Shattered Lives: An interview with Ian Bailey on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- MURDER-accused Bailey has insisted he’s not a danger to women - despite his history of domestic violence.
Speaking to ‘Shattered Lives’, Bailey was challenged on his prior history of assaulting his former partner Jules Thomas and allegations that he previously threatened witness Maria Farrell.
However, the former journalist, who is now set to launch his own podcast, insisted to us that he is not a danger to the women of Ireland when asked.
Bailey was convicted in his absence in a French court of the murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier at her holiday home in Schull on December 23, 1996 - a charge he denies.
Paul Healy speaks at length to Mr Bailey in a feature-length interview today.
Shattered Lives is produced for Reach Ireland by Ciaran Bradley.
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Remembering the Kerry babies case how the Gardai identified that poor girl as killing the baby on the beach and hounded her for years. It was nearly 40 years after that the Gardai said sorry and the girl was innocent.
Am so glad you brought this up! It is a horrific experience for any human being to go through, and that is to be persecuted and wrongly blamed for a grievous crime that one did not commit. Ian Bailey was such a strong character not to allow himself to be broken by the constant persecution he has gone through and that includes his former partner Jules. I hope one day the true criminal is found.
@@freedomunltd
Colin Stagg is an English example of how police focused on one suspect. Read about the real murderer who went on to murder again due to police putting all their attention on the wrong person, it is horrific.
@@random6809 Yes Random, it is appalling when the police use tunnel vision to focus on an innocent man with, in this case, Ian Bailey’s life being completely destroyed. I was aware of the Colin Stagg case and god only knows how many others have been convicted of a crime they did not commit. Your replies to various commenntators on these channels re this subject when people have stated incredibly disturbing and cruel comments about Ian, in which you have challenged their odious assertions, is very heartening to me in a sea of verbal sludge full of appalling condemnations of Ian’s character but particularly poignant when Ian is now dead and unable to defend himself at all apart from his loyal solicitor. Thank you for standing up for justice - Ian was not perfect but he did not deserve to be the target of such malignant abuse. RIP Isn
A German killed Sophie then went home to his native country committed suicide left a letter stating I did summit horrible
Do you happen to have any references or links to this guy, thanks
Karl Heinz Wolney
rest in peace ian hopefully in the next life ull get justice
Well said
Ugh. Violent abuser who was the only violent drunk living next door to Sophie. His ex Jules ended up in hospital she nearly lost an eye because of one of his drunken violent and abusive episodes. Lucky for her he didn’t actually kill her. He claims no woman should be afraid of him. Thats called gaslighting. When you beat and injure women of course they should be afraid of him. A proven abuser narcissist alcoholic notoriously lies. The scratches on his arms and head from killing a turkey. What bullshit. His own parents said that he was never right. His ex said he sneaked out and was missing during the time Sophie was murdered. I’ll always believe that he did it. Just like the french legal system knew he did too and found him guilty. His story and attitude reeks of guilt. His arrogance and dancing around the truth is beyond clear. An innocent man would have even a little sense of sadness sensitivity and humility. They would say it’s awful but I’m so sorry. Ian has none. He says he prays for Sophie. Total liar. Of course he doesn’t pray but he’s hoping that sounds good. Horrible man. I hope Sophies family can rest in peace now that he’s no longer alive.
@@lululiga333 He lived three miles away from Sophie’s cottage, that is not next door. There is no actual evidence of Bailey having been there that night with a lot of prejudice shown towards Ian from the very beginning, by the authorities as well as village gossips. It is too convenient to cnclude that a man who was charged with domestic violence can then be charged with taking the life of an occasional visitor to the area, based on his history with his partner. There is a huge difference and when or if, the real guilty party is ever found, a lot of people will be hanging their heads in shame.
@@freedomunltdomg you think that being a serious domestic abuser means nothing? Covered in scratches the same day? His whole attitude stinks of guilt. His saving grace was how badly the gardai handled it all. You can imagine he was innocent but not when you know how women abusers who beat women are well capable of murder. If he’d been a sweet guy living nearby who never harmed a fly well maybe. But we’re talking about an alcoholic drunk and well proven woman beating abuser who lived nearby. How many other violent alcoholic women abusing men lived nearby? Answer. None. How many smart arsed arrogant and rude unrepentant violent alcoholics lived nearby Sophie? Zero. What shows his guilt even more to me. Not a drop of sweetness kindness or empathy. Just a ton of excuses explained in an aggressive and very cold way. A true innocent man would be open and sweet. And he would be openly sad about Sophies death. He’s so far from either it’s so obvious to me that he’s the one.
@@freedomunltd The biggest red flag re murder and a man who is a domestic violent abuser. Is how they might end up upping their abuse to murder. Its textbook stuff. The ultimate control of any abuser is murder. If only he had been a good guy suspician could never have been put his way, Its a totally rational conclusion to think that an arrogant abusive narcissistic violent drunk is capable of murder. The way he denies it sounds like a guilty man talking totally denial rubbish. If he sounded even slightly innocent and decent, he might just pull it off. But he doesn't.
All the evil powers of the Universe came together that night, and made sure, that the culprite was never held responsible. And he never will be.
DNA may be found yet.
The guy should be in prison for the near-fatal beatings he's given to Jules anyway.
How do you think her blood was on the outside of her back entrance door?
What brought her to Ireland in the days before Christmas to only originally go back to France.. that is unusual and there are questions there.. i think the killer got away scott free and ian bailey is innocent.. bailey didnt out himself as a suspect the gardai did.. if he had had the choice he would never have been outed
@delmns
The family state that she was flying to Ireland because the boiler wasn't working. Bit odd when you consider that she had her housekeeper to open the cottage for a repair guy a week earlier. Would you really fly all the way to Ireland and drive all the way there on the 20th, leaving your son just before Christmas, to check on a boiler repair when you already had a housekeeper having already done it a week ago?
The housekeep stated, "I got a heating repairman from Bantry and he fixed the problem and repaired the boiler. That was more than a week before Sophie arrived".
Nah, there is something more to the December visit THAT close to Christmas, it certainly isn't this boiler repair that had already been done the week before. Why would she ask people to go with her to check a boiler?
@@brianmcginley2743
"Meet the murderer, ian bailey aka @jackburton"
Meet the idi0t Brian McGinley, who has accused me of being Ian Bailey for months,
How stupid do you feel now Brian, he is dead and here I am!
the guards probably should have a bit to blame in this no?
Some of the Garda are more interested in drinking pints of porter than doing their job.And how did they lose the gate that was part of the evidence? A strand of hair might be easy to displace but a metal gate!! The word "eejits" isn't part of Irish vocabulary for nothing!!
And remember the Kerry babies case where the Gardai hounded that poor girl for years and she only got an apology nearly 40 years later
@@joekavanagh8997The Irish police are actually very efficient but in this instance there were being put under huge pressure by the French authorities as well as top politicuans in the Irish Gov to get this case closed. How convenient to add 2 and 2 to make 9. Ian was innocent.
@@joekavanagh8997Also the State pathologist did not get to the scene for 2 days by which point much of the area and potential evidence was contaminated.
It's disgusting the way he is treated as a hero by the English in West Cork.
who are you.....
It would be useful had Paul Healy not repeated the same questions asked for 25 years. It would also be useful had he actually done any research, such as reading the DPP report. He didn't even bother to mention the update from the Cold Case below.
Another wasted upportunity.
@@brianmcginley2743
LOL @brianmcginley2743 Brian McGinley, don't you look stup!d now that Bailey is dead and the people you accused of being him are still here commenting.
First satchwell now Bailey if we could get a hat trick with the mcanns justice would be served
Can you explain how the McCanns could leave the dinner table with their friends, murder their child and bury the body in a foreign country and then return to the dinner 10 minutes later with not a speck of evidence anywhere, and two witnesses who saw a man leave and walk away carrying a bundle of something? No motive, no body, no evidence - apart from a professional break-in, it was most probably a contract kidnapping to order by somebody wealthy and powerful, a mafia gang boss or something like that.
@@karhukivi
The McCann case is likely to be the German suspect currently in prison.
Not convicted by Preponderance of Evidence. France has no Common Law procedures. Her family used their status to convene the tribunal. @@brianmcginley2743
@@valleygirl2530
LMFAO it is hilarious that Brian has latched on to you now. How are you Ian? How's the heart. 🙂
@@brianmcginley2743
Looks like you are avoiding the people you accused of being Bailey who are now still commenting.
I visited ireland last year .I saw the police on action in dublin on a night out. They looked like the most unprofessional shambolic police force I have ever seen
Where are you from.
Why? What did they do?
Rassurez-vous, ils ont de la concurrence chez les flics français
@@greglyons2526invader protectors
No absolutely not there the best when it comes to hate speech.
The catalyst was he beat her to a pulp she almost lost an eye
The interviewer keeps mentioning the Netflix documentary, the Netflix documentary was a joke show, completely biased. The West Cork podcast is the only one worth listening to.
West Cork is made by a narcissistic psychopath, they are both narcissistic with psychopathic traits.
@@acb5245
The Netflix one was made by Sophie's cousin...
The west cork podcast is very good in fairness
Its not paul how he got convicted was he told neibours at 11 am that it was french women after been murdered but even the guards didnt know she was french until 12 hours later after identifying her through her name on Christmas card he knew she was french for a man who never met her or heard of her
What a load of b0ll0x, the Guards knew when they got to the body. Everybody knew it was Sophie within an hour, her neighbours Alfie and Shirley would have been on the telephone as soon as they discovered the body!
A friend of theirs knew before noon and they lived in Cork City!
Telephones were a thing you know...
This gentleman is academically intelligent and able to think on his feet. He has studied LAW at University, has worked as an investigative journalist for a broadsheet newspaper and has form concerning attacks on women. The Gardai - Some of them make excellent foot soldiers.
"and has form concerning attacks on women. "
He has a history of domestic violence against one woman, Jules, not "women". His ex-wife stated that he did not hit her.
"@fredbloggs545 imagine having such low self-esteem "
Well @@brianmcginley2743 imagine have such low self-esteem and such low public standing that you the troll has to accuse people of being Bailey.
How pathetic.
The irony...
He was found guilty in a french court.
That used Marie Farrell's lies that she had seen him. Lies that she admitted that were lies and the court knew were lies.
Is it acceptable to you that a criminal court used known lies to convict a person for murder?
Maybe it's something to do with the family knowing the French president who personally got involved....
He is guilty as hell
Ah so you have evidence that the Irish DPP are not aware of? The DPP that have repeatedly not charged him? They actually stated that, "A prosecution against Bailey is not warranted by the evidence."
You are obviously not up to speed on the Cold Case investigation then.
They have found a witness to a French speaker at the pub with scratches on his face. He drove a rental car with false number plates. Also that Sophie had met with two French men who were hiding out locally from organised crime. Did the gang go to her looking for these men? Then there was a man she was close to who's wife was very jealous.
Maybe bring yourself up to date before judging somebody?
The evidence to conclusively prove that Bailey killed Sophie is still absent. He shouldn’t make any deals as various parties are setting him up for their own idea of justice. I can’t blame the family but they should move on. The French outcome was bullshit.
What’s the point of near 30 years of grief and explanations and public embarrassment?
I’m not convinced that Bailey killed Sophie. He’s benefited greatly from the notoriety and if his agenda was to gain from Sophie’s family then he’s succeeded.
What a shitshow and never ending drama during which poor Sophie left the world way too soon - she should have been the one to outlast everyone else.
Hey Valleygirl, I thought you were dead according to Brian McGinley? Haha!
Gloria a te Ian 🥂
He's guilty. We all know it. Why doesn't he just take his punishment like a man instead of letting her family suffer further? We all know you did it Ian. We literally all know you did it. For goodness sakes man
Who is this "we"? I don't believe he is guilty. Have you read the Irish prosecutors report that explains why they have not even charged him with this crime? It is shocking.
@@brianmcginley2743 in France only
@@brianmcginley2743convicted in a French court by a statement that was untrue
@@AlainnCorcaigh
I wouldn't bother with Brian, he is clearly mentally ill and spams all the YT videos with his copy and paste replies. Debate with him and he will eventually accuse you of being Bailey! I had to mute him in the end.
I don’t believe it either
He prayed for her?
I wish that reporter would ask original questions, not copy American cop question
In my opinion there's too many red flags with Ian and of course, if he can savagely attack a person he loves, what could he do to a stranger..
But he was not the person that took the life of Sophie. No one is talking about the German man, a musician who lived nearby to Sophie’s house, a man who returned back to Germany in early 1997 and committed suicide after telling his friend he had committed a terrible act. That friend has subsequently died but this German musician could never provide an alibi for the time in question. One other person on this forum has mentioned this man with everyone else too busy trying to smear a now deceased Ian Bailey, for a crime he did not commit.
@@freedomunltd we all entitled to our opinions. I'll stick with mine thanks
DV with a partner does not mean a person then goes on to murder a stranger. It should be noted that his ex-wife said he never hit her. There will have been many people in violent relationships in Cork, does that make them all murderers too then?
If you have any evidence that was not given to the DPP, who saw all the evidence and refused to charge him twice, I'd love to hear it, since you have, " too many red flags".
@@fredbloggs545 calm down Freddie, we all entitled to our opinions. Guys guilty
@@philipkeeling8647
Why are you assuming I am not calm? Because I don't agree with you? How odd!
So what are these, "too many red flags" that the DPP have not seen then?
Well?
Its absolutely possible, that Alfy Lions called Ian Bailey in the morming when Sophie Toscan du Plantiers body was discovered by Alfy’s wife. At 10:00 am. So why doesnt he just say so?
While possible, perhaps he simply did not. We do know that Alfie (or Shirley) did quickly inform others by telephone though, any of us would I suppose. A person who knows them stated that she knew of the murder an hour after discovery and she lives in Cork City! She stated that the guards have never wanted a statement from her.
It must be very embarrassing that those who Brian McGinley @brianmcginley2743 accused of being Bailey are still commenting after his death. Just goes to prove that Brian McGinley is a pathetic troll.
@@brianmcginley2743
"Meet the murderer ian bailey.... aka Jack burton."
Oh dear, don't you look silly now that Bailey is dead.
So who are you then, Jules Thomas?
@@acb5245
You are free to embarrass yourself too. You must have seen what happened to Brian McGinley when that tool did it. He has stopped posting now in embarrassment.
But hey, if you want to be proved an equal m0r0n to him, then go right ahead making utterly m0r0nic accusations because you are unable to challenge facts.
Rip ian . Shafted by rte and destroyed by the gardai.
Even if he didn't kill Sophie Du Plantier,which most people think he did,the guy was a malignant narcissist and beat up his partner of 30 years .He's no loss to West Cork or to humanity.
this guy is creepy and a woman beater but does this make him a murderer ? this case is mind boggling.
@juliad368
Indeed, one of the issues around this case is Bailey himself. He is a woman beater, what he did to Jules should have seen him behind bars, but of course back then in Ireland beating a woman was seen as a right and he got off lightly. From the description of him trying to touch up the girl sleeping in the studio, he is clearly a sexual predator, his diary entries demonstrate his inner thoughts on young girls too. He is clearly full of himself, he has a superior attitude, clearly well educated, however his handling of this case shows him to lack common sense and self-awareness.
As you can see from comments, this encourages people to convict him on his personality rather than evidence, however that is a very dangerous slippery slope. It is the very meaning of "witch-hunt", burning women at the stake simply due to personality.
The ongoing Cold Case investigation has revealed a couple of interesting leads. One is that a French speaker was witnessed at the pub with scratches on his face. He drove a rental car with false number plates. Another very interesting one is that Sophie had met with two French men who were hiding out locally from organised crime. Did the gang go to her looking for these men? A third is that there was a man she was close to who's wife was very jealous.
There is far more to this case than what the original bungling police found in their haste to convict the local weirdo, and it isn't pointing in Bailey's direction yet. The French had already found DNA that was not Bailey's, if advanced DNA techniques can get DNA off the murder weapon, who knows where it may lead?
@@random6809Ian, if you are indeed Ian, you inserted yourself repeatedly into this case so I feel no empathy for you. It’s obvious you’d rather stay as the number 1 suspect than disappear into oblivion. I don’t know if you are guilty of murdering Sophie, but you are guilty of torturing her family with your constant muddying of the water.
@@juliad368
Some obvious troll says I am Bailey and you believe them? Get a grip!
@@juliad368
Brian is a troll you pillock. Of course he will now say I am Ian, he does it to everybody who disagrees with him.
Here is under this video accusing @valleygirl2530 too.
"valleygirl2530
Yet you claim the mccann suspect is guilty without a trial.... you're contradicting yourself as usual ian....thought you were all for innocent until proven guilty"
Are you new to the Internet or something, the guy is blatantly trolling and you are blind to it?
Oh dear... ‘Random’ (Ian) 😫 you need locking up. Poor Sophie and her son
I am not Bailey, you pillock. Get a grip!
@shall4810
Since @random6809 is still commenting after Bailey died, you look a right m0r0n.
Bailey is in the right place now.He died a few days ago .He's no loss to West Cork or to humanity.
It bothers me that such a tragedy happened in the county I grew up in.I feel bad for Sophie Du Plantier and her family.✝️
I think hes innocent . Just the local odd ball
Indeed, the useful local weirdo. Similar to how Colin Stagg got accused because of the the media whipping up the mob. Barry George did eight years for being an odd-ball too.
@@brianmcginley2743Jesus man, you're pathological, we get it you are convinced of his guilt. You have posted more comments than Ian's fake accounts
@@brianmcginley2743 no your not, you're obsessively spamming the comments section in every video that involves Ian Bailey.
@@brianmcginley2743 he has been convicted in France without having any defence and without there being any physical evidence. I personally lean towards him being guilty, he comes across as very shady but I don't know that for a fact because as I said there's no physical evidence to prove it, if there was he would have been convicted in Ireland. My point was that you are obsessively posting hundreds of comments across numerous videos which is ironically the exact same thing Bailey is doing with his fake accounts.
@@fantasyboxing71
Except I am not Bailey, it is Brian that is stating it and others repeating it from his spamming and obvious trolling. Bailey uses his real name, he does not shy away from social media. Other than his unused cr@ppy poetry YT channel I have never seen him post on YT. He does X and TT, not YT.
Hopefully there's a mention of the now deceased Garda who his own colleague's believed killed that poor woman....An Garda Siochanna...biggest gang in the free state
Except he was convicted of attacking Jules.
@Random which has nothing to do with Du Plantier...don't get me wrong he was convicted and admitted to assaulting jules....doesn't make him a killer....a prick...yeah....if you have never been fucked over and abused by the guards then you've no idea how they close ranks to protect their own
@Brian McGinley appreciate the info mo chara....yeah maybe time to think twice.appreciate that,God bless
@Brian McGinley cheers bro 👍
@@cianoohare
Nick Foster is very biased, so watch for that. On his Tw!tter he has made up all sorts of fantasy nonsense about this case. Frankly, he has lost the plot!
Maybe,just maybe,but I doubt it,why did the Gardai destroy the bloodstained gate ? Shut up ! We destroyed it because we hadn't any room for it in Bantry. Our station is too small !!! But,but but if the gate had the victims blood on it,why was the gate destroyed? Are you deaf ? We hadn't enough room for it in the station. But,but,but...just leave OK. We're busy here.
It isn't just the gate that is missing, I mean "destroyed"...there is plenty of other missing evidence too.
@@brianmcginley2743
"Like the evidence you burned out the back of where you stayed the night of the murder with no alibi ian ????"
How embarrassing for you Brian McGinley @brianmcginley2743
Now he is dead, you have been proved the sad little troll you are.