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

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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu Real Crime (29 September 2003). 'Til Death us do Part (Television documentary). ITV. The man was nervous and refused to give his name, and Oxley started to tape the call. The social worker soon came to the point. “There’s this guy,” he said. “Derek Williams. I’m worried about him. He’s been making all sorts of allegations… This guy is weird. He’s told me a lot of things over the months. He doesn’t brag about it. He’s very calm and matter of fact… He says he’s done an armed robbery… He carries a knife and he’s told me he’s done a girl.” In retrospect, this was the point at which lawyers began to get seriously worried about the court of appeal. Since then, a number of other seemingly meritorious appeals have been turned down, among them the case of Stephen Craven.

Colin Stagg, David Kessler: The Lizzie James Conspiracy. House of Solomon 2001, ISBN 978-1-904037-00-2. On 23 July 1992, 28-year-old Hanby was found stabbed to death at a home in Bramely, Leeds. The former owner of the home and his homeless girlfriend went the run after the murder and were arrested. The girlfriend was also on the run from the nearby HM Prison New Hall at the time, having been previously convicted of killing a man and for theft. There are, however, no records of any convictions in Hanby's case. [125] 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. The Taylor sisters were found guilty of the murder in 1992, but one year later their convictions were overturned by the Court of Appeal because the prosecution had failed to turn evidence over to the defence, and because the sensationalist media coverage may have influenced jurors. Reinvestigations of the case by the Metropolitan Police did not identify any other suspects, and in 2002 it was decided to no longer formally investigate the case.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. 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. [1] Taylor sisters become suspects [ edit ]

a b "Woman in murder trial tells of jealousy". The Independent. 20 July 1992 . Retrieved 20 July 2022. DNA profiling and the case that started it all". The Times. London. 21 June 2006. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011 . Retrieved 22 May 2010.Next week, lawyers for the Taylor sisters are due to go to the Court of Appeal to try and quash their convictions. They hope to raise a series of questions about the case. Was the trial prejudiced by unfair press coverage? Did a crucial witness lie? Was it physically possible for the girls to have committed the murder? And whatever happened to Derek Williams? A year and a half passed. Michelle calmed down. John announced his engagement to Alison. 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. Michelle still worked with John at the clinic and, occasionally, when Alison was not around, she slept with him, until the autumn of 1990 when she decided that this was only going to hurt her and she stopped the relationship for good. She stayed friends with John and Alison, started going out with a theatre nurse called Tim and put the whole affair behind her.

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 stranAPA style: ALISON WAS STABBED, BUT I LOST MY LIFE TOO; Woman cleared of Irish murder tells of her pain.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Nov 26 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/ALISON+WAS+STABBED%2c+BUT+I+LOST+MY+LIFE+TOO%3b+Woman+cleared+of+Irish...-a082452614 Michelle is still angry at the way that Fleet Street lynched her. “It was such crap. We couldn’t believe what they were doing but we never thought it would make a difference. When they found us guilty, I just went blank. I felt empty.” How prejudicial reporting has led to collapsed trials". BBC News. 24 June 2011 . Retrieved 20 July 2022. On Monday 3 June 1991, Alison finished work at 5:00 p.m. as usual, and made her way home to Vardens Road. [1] She had told colleagues that she was planning to soon have children with John. [1] She wanted to move away with John to Ireland to start a family there. [1] Laurence Allison: Forensic Psychologists Handbook: Psychological Profiling and Criminal Investigation (2013) ISBN 9781134028863, p.198

There is good evidence that juries are capable of insulating themselves from the prejudice of newspapers. There is the striking example of John De Lorean, the California car maker who was filmed by the FBI discussing a massive cocaine deal with undercover officers who were posing as drug dealers. When De Lorean was arrested, that film was broadcast around the world, to most damning effect. But when he came to trial, the jury acquitted him on the basis of the evidence before them. But what no jury can do is to acquit a defendant if the evidence of truth is concealed. There were two important pieces of additional evidence. One of Lisa’s fingerprints was matched with a print on the inside of the front door of Alison’s flat in Vardens Road, Batter-sea, yet both Michelle and Lisa had firmly denied that Lisa had ever been there. Then, a surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital, Michael Unsworthwhite, who also lives in Vardens Road, informed detectives that, when cycling past at about 5.45 p.m. on the day of the murder, he had seen two girls running down the steps from the flat. A pathologist had already estimated the time of murder to be 6 p.m. Michelle and Lisa did have an alibi. At 6 p.m. Michelle was seen at work by several people; and Jacqueline (‘J.J.’) Tapp, a close friend who also worked at the Churchill, said that Michelle and Lisa were with her, watching Neighbours, during the critical 5.30-6 period. It was when she later retracted her statement that the sisters’ fate was sealed.To some extent, the appeal court always had substituted itself for the jury, by allowing convictions to stand in cases where there had been a material irregularity, but in which the court deemed that no injustice had occurred because the jury would have convicted anyway. However, the "unsafe" test gave the judges far greater scope to reach their own conclusions on the merits of a case. Campbell, Duncan (22 June 2006). "Police quiz new suspect in Wimbledon Common murder case". Guardian Unlimited. London . Retrieved 22 May 2010.