Ian Bailey RIP - threadbans in OP

Its almost possible to say the death of Du Plantier was the "scoop" Bailey was waiting for as a journalist.

Why not?

Why not chop it down only for when you are going to decorate? The tree stays fresher or some people are last minute.

That we're debating such aspects as part of a discussion of a murder shows how weak and flimsy the "evidence" against Bailey is.

If he got the scratches at the scene, why did he leave no trace there?

And if he got scratched from briars at the scene, as AGS say, these would be deeper cuts not light scratches - so why did a dermatologist who met Bailey a few days afterwards not notice them? They had healed, indicating they were not deeper cuts received at the scene.

Very unlucky innocent people suffer miscarriages of justice. Often they are oddballs or outsiders.

It is why we have offices like the DPP to validate evidence and the basis under which it was gathered.

No idea what you are on about. Can you provide sources for your claim as to where he was at midnight on the sunday?

Good job too if you think some of the flimsy evidence you have cited should have any sway.

What alibi? I have asked you for your source for what you have outlined and you don't have one. It's not the one I have heard or are familiar with.

Getting up early after a night out to finish an article. That is how some people operate, even or especially after a night out, I had colleagues who could do a blitz of work at 6 or 7am, but will probably crash after lunch.

I have no idea what you are saying, you are contradicting yourself from post to post.

You are the one who in a post above made this claim: "Who believes he got out of bed drunk at midnight Sunday."

Where does Senan Maloney say that? If you can't provide a source it will be assumed you are just making stuff up now.

Nothing that came out of Baileys mouth was trustworthy. He was a noted liar, no-one doubts that. He admitted to some people he did it, said to others he didn't. That's alarm bells right there about his credibility.

Anything he said, you had to think the opposite. A bit like Richard Satchwell.

He said he didn't know Du Plantier. Multiple witnesses said otherwise. Who do you believe here? Certainly not Bailey.

Yeah but given how the gardai and the chief forensic examiner botched things, there could have been a wealth of evidence left at the scene. we'll never know.

(Note: I'm not saying that's enough to convict him - it's obviously not nearly enough for a criminal conviction. But out of court, the rest of us are entitled to have suspicions about him.)

Well according to his ex wife, yes he was violent before that.

Source? The comments I saw state he was never violent towards her (if you mean the ex wife in England). He would take out his anger on objects.