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the circumstances. Clearly I’m in difficult circumstances for different reasons, and I’ve been doing the best I can to find a new home.
“It’s been very difficult because of the high profile nature of my existence. It makes it difficult,” he admitted.
“( But) I’ve got friends and I’ve got a lot of support from people.
“What has happened is I’ve made quite a lot of applications by text or email and then I never hear anything back. I don’t know if that’s just me or the way it is,” he said.
Private
Bailey’s former partner Jules backed the eccentric Englishman, and said he never killed Sophie.
She gave him an alibi on the night of the murder before Christmas Eve, 1996, at the French woman’s home outside Schull, West Cork.
Jules also denied washing blood from his clothes.
She said although Bailey had assaulted her on ce or twice in drunken domestic rows, that did not make him a killer.
Bailey had lived with Jules in a house outside Schull.
But he is now renting a house in the other end of Co Cork in Glengarriff, not far from the Kerry border.
It understood he got the house off a friend and the state is paying for most of it via the housing benefit payment
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Bailey is unemployed and publishes poetry books which he sells for €10 each in the markets around west Cork. Jules didn’t want him to end up homeless and let h im stay in her residence until he found a new home. Bailey has been going around some of the pubs in Glengarriff reciting his poems.
Locals say he has had a mixed welcome with some preferring if he lived somewhere else. The Englishman can’t leave the country or he will be arrested.
The French have an international arrest warrant out for him but the Irish courts have refused to extradite him.
Bailey was found guilty of murder in absentia by a Paris court in 2019. He was convicted of Sophie’s murder on the basis of hearsay evidence that would never be allowed in an Irish court of law.
Both Bailey and his legal team branded it a “kangaroo court”. French President Emmanuel Macron in August urged Bailey to attend a new trial in
France. His solicitor Frank Buttimer rejected the plea.
Bailey was arrested twice over the killing but never charged.
Gardai are still treating Sophie’s death as an active investigation.
They still haven’t ruling out charging someone with the murder at some stage, they say.
The file on the case continues to be worked on and all new evidence that has emerged following two high-profile TV documentaries on Sky and Netflix is being followed up.
Block
Sophie was battered to death with a blunt force object and her face was left unrecognisable.
A concrete block was found beside her body, beside the driveway gate to her home.
Meanwhile, it is believed Bailey has still not ruled out taking a lie detector test to prove his innocence.
He has refused to take one from an Irish company but has told friends he would prefer to use one of two independent UK companies which have no connection with Ireland.
UNSEASONABLE heat of 19C will blanket the country today and tomorrow before a dramatic plunge of 4C at night later in the week.
The weather will get considerably colder from Thursday with temperatures dipping as low as 2C in parts of Munster.
But an unusual warm spell will blanket the country today and tomorrow before stormy conditions arrive.
And it will become a lot cooler from that day on as we edge towards November.
A Met Eireann forecaster said: “Temperatures once again will be higher than typical for the time of year, ranging between 15C or 16C in Ulster to 19C in Munster.
Drizzle
“Rain and drizzle will be persistent for a time in the morning but will clear through in the early afternoon.
“There’ll be showers or longer spells of rain on Tuesday, once again some heavy at times.
“Winds will be moderate to fresh southerly and temperatures will once again be around 17C or 18C in the afternoon.”
Wednesday will see that sudden change with colder conditions and wet and windy weather.
The forecaster added: “Conditions will change by mid-week with temperatures in the afternoon of 11C or 12C.
“Winds will be light to moderate westerly and there’ll be rain or showers at times.
“On Thursday, winds will become northerly and temperatures will fall further, with afternoon temperatures of 9C to 11C and down as low as 2C or 3C on Thursday night.”
A BEDTIME glass of warm milk does help you get a good night’s rest, scientists say.
The old-time remedy has peptides that relieve stress and promote sleep, research found.
More than a third of people (36 per cent) struggle to get to sleep at least once a week.
Sedatives such as zolpidem and benzodiazepines are used to treat insomnia but have side effects and are very addictive.
Many work by activating the GABA receptor, a brain protein that suppresses nerve signalling and slows brain activity.
Looking for alternatives, scientists found naturally-sourced peptides in milk to aid sleep.