The Murder of Madame Sophie Toscan du Plantier

Listen to the second part of the murder of Madame Sophie Toscan du Plantier which occurred on December 23, 1996, in West Cork, Ireland.  A prime suspect has been identified by the Garda, but can they get the Department of Public Prosecutions to bring formal charges against the man they believe ended Sophie’s life?

Who is Ian Bailey

Ian Bailey was born in Manchester, England to a working-class family on January 27, 1957. In college, Bailey focused on a career in journalism but soon fell into a destructive pattern of hanging out with the drinking crowd.  One of Bailey’s first jobs was working with English journalist, John Hawkins. He described Bailey as being very bold, brash, and at times charmingly charismatic. Bailey loved to be the center of attention.  It was a pattern of behavior that never really seemed to have left him.

Bailey turned out to be an unreliable employee for Hawkins. He would often fail to turn up at assignments and instead choose to socialize with other journalists. What ultimately would get him fired from his first job was throwing a party at his office when he was to be away taking a journalism course that his employer paid for. It is said that Bailey couldn’t understand how that led to his firing.

There is no arguing that Bailey had the talent to be a good if not a great journalist, but he didn’t seem to want to put a lot of effort behind it. Bailey would go on to open a freelance journalist business with George Henderson. Bailey initially seemed to do well on his own. He even landed a scoop that for a time bolstered his reputation as an investigative journalist. This involved the story of a cab driver in England who turned out to be a Russian spy. It was also during this time that Bailey married Sarah Limbrick, a fellow journalist. Sarah’s family came from money and had gifted the couple a house and some property.

Job Hopping

Unfortunately, the marriage failed, and Bailey was left with basically nothing as the property and dwelling were not in his name. Around this time, Bailey’s business partner found out that he had been skimming money from their business. Bailey left the partnership and soon headed to London to try to relaunch his career. Although he got some work he was not offered full-time employment. It was then in the winter of 1991 that at the age of thirty-one, Bailey decided to move to Ireland and try his hand at becoming a poet.

Bailey found himself traveling around Ireland hopping from job to job until he settled in the area of Schull in West Cork. There he took a job as a supervisor at an area fish factory. Bailey would spend his evenings honing his poetry in local pubs. After a few months in the area, he met his future paramore, Jules Thomas. Thomas was also considered a blow-in to West Cork. A blow-in is a term the native Irish refer to people who were not born in Ireland.

New Beginnings

Jules Thomas was an area artist known for her landscape paintings. She was raising three daughters (one a 10-year-old and two teenagers) on her own after two failed relationships when she met Bailey. After meeting and getting to know one another, Thomas offered Bailey a place to stay on her property. Thomas’s house was known as The Prairie Cottage and she had a studio cottage about 100 yards down the road that she used to paint in. Bailey started as a renter, but as their relationship grew Bailey moved in with Jules and her daughters and helped around the property.

Bailey soon took on small jobs and was a gardener in the area while still focusing on his poetry.  He even did small gardening jobs for John Montague, a famous Irish poet, and his wife, Elizabeth Montague, an Irish novelist. The Montagues became mentors to Bailey. That didn’t seem to last long as John found Bailey to be both an inpatient gardener as well as a student of poetry who didn’t seem to want to put in the work to hone his craft.  John felt Bailey liked the immediate gratification of the pub crowds more than seriously putting the work in to become a recognized poet.

An Epiphany?

It is said that many Schull residents tolerated Bailey at best. They found him to have a pompous, attention-seeking, always trying too hard to fit in attitude that turned many off. Around this time Bailey seemed to come to an understanding that his life hadn’t turned out the way he hoped. He would write in his diary about looking to make something of himself and needing to bring about a great change. Maybe that is why he decided to give journalism another try in 1996. While coming to this epiphany, Bailey was still drinking excessively. He was also turning more violent in his relationship with Thomas.

Domestic Violence

In May 1996, Schull resident Julian Bielecki had been fetched by one of Thomas’s daughters, Virginia. She asked if he could take her mother to the hospital. They were neighbors.  Bielecki went to The Prairie Cottage and discovered that Thomas had been severely beaten by Bailey.

He has stated that she had two clumps of hair missing from her head. Her left eye was swollen shut and her lip was fat and bloody.  Thomas would require surgery to fix her broken eye socket and re-attach her lip to her gums.  He would describe the sounds that Thomas was making as that of a wounded animal.

Thomas would report that she and Bailey had gotten into an argument that night. Bailey had been drinking “spirits” and it had gotten worse. He was not at the residence when Bielecki arrived. Bailey would later say that they had both been drinking and had gotten into an argument. Thomas grabbed him first and he pushed her away and injured her.

Thomas Refuses to Press Charges

Unfortunately, this was not the first time Bailey had beaten Thomas. Over their relationship, there were at least three events of domestic violence. The first was in August 1993 then again in May 1996 and another in August 2001. In the 2001 event, Bailey was convicted and received a suspended sentence. Each time Bailey had been drinking and each time Thomas refused to press any charges or break up with him.

When the Garda were notified that Thomas refused to press any charges for the May event they were concerned that next time Bailey might kill her or someone else.  When news broke that a woman’s body had been found murdered in West Cork, Bielecki had been traveling by bus back to Schull. His first thought was that it was Jules Thomas. In Jim Sheridan’s documentary, Sheridan asks Bailey if he had raged over Sophie’s murder. Bailey claims he has no rage nor is he impulsive.

Regarding acts of violence in Bailey’s first marriage, there were no formal charges. In Nick Foster’s book, he writes about Bailey going into rages and throwing things or punching walls. But there is no documented physical violence against his wife at the time. In Laura Richards’ Podcast, Crime Analyst she talks about an event in which Bailey had put his hands around Sarah’s neck in attempted strangulation. Bailey appears to never have been charged.  

All is Forgiven

When Bailey was interviewed for the West Cork Podcast about his history of domestic violence against Thomas he compared their relationship to that of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. When they were both drinking they fought, but when they were sober they would be still in love. Bailey often seems to minimize his violent actions against Thomas even when he says he’s not trying to. When Thomas is questioned about Bailey’s violent acts against her she seems to blame it on him drinking whiskey. She stated that he is remorseful afterward. She has talked about the third time he beat her and blamed it on his drinking and taking pain medications from an Achilles tendon tear. In a 2020 interview, Thomas stated that she has forgiven Bailey for his acts of violence against her.

The night of Sophie’s murder Bailey had been drinking whiskey.

Who Knew What When

On December 26, 1996, Eoin (Ian) Bailey wrote an article about Sophie’s murder. He would end up writing or at least have a byline in numerous articles on the murder. Before Sophie’s murder, Bailey had made contact with Irish editors putting it out there that he was a freelance journalist. So when the murder occurred he was the closest and most knowledgeable resident in the area. Editors directed their journalists to contact him.

If Bailey wasn’t already on the suspect list the articles he wrote that December would have most likely put him on the Garda radar. In an article written for The Star newspaper, Bailey wrote about Sophie’s post mortem examination. He wrote that she had died of multiple head injuries, but she had not been sexually assaulted. This article came out on December 26th meaning it was written and submitted on the 25th. Sophie’s autopsy was done on the 24th. How did Bailey know this? This information was not released to the press. According to Bailey, he was just passing on what had already been written by other journalists. However, Dr. Harbison was notorious for not giving press interviews regarding his examinations. That information was private and personal to the victim and their families and only released to those with proper access.

Bailey Gives Details

On December 28th another article written by Bailey states that Sophie had been in her nightclothes and appears to have tripped while she was running away from her killer.  Again, how did he come to this conclusion? Bailey would go on to write or give information to other journalists that Sophie was most likely killed by someone coming over from France, possibly hired by her husband who could not afford to divorce her. Jim Clemente stated during the Criminal Analyst Podcast that there are no signs that this was a professional hit. The attack was unorganized, weapons used were those that were convenient to the killer, and no planning appears to have taken place.

In other articles, Bailey referenced that Sophie may have been killed by one many men she had invited into her holiday home. In the Netflix documentary, Bailey is quoted as saying “Sophie was having sex with all of them if not one of them.”  Was Bailey trying to assassinate Sophie’s character or was he trying to show alternative suspects to the crime and if so why? Just to note, Sophie had only brought over Carbonnet when they were seeing each other. Other than that it was her husband Daniel on one trip. Her brother, her cousin, her best friend, Agnes or her son, stepson and her father had gone with her at other times.

Does Bailey Have An In With The Garda?

An Irish Daily Star reporter, Senan Molony, was directed by his editor to meet up with a local correspondent in the area, Ian Bailey, who would share with him what he knew. Bailey reported to him that there had been two wine glasses in the drainer. Also, the body had been dressed in night clothes with boots on. When the body was found one boot was laced up and the other partially so. Molony thought that Bailey must have a great contact within the Garda to have access to such information. Dewert Dwyer, Garda Superintendent was seen on the Netflix documentary stating that no one in Garda was giving Bailey information.

Upon arriving in West Cork, Molony met up with Bailey and they traveled to the crime scene. Upon arrival Molony wanted Bailey to make introductions to the Garda officers that were present. Bailey refused to even get out of the car. He told Molony he was on his own and he did all he could which struck him as sort of strange. Molony felt that Bailey craved the attention he got from other journalists reaching out to him for assistance.

Gathering Evidence

The Garda began formal interviews with Sophie’s neighbors. First was Shirley Foster who discovered her body.  Shirley reported that on the night of December 23rd both she and Alfie Lyons were home.  They did not hear anything out of the ordinary. But she also admitted that their windows had been closed due to the freezing temperatures outside.  Shirley recounted that after being cleared to leave the scene later that afternoon that she decided to go into Schull. As she was driving down the remainder of her lane she saw Ian Bailey driving at a fast rate of speed up the lane and went to flag him down waving her arm out her window. She reported that she didn’t feel Bailey was even going to stop until she had done so.

Bailey would recount this moment in his interview. In his version, he had been driving to the post office and not on Shirley’s lane when she stopped him. He told the Garda that he had been notified by Eddie Cassidy, editor of The Cork Examiner around 1:40 pm of the murder of a French woman. Since he remembered that Alfie Lyon’s neighbor was French he decided to head to their place first. Bailey and Thomas were still at the Prairie Cottage at 2 pm when news broke nationally of a suspicious death of a woman near Schull. The report would go on to say the woman was believed to be in her 30s and had suffered head injuries. There is never a mention of the victim’s nationality.

How Did Bailey Find Out About The Murder?

The Garda would come to discover that Ian Bailey seemed to know about the murder way before the 1:40 pm phone call. Five months after the murder the Garda questioned Rick and Carolyn Leftwick. They reported that around 11:30 am Bailey had called to inform them that he would not be able to come around that morning to pick up some garlic that had been put aside for him. He told them that there had been a murder in Toormore that he needed to cover.  Carolyn asked if it was anyone she knew. Bailey told her no it was a French woman there on holiday.

Bailey would claim in May 1997 that he had made that phone call to the Leftwicks on the 24th, not the 23rd. He would also state later on that he had called the Leftwicks around noon but made no mention of the murder. When interviewed for the West Cork podcast he claimed he didn’t make that call until the afternoon after news broke nationwide. So which version is correct? Unfortunately, the Garda were not able to access phone records due to the old analog phone system that was still in use in the West Cork area.

The Investigation Continues

Bailey also called Paul O’Colmain around 11:45 am to tell him that he wouldn’t be able to deliver the turkey he had for him as he had to report on a murder. Eddie Cassidy was interviewed by the Garda. He stated that yes he did contact Bailey around 1:40 pm on the 23rd, but that he did not tell him it was a French woman that had been murdered. Cassidy told him only what he knew at the time and that was that the victim was a foreign national. He also wasn’t able to give him a location to go to as he didn’t know the exact location.

Alfie Lyons was also questioned by the Garda and his story matched Foster’s from that morning. Alfie told the Garda that he was “90% certain” that he had introduced Bailey to Sophie about a year before her murder. Bailey was doing some work for Alfie in his garden at the time. Years later Leo Bolger would state in 2010 that he had been doing some work for Sophie at her home and was present when Lyons had introduced Sophie and Bailey.

The Garda worked on establishing whether or not Bailey and Sophie had known each other. According to Bailey in various interviews, he gave to both the Garda and the media he knew of Sophie, had seen her from afar, but had never talked to her. For the most part, this seemed to be true early on with only Alfie Lyons’ statement-making any connection.

Additional Information

Years later additional information would come to light that Bailey may have known Sophie. Two people close to Sophie reported to French authorities of their conversations with Sophie where she talked about an English reporter/poet who talked to her about the topic of domestic violence for a documentary. One was her friend Agnes Thomas and the other was a co-worker with whom Sophie had a conversation the day before she left for Ireland in 1996. According to Guy Girard, Sophie told him that this man who wrote poetry, Eion Bailey, wanted to meet up with her about a future project. When Girard referred to another poet with a similar name Sophie corrected him and said no. This man lived near her and made his living as a journalist or poet and not the same man he was referring to.

Alibi

When the Garda questioned Bailey about his movements the night of the murder he claimed that he and Thomas had gone to the Courtyard/Galley pub in Schull and had stayed there until about midnight. They drove home together but had stopped at Hunt’s Hill on the way back. From Hunt’s Hill, one can look across the valley at Toormore. He stated that when they got home they had one more drink. They went to bed together around 2 am and both slept until the next morning. The next morning Bailey claimed around 9 am he got out of bed and made Thomas coffee which he brought to her in bed. Thomas would later tell writer Nick Foster that she slept from 2 am to 8:30 am the next morning. What Bailey did in that time could only be verified by his account.

Fires

On Christmas Day 1996, Delia Jackson was out taking a walk. Delia was home briefly for the holiday season to visit her family. Her walk had taken her by the studio cottage used by Bailey and Thomas. That is when she noticed smoke and heard sounds of crackling fire coming from behind the building. She thought it was an odd time to be having a bonfire. This led the Garda to get a search warrant. The forensic team from Dublin investigated and shifted through the remains of what looked like a fresh fire. They sifted through the ash with a spoon and found pieces of clothing, buttons, shoes, and parts of a mattress. No hard evidence linking Bailey to the murder was found in the ashes.

When questioned, Thomas claimed that they had had a fire in October or November when they cleaned out the studio.  Bailey reported that they had the fire in early December. Neither seemed to be on the same page.  Later testimony would be given by Thomas who claimed to know nothing about a Christmas fire at the Studio Cottage. She felt that Bailey would not have bothered lighting a bonfire around that time. Another witness, Louise Kennedy, would give the Garda a statement four months after the murder also telling authorities about seeing smoke rising from the back of the studio on December 26th, St. Stephen’s Day.

Talk To My Lawyer

The annual Christmas swim event took place on Christmas Day in Schull harbor. Bailey was present and was even caught on a video recording. Florence Newman asked Bailey for a Christmas message and here is what he said, “the only comment I have to make is you can talk to my lawyer. I put my trust in God”.  Florence noticed that Bailey kept his hands in his coat pocket. When he removed them she saw on the back of one of his hands’ visible scratches. She noted that they looked unusual and had a random squiggly pattern to them.

Scratches & Cuts

On December 26, 1996, two Garda officers were in an area coffee shop and couldn’t help but notice Bailey as he barged his way to the counter. Bailey was wearing a long sleeve shirt, but they noticed that he had scratches all over his hands. Two days later these same Garda officers visited Bailey at the Prairie Cottage to ask him more questions and to have a closer look at those scratches. Bailey claimed that he had gotten those scratches when he cut off the top of a 20-foot pine tree on December 22nd. There was also a mark on his forehead that he said came from a turkey’s foot when he was about to butcher it. The Garda did not have a camera with them to take any photos. Per the Garda’s procedure at the time they did do a replica drawing of the scratches they had seen.

The Garda wanted to see if someone would get the same type of scratches by doing what Bailey claimed he had done, cutting off the top of a pine tree. So they sent an officer up a similar type of tree to do the same thing. The officer didn’t have similar scratches. Next, they contacted a forester with thirty years of experience to see if the type of tree that Bailey cut the top off of would leave deep scratches. According to the forester, it was highly unlikely.

The Garda also checked with people that had been out on Sunday night with Bailey. This would have been after he claimed to have cut down the tree and before Sophie’s murder. None of them could remember seeing any scratches. 

Bad Press

Bailey continued pushing out article after article in those early days. This was a big news story not only in West Cork but due to the international connection it was all over Europe. Bailey wrote about the Garda investigation although he never attended their press briefings. He wrote about how the Garda were collecting shoes from local suspects to compare to ones from the crime scene. How did he know this? Well, they collected his shoes. He never disclosed to his editors how he came about this information.

At one point, Bailey was giving his own press briefings at the Prairie Cottage where the Garda would often attend to see what he had to say. Bailey would give his theory that Daniel was somehow involved with his wife’s murder. He claimed it was due to money troubles caused by films failing at the box office and owing money to the European mafia. Bailey would also write about the Garda running into roadblocks when they went to France to interview various family members. This last one held some truth. But in the Garda’s eyes, they felt that Bailey was only trying to take the focus off himself by pushing theories that had no truth behind them. They also questioned how Bailey, who never attended their press briefings, seemed to know so much.

The Mysterious Fiona

On January 11, 1997, a call came into the Bandon Garda Station from “Fiona.” She reported that on the night of the murder, between the hours of 3 and 4 am on Coast Road, she had spotted a man on the Kealfadda Bridge. The Coast Road is the only road leading to Sophie’s house. Fiona claimed that she had been out driving when she came upon the bridge. Fiona had to slow down due to the bend in the road and that is when she saw a stumbling man who appeared to be drunk.

She says that she caught him in her headlights and he was wearing a “black coat with some kind of hat wiping his hands down his clothing.”  Fiona hung up, but not before saying that she would call back.  She did not leave any contact information. When the call was traced it was found to have come from a public phone box in Cork City.

This information got Garda’s attention as this sighting could have been Sophie’s killer. After eight days with no contact Noll Smith, Chief Superintendent of the Garda went on the national news show “Crimeline” on January 20th. He appealed to the anonymous caller to reach out to him again as he was very interested in talking to her. On the Crimeline show, a re-enactment of Sophie’s movements was shown from the time she landed in Ireland up to her ending her phone call with her husband that night. The goal was to elicit more contact from the public to see if they had seen anything not yet reported to the Garda.

Fiona would contact the Garda on January 21, 1997, but only to say that she had no additional information to give.

Mystery Woman Unmasked

Fiona did reach out one final time to the Garda on January 24th reporting the same information that she had previously given, however, this time she made the call from her home which the Garda was able to trace to shop owner Marie Farrell. The Garda visited Farrell the next day who stated that she had used a fake name because she had been out driving that night with a man who was not her husband. She reported that her husband, Chris, had thought she was out with some friends when she was in fact with a married man although all they were doing was driving around.  When asked if she recognized the man she had seen on Kealfadda Bridge, Farrell said she was certain it was the same man she had seen outside of her shop and hitchhiking out of town.

In Marie’s formal statement to the Garda on January 28, 1997, she reported that she saw a man in a long black coat on her left on the Goleen side of the junction around 3 am and he appeared to have his hands on top of his head and looked to be in an “awful state” She claimed that she now knew this man to be Ian Bailey from Schull.  In the Netflix documentary, you can watch Marie give an interview with reporters where she states that she had stopped into a news store one day and as she was bending down to get a paper she noticed the man that she had seen on the bridge that night.  She says that she left the store immediately and found the closest Garda officer to report what she had seen.  That officer had informed her that it was Ian Bailey.

Confessions

A few days after Bailey had been visited by Dewert Dwyer, Garda Detective Superintendent, he had given a ride to then 14-year-old Malachi Reed on February 4, 1997. Malachi had asked Bailey for a ride one afternoon when he had spotted him outside of a pub in town. Malachi and Bailey were neighbors and it was not uncommon to share rides as at the time there was no public transportation.

In the car, Malachi asked Bailey how it was going, just a general question.  Bailey replied, “everything was fine until I went up to there with a rock and bashed her fucking brains in.”  After that statement, not much else was said.  When Malachi got home he didn’t initially tell his mother. He did so the next morning and she immediately reported it to the Garda.  Bailey would later say that he didn’t say it the way Malachi reported as he was being sarcastic.

Another Witness

Another person who would become a witness to Bailey’s confessions of having killed Sophie was The Sunday Tribune editor Helen Callanan. Helen had contacted Bailey on December 26th to cover the story for the Tribune and the pair would talk each week to go over what would be printed the following weekend. Helen claimed that during one of their conversations Bailey told her he had spoken to Sophie before her murder as he had met her previously on one of her trips to Ireland.

She would report that when she found out that Bailey was a suspect in the murder but still kept submitting articles she confronted him on January 30th about the rumors. She would later testify in court that Bailey said, “It was me. I did it. I killed her. I did it to resurrect my career.”  Once again Bailey would claim he was being sarcastic.

Dewert Dwyer felt that Ian Bailey was their main suspect as Bailey fit the initial profile. The Garda also questioned how Bailey had gotten to the murder scene so quickly as if he knew exactly where to go. All of these reasons lead to Bailey becoming the main suspect in Sophie’s murder.

Under Arrest

On February 10, 1997, at 10:45 am Ian Bailey is arrested and brought in for questioning in the murder of Madame Sophie Tuscon du Plantier. According to Dewert Dwyer, there were at least five reasons for Bailey’s arrest per an interview for the West Cork Podcast. One, Bailey lived close to the murder scene.  Two, Bailey had a history of violence.  Three, Bailey had scratches on his hands and a mark on his head that were not noticed by anyone before Sophie’s murder but were noticed the day after. Four, the Marie Farrell sighting of Bailey at Kealfadda Bridge, and five, Bailey’s alleged confessions. Bailey’s attorney advised him not to answer any questions, but he disregarded that advice and talked to the Garda. He is held for twelve hours and questioned by 10 to 15 officers.

Bailey Is Released

Under Ireland law, a suspect can be held only up to 12 hours and if there is no confession they are to be released and that is exactly what happened. Thomas was also arrested and later released, but it was from their questioning that one fact came to light. Bailey had gotten up at some point in the night and left his house.  Bailey claimed that he got up to finish an article and he had to go down to the cottage to use his typewriter.  The cottage is located approximately 100 yards from his home. The Garda felt that it was unlikely for him to get up in the dark in the freezing temperatures and go down to the cottage that had no heat to work. They did however believe that he had left his home and gone somewhere else.

There would be a second arrest in January 1998. The Garda by this time had more witness statements including Marie Farrel’s statements and once again Bailey would be held for 12 hours of questioning and once again the Garda failed to gain any new information or a confession and Bailey was released.

DDP

The Department of Public Prosecutions or the DPP in Ireland holds the ultimate authority over whether or not someone is charged and prosecuted for a crime. In February 1997, the Garda wrote to the DPP asking for Bailey to be formally charged in a 2000 page report of their investigation. They felt that failing to do so may result in the likelihood that he would kill again and that witnesses living close to him were in danger and the only way to prevent any more violent attacks or murders was to take him into formal custody. At the time, James Hamilton was the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The DDP released their report of what had been presented to them by the Garda and didn’t feel that there was enough evidence to warrant formal charges and in turn a prosecution. Their report was entitled “ ANALYSIS OF THE EVIDENCE TO LINK IAN BAILEY TO THE SOPHIE TOSCAN DU PLANTIER MURDER with the first section titled “ Lack of Forensic Evidence linking Ian Baily to the murder scene.”  The DDP also seemed to accept all of the explanations that Bailey had given from the scratches to the confessions. The author also noted that Bailey had willingly given up his DNA, fingerprints, and a hair sample when he was arrested in February 1997. In doing so the DDP found that “his voluntary provision of fingerprints and a specimen of his blood is objectively indicative of innocence.”

Prosecution Not Warranted!

They also didn’t find Marie Farrell’s statement reliable. In her initial interviews, she described the man on the bridge as being of shallow skin and having a thin face standing around 5’8’’ to then 5”10 or taller. Bailey stands over 6 ft. They also felt Farrell unreliable as she had refused to give up the name of the man she was alleged with that night. The report went on to say “for all we know the person might refute the suggestion that the man on the road was Bailey ” meaning perhaps the man she was with wouldn’t back up her version of events.

They also felt that both Bailey and Thomas were credible and convincing in their statements and since Bailey willingly gave up his DNA that leaned toward him having nothing to hide.  This belief in credibility didn’t seem to extend to the number of witnesses who gave statements as to Bailey’s various confessions, statements before the 1:40 pm phone call from Eddie Cassidy, or other statements regarding noticing scratches the day after the murder and fire behind the studio cottage.

The DPP seemed to disregard witness statements that weren’t given promptly. Case in point, James Camier the stull owner in Goleen who claimed that Thomas had told him that Bailey had to cover a murder the morning of December 23rd, between 11 and 11:30 am. Camier had made his statement to the Garda on September 21, 1998, almost two years after Sophie’s murder in 1996. The DPP also felt that Camier’s statement was unreliable since he didn’t mention the murder to anybody else that morning. The report ended with “a prosecution against Bailey is not warranted by the evidence.”

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