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. 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. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

When asked how she felt about Alison, she responded "When you see a person and you don't see the other person with them, it doesn't really enter your head. Michelle Taylor addresses reporters outside the court following the quashing on appeal of her and her sister Lisa Taylor’s convictions for the murder of bank clerk Alison Shaughnessy. Michelle said she was just trying to keep Lisa out of the police inquiry; the police said she was covering up crime. Lisa and Michelle’s lawyers feared that if the trial were evenly poised, the newspapers might tip the balance against them. In the summer of 1987, when she was 16, Michelle got her first job, as a clerk in the accounts department of a private health clinic in Lambeth Road, south London.The name Derek Williams is false and has been substituted for the real one to avoid legal prejudice.

Two detectives hadd finally turned up to interview them, they said, but by that time Williams had been long gone and the police had showed little interest in their story. And although it was never argued before the judges yesterday, one proposed ground of appeal was that evidence had been unearthed which might suggest a young vagrant had committed the crime. When asked if she knew if John had any extra-marital affairs, she did not disclose hers and instead claimed he had affairs with other women. In July 1995, the Taylor sisters had an attempt to prosecute the newspapers involved in the case rejected by the High Court in London.When there were, disappointingly, only defence arguments to report, then the story would be run inconspicuously, or omitted altogether. 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. 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. Almost a year earlier he had said one of them might have been black and he said they were walking - not hurrying away.

Michelle Taylor was imprisoned at HM Prison Holloway, while Lisa Taylor was sent to a young offenders institute (being under 21 when sentenced). In 2001, the case was highlighted as such when a trial of professional footballers Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer collapsed due to press and media intrusion. The behaviour of Dr Unsworth-White's fiancee, Dr Sarah Ford, in the affair was also 'very odd', he said.But what is of particular concern in the Taylor case is that once again the prosecuting authorities - this time solely the police - concealed evidence which might have pointed to the sisters' innocence. If JJ would admit that her original alibi was the truth, it would be the end of the Crown’s case: Michelle and Lisa could not possibly have been in Battersea at all.