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24/07/92
- Murder jury warned
By PAUL FULLER
Daily Express
THE judge in the Alison Shaughnessy love-triangle murder trial
yesterday warned the Jury to avoid making the case a moral
issue. "Juries do not make moral judgments.
Judges in my view should not make moral judgments. We are
here to do a job," said Mr Justice Blofeld in his summing-up.
"Inevitably all of us have got views about the morals
of some of the witnesses we have heard in this case."
But the jury at the Old Bailey, he said, should apply their
minds to whether sisters Lisa and Michelle Taylor were guilty
of murder. Lisa, 19, and Michelle, 21, of Kemble Road, Forest
Hill, South London, deny murdering Alison.
The jury is expected to retire today. They have heard that
Michelle had a protracted affair with Alison's husband John.
The judge said the jury might take the view that John was
behaving. badly to both his wife and Michelle.
"This is not the first time in history that has happened,"
he said. No evidence existed that the sisters waited for bank
clerk Alison to return home before murdering her, Lisa's lawyer
Lady Mallalieu, QC, told the jury. The killing was more likely
to have been carried out by an intruder, she said. |
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