Sophie: A Murder in West Cork - Netflix.

"This is well known but you choose to ignore it"

I don`t ignore it. I accept that the gardaí stepped over the line in this investigation. But as far as I am concerned they did it because they believed Bailey was the killer. It wasn`t a big conspiracy to hang an innocent man.

"Why on earth would we believe the original statement. Doesn`t add up."

It`s the only thing she said that does add up and is corroborated by other evidence.

"It is a bit convenient this sighting by Ceri Williams"

Saying that makes you the classic conspiracy theorist and goes hand in hand with something else you said several pages back...i.e..going for the obvious suspect leads to miscarriages of justice. If Williams was part of a big fit up she wouldn`t have said "they weren`t together". She would have put them together. Your logic is fundamentally skewed by your hatred of the gardaí.

Please provide the exact quotes form Ceri Williams about him 'loitering' in dark clothing.

Loitering across the street in dark clothing? Remind us, what time of day was it? Daylight or not? So what relevance does 'dark clothing' have?

Because it reads like a piece of bad fiction.

Would that be the same Ceri Williams who claims that Bailey appeared outside her remote home one night after the murder, wailing her name?

It was the main street of the town. He'd been on it countless times.

He'd been into Marie Farrell's shop.

All the more remarkable then Marie Farrell didn't know who he was, and couldn't describe him accurately despite allegedly seeing him standing around in the afternoon, yet could recognise him before sunrise or in the dark from a moving car. Yeah it isn't rocket science. Its a pack of lies. If you believe this you'll believe anything.

"Please provide the exact quotes...."

I did about a page back. He was clearly wearing his long black coat on the day in question.

"it reads like a piece of bad fiction."

The truth does most of the time.

"wailing her name?"

Do you think he is incapable of that? I don`t.

"All the more remarkable then Marie Farrell didn`t know who he was."

He told WCP that he didn`t know who she was either. So there you go.

It is well known that she operated a stall in Cork. That`s where she was going.

Ah he was only an old friend and it was just an innocent chat.

It may have been on the rocks three years earlier. I listened to West Cork Podcast again recently and they said she had organised a Christmas present for Daniel and they had arranged a trip to Africa together in the new year. It doesn`t sound like a divorce was imminent. Bailey had written at the time that she had an array of lovers coming and going but that wasn`t true. There was only Bruno. One of the men that came with her at on point was her brother and Daniel had been over with her too.

Daniel got his young lover pregnant ( which he had at the time of Sophie's death) 6 months after Sophie's death. Married her the following year. Of course their marriage was on the rocks. He was hardly the grieving husband. Sophie's death made life alot easier for Daniel. No messy divorce or financial loss.

I don't know if the dark net existed back then, nor do I think that Daniel would have used something similar in order to make contact with a contract killer. He would never have known what kind of "service" he would have gotten, and it could easily have been the police waiting at the other end. No, he would have to have been sure, and the next girl was already waiting to be wed....

What I would think to be more plausible, is that Daniel talked to a good friend of his, who may have known somebody else who would give the orders and get the payment. Through such a chain the Guards would not have been smart enough to make the connection, plus it would have been hard to prove. Cash given verbal orders taken, job done. Killer arrives travels to Ireland via Belgium takes a flight to London, train to Holyhead, ferry to Dublin, rental car in either Dublin or Cork. Back then, I don't recall passport control on the ferry between Holyhead and Dublin. Guards checking the flights between Paris and Cork would never ever make the connection.

Husband speaking to wife on the cellphone, then calls friend, who calls friend, who calls killer relays information, wife alone at home. Go for it, have her taken care of....

The other thought I would have had was Leo Bolger. Suppose Sophie knew or seen something, and threatened to do something and Leo already had one brush with the law before. He'd hardly want to go to jail and Sophie could have easily done something to put him there. He would have known that getting of lightly with a suspended sentence won't happen a 2nd time. He could easily have had motive to kill Sophie, even if his "little sideline" in the drug business didn't make him a fortune.....

"Provide the original source for your claim "loitering"."

Williams says she bumped into Sophie as she exited Spar and spotted Bailey across the street. I said loitering. It`s Episode 7...12 minutes in.

"Look how you`ve changed your tune"

I haven`t. A long black coat is dark clothing every day of the week where I come from. Personally I find "long black coat" more suspicious sounding than "dark clothes".

I have no problem believing Williams at all. Listen to the podcast. She is very convincing. It`s all very well reading witness statements and concluding they are making things up. That`s one of the places where the DPP fell flat. However when you see them and hear them saying it as they did in the documentaries, podcast and the court rooms, they are utterly believable. Maybe it`s a rural thing, but some people do get nutty with a full moon. A guy I know is well known for howling at it and a friend of mine told me he has seen and heard a neighbour do it a few times. I seem to be undermining some of the rocks you have built your beliefs upon.

Right suppose Marie is right and she was out with another man that night. I was just pondering why Marie Farrells husband would be ok with this. Also if the man she was out with was not from the area as she says - why didnt she go to his hotel room. Right stick with me on this and read between what I am trying to say:

What if Marie was out that night in a working capacity. What if she was known to provide certain ummm services to men for money. We know Chris and herself were tight for money - she could have been doing this with Chris's backing. It would explain why she was in a remote secluded location, it would explain her reluctance to name the man ( or maybe she didnt know his name), it could explain gardai's failure to find the man. Its possible the gardai are covering this up as a member of the force used her services and they had turned a blind eye to her in the past.

It would also make sense why gardai allegedly made sexual advances towards Marie if true. I found that very odd ( actually didnt believe her on this) that members of the gardai would do this but if she had a reputation it could make sense.

Anyway I still believe the most likely story was she was at home in bed.

It is easy be persistant. There`s just so much evidence.