Murder at the Cottage | Sky

The postman? Oh, I forgot, he delivered Alfie's Monday morning post on Sunday at 6 p.m. how convenient.

Do you really think if she was having an affair with a married guard she would ring that into the guards. Are you well?

The Garda wouldn't have told anybody about this unless they had to.

"The Garda did not want to say it had imported the drugs. So a version of what had happened was put together."

Castletownbere is a short boat trip from Dumanus.

Unless any new investigation tells us if another of these type of operations was happening around the area , highly unlikely, we will get nothing other than a perfunctory look at the case files and nothing new. Where were this group of "armed detectives" 6 months later? Where did they work out of? Bantry? Bandon?

"Garda sources said lives would be placed at risk if such an account were made public."

I'm sure lives are always placed at risk with the kind of games that go on?

Was Sophie's?

Is there evidence against Ian Bailey? So why hasn't he been sent for trial. Oh yes, because the HIGHLY experienced DPP realised that all the Guards had was convenient, and what would look to any member of a jury with 1 brain cell as fabricated, evidence. Better to convict in the court of public opinion anyway.

Alfie registered ownership after Sophie. Maybe because he was there in some way prior to her but incontrovertibly he registered after she did.

On his death it has passed to his partner. I have cropped out most of the personal stuff obvs.

Things that seem odd/don't add up.

• MF her contempt for the court and lack of will from AGS or the courts to put her behind bars where she should have gone (suggests she's was with AGS member hence protection from law)
• MF and the house she and CF built from zero no mortgage no nothing (suggests proceeds of crime)
• The house keeper Josephine Hellen pointing the finger at AL for using the bath (suggests willingness to break laws and also that JH had reason to distrust him)
• The lack of any into on AF before he moved to Schull and bought the Basil Brush (suggests lack of AGS will to actually look anywhere but IB)
• AL and his 90% sure comment of introducing IB to STD (reads like a lie, someone is certain or not - suggests intention to frame IB)
• Fiesta sightings prior to murder no re-enactment on crimewatch but poorly discredited (suggests willingness from AGS to ignore obvious lead and is also typical AGS car at time)
• Body not moved to mortuary as requested by state pathologist (willingness of AGS to allow forensics to disappear)
• Bandon detective not deployed on case he would typically be deployed on (probably took a few days compassionate leave who knows)
• MF flipping sides and joining in with IB case (what has she got on AGS that she can now comfortably flip sides??)
• AGS bribing of witnesses (will at all costs from AGS to frame IB. They are incredibly aware they have no case, and have no interest in catching real killer)
• STDP missing diaries (not sure on credibility but suggests people knew she would have wrote about the killer if true)
• AL drug infringements and past history of growing (willing to deal or dabble in drugs)
• STDP drugs complains
• AL and STDP tension over the gate, access issues, shed issues etc.,
• AGS tampering with Job books (AGS very aware casework won't stand up to scrutiny and is again willing to break law to prevent poor casework becoming criminal matter)

It literally reads like a Tarentino thriller. It even has the perfect Patsy in IB. Someone who appears guilty but isn't. If your going to grow or import or deal drugs of any type. You need a lawless AGS member to bribe, you need someone with the right place to import and you need a few drivers / distributors. Who is who let you make your own mind up. Just seems to be like STDP wandered into something she wasn't meant to.

Yes, from memory the case was dismissed because you can't just base a warrant on an unnamed "confidential informant". Personally I think if you can't get a warrant based on a snitch, I wonder how you can get a warrant at all :)

It was a serious charge, Alfie could have gone to prison.

Well I think we know a lot more than we did. There really was a Bantry Garda, active at the time of the drug bust. There was a Bantry nurse too, though she worked in Cork. We also know that Sophie was sufficiently bothered by a neighbour that she considered going to the Gardai.

And we now know the Gardai are sufficiently exercised by this to investigate and pass info to the media.

There was an imprint on her face from a boot that was consistent with the type that the gards wore.

There was not.

There was a sighting of a fiesta fleeing away from the scene that was consistent with what a local garda drove.

You got that from one article written by one journalist.

There was the loss of evidence inexplicably (gates, wine bottles, etc),

You would not expect the police to keep the gate. After being swabbed and fingerprinted, it is of no use, so you would expect it to be discarded. Which is what happened.

the bribing of witnesses,

No evidence of bribing witnesses. GSOC also came to that conclusion.

the intimidation of locals,

Apart from intimidation of Martin Graham after he went to the newspapers trying to cash in, I am not aware of any intimidation. Unless you mean Jules being told Bailey might kill her next.