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

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Michelle made friends again with both of them and when they were married in Ireland in the summer of 1990, she went to the wedding. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. alison shaughnessy murder: taylor sisters convicted:; ireland: county kilkenny: piltown: ext gv church where alison buried pull out gravestones. The pathologist described these wounds, and the amount of them, as unnecessary, since it would not have been needed to stab her 54 times to kill her.

Michelle claimed that the affair between her and John had ended months prior, but John discredited this when he revealed that they had sex as recently as three weeks before the murder. If that was right, both JJ and Lisa could prove that Michelle could not possibly have been waiting to attack Alison at twenty to six. Alison was everything Michelle wasn't , attractive, sociable, a good job, a home and a husband and a loving family where she was an overweight chav with a bad perm and a fondness for murderers such as Winton Sillcott , easily flattered and willing to shag anything that so much as nodded in her direction , an easy ride . Alison was buried in Piltown, in the cemetery of the church in which she and John Shaughnessy had married.She had just moved into a new house with her husband and they planned to move back to Ireland to start a family. Although O'Manoney and McGovern's account suggests strongly that the Taylors and no other murdered Alison Shaunessy, the sisters were convicted on the basis of largely circumstantial evidence, unreliable eye witness accounts and press reporting that was highly prejudicial and, as a result, their convictions incontrovertibly deserved to be overturned.

John was found to have a cast-iron alibi for the murder (having been at work at the time) and so was eliminated from inquiries. The volunteer social worker and his colleague turned out to be almost homeless themselves and they had vanished from their old haunts. But in August 1991 she was arrested in an early morning raid and cautioned for conspiracy to murder.Lisa and Michelle’s lawyers feared that if the trial were evenly poised, the newspapers might tip the balance against them. She also recorded her feelings towards Alison, and a soon-to-be infamous passage was found that read "my dream solution would be for Alison to disappear as if she never existed". The quotation marks were employed on that occasion but were not always used, as ‘Wedding Day Love Cheats’ and similar dominated the news pages.

Michelle Taylor, Mr Shaughnessy's lover, stabbed Mrs Shaughnessy 54 times, in a 'frenzied attack ' on 3 June 1991, while Lisa encouraged and supported her. They struggled on, slowly attracting more attention from decent newspapers and television programmes. On 3 June 1991, 21-year-old Alison Shaughnessy ( née Blackmore; born 7 November 1969) was stabbed to death in the stairwell of her flat near Clapham Junction station.

No new evidence or suspects were found, and it was decided to no longer investigate the case as no more could be done. The defence, however, claimed that this showed that the Taylors could not have been the two women who carried out the murder and said this should have been presented at the trial. alison shaughnessy murder: taylor sisters appeal; a)nat: england: london: high court: ext lms michelle and lisa taylor along to court as escorted by. On a Sunday afternoon in the visiting room, sitting across a table littered with crisp packets and fizzy drinks, they look back on the last year like a bad video they don’t ever want to see again.

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