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

Yes, up there with so-called experts in body language, hokus pokus . If he passes the test he is smart enough to beat the machine, so guilty any which way.

He is a lot of things but he is not a lawyer.

There are two theories as to how he got to Sophie’s house. One is that he drove part of the way there using his partner’s car and then walked the rest of the way. He was known to have used his partner’s car from time to time at night and it is known that he would sometimes push the car out of the driveway to avoid making noise and then start it and drive off once it was far enough away from their house. Another theory is that he went tonSophie’s house on foot from his home. The distance involved is about 3.9k by the road (and about 2.5k as the crow flies). While it may seem unlikely that a man would walk that distance late at night / in the early hours of the morning in the depths of winter, this behaviour was not unusual for him as he was known to walk the roads at night and this was something he did quite often. It was also common for him to be heavily intoxicated when he behaved in that way. He experienced several violent episodes while under the influence of spirits. The May before Sophie’s murder, he severely beat his partner while under the influence of whiskey. She sustained multiple serious injuries to her face and head and required hospitalisation.

There have been almost 500 posts on this thread since my last post in June 2022. 500 futile comments which do not add an iota to our knowledge of this case. As I have said before, the investigation was so hopelessly botched that this case will never be solved unless the murderer confesses voluntarily.

No forensic evidence of any value was retrieved from a crime scene although the victim's head was smashed with a concrete block at her garden gate and a blood-stained handprint was on the front door. I doubt if there has been a more egregious case of incompetence in the history of forensic science. The Gardai who almost outdid the State Pathologist in their display of investigative incompetence and corruption. They focussed their investigation on the victim's former lover until his alibi proved water-tight, by which stage (mid-January 1997) the murderer was probably long gone from West Cork so the Gardai tried to pin the murder on a convenient suspect, i.e. the weird English outsider who had been sniffing around.

The DPP's report on the Garda file is a damning indictment of this attempted "stitch-up". If you doubt that, remember who was the Gardai's sole witness on the night of the murder - Marie Farrell! Her name should be enough to end this thread right here and now. Why waste any more time?

Coercing Marie Farrell to a wrong statement in court, giving drugs to Martin Graham to get Bailey to talk, the recordings of the Bandon Garda station, the loss of evidence all point to corruption and cover up. This means the Gardai hat a vested interest in colluding and covering up. I repeat, it's not Bailey who covered up, he volunteerd his DNA early on, it was the Guards which covered up.

The state pathologist wasn't exactly wise to state that Sophie's house was "difficult to find" but I could have found it with ease, ( not being local) plus the houses in the area are also on older Ordnance maps of Ireland. He was probably not too motivated to drive to the murder site after a night of drinking before, - it was his birthday. Also, any doctor should have been able to diagnose the time of death as close as to one or two hours. It would have made a bit of a difference if we actually knew if she was murdered at around midnight, or in the morning.

There is absolutely nothing new in this case. Maybe an author of a book, and a certain film director wanting to make money of the muder by stating "something new", which is just another theory we've been discussing here many times before.

Some like the stories, some like to make money on this.

I'd say, it's just a difference of opinion.

Let's just say, it "just wasn't handled right".

Mea maxima culpa,it was the back door.

And thanks to the utter failure of the forensics, the blood stain is not even described as a handprint in official reports.

As I said, not an iota of additional information from

Read my post again carefully.

The State Pathologist was incompetent, the Gardai were incompetent and corrupt.

Something that always baffled me...

Seeing as this was obviously a murder, and a very brutal murder at that

And given that the Birthday boy wasn't going to be around anytime soon..

Why could they not get a qualified person in the vicinity to examine the body, if only to get a time line of the death..??

You telling me there was nobody in Cork that could have made that examination..? it was a murder scene afterall.

A theory is an explanation of one or more facts. A well-supported evidence-based theory becomes acceptable until disproved.

The local doctor arrived about 11am and pronounced her dead, he did not record the body temperature, but stated that some of the blood appeared fresh .

Harbison was the only state pathologist, he did not even have an assistant.