12/06/95 - We're being stalked say murder case sisters
ALEXANDER HITCHEN
Daily Star

TWO sisters cleared of murdering a young bride have accused the man who fought for their freedom of being a stalker. Michelle and Lisa Taylor say their lives have been made hell by nightclub bouncer Bernard O'Mahoney.

The sisters spent 11 months behind bars until an Appeal Court quashed their convictions for the 1991 murder of Alison Shaughnessy who was stabbed 54 times outside her home in Battersea, south London. Michelle had earlier had a relationship with 21-year-old Alison's husband John.

But while the Taylors were inside O'Mahoney, 34, of Basildon, Essex, wrote to them and campaigned for their freedom. After their release in June 1993 Michelle, 21, had a passionate fling with him. Now the sisters say he used his jailhouse correspondence with them to glean information he could then sell to newspapers.

Today he faces a High Court appearance where the Taylors are bringing a private action for breach of confidence. The girls' solicitor Mark Stephens claims the sisters have endured threatening NOTES pushed through their door, family members being TRAILED and O'Mahoney PARKED outside their south London house at night for hours on end.

O'Mahoney last night admitted he had trailed the Taylor sisters to get them off his back. He claimed a phone pest had plagued his family ever since he gave information about them to the police.

O'Mahoney said: "The calls were traced by British Telecom to telephone boxes and a house owned by Lisa. But investigators said they could do little about it unless they had video evidence of the offenders using telephone boxes to make the calls to my house.

"We told police we were going to do video surveillance and they allowed us. "It was completely above board."