Sophie: A Murder in West Cork - Netflix.

She probably wasn't. I'm just trying to come up with reasons why her marriage survived which baffles me considering how publicly this was discussed. Also it puzzles me why she was never charged for her lies - why did the Gardai protect her by not making her name the man ( when they believe he existed). Her part in all of this is baffling. And she's still blathering away to any media who approaches her!

You can spin it any way you want, but it doesn`t take away from the simple reality that a witness is prepared to say that when Sophie exited Spar, Bailey was on the other side of the street. It has consequences for what Marie said in her first statement and it reconciles with the specifics of the confession that Bailey made to Bill Fuller.

No you've been caught out spinning it the way you want. You invented this 'loitering'. With every post you change your tune when challenged and backtrack and then shift the goalposts to nonsense confessions.

You invented a fabricated claim about Bailey 'loitering'. I am not spinning. The proof is on the thread of what you made up.

Quote about those who wear black.

'Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me"

Would it fit any suspects?

I dont think Ceri Williams is a reliable witness. She was once a partner of Pete Bielieki who came to the rescue of Jules after one of her beatings. Both Ceri and Pete were friends of Bailey but of course they fell out with him after the beating ( and rightly so). So she had no liking for Bailey at all so it is possible she may have told a few lies too.

After Pete Bielieki she moved in with Tom Quinn - a painter who painted Sophies house. His fingerprints were taken at the time of the murder - not sure it was just to have his prints or if he was a suspect. It is possible again that she may have had reason to point the gardai towards Bailey. I have no idea what man she was with at the time of the murder though.

Thats the thing about the people of West Cork Bailey was involved with - they are all strange characters that were involved workwise, friendship, relationship wise etc. They seem to have all fallen out at some stage and made enemies of each other. It is safe to say Bailey was an enemy of Ceri's.

😂🤣 Well all the men of West Cork wanted her. Even the Gardai found her hard to resist if we are to believe Marie.🤣

If it was any other part of the country I would agree with you. But we are talking about West cork where a large part of the population was originally from other countries. I don't think a French man in West cork would have been seen as unusual at all.

Nigerians or any black would have stood out at that time, but I'd say, Spanish, French and Italian was not uncommon, at least not in Dublin.

If Daniel hired a hitman he would not just have asked a close friend. It would have been asking a friend, who knew a friend, who knew somebody who had an idea who could potentially carry out the job. No phone call would ever have been between Daniel and the killer, no e-mail, nothing.

Daniel just supplying the address, any other particulars about the house and the area, possibly the time. Daniel could even have supplied the information that the area by the gate and the pump station was out of clear sight of Alfie and Shirley and it would be the spot where the killer would least likely have had witnesses. The cover of darkness did the rest. A phone call to a friend, after having spoken to Sophie that evening to confirm she was home....

It's entirely possible that any hitman ordered by whatever chain of connection by Daniel would also not even have been French at all. Could have been English, maybe even an American living in Ireland somewhere.

The biggest challenge for the killer would have been an inconspicuous car which blends in, and a spare set of clothes, changing somewhere after the job was done, disposing of them, somewhere over the cliffs.

Also, it was Christmas, people visiting relatives wasn't out of the ordinary, anywhere in Ireland.

One thing would be certain: Daniel had by far the biggest financial motive for killing Sophie.

Sometimes it's the simplest and most obvious answer;

Maybe someone local had a fight with Sophie, for whatever reason, killed her, then went home and cleaned up.

I'd say a professional hitman would have made it look like an accident and made sure the body wouldn't be found for a few days at least.

Whoever did it was trying to get her to do something or not do something. They brought a wine bottle or maybe were given one but things went downhill quickly. To inflict such violence as using a concrete block must have involved drugs/somone unstable or perhaps the block was used to destroy some detail/evidence?

Drowning, drugging, getting her drunk on French wine, or poisoning her would have taken to long. The killer wanted to get there and leave as quickly as possible. The longer he stayed around the more the chances of being seen. Whether late at night, or early morning at least he was acting under the guise of darkness.

I would disagree that the killer had no intentions when he went there. Maybe he didn't have intent to kill, but he had intent to visit her, to prevent something from happening. Thus he must have known she was there, - thus some element of planning must have been there.

There is certainly no point in going there, to a house where Sophie is rarely present anyway. Just to check up on her, on the off chance? Don't think so.

One aspect of the hitman sent by her husband, is why do it in Ireland? Why not in France? Was it just something her husband ordered on the spur of the moment? Was it in Ireland, because of the remoteness of the house? Or could he have done it as well in France? Somewhere where Sophie would have been alone as well?

Lot's of aspects in this case.