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17/11/94 - Police in murder
case not to be charged
Independent
No police officers are to be prosecuted over the investigation
into the murder three years ago of 21-year-old bank clerk
Alison Shaughnessy, the Crown Prosecution Service said
yesterday. Michelle and Lisa Taylor were found guilty
of murdering the bank clerk in July 1992 but their conviction
was ruled unsafe and unsatisfactory by the Court of Appeal
a year later.
They and their mother, Ann Taylor, made several complaints
against Metropolitan Police officers who carried out the
murder investigation. Mrs Shaughnessy's body was found
by her husband John, and Michelle, a colleague who was
giving him a lift home, in June 1991 at the couple' s
home in Battersea, south-west London.
She had been stabbed 54 times. Mr Shaughnessy and Michelle
had had anaffair in 1989 - while he was engaged to Alison
- but it had ended by the time of the murder.
The complaints were investigated by Chief Superintendent
Bill Griffiths of the Metropolitan Police under the supervision
of the Police Complaints Authority. The CPS received his
report in August which was ``considered carefully' '.
It said yesterday: ``There is insufficient evidence to
support a realistic prospect of convicting any police
officer for any criminal offence arising from the conduct
of the original murder investigation, or the subsequent
preparation of the case fortrial.''
A spokesman for the Police Complaints Authority said there
could still be disciplinary action against officers, depending
on recommendations from the Metropolitan Police. |
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