The Ian Bailey is dead thread

[flattythehurdler]

This is quite possibly true.

[Aertel220]

@iron_mike

Bailey wasn’t smart enough to do it. He wasn’t even smart enough to do it and make a balls of it.

He was a journalist sure. They would like to give the impression of being uber intelligent. He wasn’t a complete simpleton.

[iron_mike]

@Aertel220

@iron_mike

Bailey wasn’t smart enough to do it. He wasn’t even smart enough to do it and make a balls of it.

He was a journalist sure. They would like to give the impression of being uber intelligent. He wasn’t a complete simpleton.

There’s a difference between being intelligent and being streetwise. Bailey is about as streetwise as a new born spring lamb. His actions over the last 25 odd years prove that. Once the case against him became impossible to back up, he should have disappeared into the wilderness. But no.

[habanerocat]

@anon67715551

@flattythehurdler

A hitman in that case would have made it look like suicide.

Don’t start speculating about hitmen ffs. They’re a vastly overrated species. The dumbass the Kinahens found after a rigorous vetting process was captured a few hours after arriving. The wan that hired the American button man was herself sold down the swanny.
So a hitman drops in to pop Sophie……Bear fucking Grylls with a GPS would have trouble finding the place in the depths of winter. You’re overthinking this one. Bailey, via a concoction of luck, stupidity, drink and Christmas has skated on this one but has had a miserable existence since. Cast iron job.

The husband had been over with her several times beforehand. He would have been able to give the hitman detailed directions. He knew she’d be up early to get the flight home.

The suspect hitman is known to have travelled by car. I took the ferry back around then. We just rolled on and off, no passports were checked. Just before Christmas, his timing was perfect. Ports were busy.

She kopped him, perhaps twigging a French accent. She fled the house. He caught up to her and improvised. Perhaps returning via England.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

I thought the husband bought the house for her but never travelled over?

[blackjack]

@habanerocat

@anon67715551

@flattythehurdler

A hitman in that case would have made it look like suicide.

Don’t start speculating about hitmen ffs. They’re a vastly overrated species. The dumbass the Kinahens found after a rigorous vetting process was captured a few hours after arriving. The wan that hired the American button man was herself sold down the swanny.
So a hitman drops in to pop Sophie……Bear fucking Grylls with a GPS would have trouble finding the place in the depths of winter. You’re overthinking this one. Bailey, via a concoction of luck, stupidity, drink and Christmas has skated on this one but has had a miserable existence since. Cast iron job.

The husband had been over with her several times beforehand. He would have been able to give the hitman detailed directions.

Go out past the Gaa pitch, past the bad bend in the road, there’ll be a road to your right, don’t take that. After you pass the two small hillocks turn left, straight on at the fairy Fort and she’s the second house on the left after the hay field with the whitethorn bushes by the stone wall.

[flattythehurdler]

Hi Agatha

[habanerocat]

I fancy myself more an Inspector Morse type character actually.

If you like I can investigate who broke your daughters laptop.
But it’ll will cost you.

[flattythehurdler]

I was a hitman from the foreign legion with a concrete block.

[Aertel220]

@habanerocat

The suspect hitman is known to have travelled by can. I took the ferry back around then. We just rolled on and off, no passports were checked. Just before Christmas, his timing was perfect. Ports were busy.

That’s very true about the boat. They’re very lax on passports and don’t even seem to check cars. I thought it was funny that the list of permitted items pre-Covid included a “sporting gun”.

[habanerocat]

Also the husband never travelled over to identify the body. Which is very strange indeed.

Knowing full well that if he was somehow implicated that he’d never get back to France. His safest bet was stay in France.

[anon67715551]

@habanerocat

I fancy myself more an Inspector Morse type character actually.

I’d be more inclined to see you as Inspector Rebus scoffing sly scotches in the Oxford bar….

[flattythehurdler]

The Oxford bar is a great spot.

[Smark]

The biggest hole in the husband story is that Sophie’s family are categorical it’s Bailey and you’d think they’d know more than anyone how Sophie was getting on with him or if he was conniving that way.

[habanerocat]

If her son implicated his step father, would it have any implications on any inheritance he might get?

[Gman]

@habanerocat

She kopped him, perhaps twigging a French accent. She fled the house. He caught up to her and improvised. Perhaps returning via England.

She saw a lad outside her house and copped he was french because of his accent? Just out in a field shouting in a French accent. And her first reaction to copping a guy with a French accent is to flee the house? Was it inspector Clouseau?

[jellyfish]

It seems the Gardai were telling the family from very early on that it was Bailey and they were working on putting together a case against him.

The Garda liaising with the French was Martin Callinan who went on to become Garda Commissioner and wasn’t dodgy at all.

[habanerocat]

@Gman

@habanerocat

She kopped him, perhaps twigging a French accent. She fled the house. He caught up to her and improvised. Perhaps returning via England.

She saw a lad outside her house and copped he was french because of his accent? Just out in a field shouting in a French accent. And her first reaction to copping a guy with a French accent is to flee the house? Was it inspector Clouseau?

I’ll have to explain it all in more detail tomorrow. I’m tired tonight. Had a busy weekend.

[croppy_boy]

@Gman

She saw a lad outside her house and copped he was french because of his accent? Just out in a field shouting in a French accent.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail - The Insulting Frenchman

[Alan-partridge]

Yer wan Marie Farrell said she saw a man following and watching sofie on the Main Street in schull. She said he was wearing a beret ! All she was short was saying he had a ring of onions around his neck