Ian Bailey RIP - threadbans in OP

The facts are Bailey and Jules concocted a false alibi for Bailey on the night of the murder, both their original statements matched perfectly.

Then under questioning by Gardai Jules admitted her previous statement that Bailey was next to her in bed for 8-9 hours on the night of the murder was completely false

What original or previous statement are you referring to in relation to Jules before her arrest?

I'm quoting from the DPP report. I'm quoting from the Guardian. The alternative is Image.ie - but I'm the one scouring the web for different reports? Eh no. Your post is already self discrediting.

You obviously are ignorant of basic details of the case if you think they weren't home in bed at 10pm that night instead of in the pub after 10 that night.

These are long established, well established basic facts about the case. You have provided exactly zero evidence to contradict the timings, zero, but still jump in with a pointless contribution.

Well exactly, the story just never added up to me. It is a very weak motivation for a cross country trek on a cold winter's night on the off chance of what... after a previous 36 hours of drinking, killing turkeys, cutting down a christmas tree, sleeping on a friend's couch.

Then you add the implausibility of him being supposedly scratched at the scene yet leaving no forensics trace. It is implausibility heaped upon implausibility.

It would look a little suspicious if he didn't turn up, but then, it was winter, people get sick, flu or whatever, just take to bed.

Would he know how to contaminate a crime scene or even that he would have access to do so?

Would local crime journalists regularly be given such close access to a murder victim body they could contaminate the scene?

Seems a bit of a stretch.

He was a local journalist, he wrote stories about the murder, that is the most obvious explanation for someone turning up there and this is a bit of a stretch for me.

I have made similar point about the alibi, some of the haziness could be down to drink.

Well given the incompetence of the guards it wouldn't surprise if me he was able to. If he was the killer going there was the calculated risk he had to take. As a crime journalist he would surely have more knowledge about the subject than the average person. It certainly no more of a stretch than the idea a hitman decided to batter her with a rock. It's also strange that no other suspect ever really emerged. I would agree it still doesn't mean he did it of course

You're waffling now, again.

Are you trying to dispute what I posted is factual?

Aren't you the lad who only found out yesterday that the gate did not go missing but was destroyed by the National Forensic Lab?

Considering they didn’t have a “friendship” no less a relationship, for me, to believe he trekked to her house that night/morning, you have to start believing that we’re in the territory of a Larry Murphy type mindset of attack/murder, where he seeked out victims/strangers from afar- he was a violent man towards women yes- but was he that calculating also?

Again, no evidence to suggest that he had this secret world of past crimes hidden completely from those that knew him well. He was also a drunk and committed assaults on women when drunk- hardly a cunning and calculating master criminal - more a pathetic excuse of a man that could easily be caught had he committed such crimes outside of his home.

The abuse of a partner usually depends on there being some form of controlling relationship in place - he didn’t have anything resembling “relationship” of any kind with Sophie and by now, you’d think that something would have come to light- so I do find it very hard to believe that he went to her house on that night. I’d love to know what Gardai believe was his motivation and what evidence they might have.

He made advances towards Jules 18 year old daughter, she gave a statement about this.

First I heard about this? Have you citation?

Yes that was widely documented in subsequent years alright - it points to a potential sexually deviant behaviour alright but again this was towards someone he knew (albeit the young daughter of his partner) - it’s still a jump in thinking to believe he’d seek out a stranger in the middle of the night no less kill her when she spurned his advances.

But is it possible? Absolutely it is 😀

A publication that currently includes a definitive guide to crystals and 10 healing stones to add to your collection?

Maybe we can dangle a crystal from a piece of string and finally get the definitive answer to the murder.

Extremely inappropriate behaviour TBH.

It would be fair to suggest she did not like him very much.

Being a drunken sleaze does not mean he battered someone to death with a rock though.

Her statement did back up this though.

Ms Thomas said Mr Bailey had killed three turkeys for Christmas on Sunday, December 22nd, 1996. She said he had then climbed up a tree to cut off the top to use as a Christmas tree and she noticed scratches on his hands when he came back down.