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25/07/92
- She was Perfect wife..He was the perfect S***
By Ramsay Smith
Daily Mirror
TWO-timing John Shaughnessy was branded a "callous creep"
by police who investigated his wife's horrific murder. Detectives
were stunned when he asked them to return victim Alison's travel
pass.
One officer said: "He said he wanted it because there was
a few quid still to run on it-and he wanted it back before it
ran out." The disgusted detective, who spent weeks in Shaughnessy's
company, added: "Alison was a perfect wife and he was a perfect
shit.
He is an arrogant, pompous little man who believes he is God's
gift to women and still thinks he has done nothing wrong. "With
Michelle Tay/or chasing him, he was on an ego trip - and used
her just as a tool to satisfy his lust."
Former altar boy Shaughnessy defended himself by saying that devoted
Alison would have forgiven him for his affair with Taylor, who
with sister Lisa stabbed her love rival 54 times.
He added: "Whatever I did was not a licence for these girls
to kill. The bitches . . . they got both of us. Alison is dead
and I might just as well be." Police were furious that Shaughnessy
kept his affair with Taylor secret until weeks after Alison's
death.
Within days of the murder, detectives picked up rumours of the
romance. Shaughnessy finally coughed the full details in an eight-hour
interview seven weeks later.
But a detective said: "We had to drag it out of him."
Shaughnessy admitted he had ended up in bed with Taylor two weeks
AFTER Alison's funeral. He said he agreed to let her spend the
night in his hotel room following his brother's wedding in Ballinasloe.
Ireland.
The morning after Taylor started to make love to Shaughnessy as
they lay naked. But he stopped her. A senior detective said: "John
was not guilty of killing his wife. But he is morally guilty of
betraying her."That is an issue he cannot duck."
Another policeman said Alison's parents always phoned during the
murder hunt to check on developments. He added: "There weren't
many calls from Shaughnessy."
The husband hit back by saying: "I'm guilty of having an
affair made a mistake — but I didn't commit the crime."
Shaughnessy described his wife as "my dream girl."
He said: "I think she would have forgiven me for having the
affair. She's that type. "The night before she died we talked
about having children. She said she hoped they would have my dimples
and I said I hoped they would have her brown eyes.
"I don't see that I betrayed her - it didn't happen that
way. I didn't chase Michelle Taylor. She pestered me." Shaughnessy
says he has often thought about committing suicide since Alison's
death.
He added: "I don't think there is a day goes by when I don't
break down. I loved Alison then and I love her now. "I have
a plot right next to Alison's grave. I wish I was in mine and
she was out of hers."
Shaughnessy recalled the night when Taylor gave him a lift home
hours after she knifed Alison ... so he could find the wife's
bloodsoaked body. He said: "She wanted to break my heart.
She had killed Alison and knew that would kill me, too."
Shaughnessy vowed he would never marry again and said: "I'm
not the kind of bloke to put it around."
Yet his cousin Joe, 54, described him as a romeo who had women
eating out of his hands. The pair lived together when Shaughnessy
first moved to London. And Joe said: "During that time he
had a different girl every night." |
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