Ian Bailey RIP - threadbans in OP

@Boggles

In this 2023 article it says 'sample' rather than confirming it as blood. It might be blood, but haven't seen that confirmed anywhere - happy to be corrected if there is more information on it.

"We do know that there was alien DNA, in other words not the victim's DNA, found on a sample on her shoe. It was not mine - it was tested against mine and it was not mine. Whose it was we do not know."

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ian-bailey-compares-himself-to-birmingham-six-over-wrongful-linking-to-sophie-murder/a686524429.html

The unidentified DNA is on the left boot by the botton loop of the lace, You can see the white mark, just visible;

100% and footprints on a muddy country lane would freeze over in December and remain for days. Were there ever any footprints found?

I'm sure the roads/paths from her house were searched so no blood or any other either evidence along the roads/paths found either. It doesn't add up. To me it points to someone who was driving and knew her personally.

Now you're contradicting yourself. He had a rock solid alibi that the scratches were nothing to do with any murder. So why would he feel a need to hide them?

The ones on the arms were unlikely to be on show unless he was wearing a T-shirt or something? The one on the head came from a turkey, a story he made up later after telling his partner originally it was from a stick. Conflicting stories never help your cause.

As for Bailey ingratiating himself and chatting with gardai, witnesses at the scene say otherwise, that he was off in the distance, aloof. According to Maloney:

"When we got there, Bailey hung around in the background and did not make any introductions to gardaí, despite my assumption that his level of knowledge must have come from his relationship with local officers.”

I think I will listen to someone who was at the scene on the day rather than a randomer on the internet 27 years later.

You would think that if you had unknown DNA at the scene, whilst not necessarily traceable to a specific individual, there are enough crime data bases alone that you’d be able to determine most likely nationality background and even potential distant relatives

Yeah, seems to be lost in translation, some outlets reporting it as blood probably misinterpreted it.

AFAIK back at the time of the murder it was extremely difficult to get someone to hand over a DNA sample.

Bailey handed his over willingly. The lad was Cut to bits whilst murdering her apparently.

Was it ever recorded that the Guards asked anyone else for DNA, either to eliminate people who worked at the scene or just as a canvassing exercise?

There's "absolutely nothing odd", about setting out from home at approx. 3am in the middle of a December night, after a long day and drinks in the pub, to walk 2.5 miles across country fields or lanes, to someone you barely know if know at all? On the off chance of a fling?

Absolutely nothing? But we're the ones "reaching"?

Read that back to yourself "as a neutral observer".

You're making our argument for us.

And if you think it's a demonstration of bias, find us similar cases in the crime annals. It's highly implausible.

You have been asked before, and have exactly nothing.

So you think then that as part of that great big conspiracy, the Gardaí knew all the way back in 1997 that Bailey would let it slip in 2023 that Sophie was actually parked on the Ardmanagh Road.

And I don`t make stuff up. If you want to see that part of Farrells statement, you`ll find it on Murder At The Cottage, episode 2, 14 minutes in.

Nobody said he was "falling over" drunk. He took a drink home for the pub, according to some accounts. We don't know if he had drink at home also.

The point is that it was a long day, and he had drink taken. He was back at home. He wasn't fresh. Reasonable to expect he would be tired given the previous 24 hours. It wasn't a detour on his way home from the pub.

It's a highly implausible scenario for setting out at 3am on a December night on the off chance of a fling with someone you barely knew if knew at all.

Was the German lad that lived a mile away that had no alibi and confessed to doing something terrible before he threw himself off a bridge ever investigated?

Or did he even exist?

He existed but there's doubt about that confession.

https://www.buzz.ie/news/irish-news/sophie-west-cork-murder-suspects-24364066