Sophie: A Murder in West Cork - Netflix.

I think it suits AGS for this case to still be a "who dunnit" in the minds of the public with people quibbling over whether or not lights were on or off and what time was the sunrise in some kind of attempt to "solve" the case. AGS have ensured that this case will never be solved and any writer or documentary maker interested in the case will need to keep AGS sweet so that they can have access for interviews etc.

Every single step of the way on this case AGS took the wrong course of action. From not following up on witnesses and sightings to somehow losing a damn gate.

There's a murder in the local area. A woman admits she was driving in the vicinity of the murder at the approximate time of the murder and that she had someone else in the car with her. Yet somehow AGS are never able to find out who that person was to interview them. MF has chopped and changed her story over time and had plenty of opportunity to say she was just in the car alone and yet she insists she was not alone in the car but she also just can't reveal who was in the car with her just driving around the locale of a murder scene at the time of the murder. Could she not say "actually I was alone in the car" because that witness might someday come forward and undermine the Kealfadda Bridge sighting or because that witness might one day provide some other evidence that implicates someone else and destroys the cases against IB? The mystery passenger is such a strange thing and is a real sticking point for me in this case. How is it possible that AGS were told repeatedly about an individual in the area of a murder at the time of the murder but they somehow just couldn't get statements from that person?

Similarly with the alleged sighting of another man in the car with Sophie when she got petrol. We've got an unknown individual close to the victim at the time of the murder but AGS don't seem eager to follow this one up too closely either. Again, because it would ruin the case against IB if we have to introduce another suspect who was seen in Cork with Sophie but apparently not mentioned by anyone in France?

Sure, there is every chance that IB actually did this but I would say more that the real story is the absolutely disgraceful behavior of AGS in how they dealt with the case. Yet nobody who writes the books or films the documentaries seems to concerned about holding AGS to account. I think the Netflix documentary didn't even mention the Bandon tapes.

The Gardai are on tape admitting to wanting to take sections out of statements and saying "Yeah, he has to get f***ing that statement has to get f****ing chopped up anyway" and all but admitting that they have some kind of conspiring going on with the Farrells but the documentaries are focusing on how the mist at Three Castle Head is spooky and that Sophie's friends in France had premonitions and another assorted rubbish.

I guess though if anyone was too critical of AGS then they'd struggle to get proper access for their projects so it's "they lost a gate LOL what are they like?"

It's convenient for AGS to have Sophie's family and the French justice people convinced that IB is the murderer because it completely distracts from the fact that they completely botched this investigation from start to finish. At every opportunity when there was an exact wrong thing to do that's precisely what AGS did. A good question would be if they did it all on purpose or if they were just that incompetent.

If they were so convinced that IB did it then it's possible that a philosophy of "the ends justify the means" has actually led to a situation where IB can never be found guilty.

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Do you mean a match to the dna sample??