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

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

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

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Deceit - episode 4" (Television production). All 4. (End credits): Channel 4. 2021 . Retrieved 21 August 2021. Pilch's wife reported finding him dead at their Church Street cottage on 13 September, and it was believed the 34-year-old had died from natural causes until a pathologist found that he had been strangled. Three men were cleared of his murder. [38] [39] And although the defence was that Michelle Taylor was not John Shaughnessy's mistress at the material time, virtually all the press referred to her as such, with such headlines as 'Love crazy mistress butchers wife'. year-old Gorrie was found half-naked and strangled on 2 August in the grounds of Merchistoun Hall in Horndean. The hall was in the same village as her home, which she had left three nights previously to see a 21-year-old man named John Corcoran. She had also seen him on the night of 29 July as he cruised around the area in his vehicle, and he later telephoned her to ask her to meet him. Corcoran was convicted of stran Arthur Thompson was the 31-year-old son of the Scottish gangster with the same name and died outside his parents' home on 17 August when a car pulled up there and an occupant or occupants of the vehicle shot him. A man was found not guilty of the murder. [82]

Colin Evans: A Question of Evidence: The Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies from Napoleon to O.J. (2003) ISBN 9780471462682, p.210 Dr Unsworthwhite, the cycling surgeon, occupies a puzzling place in these events. After the murder, police conducted house-to-house inquiries along Vardens Road. Had anyone noticed anything suspicious on the day of the murder? No, replied the doctor, he had seen nothing of interest or relevance. That was on 5 June, two days after the murder. However, when police approached him again on 4 August, he said that he had, after all, seen two girls running down the steps from the Shaughnessys’ flat, with a man behind them. He had omitted to mention this before, he said, because he had not, at the time, connected two girls with the crime. 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. Jones, Gary (4 April 2001). "SISTERS QUIZ; Pair who had murder sentences quashed face new police probe". The Mirror. p.14. year-old Hurling arrived home from work at approximately 11 pm on Friday, 30 November and was found beaten and strangled to death there early the next day. Charges did not follow any of the three arrests made in the hunt for the accountant's killer(s). [45]At the end of the trial, and after only five and a half hours of deliberation, the jury found the Taylor sisters guilty of murder by a unanimous verdict. [1] Waugh, a 41-year-old woman with an intellectual disability, was discovered to be missing from Knowl House care home, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on the morning of 28 December. Her body was found seven weeks later in a reservoir 25 miles away. One of the deputy officers of the home was arrested then released. Waugh's murder was explored in March 1996 in Network First: The Killing of Kathleen Waugh – an episode of an ITV documentary series. [110] [111]

Craven's has been a cause célèbre in the north-east for some years. He was convicted of the murder of a young girl after a fracas in a Newcastle nightclub. During the CCRC reinvestigation, it emerged that the murder weapon - a shard of glass - had a fingerprint on it. The fingerprint was not Craven's, but police had never disclosed this information to the defence. The mother of the Taylors, Anne Taylor, made an appeal to Ireland, where Alison's family were from and where she was buried, asking for Irish people to support the sisters and saying "I believe my daughters are victims of British Justice just as much as the Birmingham Six or the Guildford Four". [20] When the case reached the Old Bailey in September 1994, Mr Justice Ognall ruled that the police had shown "excessive zeal" and had tried to incriminate Stagg by "deceptive conduct of the grossest kind". He excluded all the entrapment evidence on the grounds that Stagg's descriptions of the murder were not nearly as close to the reality as the police had maintained. With no other evidence to present, the prosecution withdrew its case and Stagg was acquitted. [7] [8]In the late 1980s, when the cases of the Birmingham Six and other major injustices led to a storm of public protest about the criminal justice system, there were two areas of criticism: the feeble and dilatory performance of the Home Office in identifying potential miscarriages of justice; and the subsequent inability of the appeal court to recognise (or, at least, to respond appropriately to) cases of wrongful conviction. There was much more. There were headlines about love-crazy mistresses and butchered wives which had no basis in evidence. There was the Daily Express reporting “Killer wept as she stroked her victim’s hair” though that had never been said in court. There was the Daily Sport explaining that Michelle Taylor had kept a diary, which was an accurate report, and adding that it contained “her true feelings of suppressed jealousy and hatred for her rival”, which was thoroughly inaccurate. 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. The police officer instantly saw a significance in this: two days earlier, a 21-year-old woman named Alison Shaughnessy had been found stabbed to death in the hallway of her flat in Vardens Road, Battersea. He started to push the social worker for more information. On 24 July this year, an Old Bailey jury found Michelle Taylor, aged 21, and her 19-year-old sister Lisa guilty of the murder of Alison Shaughnessy. In the opinion of Detective Superintendent Chris Burke, who had led the investigation, the verdict was ‘brilliant’. Alison, the wife of Michelle’s former boyfriend, had been stabbed 54 times. An uninformed observer might well have reasoned that in due course Michelle and Lisa would take their place as two of the most notorious murderers in English criminal history. Yet I believe that the case against the Taylor sisters is far from clear-cut. The prosecution QC John Nutting was heavily criticised for his defence of the conviction at the appeal, after he declared that the fact that the document had not been discussed at the trial was unjustifiable and the investigating officers were very sorry. The Metropolitan Police officers who investigated the case said that this amounted to capitulation. [1]

Two weeks later, JJ Tapp was woken at twenty to six in the morning by four detectives who arrived at her room with a search warrant and a stunning announcement. They told her they were arresting her for conspiracy to murder Alison Shaughnessy. JJ was bewildered. Colin Stagg, David Kessler: Who Really Killed Rachel? Greenzone Publishing 1999, ISBN 978-0-9582027-2-5.Steele, John (25 July 1992). "The deadly secret held in Taylor's notebooks". Irish Independent. p.15.



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