This afternoon
Ian Bailey with his partner Jules Thomas arrive at the Four Courts. The jury in Ian Bailey’s High Court action was sent out to consider a verdict today. Mr Bailey is looking for damage over his alleged wrongful arrest as part of the investigation into the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
#Bailey loses case for conspiracy @rtenews
— vivienne traynor (@viviennetraynor) March 30, 2015
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He should have shorn the locks and grown the goatee a long time ago, he looks less sleazy and more trustworthy now.
I thought it was the cops who looked sleazy all along.
How the hell did he lose? Were the Jury made up of members of the Gardai????
….because like the Dwyer case not everything said and done in a court is permitted to be published for the public like.
I’d start there with your investigation.
Except, that this was an OPEN case, the public weren’t removed at any time.
But the public don’t write for newspapers, assuming that’s where you got your information about the case – unless, of course, you were actually there?
It was yes :) Oops…
I have me reasons.
ha MM, classic Wummery.
Friday last probably showed the Gardai in this country at their best (despite the possibly unlawful dumpster diving and accessing phone records contrary to EU law). I think the jury will take a few days with the Bailey case, but the Gardai in west Cork look as if they’re about to be shamed.
“You can’t say it’s private if a hobo can use it as a wigwam! That’s the standard, isn’t it, if animals or vagrants can get in?”
– Saul Goodman
Perry Mason over here.
If you leave rubbish outside your gaff anyone is allowed to take it
Gardai at their best? Yeah right. The leaking of all that data from pulse to the papers before the ink on his finger was dry.
Proudly sponsored by Louis Copeland?
Substitutes Louis Copeland for Guineys!!
He’s lost, so substitute Guineys with Pennys/
I’m pretty sure Guiney’s is the cheaper of the two.
*crosses fingers he loses*
Why, may I ask?
Put simply, the Garda fupped this one up completely.
And yet you still hoped he would lose??
Odd..
Did you ever contemplate that maybe our world renowned Gardai were covering up for one of their own or somebody well connected and from Schull/Ballydehob?
You can have your conspiracy theory, I have one already :)
You should have put money on it.
He probably should have won as that was an omnishambles of an investigation but I guess he’s such an unlikeable character that the jury were willing to buy the defence.
I think he did it. Based on a feeeeeeling.
I’m not sure it’s unlawful to seize someone’s trash if it’s left out in public, couldn’t figure out if that was the case from the reports though
I’m singing Boston now, thanks…..
It’s more than a feeling, when I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
‘Till I see Bailey walk away
I see Mr Bailey walkin’ awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy !!!!!
* jumps on desk…. air guitar solo *
What’s your theory? Why are you so glad Bailey lost?
Sorry Andy that was @ soundings
On your point I agree I must say but sure that’s why he’s suing us. The Gardai went after him based in part on that flawed analytical method
How come comments are allowed on this? Comments on the Elaine O’Hara murder case were only permitted on social media after the verdict.
Are you serious? What do you think this is, the New York Times?
Plenty of comments on Politics.ie before, during and after.
Some rather risqué comments here, Broadsheet.
Since everyone’s at it, I’ll push the boat out myself: A bungled police investigation does not an innocent man (necessarily) make.
He may well be guilty, but HE wasn’t on trial. The case was: Was he fitted up by the honourable Cork peacekeepers? His problem was that so much evidence introduced during the case was deemed inadmissible, or past its sell-by-date, or the wrong colour for the time of day in the week.
Now that this case has been disposed of by the High Court, can Fennelly now publish his interim report on the circumstances surrounding the ahem, resignation of the Garda Commissioner last year?
…is the correct question…
+1
Round 2 should be interesting.
I’d say Louis Copeland’s are delighted with that bit of product placement / Not.
The cash cow at the Four
Goldmines can be a designers nightmare if things go pear shaped.
4 months in court and all the evidence was deemed inadmissible at the very end even though this was known at the start of the case. lawyers gravy train rolls on.