Coming soon as a Law and Order episode

Yesterday we mentioned the odd libel trial concerning the west Cork murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. The police's "person of interest" (as John Ashcroft would say), Ian Bailey, is suing several media organisations for implying that he is the murderer. It's becoming apparent that this is the most ill-advised libel case since Oscar Wilde -- he'll be lucky to get out of the courtroom without blurting out a confession at this rate. Because he certainly seems to have done some confessing already:

Malachi Reid [a 14 year old boy who knew Bailey] said that Mr Bailey told him he 'bashed her brains in'.

And there's all kinds of stuff that keeps those TV investigators in business -- the details of the crime he couldn't have known, the timelines that don't add up. West Cork is full of writers, local and expatriate, who now have some choices to make: to pitch it as a New Yorker article, or write the movie script, or both? Where is Talk magazine when you need it?