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

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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. The name Derek Williams is false and has been substituted for the real one to avoid legal prejudice. No new evidence or suspects were found, and it was decided to no longer investigate the case as no more could be done.

Report including interview with solicitor Michael Holmes following the appeal court decision to free two sisters, Michelle and Lisa Taylor, convicted of the murder of Alison Shaughnessy.It was said that the media was as much to blame as the police in this leading to a miscarriage of justice. The pathologist also concluded from the shallow depths of the wounds that the attacker was a woman, since they had not been made by someone of great strength.

Since then he has made documentaries, written for The Observer and New Statesman, and spent a period in the BBC's Drama Serials Department. 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.

It appears that it is possible to get away with murder, and there is something very ironic and deeply objectionable about O'Mahoney attempting to manipulate the system to satisfy one set of beliefs and then denouncing it because it is capable of manipulation. Both of them are holding on to their humour in the hope that the court of appeal will open the prison door for them. The police found a five-inch knife concealed inside a mop in a cleaning van belonging to the girls' father Derek Taylor, but after extensive forensic tests nothing was found. He was co-author of Killing Rage - the autobiography of former IRA supergrass Eamon Collinspublished by Granta Books in 1997.

One had a ponytail, a hairstyle favoured by Lisa Taylor, and he had never seen them in Vardens Road before. But in August 1991 she was arrested in an early morning raid and cautioned for conspiracy to murder. The police considered whether Michelle and Lisa Taylor could be charged with perjury or perverting the course of justice (they could not be re-charged with murder because of the double jeopardy laws in place at the time).

However, fingerprints from Michelle and her 18-year-old sister Lisa were found on the inside of the front door.