The man is a head de ball but I doubt he killed your wan.
Iâm struggling to join the clues here. There was a wine bottle found in a fieldâŚ
You might as well have found an empty snackbox.
Youâre expending a lot of effort trying to galvanise the TFK sleuthing team by firing out the odd speculative opinion. Weâre engaged with the housing and fuel crises here currently so to enable us prioritise your cause youâll need an exposĂŤ along the lines of admitting that you are in fact either Bailey or Jules Thomas.
Thank you for your interest. Weâll be in touch with you again in the near future.
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They both look haunted and guilty⌠of something.
Why not, do you think? We know he violently assaulted his own partner on a number of occasions. You can talk about Garda incompetence and lack of DNA evidence all you like but certain things about this case seem clear to me. Bailey knew Sophie. He was attempting to seduce her. She rejected his advances and, in a drunken rage, he battered her to death. There is scant evidence to suggest any other possible scenario and no one other suspect has emerged in twenty five years. Bailey got lucky. Jules Thomas knows the truth. Maybe she will tell all some day.
Update on list of suspects in order of likelihood:
- @Logically
- @Myrrve
- @IanBailey
- That weirdo creep mbb
- Frenchman with beret and necklace of onions spotted by Marie Farrell
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Iâve re-read the thread title - signing out. Jules Thomas holds the key to the truth here.
Well thatâs that. Youâve put forward some solid facts and evidence there. Fantastic work and well done.
Thatâs mostly speculation.
What do we know about this deceased Garda who had a violent history living in the area?
Whatâs your evidence of this?
No need to get all technical for a while. Further conjecture and idle speculation might, just might unearth something. @glenshane hasnât had a chance to give his views on the whole issue of the briars and their part in all this. His considered opinion and vast experience with thorny matters, will, I feel, be pivotal to the investigation.
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Funnily enough I had a major breakthrough in the weeding department. Last spring I planted a bit of a mixed hedge. On the advice of an expert I threw down woodchip, with the aim of keeping down weeds etcâŚa waste of time and I confess that I let it go a bit. I had a major brainwave however. This involved throwing seed among the weeds and leaving the work to the new chickens. Theyâre doing an absolutely lovely job.
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Tremendously creative thinking, youâre getting on top of thorny issues. Are you OK for turf?
With the way things are developing you could be headed for choppy waters and I wouldnât see you stuck.
After watching both the Netflix & Sky docs, the only thing I can conclude for definite is ; thank God Iâm not from Cork.
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Iâve listened to the west cork podcast in the last few days and a thought occurred to me, Ian Bailey was the only journalist living down around that area as he was the go to guy for most of the newspapers etc⌠and by all accounts he was a very good crime journalist back in the Uk in his previous life.
Iâm thinking with all the goings on down around that area , stories of drug importation, corrupt gardai ,affairs , cover ups etc and finally a very strange high profile murder, whoâd be the last person youâd want sniffing around,
I think Bailey was possibly digging too deep so theyâve concocted a murder charge to silence him.
The story the guard telling Bailey that even if they canât pin the murder charge on him he was finished in Ireland, says it all really, they wanted him to go away.
I really donât think he did it.
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Youâve been watching too much True Detective.
Heâd have sung like a Canary if he had any reason for the Gardai to frame him.
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Apologies, I should have said theyâd be afraid that he would dig to deep over the following months and years seeing as he was living in the area as opposed to reporters coming in for a few days to cover the story and then gone again. Apparently that area around west cork was a hive for huge drug hauls at the time.