Cold Case Review of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier murder to proceed. **Threadbans in OP**

It may not be related to her but...

How many of those people leave expensive bottles of wine in a nearby field?

And how many of them are close to the location where the bottle was found.

AH response: People seem to be getting confused between the Tour de France riders throwing away empty bidons into ditches ... and unopened bottles of expensive French wine.

The other day I said the guards were lax letting Shirley drive off but the it occurred to me if Bailey had done it why didn't he skedaddle on the Cork - Swansea ferry? Why hang around?

Not only did he not skedaddle or even lie low for a while, instead he thrust himself into the middle of the investigation. Didn’t he go to the Garda station in the week or so after the murder under some pretext like reporting cancelling a party, just to poke around and ask what progress was being made. The Garda he spoke to, when logging it actually wrote “suspect ?” After Bailey’s name. I know he was probably one of many suspects at that stage, but why bring attention on himself?

And presumably it was sold in France too, and not just in the duty free?

Even by today's wasteful standards, you wouldn't see too many natives slinging a ten quid bottle of plonk into the ditch, even if it tasted like vinegar... Just doesn't happen! At the very least, we re-wrap it and palm it off as a birthday present on some low pecking family member...

But to throw a hundred quid bottle of the good stuff into the ditch, and drive away.... C'mon!

Not available in Ireland, but available in the duty free.... So somebody brought it into the Country and heading down towards Sophie's gaff..?? Well no sh*t Sherlock...!

But it might not have been related to Sophie's murder?? Could be some holiday makers heading down to their fancy holiday homes...??

Whoa Boy.....!! Gotta stop you there....

Sophie was a upper class piece of crumpet, had a fine leg on her, was a woman of taste, and well used of the better things in life.... She wasn't the type of bird you would call to, with a bag of cans to get her in the mood with...

She mingled with the jet set, and enjoyed all the trappings that that life style embraced.. She would have appreciated a good drop of Claret, but the good ones come with an expensive price tag...

The wine was almost certainly connected to Sophie's demise.... What the wine was meant for is anybodies guess?? Peace offering, surprise, celebration, joint appreciation of good french wine...??

Whatever it was meant for.. It didn't quite pan out that way. Somebody slung it out of the window on a route that could be deemed as leaving Sophie's cottage...

Yeah I know it could be going a different direction too... But why would some random driver, suddenly get the urge to throw a bottle of expensive wine out of the window and motor on into oblivion....

The wine is connected to Sophie... Only an idiot would think otherwise.

He is the only person we know who was stopped on the road and told there was a police cordon. I know the location of that interaction is more likely the narrow lane.

In my opinion if Sophie had gifted the wine to anyone e it would be the Ungerers. As I pointed out before the late Tomi Ungerer was into bondage. If Bailey had drawn this cartoon I'm sure we'd hear all about it. I am not saying Tomi did it but pointing out how circumstantial evidence can be construed from anything if you disfavour the person.

I wonder if the guards ever asked MF if she used Sophie's place as a "love nest"? Had Sophie left the door unlocked and someone who was used to being in the house (the mystery bath user) entered, mooched about, picked up the wine and left in a vehicle, then Sophie put her boots on and gave chase. Hit by car then finished off with block. Bottle then thrown out during getaway.

Really there are so many scenarios but without DNA advances it is all conjecture.

Sophie liked her red wine, she had just flown in from Paris, there was a duty free carrier bag from Paris airports just inside her front door. Sophie most likely brought the wine with her, I don't know what fine wines would be stocked in Spar in Schull. The wine was probably taken from her house by someone with access. Nothing to do directly with the murder, except it was taken over the weekend she was murdered and either discarded when the news broke, or hidden to retrieve later and failed to find it when the time came. Thefts from remote holiday homes is not uncommon. (I know from experience).

Anyone following IKB on Twitter? A nemesis troll of his has died. I won't post the name but it's easy enough to find the recent death in that area. I'm not sure if he was a detective or if IKB was using "dick" in another sense. Bit odd anyway, could be suicide.

I think your main point stands regardless of the other bottle. IF the plans had been made in advance, reasonable to assume she'd have bought it in France, duty free or otherwise.

Regards the magazine, do you have a photo of it? The Sunday Telegraph magazine was called ”Stella” whereas the magazine issued with the Saturday edition was called the The Telegraph Magazine.

Has IKB said anything about the bottle of champers he was supposed to have seen on Sophie's kitchen table in his early newspaper articles?

He blagged his way up to Alfie's with Leo Bolger a few days after the murder, but he couldn't have seen the kitchen table unless he passed across the front of Sophie's house. This is highly unlikely as the route to Alfie's would have taken them up the rear of the house, which had no windows at ground level. Anyway the crime scene photos had no such bottle of Champagne, which would have been taken before his visit to Alfie.