Ian Bailey RIP - threadbans in OP

Wasn't it local lies that got him stitched up for it?

Very sad, the man was innocent until proved guilty beyond reasonable doubt in a court. His life was ruined by incompetent Gardai, I don't suppose the killer will ever be found, it would be convenient to wind up the investigation now.

Rip.

A strange character in the nicest wat and someone I would have loved to meet.

Based on the timelines given, it was near impossible for him to be guilty unless he had super powers and ran like an olympic athlete over barren ground in the dark of night.

I think he initially enjoyed the notoriety and possibly expected the real murderer would be caught quickly. But he did not calculate the utter incompetence of local gardai.

Given the evidence against him was fabricated by the guards, it would probably have as much weight as any other.

Unfortunately much if the evidence was lost in a tidying up at the station, as it does.

Did he do it, who knows. Probably not but the Guards veered from incompetent to much more serious than that in the investigation so we will never know.

Did they genuinely believe he did it and start from there or did they genuinely believe he didn't and start from there?

Evidence like scrapes all over his face in the days after the murder?. . . which he supposedly accounted for with it caused by needles from a Christmas tree. Gimme a break.

Whether he murdered her or not, he was a violent woman-beating scumbag and is not worthy of sympathy

Rest in Peace and let God be his Judge . All the opinions are meaningless because there was no evidence to prove he was the killer and thus he is innocent .

'If' he was innocent, it didn't help his case that he was a total oddball and attention seeker - he almost seemed to love the media attention and notoriety, rather than shy away from it.

RIP

I don't think it'll affect the search for the killer as it had nothing to do with Bailey anyway, zero chance it was him imo.

He was a narcissist who beat up his partner though so I doubt there'll be too many tears for him

Absolutely incompetent is one explanation.

There was enough reasons to have the entire thing investigated for more nefarious things than incompetence.

Very true, except he wasn't found not guilty.

lost evidence, fabricated evidence and conclusive proof the Gardai were leaking certain information to the media to suit a certain narrative

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he was either the best conman/slippery eel in the last 30 years or he suffered a huge miscarriage of justice. Either way RIP..... for some reason I felt a tinge of sadness when I heard, for him in case he was innocent all this time (never proven guilty) and for Sophie who will probably now never get justice.

What miscarriage of justice? You’re talking out your proverbial! He was never even charged with anything.

He was questioned twice and that was it.

The rest of it was all his own doing. He could have kept his head down and been forgotten about quickly. But he loved and courted the media attention.

He’d have just be another person like that poor bastard arrested incorrectly for the Aisling Murphy murder. One or two articles and then never heard from again.

what I mean was hounded for his entire life since the murder of Sophie, I know he was never charged! While he courted publicity, his life was never the same and for the rest of his life his name was synonymous with her murder.

Maybe he did it, but that was never proven so he was innocent in the eyes of the law . I always thought he played the media at their own game, maybe he wasn't the brightest... I don't know, despite watching the 2 documentaries on Ian Bailey I still never knew what to make of him.

RIP

The French can stand down now.

lol the most shinnerbot comment that has ever been 🤐

Not a good man, good riddance.

People saying rip do realise he bet women to a pulp multiple times.