The Englishman, who has long been linked to the case, spoke out after it emerged a pal of his ex-partner Jules Thomas had come forward and claimed he saw Bailey with scratches criss-crossed all over his hand in a bar in Schull on December 23, 1996 - the day the French filmmaker's body was found
Ian Bailey said the scratches on his hands after Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered were from killing turkeys and insisted he never tried to hide them.Roger Broke, who now lives in Italy, met with cold case gardai investigating the gruesome murder and described the marks he saw on Bailey’s hands.He also drew a sketch of what he saw for them in Bantry in 2021. He had previously made a statement to police in the UK in 2014 and then contacted the Gardai a year later.
He said he had never ever tried to hide the scratches on his hand around that time and said he got them from killing turkeys and cutting down a Christmas tree. "It is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. The police tried twice before and the DPP said no, there is no evidence.
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