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- Unfaithful husband glad to see justice is done
'Alison can rest in peace now those people have been sent to prison'
Reports by John Steele, Courts Correspondent
JOHN SHAUGHNESSY said yesterday after the jailing of his mistress,
Michelle Taylor, and her sister, Lisa, for the murder of his wife,
Alison: "It's good to see that it's all over and justice
has been done at the end of the day.
"Alison can now rest in peace, now we know that those two
people have been sent to prison.". He thanked Alison's parents,
Bob and Breda Blackmore, who took him in after the murder and
have continued to offer him a home, for their support.
Mrs Blackmore said of her son-in-law: "We are still a family.
We will be talking to John. We will all get together as a family."
She added: "There will be no justice for Alison's death,
but I want the world to know that these two girls did kill her.
That's all I want. "We are not surprised, not in the least,
by the verdict. It is what we came for. The sentence will not
atone for Alison's death. It doesn't matter how many years they
serve. They will be branded murderers for the rest of their lives,
but Alison, she was a wonderful daughter."
Her son, Robert, 19, said: "We are relieved it is all over.
We are going home to have a drink in the pub to celebrate."
Derek and Ann Taylor, the parents of the two sisters, left by
a rear exit, with clothes over their heads, and refused to answer
reporters' questions.
Mr and Mrs Blackmore, of Mountview Road, Stroud Green, north London,
offered a home to John Shaughnessy soon after the murder of their
daughter.
He sat alongside them in the public gallery at the Old Bailey
throughout the trial and, though he is now understood to be staying
in hotels, he has lived regularly with the Blackmores since the
murder in June last year.
Mr Shaughnessy said of Alison: "She was a sweet, sensitive
and gentle person. We liked going out together. She liked going
to pop concerts. She even shared my interest in American football.
"I never thought I was doing anything which would wreck what
was between us," he added.
"Michelle visited me and hung about with us all the time.
"I just wish she had never come into my life. I allowed her
into my life and to get under my skin. "I made a mistake.
They had no reason to kill Alison."
Mrs Blackmore, a proud and determined 48-year-old home care worker,
said: "I suppose I do have complex emotions about John, but
I don't think I would like to share them."
Asked whether she felt the need to forgive or forget his transgressions,
she replied: "We don't think about that." On the subject
of her son-in-law's admission in court that he made a "mistake"
in allowing his illicit affair with Michelle Taylor to continue,
she said tersely: "There's many a man around who has made
a mistake."
She said of the offer of a home to 30-year-old Mr Shaughnessy:
"It was just something that happened. John had no place to
live. He could not go back to Vardens Road, no way. "He is
our son-in-law. Alison was his wife. He has been part of the family.
"It was all those things rolled into one."
Mrs Blackmore admitted that the "love triangle" revelations
of the court case had not come as a surprise, though she did not
know about them until after the Taylors were arrested in August
last year, some time after they had offered Mr Shaughnessy a home.
She denied the revelations had caused a rift between them and
their son-in-law. She said she "didn't know and couldn't
say" whether her daughter would have wanted her to give a
home to Mr Shaughnessy. |
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