Murder at the Cottage | Sky

You see, what some posters like yourself don't realise is that the majority of posters on this thread want to see justice being done, no one is a fanboy of Bailey but at the same time, we don't want to see an innocent man being convicted of the most serious of crimes, its gas you call posters here who doubt Baileys guilt as fanboys but you sound like the biggest one of Nick Foster.

Your post has more than a little arrogance to it & its gas that you then go on to make a series of ridiculous and stupid statements that have been shown many times on this thread if you bothered to read it, as complete nonsense.

So lets look at the actual points you did make apart from the other pile of nonsense you wrote.

1) Baileys telephone call to STDP's office in France. Really? Years after the fact the lady in question decides to come forward with this information. Don't you think it would've been more than a little unusual she didn't come forward with this information earlier and only did so after Sophies family were continuously told of Bailey's guilt by the gards over years. Such a vital piece of evidence, oddball character contacting her friend days before her murder and then decides not to mention it until years after the fact. Yeah right!!

2) Alfie Lyons testimony is as unreliable as they come, both him and his friend Leo Bolger were let off extremely lightly even unbelievably so in relation to serious drug offences, one of them carrying a mandatory term of ten years. To not think him or Leo Bolger weren't in the pockets of the gards is naive in the extreme. Their statements have zero credibility and even with this, Lyons says he's 90% sure, not 100% as you would expect him to be if he did actually introduce Bailey to her.

3) "She was asking members of her family and friends with her to accompany her to Ireland because she was freaked out by Bailey". Why make the trip at all so?!! why put yourself in harms way when you don't need to. On top of this, she was seen by numerous locals before her murder and was said to have been anything but freaked out or nervous. Funny how she didnt make any mention of this odd character Bailey to anyone local in the days leading up to her murder, even to ask what he was like, was he odd, etc?

4) "Bailey would have been able to keep quiet about Sophie" Again, more nonsense, he could have easily mentioned her in passing in a non sexual/romantic context so why would he need to worry about what his partner Jules Thomas would think. If he is a full blown alcoholic as you say, it wouldnt have been one bit surprising for him to say he knew of a French film documentary married to a very successful French producer. Its exactly the type of thing Bailey would have talked about especially after a few drinks as its well known he's a blow hard and likes to be considered amongst the elite in society.

5) Its not unreasonable for Bailey to say he was in bed all night initially because no doubt at that stage, he knew through various media sources he was being set up for the murder by the gards and he knew that without an alibi, he'd be potentially in deep ****. I dont blame him one bit for this, its the sign of someone who is maybe panicking because he was being painted as the murderer falsely. He did write an article that night however and this has since been corroborated by the paper in question. When Jules Thomas was wrongfully arrested and then heavily pressured with regard to her statement, she frequently mentions how the gards continuously told her Bailey did it.

6) This is the funniest part of all. So you actually believe Bailey was going around West Cork back then, naked & howling at the moon in the middle of winter after a few drinks. And then that night, proceeds to walk miles to Sophies home, murders her in the most horrific and violent of ways because she rejected his advances before walking another 4km to Kealfadda bridge to wash himself clean & then walking all the way home, then shortly after, making his partner Jules a cup of coffee before then deciding to report on the crime. Sounds like Hercules to me and one of the best actors around.

7) A man falling off a cliff is one thing, a women being murdered in the most horrific fashion in an area where there hasnt been a murder in god knows how long is another thing. So what if he wasn't his usual self especially after a heavy night on the sauce, its not unreasonable either but on top of this, you're given credence to the gards in this instance but have sought to discredit them in many other instances. Either you believe they did a good job or they didn't, you cant pick and choose what aspects of the investigation you want to include in your post. Get off the fence.

8) Each point of evidence needs to be looked at in isolation because otherwise you get miscarriages of justice. If the evidence from one witness is flawed, it may totally discredit another piece of evidence. And the vast majority of evidence in this case is flawed because it relies on corrupt garda statements, witnesses who have a strong motive to lie on top of zero hard evidence even though the chief suspect was willing to give up his DNA. The french system took into account statements from Marie Farrell, Leo Bolger, Alfie Lyons amongst others which have long since been discredited/retracted and rightly so but they didnt want to hear it, mainly because of the pressure the French government have been put under from STDP's family.

9) Nobody is definitely saying it was a night time or morning killing but its not unreasonable to assume it was either. The wet circular drops of blood on her body and clothes would have pointed to a morning killing rather than a night time one as well as the food type she had eaten which were found in her stomach. Nobody knows for certain either way & no one is saying for certain.

10) STDP's husband had serious motive to murder her, Bailey didnt. A very high percentage of murders of married women involve their husbands one way or the other. The Irish gards were not allowed to properly investigate the French connection. He was in financial difficulty, he had a new partner pregnant within a couple of months, he refused to accompany the family to Cork, he said he didnt think Sophie would have an affair but this was found to be nonsense as Bruno Carbonnair gave a statement confirming she had at least one with him and that her husband knew of it. It wasnt at all unreasonable Bailey would have thought as an investigate journalist at the time that he might have had something to do with it.

11) Everybody knows the garda investigation into this crime was at best incompetent, at worst, highly corrupt with a motive. Just because people rightfully believe this was the case, doesn't mean they wouldn't have been able to get one shred of evidence linking Bailey to the crime, not one iota even though they were trying to pin it on him. Strikes me as highly strange in a murder as violent as this from a crazy drunk guy roaming around the countryside in the middle of winter miles from his home howling at the moon.

Your post has to be one of the most ridiculous ones I've seen on this thread.