Sophie: A Murder in West Cork - Netflix.

I am by far no legal expert, however in Ireland there is "Habeas Corpus", meaning they have to present him in court. Trial in absentia is not possible.

I don't know if the Irish could extradite a French citizen to stand trial in Ireland? And then the prosecution would still have to prove that he killed Sophie beyond reasonable doubt? His fingerprints or DNA on the murder weapon? The tricky thing is, that the murder weapon wasn't a knife or a baseball bat or a firearm where fingerprints and the bullet fired can be traced to the owner, but something which could have been handled or touched by anybody for all sorts of perfectly innocent reasons. A stone rolled into the lane, and he removed it, to continue driving, a brick at the pump house touched in order to look at something closer, or fix something, all innocent explanations which are hard to contradict.

And remember, he's innocent until proven guilty. I am guessing there is not a statute of limitations for murder ? But more than 25 years onwards it won't be easy to convict him. However when faced and confronted with certain evidence, he might confess to murder?

That's what I understood as well. I would also guess that Jules would never allow Bailey to drive that car after a few drinks, thus I don't think Bailey drove the car at the night of the murder.

He may have said that in the statement but he didnt own the car. Jules owned the car and allowed him to drive it.

Anyway it is immaterial who owned it - the fact is he did have access to and did drive the fiesta.

I know, but I doubt Jules would have allowed that to happen.

In the morning? Couldn't have been live coverage.

On a Monday morning, in December? Unlikely!

Bailey wouldn't strike be as a big GAA fan either

December

He just said my fiesta as this is the car he used. Its just the way he phrased it under pressure. My husband owns my car - I refer to it as my car. I own the car my husband drives - he refers to it as his car.

Your getting your knickers in a knot over nothing here. It doesnt matter one bit who owns the car. He is not denying that he drove the car or had access to the car!

He wasnt arrested for stealing the bloody car!

Marie is easily led alright, but she’s done ok from going with the flow when it suited.

It's probably Bailey asking for attention, and getting it.

He could easily have stated, never having left the bedroom, and nobody could have proven otherwise. Only because he changed his story, people started to doubt him.

Also, remember Ian had a paper to write and had a deadline, - that was confirmed, it was published by a newspaper. So between 2 am and say 8 am, Ian would have to have hiked one hour to Sophie's, cleaned the evidence up, hiked back for an hour, avoid being seen and quite possibly full of blood, cleaned himself up, written an article for a newspaper and that after more than a few drinks in the pub and pretend as if nothing happened. I would find this quite an accomplishment and most likely impossible. The only option would have been to write the article on that day before he went to the pub and then pretending that he wrote it at night... He would have saved time, and would have given him more than enough time to kill Sophie.

So, basically;

Sheridan was only doing what the Gardai did 25 years ago.

He got her original description of the man she said she saw,-sallow skinned , average height etc, found a photo to fit the description of this man with DTDP and said "I'll look after you if the Gardai follow this up" and lo and behold he's got a nice filler for "Murder at the cottage part 2"

I cannot see this new investigation falling for this, they must have something else,

Have they gone back through her diaries and found something?

Exactly, she's been well and truly discredited several times down the years.

The DPP would throw it back as soon as her name came up.