Anyone else just see a mostly white video? I’ve noticed lots of videos like this lately. I’m using Boost on Android.
Stop giving him oxygen.
I’d say his family were fucking delighted.
No but he wants you to believe that he did because he enjoys the attention.
Public Service Announcement: Bolstering a poor argument by wearing a Russian hat may not be very helpful these days.
Personally, I think he did murder Sophie, in a drunken rage, but it is impossible to prove. The evidence is just not there. Some of the supposed evidence is actually wrong (the timing of phone calls mainly).
I believe he tampered with witnesses and intimidated people in the area.
The funniest thing about the case is Bailey’s claim to be a journalist. I conducted a search of the British newspapers and his name does not appear. He had a few articles in a few tabloids in the 1980s. In Ireland, he was never a journalist until Sophie was murdered. He had one article published, the one he was supposedly writing on the night of the murder which was published after the murder. Other than that, he was never a journalist in Ireland, except for the few weeks when he was reporting on the murder.
So his own “admission” that he killed her to resurrect his career, does not seem so preposterous when you realise he HAD no career.
We will never know due to the way the local cowboy Gardai competely fucked up the initial investigation, like the missing gate with all the blood splatter that can’t now be tested using modern dna testing.
I find it hard to believe he isn’t but good luck proving it.
Everyone chip in a few Euro and we’ll buy him an all inclusive holiday in France… he looks like he could use it
I had the surreal experience a few months ago of hearing him do his poetry in a pub in glengarriff, where he now lives.
His poetry is shite.
It wasn’t a poetry night or anything, he just stood up and started doing it out of no where.
We’ll never know but he’s a real cunt. If anyone deserves to falsely accused of murder it’s him
Ian Bailey is a wife beating narcissist with his head firmly planted up his own arse, whether he is a murderer or not remains to be seen.
Either way, being convicted of murder in absentia in a French court is an absolute farce.
I’ve seen the Netflix documentary, not great; the Jim Sheridan one was a little better. I’ve also read “Murder at Roaringwater” pretty informative; but the very best is the podcast “West Cork”
If you have an interest in the case I highly recommend listening to the podcast, it’s brilliant.
He bet the living shit out of that woman who lived with him and blamed it on the drink. I’ve never come across anyone capable of that when drunk, even severely so. There’s something dark in that man.
I think he did do it, I do t think there is enough evidence for a conviction.
But the fact he burned material including a mattress on Christmas Day just after the murder would make me think he probably did it.
His life has been a torture either way but I doubt he had anything to do with it given todays high tech tracing and dna , he’s an innocent man until proven otherwise
I think he did it. I don’t know why I think that, it’s a feeling. Nothing that could convict anyone, nothing that I would want to be used against him for any reason. I think he got extremely lucky and we don’t know the half of what went on.
I’ve always found both possibilities absolutely terrifying.
1) He is guilty of murder, and for years has embraced the spotlight where others might hide from it, taunting Sophie and her family who very much believe he is the guy.
2) an innocent man (extremely faulted as he may be) dragged into a botched murder investigation to the point where the murder cannot be referred to without his name being attached to it, unable to leave the country and this whole island knows who he is.
He’s an absolute prat and hasn’t done himself any favours all the same.
He 100 percent did it
Probably, but that’s not necessarily ‘beyond all reasonable doubt’. I may well be mistaken. Irish/UK law says that’s not proven guilty..
He is undoubtedly a deranged moon-howler; the world would be a safer place with him confined somewhere safe.
He didn’t do it. He’s also a brilliant poet, up there with Beckett, Heaney and Yeats imho.
I don’t think so. I have read, watched and listened to a lot of stuff on this case and if you discount Marie Farrells testimony there isn’t really much to connect him to the case or any evidence to suggest he knew Sophie. Marie Farrell is a fantasist, her first contact to the gardai was anonymous phone calls, that surely should set alarm bells ringing, she maintained that she seen a man in a long black coat and a beret following/stalking Sophie but mysteriously no body else in a small town in Ireland noticed this man, as if? Marie Farrell said she was out with a married man the night of the murder but again she was found to be lying. Gardai say that Bailey was known to be violent to women but yet when he suspiciously arrived at the crime scene none of the gardai present noticed any marks or wounds on him but later claimed he had scratches on his hands which they never photographed, surely if someone known to be violent to women turns up where a woman has been violently murdered the gardai would give them a serious looking at. There is no evidence to connect Bailey and Sophie, no phone records, letters or even them being sighted together and I don’t buy that friend of hers saying she remembered after 20 odd years that Sophie said she was meeting Bailey. I think Ian Bailey is a horrible human being but did he murder Sophie? I don’t think so. The gardai never looked for anyone else they decided it was Bailey on Marie Farrells testimony. I still think it could of been that ex of Sophies who was also known to be violent, his alibi was a receipt for oil or something like that which the gardai immediately took at face value . Also i wonder have they ever looked at Marie Farrell as a suspect?
I don’t think he was either lucky enough or clever enough to get away with it. He was an odd if somewhat annoying man and the guards thought he did it and looked for evidence he did it instead of looking at evidence of who did it. That has twisted him into the person we see today.
Wasn’t there are a rumour she was having a fling with a married guard and that they covered it up.
He may be a bizzare character, but we can’t say for 100% he’s guilty. The investigation was thoroughly botched.
He is a cunt, no doubt. I’m not sure he’s a murderer though. I believe if a local did this, it is very possible people knew about it, kept quiet and let him take the fall.
Guards being useless could just be guards being useless. It could also be guards being deliberately obstructionist to evidence being preserved.
Entirely conspiraspeculation on my part here, but this could be a case of “we take care of our own”.
Whether he’s guilty of murder or not, he’s definitely guilty of profiting from it.
If he didn’t do it, he’s done enough to muddy the waters so that there’s no chance of catching who did.
I’m pretty convinced he did it.
He revels in the attention and fame from it. Hopefully the French send in the GIGN and haul him off to French jail.
That one Marie Farrell fucked it all up.
One thing’s for sure, he’s some man for the sauce…
Like Anders Brevik, he would love nothing more than to have himself on tv in prison gear making nods and winks at the camera and having weird women sending him letters in jail.
I think if he did do it, he would have left evidence. Like those serial killers who leave notes because they want the notoriety. He’s exactly that type. He will suck up every last drop of attention going, even for the worst of reasons. So I think he probably didn’t do it. And if he didn’t, he probably wishes that he did.
According to below taken from an article on Joe.ie Bailey has very capably and convincingly demonstrated that he’s well able to beat a Woman very severely and then twist the facts and outright lie about it after the event.
It has been theorised that an aspiring but failed Journalist with grandiose notions may well have petitioned a Woman involved in the film business and reacted extremely badly upon not being well received.
I’d personally like to see him locked up for the crimes he has reluctantly but clearly admitted to, might be some consolation to those who have lost a loved one and remain convinced that he’s a Murderer getting away with his crime Scott free.
**Quote from Joe.ie**
(Thomas refers to Jules Thomas, who at the time was Baileys long term romantic partner who was housing, feeding and caring for him through his alcohol binges cause he had no discernable source of income)
“Speaking to Colette Fitzpatrick during Monday night’s The Big Interview when questioned on Thomas having “nearly lost an eye” during one of the multiple assaults inflicted by Bailey, he said: “I think that was a gross exaggeration but I do accept -”
Bailey was cut off by Fitzpatrick who interjected by saying: “She was in the hospital, Ian.”
He responded: “Yeah, she was.”
The interviewer added that her lip was “almost completely severed from her gum” as she had to get eight stitches.”
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he’s guilty of crimes against fashion
Yes.
He’s guilty of being an arsehole
Anyone else just see a mostly white video? I’ve noticed lots of videos like this lately. I’m using Boost on Android.
Stop giving him oxygen.
I’d say his family were fucking delighted.
No but he wants you to believe that he did because he enjoys the attention.
Public Service Announcement: Bolstering a poor argument by wearing a Russian hat may not be very helpful these days.
Personally, I think he did murder Sophie, in a drunken rage, but it is impossible to prove. The evidence is just not there. Some of the supposed evidence is actually wrong (the timing of phone calls mainly).
I believe he tampered with witnesses and intimidated people in the area.
The funniest thing about the case is Bailey’s claim to be a journalist. I conducted a search of the British newspapers and his name does not appear. He had a few articles in a few tabloids in the 1980s. In Ireland, he was never a journalist until Sophie was murdered. He had one article published, the one he was supposedly writing on the night of the murder which was published after the murder. Other than that, he was never a journalist in Ireland, except for the few weeks when he was reporting on the murder.
So his own “admission” that he killed her to resurrect his career, does not seem so preposterous when you realise he HAD no career.
We will never know due to the way the local cowboy Gardai competely fucked up the initial investigation, like the missing gate with all the blood splatter that can’t now be tested using modern dna testing.
I find it hard to believe he isn’t but good luck proving it.
Everyone chip in a few Euro and we’ll buy him an all inclusive holiday in France… he looks like he could use it
I had the surreal experience a few months ago of hearing him do his poetry in a pub in glengarriff, where he now lives.
His poetry is shite.
It wasn’t a poetry night or anything, he just stood up and started doing it out of no where.
We’ll never know but he’s a real cunt. If anyone deserves to falsely accused of murder it’s him
Ian Bailey is a wife beating narcissist with his head firmly planted up his own arse, whether he is a murderer or not remains to be seen.
Either way, being convicted of murder in absentia in a French court is an absolute farce.
I’ve seen the Netflix documentary, not great; the Jim Sheridan one was a little better. I’ve also read “Murder at Roaringwater” pretty informative; but the very best is the podcast “West Cork”
If you have an interest in the case I highly recommend listening to the podcast, it’s brilliant.
He bet the living shit out of that woman who lived with him and blamed it on the drink. I’ve never come across anyone capable of that when drunk, even severely so. There’s something dark in that man.
I think he did do it, I do t think there is enough evidence for a conviction.
But the fact he burned material including a mattress on Christmas Day just after the murder would make me think he probably did it.
His life has been a torture either way but I doubt he had anything to do with it given todays high tech tracing and dna , he’s an innocent man until proven otherwise
I think he did it. I don’t know why I think that, it’s a feeling. Nothing that could convict anyone, nothing that I would want to be used against him for any reason. I think he got extremely lucky and we don’t know the half of what went on.
I’ve always found both possibilities absolutely terrifying.
1) He is guilty of murder, and for years has embraced the spotlight where others might hide from it, taunting Sophie and her family who very much believe he is the guy.
2) an innocent man (extremely faulted as he may be) dragged into a botched murder investigation to the point where the murder cannot be referred to without his name being attached to it, unable to leave the country and this whole island knows who he is.
He’s an absolute prat and hasn’t done himself any favours all the same.
He 100 percent did it
Probably, but that’s not necessarily ‘beyond all reasonable doubt’. I may well be mistaken. Irish/UK law says that’s not proven guilty..
He is undoubtedly a deranged moon-howler; the world would be a safer place with him confined somewhere safe.
[I’ll just leave this here.](https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-10049081.html)
He didn’t do it. He’s also a brilliant poet, up there with Beckett, Heaney and Yeats imho.
I don’t think so. I have read, watched and listened to a lot of stuff on this case and if you discount Marie Farrells testimony there isn’t really much to connect him to the case or any evidence to suggest he knew Sophie. Marie Farrell is a fantasist, her first contact to the gardai was anonymous phone calls, that surely should set alarm bells ringing, she maintained that she seen a man in a long black coat and a beret following/stalking Sophie but mysteriously no body else in a small town in Ireland noticed this man, as if? Marie Farrell said she was out with a married man the night of the murder but again she was found to be lying. Gardai say that Bailey was known to be violent to women but yet when he suspiciously arrived at the crime scene none of the gardai present noticed any marks or wounds on him but later claimed he had scratches on his hands which they never photographed, surely if someone known to be violent to women turns up where a woman has been violently murdered the gardai would give them a serious looking at. There is no evidence to connect Bailey and Sophie, no phone records, letters or even them being sighted together and I don’t buy that friend of hers saying she remembered after 20 odd years that Sophie said she was meeting Bailey. I think Ian Bailey is a horrible human being but did he murder Sophie? I don’t think so. The gardai never looked for anyone else they decided it was Bailey on Marie Farrells testimony. I still think it could of been that ex of Sophies who was also known to be violent, his alibi was a receipt for oil or something like that which the gardai immediately took at face value . Also i wonder have they ever looked at Marie Farrell as a suspect?
I don’t think he was either lucky enough or clever enough to get away with it. He was an odd if somewhat annoying man and the guards thought he did it and looked for evidence he did it instead of looking at evidence of who did it. That has twisted him into the person we see today.
Wasn’t there are a rumour she was having a fling with a married guard and that they covered it up.
He may be a bizzare character, but we can’t say for 100% he’s guilty. The investigation was thoroughly botched.
He is a cunt, no doubt. I’m not sure he’s a murderer though. I believe if a local did this, it is very possible people knew about it, kept quiet and let him take the fall.
Guards being useless could just be guards being useless. It could also be guards being deliberately obstructionist to evidence being preserved.
Entirely conspiraspeculation on my part here, but this could be a case of “we take care of our own”.
Ah the poor auld wife bating, woman murdering, shite poet, margarine eating bastard
Whether he’s guilty of murder or not, he’s definitely guilty of profiting from it.
If he didn’t do it, he’s done enough to muddy the waters so that there’s no chance of catching who did.
I’m pretty convinced he did it.
He revels in the attention and fame from it. Hopefully the French send in the GIGN and haul him off to French jail.
That one Marie Farrell fucked it all up.
One thing’s for sure, he’s some man for the sauce…
Like Anders Brevik, he would love nothing more than to have himself on tv in prison gear making nods and winks at the camera and having weird women sending him letters in jail.
I think if he did do it, he would have left evidence. Like those serial killers who leave notes because they want the notoriety. He’s exactly that type. He will suck up every last drop of attention going, even for the worst of reasons. So I think he probably didn’t do it. And if he didn’t, he probably wishes that he did.
According to below taken from an article on Joe.ie Bailey has very capably and convincingly demonstrated that he’s well able to beat a Woman very severely and then twist the facts and outright lie about it after the event.
It has been theorised that an aspiring but failed Journalist with grandiose notions may well have petitioned a Woman involved in the film business and reacted extremely badly upon not being well received.
I’d personally like to see him locked up for the crimes he has reluctantly but clearly admitted to, might be some consolation to those who have lost a loved one and remain convinced that he’s a Murderer getting away with his crime Scott free.
**Quote from Joe.ie**
(Thomas refers to Jules Thomas, who at the time was Baileys long term romantic partner who was housing, feeding and caring for him through his alcohol binges cause he had no discernable source of income)
“Speaking to Colette Fitzpatrick during Monday night’s The Big Interview when questioned on Thomas having “nearly lost an eye” during one of the multiple assaults inflicted by Bailey, he said: “I think that was a gross exaggeration but I do accept -”
Bailey was cut off by Fitzpatrick who interjected by saying: “She was in the hospital, Ian.”
He responded: “Yeah, she was.”
The interviewer added that her lip was “almost completely severed from her gum” as she had to get eight stitches.”
“I know, it’s shameful,” Bailey replied.