Murder at the Cottage | Sky

Alfie had the reputation of one of those 'fierce nice' priests before the sex abuse scandal. The poor man was barely able to suck in enough air into his lungs to smoke a spliff.

The English bol*ox Bailey accuses Irish St. Alfie. I don't think so.

So if people can get away from the endless tiresome diversion of did she run here there everywhere through briars and barb wire pursued by a raging bull and come down to planet earth.

You don't have to have a theory about the murder or whether or not there was a cover-up. You may not want to face the fact that Bailey's involvement is fantasy.

Alfie and Shirley are central to the story. They knew more than they were letting on and were allowed to get away with that? Why

The first photo is as you say, just after the murder, cordon tape still visible and attack gate still in place.

In the second photo the gate by the pumphouse is gone, and through the gap you can see the attack gate has been replaced by a slightly different gate.

I think the second photo is from the French documentary, so 20 years later about.

There is no fence in the first photograph. What you are looking at is the low stone wall/surround which runs along the front and east side of the property. It appears, in the photo, as if that particular section may have been painted white or else it's directly in sunlight making it appear brighter. It would be an odd place to build a fence. You are right about that.

There's three fence posts clearly visible between the stone wall and the parked car in the first picture.

If you look up the property folios on landdirect.ie the area where the car is parked is not on the same folio as the cottage.

The fence appears to run parallel to the cottage gable and stone wall but this would not match the boundary on on the folio. Could this have been the cause of a disagreement?

There may have been more than one involved in the killing. Perhaps it started out as something else but because of language issues and the time she felt threatened 'freaked out' and attacked one of the group?

It is extremely odd to say the least that a new fence is laid out and then abandoned!

Interesting fact regarding a local Sophie was talking to (and she did have a preference for the older man..)

The urungers, some of the last people to see Sophie alive. One of which spoke to her at great length before she died. Seemingly enough to agree to work a project on. This had a consenting sex slave and the man would have been in his 60s. A cartoonist and farmer and owner of three castle head. Bdsm cartoons and stuff so I guess if it was him if would be a sex motive

I mean man shall not live by bread alone

The fence posts are interesting. The ones erected outside the house are in a very strange location, why would anyone put a fence there? Seems totally illogical. Why were these posts subsequently removed?

The ones in the field, what were they going to be used for? Though it's hard to see them clearly, they appear fairly new, and probably are considering they haven't been put up yet. But down at that end of the field it doesn't look like there would be any good reason to put up a fence? Maybe the hedge isn't as thick as it appears and the horses that were kept there were getting out? But then why was it not completed afterwards? Is that a gate lying in the field near the posts?

When was this picture taken? There are two fence posts along the hedge but it doesn't look like there is any fence or wire. No gate either.

For me that settles the debate about where the block comes from. There's only one block missing in that video whereas there are two missing in the crime scene photo, which also appears to show the "roof" pried up and bent in order to grab the block.

One more question. Sophie rang her handyman the night she was murdered. Do we know what she was calling him for?

This is a serious issue, imagine how Ian Bailey and his nearest feel, he didn't understand either and there was no one going to tell him straight.

If you want to find out about the effects of drugs or whatever there is only one way to find out. But don't pretend to know.

Can we just categorically state that cutting pages out of evidence books is a cover up and not malpractice.

Yes I understand that, but the neighbour who owned the land wasn't there at the time. Do we know when they were last there? Was it shortly before Sophie arrived?

If they were trying to send a message to Sophie about their boundary, you would assume they would fence it in such a way that prevented her from parking there? Maybe they did for all we know and the fence posts in the field were removed from the area where her car was parked.

It's unlikely the posts were Sophie's doing, if they were we would know about it from Josephine Helen or the handyman who worked for her. So someone else was planning to put up a substantial enough fence, maybe two. But then after the murder they changed their mind. It just seems strange that if the fence was not related to a boundary dispute, and was simply being erected for practical reasons, that it was not subsequently finished.

Could all be innocent, but it seems odd.