The Blow-In: Ian Bailey’s fight to clear his name, thirty-year cold case… A beautiful victim seeking refuge from her high-society life. A handsome drop-out with a history of domestic violence.
When the wife of a wealthy French film-maker was murdered in her Irish holiday home on a remote Irish peninsula, a local freelance journalist thought he had the ‘scoop’ that would revive his career.
Instead, he was arrested for the murder of the mother-of-one.
The only strong evidence was retracted after the chief witness claimed police had coerced her to frame her neighbour (an allegation the officers have consistently denied). Ian Bailey was never charged with murder in Ireland, because three consecutive Directors of Prosecutions felt the case against him was, at best, local gossip. He voluntarily gave DNA samples which came back negative. He had no motive or opportunity to carry out this brutal attack on the far side of a mountain within a half-hour time-frame.
Yet he spent the next thirty years trying to clear his name, a decade fighting extradition attempts – and the last five years of his life living under the shadow of a sentence handed down in Paris after he was convicted in absentia.
He died in a public street at the age of sixty-six, destitute, alone – and still protesting his innocence.

Geraldine Comiskey

Paedophile Garda Jailed.

As the judge said, the children have nothing to be ashamed of – so why does the law still gaslight children into thinking it is for their own protection that paedos are not named in court? When the victims are told it’s to protect their dignity, or to protect them from being shamed, the unsubtle message they are getting is that they should feel undignified and ashamed because of what someone else did to them. We don’t “protect” other crime victims in this way. The victims of rape and sexual assault should not have to “waive their right to anonymity” to be heard; they shouldn’t have to fight against the pressure from society to take this decision which everyone will say is “brave” (which of course it is – but it shouldn’t need to be). In this culture of victim-shaming, the victims of sexual abuse are made to feel that they are relinquishing their rights when they publicly call-out their abusers!