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

@irishspiderplant I linked above to one of the posts by that user, so people can drill in from there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderAtTheCottage/comments/xf1kc4/bailey_didnt_do_it/

Before she bought her house in Cork, she had visited Galway several times and stayed with friends, may even be relatives.

The solicitor she used when she bought her house in Cork was from Loughrea.

I read it. He says for example she must have been killed a couple hours after the phone call to Daniel because she was in bed and the last time she ate was 2-3 hours before she was killed. This discounts the theory that someone she knew called to the house and they might have had a glass of wine and something to eat (2 glasses of wine, 2 chairs) well into the night/morning. The food in her stomach might also have been from breakfast. No-one really has determined what time she died so not sure he can be so confident. People have theories, but they remain just theories about time of death.

To be open-minded about it, she could have been killed any time following the phonecall to Daniel up to day break, and its possible it could have be during daylight if all the lights in the house were off.

Establishing time of death was so crucial to solving this case.

It was a 750 word article which he had already done some research on. As an experienced hack, with research done, he could have thrown together 750 words in no time and as an experienced journalist he could also have typed it up quickly enough. Giving him the benefit of the doubt he could have done the whole thing in 4 hours after getting out of bed at 2.30. And he arrived back at 11am. Potentially there was a window of 3 hours there. Called over, told where to go, committed the crime, headed home!

Would be interesting to get the opinion of an experienced journalist on how quickly you could write up and type a 750 word article. I saw a link to the article somewhere today, but didn't get a chance to read it.

He wasn't really a pensioner, he was 63. Tom Martens for example was older, albeit had a role that meant he needed to keep physically capable.

And somebody between Shirley and\or Alfie was moving a concrete block to prop the gate open.

If you struck a 'stunning' blow initially then the aspects you describe are nullified.

You could also add, if the attacker was so strong, why so much apparent difficulty in killing Sophie... resorting to different objects. We don't know how 'sustained' it was. There were many injuries but some were from briars, multiple injuries could have been caused from one blow of a concrete block.

It's likely the Gardaí never spoke to the actual couple she stayed with. Why would the bother, they had their patsy man already!

"The travel agent, who is based in Co Galway, first came into contact with Sophie du Plantier through a French couple, both of whom were involved in the film industry, as was Sophie du Plantier. The agent worked for the French couple, who introduced him to Ms du Plantier, who visited the French couple on several occasions in the west of Ireland before she purchased a house herself in west Cork. This agent subsequently made bookings on her behalf."

Re the Philmatters reddit piece, at least 10 of his points are irrelevant. eg Bailey was late to the scene, we know this. He had directions. He was hardly going to say to the caller, I know it well, I was up there last night. We know he wasn't at the scene early in the morning, what has that got to do with it. He was hardly going to wait around all night to be discovered. Pictures taken or not at the scene, irrelevant. Again, how does that determine guilt or innocence? We know Marie Farrells evidence is worthless and prejudiced, only a fool would think she actually saw Bailey on the night in question, the reality is, she was probably nowhere near the scene. Bailey could have been roaming the roads all night and she wouldn't have seen him. Bailey had no memory of doing it? He had no memory of violently assaulting his partner, almost killing her in his own words. Re Jules Thomas testimony, from what I can see, Thomas fell into a deep sleep on the night and was oblivious to what Bailey was doing for the rest of the night.

And so on with his piece, its pretty weak overall with nothing new.

And bailey was meant to have walked a couple of km the middle of the night to recite some poetry and try get his leg over on someone he didn't know after being on the piss a few hours before.....

Rented from Jules, and is where her mother lived.

Marie Farrell is a liar and a fantasist I actually think she has serious issues, she inserted herself into this investigation and initially used false names, I read in an article she actually used her sisters name, from what I’ve looked up on her it’s said in one article guards threatened to expose she had a secret child when she was younger this was never mentioned again yet I’ve always wondered has anyone checked if this were true and how would the guards even know about it if it were

The Marie Farrell supposed sighting at night is daft. It didn't happen. Virtually everyone accepts that. Like I said its unlikely she was in the area and given her inability to name who was in the car with her, you'd question if she was out that night.

Bailey as a suspect does not depend on the supposed Farrell sighting. An alibi that can't really be corroborated would be more influential as was his propensity to violently attack women when he had whiskey in particular taken, and other question marks over how well he knew SDP.

I think that aspect of her statement is true as it's her first statement and she did it in person.

I think the "Fiona" stuff can't be trusted.

Either way, she's an unreliable witness so I wouldn't give much weight to it.

Also if a man was outside her shop, it might've been completely innocuous. Just some guy looking for somewhere to eat or something or waiting to meet someone.

I think she wasn't even out and about.

I think she thought she was being helpful or something.

I don't know really. It would be great if she sat down with a solicitor and told the full truth and was offered immunity or something.

I still think the first sighting outside her shop was truthful but obviously it could've been just a random guy wandering around Schull.