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

The cold case review team haven't even contacted Bailey yet, even though he has publically said he is willing to help in any way he can.

Does that come across as they have no interest in him anymore?

Surely, they would have tested the waters by now if they had anything on him? (As in, get him to try and account for some additional information they are looking at?)

My own gut feeling is, that they have realised he was nothing more than a media whore, basking in the limelight of nationwide public attention.

Maybe they are just building a case against him and will get around to him when they are confident they have enough.

The first time they talk to him might be to say "you have the right to remain silent...."

The DPP;

A confession alone would not be enough to convict. It would have to be corroborated with evidence of the crime.

The sheer amount is unprecedented.

He's on the West Cork podcast, the Jim Sheridan doc, the netflix doc, the rte one.

He wrote numerous articles.

Maybe it's just complete narcissism but it takes huge balls. So easy to let a detail slip that you're not supposed to know.

Yes, it will need to to something solid....something compelling to put Bailey back in the frame now.

It's quite possible that the whole thing was a botched break in gone wrong.

A couple of scrotes casing some 'empty' holiday homes, possibly looking to strip the property of copper and other valuable metals....

Sophie seen the strangers down by the gate, went down to investigate..

It's odds on, none of the above occurred.. But the fact remains, there was not one iota of evidence connecting a local person to the crime scene.

The dna splash on the boot could be anything... They have had it for nearly 30yrs, and still not identified it. Or if they have identified it, it doesn't match anybody on the data base - back to square one.

Which people are notorious for stealing gates

Maybe she challenged them and they took offence.

I doubt they were looking for copper or other precious metals as the price of copper was not very strong in 1996 compared to the last decade.

But there was certainly roving robbers that burgled rural houses looking for valuables and cash.

It plausible that they targeted Sophie's house and she did confront them at the gate and it got out of hand.

But there would also have to have been a pattern of these robberies of unoccupied houses in the local and wider area at the time, especially leading up to Sophie's death.

Theses things don't just happen randomly, the robbers would target a number of locations at a time.

The problem is however that seeing as these are mainly second houses it could take months for the robbery to be discovered and reported.

We don't know if other houses locally were targets of burglaries, the Gardai have never said anything one way or another about it.

The theory that she knew her attacker does carry some weight..

I'm open to correction on this, but as far as I can gather, she was assaulted with a rock first, and finished off with the concrete block?

So.. This would lead me to deduce that the rock was in the vicinity of the initial attack, maybe used to keep the gate open?

If the attacker was known to Sophie, then she could identify him to the Guards, this puts pressure on the killer.

But then again, how would a random killer know that the top course of building blocks of the well were loose?? It's a fair walk from the gate to the well to find a suitable murder weapon - especially as time was now of the essence?

Just to clarify.. the killer in a mad panic would either go into the field besides the gate were there was building materials in place (and in plain sight), or go up to the house for a hatchet, knife, or other such yokes..

Can't figure why the assailant would hop trot up to the well... That's a mystery in itself.

“The motivation for the acquisition of this house in Ireland was linked with her writing. She was someone who was tough but fragile at the same time. She sought to isolate herself from the world of the mundane because of [the] personality of her husband”… an extract from that article… If she hadn’t been tough, maybe she would have declined to open the door. If she had realised how petite and how physically fragile she was compared with the person who murdered her… but she was a strong woman, she wasn’t afraid. It’s all so wrong that we haven’t brought her killer to justice after all these years.