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Or..

Instead of a clean up the murder occurred somewhere else nearby and the body was carried to the spot and the blood spattered to show a different tale? She was light and easy to carry by a man or two people.

Carried to a spot where it would be noticed straight away by the next passerby?

I'd say there's no link, but we'll wait and see.

The first reported sighting of Bailey on the Monday was by Shirley and that was after 2:00pm I believe.

Probably mixing up or making up.

I'd say there's no link to the "footage" of Bailey striding through live crime scene either.

There is a photo of him several days after the murder walking up towards Sophie's house,

by which time every Tom, Dick and Harry had been up there.

Again probably mixing up or making up.

If there are credible links I'll stand corrected.

What is Bailey knowledgeable about or has he achieved anything in life that could distinguish him from the community of peasants - no doubt he regards them as such - among which he chose to settle? Nothing! He is a failed journalist, writer and (would be) academic. A complete spoofer.

You haven't allowed for my use of quotation marks, I was referring to the community's possible perception of him considering himself better than them (communities hate that kind of thing). Is he better than them? - I don't know

I think you are wrong on both comments you made. Bailey was still a journalist at the time of the murder and never chucked it in to become a hippy. He also wasnt facing or never was facing any charges for assault of his wife - in fact his wife said he was never violent towards her.

After reading most of this thread and watching the Sheridan documentary, I still cannot see any one of the people mentioned on here having enough motive to carry out such a killing.

An interesting tangent was the link to drugs which most know were being smuggled in close to Schull at that time and indeed one of the biggest smugglers in Europe was based in Kinsale in 1996.

Did Sophie actually see something she should not have seen, the lack of forensics would point to a professional clean up which international drug smugglers would be fairly good at.

Maybe this is going off in a tangent but Johnny Morrissey had no problem making people disappear that were a danger to himself and his friends.

In Limerick city in 2002 a 40-year-old man armed with a knife managed to make his way into the hallway of a shared house where he lay in wait for one of the occupants to give him a fright supposedly. A 22-year-old came home from work and while entering his apartment the knifer's phone rang alerting him to his presence. These two people had never met each other yet the younger man was stabbed in the side and had his throat cut. Murdered for no reason with no motive.

I expect there was evidence of some form found in that case, no professional clean up?

Wrong place at the wrong time, maybe something similar happened Sophie, I recall Barry Galvin mentioning West Cork was the gateway for drugs into Europe in the early nineties.

Drugs seem to be intertwined in the case, Gardai paying a person to give evidence with drugs, A Judge giving a suspended sentence to someone with more than 13K of drugs, its possible she saw one of Morrisseys shipments being landed and had to be dealt with, everything about this case is crazy.

A lot of strange things regarding West Cork, drugs and Gardai happened in 1996....

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/urlingford-operation-to-catch-drug-traffickers-red-handed-lacked-the-crucial-sting-in-its-tail-1.34052?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Furlingford-operation-to-catch-drug-traffickers-red-handed-lacked-the-crucial-sting-in-its-tail-1.34052

13 tons?

That'll be 4 for the growers ,

4 for the Cork lads,

4 for the Dubs,

and 1 for the books.

Bailey is literally the perfect patsy. He must be the most guilty innocent person ever.

What is the next step for Bailey?

I suspect the Irish Government will have placated the French by pushing for a resolution in the murder case.

We don't want Bailey being shipped over to France, to be tried and condemned within a matter of weeks, something that the Irish couldn't do in twenty five years..

The recent activities suggests that the game is a foot.

Several new witnesses have come forward with written statements that cast doubt over Bailey's claims of innocence. Your man that said Jules Thomas told him she washed Bailey's bloody clothes, and the two French friends of Sofie that claim she told them she was meeting a strange poet in Ireland..

It's looking very likely that there is a push to expedite the investigation, driven by both the Irish and French Governments.

I'm sure I read somewhere too, that Ireland being part of the EU has to turn over Bailey if requested by the French (don't take this as accurate, I recall there was several legal arguments pending the legality of this??)

But overall, I think Bailey's future is looking grim. The very fact that the French Prime Minister was talking about giving Bailey another trial in France is significant, and more so that our own Government didn't contradict him.

I guess both men discussed Bailey in private, and a deal was made to either ramp up the pressure here (more witness statements), or close whatever legal loophole was open preventing Bailey being shipped off to France.

This story is far from over yet.

So you think the DPP is infallible then? That`s gas. I thought that was only the pope, me being a fundamentalist Christian and all. A new fundamental religion there then. The Holy DPP`s first, second and third letters to the Deluded. By the way, I have read the DPP reports several times. There is a bizarre irony there that someone who thinks a DPP is infallible, would mock people who are religious.

For information purposes however, as you have previously labelled me, I should say that I am not a Christian fundamentalist. I am more closely aligned to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. My mother would have been so happy if you were right though. One less lost soul to pray for.

Yet again you show an innate inability to weigh up the facts that are in front of you and come to a logical conclusion. One would think that your determination to pin it all on Alfie because the evidence can be "imagined", is akin to believing there is a deity up there somewhere above the clouds pulling on all our puppet strings.

Disposing of a body is always difficult in any crime scene as there is the possibility of creating further traces. The problem would have arisen that the Guard in question would have had blood all over the interior of the fiesta. I would also suggest that if the Guard did it, he may have shown up at Sophie's house some time before midnight. He then had ample time to go back to the house, to look for any incriminating notes, about possible drug activities going on in the area, Sophie was observing. I would also believe that Sophie will most likely have confided in others about her observations on drug trafficking in the area. Is it known how many people she'd spoken to about drug trafficking?

I would suggest that any woman who was sleeping around, would have heard about this man's reputation. Sophie also would have followed some kind of routine when picking out her partners in bed. In the end, she wants brief fun, not meeting her death. So I suppose that Sophie would have been very careful when she met the Guard that night. Thus, I'd say that any advances by him will most certainly have been met with rejection by Sophie. Sophie would also have known that she couldn't exactly trust that particular Guard.