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

I was thinking more to do with the quality of the sample also, if it was usable in that manner, that's a question from me, not a statement.

I did a quick google and seems like even using DNA for ancestry is illegal in France!

I'm going to guess matching to the level of cousin etc is a no no in the EU, but am guessing here.

Here's what I think about Marie Farrell.

She wanted inject herself into the story for whatever reason, some people are like that.

If you listen to the West Cork podcast she talks about 1997 as being great, reminiscing about a fun time, the time she was playing this game with the Gardai.

Anyway she wants to inject herself into the story.

So she rings Gardai, as herself, saying she saw a man watching Sophie in the town and then say the same man on Sunday morning as she drove to Cork.

The first part I don't believe, she may have seen Sophie but not the man.

The second part is true, she saw Bailey on his way back from Murphy's on Sunday morning.

She puts these two things together and decides that's her story for the Gardai.

But what she didn't anticipate is that the Gardai would take it seriously, so she then rings up as Fiona and says it she saw Bailey at Kilfadda Bridge and she was with someone.

Remember by now Bailey's name is circulating.

She eventually gets found out and that's when the fun starts with the Gardai, she enjoys the game of trying to catch Bailey out and bringing the Gardai on a wild goose chase about who was with her in the car.

And she keeps this up until 2014 I think.

The Gardai never corerced her into identifying Bailey, she did that herself, and she told lies about him for years, ones about him stalking her years later that Frank Buttimer easily demolished.

That's eventually when she gave up, said she never saw Bailey and then blamed it all on the Gardai.

There's a big difference

A Frenchman who looks like Marie Farrell photofit and knew Daniel is not a new lead

I suspect that the film maker will have a little something extra about a supposed motive for the murder .

Seriously though.

Do you put your fingers in your ears and go "na na na na" when people bring up Bailey and the

Broken alibi

Telling people he killed her

The scratches

The bonfire

The walking the roads at night

The whiskey drinking and how he acts after it

The violence towards women.

The circumstantial evidence against Bailey is far greater than any lead from a movie maker based on evidence from Marie Farrell.

And I expect your next retort to be something like "well the DPP didn't think so".

We all know there was not enough for the DPP, but that doesn't mean he can't be the main suspect.

If there was not enough for the DPP to put forward Bailey then right now there certainly isn't enough to put forward anyone else

I will never understand why a prosecution wasn't brought against her. Its one of the great mysteries of the case. There was one rogue garda allegedly involved with her, but the DPP showed independence from the gardai at the time.

She went around (mostly voluntarily) making stuff up, with impunity and completely derailing the investigation, while also making a prosecution against Bailey or anyone else impossible. And was allowed off with not so much as a warning.

And also I don't believe Bailey ever sued her for defamation, although he threatened to.

That’s all you have? After 27 years investigation? A few whiskeys some scratches and a bonfire? Yes he beat his partner but that doesn’t indicate he murdered someone.

And you’re asking me why I’m not vehemently advocating on a discussion forum for Bailey to be prime suspect, especially at the expense of so many other lines of enquiry that could have taken place in the early days of this investigation had the Gardai not been so incompetent ? 🤪

While it won’t necessarily exclude Bailey I think at this stage if there is actually an unidentified DNA sample, the Gardai should put as much of this information into the public domain as possible - if there’s DNA there then there’s every possibility it’s the killers DNA- it’s not definitive but it’s a hell of a more of a lead than whiskey drinking

The whole investigation has been “ridiculous” - Sheridan can do and say as he pleases as far as I’m concerned - it doesn’t look any more comical than what we’ve had to put up with to date

And the reason why we don't know is because those pages in the Jobs Book were deliberately destroyed. That is not what happens in properly run above board criminal investigations.

So "good reasons" - highly dubious.

There's lot of bits of evidence disputed or otherwise pointing to Bailey

I'm seeing practically nothing evidentially pointing at another suspect.

Posters are stating as "fact" that there's more evidence pointing at ANother but are continually omitting to backup their assertions

Why not? The Gardai have wasted millions of public money on this investigation and have ended up looking completely incompetent - I don’t include the current investigations team in that comment and reserve judgement for the time being but I think if there’s a sample DNA there, and especially if ultimately it’s considered to belong to a non-Irish person and indeed, potentially pointing to a French person or someone with that background then questions do need to be asked around just what have Gardai done about that and to what degree are authorities in other jurisdictions helping or hindering the investigation

That's a bit of a leap there. Why does their absence means that every other possible line of enquiry was ignored?

We don't know what other viable suspect(s) were out there if some number (X) of other lines of enquiry were not followed up on properly.

We don't know how Bailey came to be seen by the Guards as their viable suspect, as Guard(s) tampered with that part of the log.

Did the Guards give serious consideration to the possibility of a morning murder (as the article by Bridget Chappuis questions)?

There doesn't appear to be much information pointing to that from what information has come into the public domain.

Oh and incidentally the facts come from statements by both Shirley and the officer who took the sacks from the car so not sure about the inverted commas.