sophie too.. But throwing the first guy you dislike under the bus is not going to heal the wounds.

Ian Bailey has been vilified for 25yrs now... He has been deprived of any normal life, denied a career, berated, slandered, threatened, ostracized and nationally been blamed for the brutal Murder of a French Mother, Wife & Daughter.

He has been convicted and sentenced to 25yrs without setting foot in a Court of Law. (Convicted & sentenced without one shred of evidence)

He is homeless.

He cannot indulge in any social media platform without being bombarded with messages of hate.

This has been going on for 25yrs. Each day and every day.

They say he drinks too much.... Would you not??? Do you want to live that existence in a sober world..??

He's opinionated, eccentric, egotistical..... So what? None of these traits are a crime?

He has vehemently denied any involvement in the murder of Sophie Du Plantier. He has begged consistently for the case to be re-investigated. He has written to the Governments top brass requesting a full cold case review. He has stated he wants justice for Sophie.

I'm looking forward to what he has to say.. And hopefully somewhere in the corridors of power, a bell will ring, somebody will have the ball's to say its time to air the dirty laundry... Lets review the case, lets get justice for Sophie Du Plantier..

And lets get justice for Ian Bailey..

I honestly wouldn't care about Bailey if he would rot in jail somewhere, if he actually really did it. If he would have gotten convicted in a trial where actual evidence has been seen, where witnesses where cross exanimated. However that all did clearly not take place.

Ultimately the problem lies with the judge passing a sentence without any evidence or witnesses. We don't even have a motive. This puts the French judicial system in a very bad light. A sentence without evidence and witnesses is more something like in a "banana republic" or some autocratic dictatorship but not on an EU country the likes of France.

It's also not so much "appeasing the froggies" as you described, but more "appeasing Sophie's family". Thus I'd say the judge was biased, other explanation I don't have here. After all, she was a well known TV producer and bias comes even more into play, if there is no evidence at all.

I struggle to see this as a motive for murder for a man like him. Why should it be particularly 'messy' anyway; seems like a typical 'mutual consent' breakup.

Well, with Sophie's second husband, there was certainly way more money involved than with Ian Bailey. And money can always be a motive. Also a divorce in the focus of the public of a well known TV producer is seldom not messy, gossip and cheap coverage of certain magazines/ media included.

Surely if it was known that the state pathologist would not be there until the following day it would have been wise to have a local doctor make some observations e.g. ambient temperature, body temperature, degree of rigor mortis, degree to which blood had congealed or solidified, etc... to assist in establishing time of death.

I presume a doctor would have had to attend the scene to certify death. To not have been instructed to make observations which could have been useful to the investigation in the circumstances was negligent.

There is another article on possible suspects:

Interestingly two suspects committed suicide later on. Karl Heinz Wolney from Germany and the French fisherman from Marseille.

I've seen this confusion on this thread multiple times. I don't think it was ever said that she received 40 or 50 blows to the head. I'm fairly sure she had 40 or 50 wounds in total. That may include various scratches and cuts on her arms and hands etc. Maybe I have that wrong, but I'm sure I read it somewhere as 50 wounds.

It still doesn't change the fact that this was a brutal killing, but it's an important distinction as it was more likely 10 or fewer blows to the head.

40 or 50 blows to the head would have taken an extraordinary amount of strength and energy and as gruesome as it sounds, there would have been no need to deliver the final blow with the block after all that.

Often in these cases there is life insurance but havent heard it mentioned here.

A court is the place to test and sort facts. Let them be put forward and prosecuted or defended. If the case is not resolved in some other way, then until there is a court case, the finger of suspicion points firmly to Ian Bailey. That's his out.

There has been talk that the "rumoured" suspect who was a garda died a long time ago, but do we know when exactly? I seen 2001 mentioned but do we know that to be true?

https://www.tuamherald.ie/2013/01/23/ex-garda-gets-suspended-sentence-for-breaching-barring-order-in-clonberne/

Who's Mary Jane?

And who is Planter

09/09/01 allegedly. Certainly seems like John is being cited as a credible murderer. It would certainly square why the Fiesta sighting's weren't followed up, and why the investigation seemed only to move in one direction and then evidence go missing etc.,

Absolutely absurd suggestion...

But would make so much sense of the information we have..

Like most small communities back in the day, everybody knew the names of everybody else dogs.

Evidence suggests there was a significant drug manufacturing operation going on there at the time. The local Gard(s) would have been well aware of it.. It's highly probably given the known levels of corruption, that some of the Gards were on the take - How high up the ladder that went is anybody's guess.

Sophie reported the matter (or some serious intel) to the Bantry Gards. This caused serious repercussions around all involved in the grow house, including the bent coppers in Schull, probably leading to a major internal investigation that would possibly unmask a high ranking Gard?

As previously debated, Sophie wasn't backwards at coming forwards, she wouldn't have been persuaded to drop the matter. If she had a grievance with the comings and goings of the drug operation, she would keep going until she got the attention she wanted. If Bantry didn't help her, she would have gone higher again.

Now... Where there is drugs, there is money.. Plenty of it.

Basically, Sophie who was no more than a blow in, that only graced West Cork occasionally, was about to kill the golden goose. The money printing business was going to be exposed, along with some potentially high ranking people within the community.

Is money a motive for murder..?? Does a bear sh*t in the woods?

What exactly did Sophie report to Bantry Gards? Did she request a home visit as her information was delicate? How much did she know? What had she seen?

The more you hear about this case, the more it points towards a cover up. The missing pages, missing hard evidence, leads not followed, suspects ignored...

I think Bailey has a fairly good idea what happened in West Cork all them years ago.. It's hard to get justice when the investigation was already rotten to the core.