id imagine quite a few given that you lurk around bolton and rochdale 
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I bestride the northern English slums like a colossus
No
An urban legend
Got pissed in a pub alright and think she fell off a swing.
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It was in a house
I think it was Sophieās where Bailey fell off the swing. The plot thickens.
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What was the story where the guard went to interview a witness and when she came back out of the kitchen he had his lad out
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Iām happy to believe the French authorities here.
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I think Frank said on the West cork podcadt that he took on the case no foal no fee
Frank loves the limelight, but I doubt very much heās doing this pro bono. Bailey is surely entitled to legal aid at the least.
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Hedid a couple of the JRs for free, as Bailey wouldnāt have gotten legal aid for them and he lost. Iād actually say buttimer has done a huge amount of free work on this as he genuinely believes in Baileyās innocence.
Iāve seen him be interviewed about other cases and heās never as animated as when talking about Baileyās injustices
I have it on good authority that Sophie Toscan Du Plantier was murdered by a German serial-killer who was in Cork at the time and killed himself shortly after but I canāt remember his name.
Frank OāPrussia
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i remember this one , a couple from NI were on holiday , he was in a pub on his own and was saying it in a mocking, theatrical tone whilst full- this action would be consistent with his behaviour which is consistently narcissistic and eccentric,
i have followed all trials extensively and philip boucher hayesā daily summations on drive time after the 5pm news for the trial a number of years ago were outstanding where he provided the dialogue whilst impersonating the characters cc @TreatyStones .
I can never imagien Bailey blubbering in real life but i cam imagine him doing it in an extremely mocking fashion to entertain a few characters in a pub.
Now the yarns from the trial were outsanding - i most repost the one where the Gardai tried to set up a local simpleton woman to give evidence and he later met her in the toilet of a pub and after dropping his pants asked her " did she want some of this", - the same gaurd was refernced to saying how they needed to " string up the lanky english bollucks"ā¦
there was a similar yarn about bailey sitting naked reciting poetry down in courtmacsharry one night- then there was the homelesss former english soldier ( classic west cork) who gave utterly shambolic evidence,
theyāll never get him to france- buttimer will go to the supreme court and itāll be objected to
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That West Cork podcast is great. Bailey is some oddball.
While I couldnāt rule out Bailey as the murderer, the fact that the French have him convicted is madness with the paucity of evidence. Complete show trial lasted only about 2 days. They didnāt even have anyone in court to offer a defence. Only prosecution case put forward.
Iām amazed with our decision to extradite him.
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I have an image of Keith Floyd in my head there
yeah - that would be him tho
there is a vincent keeney ( speaking of cork oddballs) element to Buttimer - the pompous statement he gave on the radio last night summed him up, he;s an ideal partner for Bailey tbh
You see his name regularly in the courts reports on the echo tho defending lads who skipped bail or defacated in someoneās garden, id say the Bailey trial is almost like a passtime for him - the gaurds in cork must hate him
If they got into any bother themselves he would be the first fella they would ring
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