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25/07/92
- My girl's fatal error
Daily Express
ALISON would be alive today if she had not married, her father
believes. "Looking back now, I suppose the only mistake
she ever made was getting married," said Bob Blackmore,
50. His daughter fell for Irish charmer John Shaughnessy when
she was 16.
They met at a North London pub in 1986, two months before
Alison went to work for Barclays. The couple became engaged
in 1989 and married a year later. Alison's parents realised
Mr Shaughnessy was their daughter's life.
But by then he was already having an affair with the girl
who stabbed the young bride to death. "He was always
with Alison," said her mother. "They did everything
together. John was her first boyfriend and he was her life.
"I would have been happy if she had experienced life
a little more, but she didn't see it like that.
"Alison was such a lovely, sweet girl she would have
done anything for John. "Everything was just fine there
was nothing on the horizon to spoil things. Then this happens."
Mrs Blackmore, 48, added: "It still hasn't really sunk
in. I still talk to her as if she's sitting here with me watching
an old movie. She loved those.
"She was a great friend as well as a marvellous daughter.
She can't be replaced." Mrs Blackmore revealed Alison
and Mr Shaughnessy were planning their future in Ireland.
They wanted children.
And she explained why she, her husband and other relatives
made a daily pilgrimage to the Old Bailey. "The trial
is about Alison and anything to do with Alison is of the highest
importance to us. "If she has been overshadowed by all
the publicity, the important thing is we will never forget
her," she said.
Alison was earning £12,850 a year at Barclays, where
her bosses described her as having a "very bright future."
She took her first communion at the Church of the Assumption,
Piltown, County Kilkenny, where she later married. Now Alison
lies in the graveyard of the same church. |
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