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The Dream Solution: The Murder of Alison Shaughnessy - and the Fight to Name Her Killer

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On 7 July, the Daily Mail and Daily Express launched into what – for all the papers, but particularly the tabloids – would be splash coverage of the trial with almost identical front-page headlines: ‘Sisters “Knifed Bride 54 Times”. Similarly, Alison Shaughnessy was always the ‘bride’, notwithstanding the inconvenient fact that her wedding had taken place the previous summer. The social worker explained that he had often seen Derek Williams sleeping rough around the Strand and that more recently he had come across him in a squat in Battersea.

alison shaughnessy murder: taylor sisters convicted:; england: london: ext cms john shaughnessy out of court and along as surrounded by press track. After that, the sisters would have had to park the car, and Michelle would have had to compose herself so thoroughly that not even close associates could detect anything untoward in her manner.

There were also doubts raised about the reliability of forensic evidence, and it was found that the press influenced the jury decision. The Evening Standard did report the crucial statement of Christina Wright, but otherwise its lavish photographic presentation – ‘first pictures of the sisters accused of murdering bride’ – reinforced the overall impression that this was a murder case and a half. From the outset the case was surrounded by inordinate, inaccurate and somewhat hysterical publicity.

Michelle had even organised and paid for John's stag night, and John paid for her flight and hotel when she came for the wedding. Shaughnessy was newly married, but her husband was having an affair with a 20-year-old woman, Michelle Taylor. Michelle picked her up, eliminating any possibility of testing her clothes, car or hands for forensic evidence.alison shaughnessy murder: taylor sisters appeal; england: london: high court: ext yellow prison van bringing michelle and lisa taylor to court as.

Michele and Lisa were reportedly seen at a clinic four miles from Alison’s home at 6pm on the day of the murder. Still it was obvious that JJ had lied at some point, either in her first three statements or in her later interview with police. She and Shaughnessy had undoubtedly cheated on Alison as that expression is commonly used in a sexual relationship". Michelle worked alongside John Shaughnessy, Alison’s husband, at the Churchill Clinic in Lambeth, and the police quickly picked up the gossip about an affair between them.

Jeannette Tapp, 26, a theatre assistant at the Churchill clinic, had originally given both girls a cast iron alibi for the evening of the murder. Michelle Taylor was always the ‘blonde jealous mistress’, though she wasn’t a blonde, and according to the defence, was not at the time of the crime either jealous or John Shaughnessy’s mistress. She gave an accurate description of what Alison had been wearing and told the police that she must have come in after six, because the Six O’clock News had already started on the BBC.

No new evidence or suspects were found, and it was decided to no longer investigate the case as no more could be done. Police inquiries quickly established that John and Michelle Taylor were having an affair at the time of the murder.

It was vital evidence, and the police readily accepted his explanation for not having offered it sooner, despite the fact that it was compromised by his inclusion of a man on the steps of the house. The case was reported in the tabloid press under lurid headlines such as Love Crazy Mistress Butchered Rival Wife. taylor sisters appeal; itn england: london: high court lms michelle and lisa taylor along to court as escorted by prison officers r-l cms mother and. Had an intruder climbed the drainpipe or climbed onto the flat roof they almost certainly would have left fingerprints, shoemarks or scuffing by hands or feet, but experts found no such evidence. The quotation marks were employed on that occasion but were not always used, as ‘Wedding Day Love Cheats’ and similar dominated the news pages.

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