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38. From about the age of 14 years or 15 years, both girls
together with the brother and youngest sister, attended
Ackroyd Community Centre, Hershell Road, Brockley, where
they trained in the Martial Art of Ju-Jitsu. Their trainer
Colin ELGIE, stated that in combat, Michelle was always
aggressive but in control. While he never taught her how
to use weapons he coached her in knife defence.
39. Sometime in 1988 Michelle was at the Club with her sister
Lisa and another girl and Mrs Catherine McCOY recalls an
incident between her and the girls when she was merely trying
to gain entry for her and her daughter into the building.
Having asked them whether or not they were going to enter
the Club, Michelle responded with a harsh rude statement
"I'll kill you, you fucking cunt." The TAYLOR
girls didn't let the matter drop and they followed Mrs McCOY
when she became very frightened. Six months later Mrs McCOY
recalls seeing both girls in Smiths Newsagents, Forest Hill,
when albeit they said nothing to her, their manner was extremely
threatening.
40. Mrs Carol ELGIE recalls the girls being at the Club
and in particular Michelle having a crush on her husband
Colin, and Mrs McCOY's husband Vincent. She states that
both girls were competent at Martial Arts and that Michelle
was very aggressive in combat.
41. Owing to a variety of incidents, the TAYLORS were asked
to leave the Club in 1988. At that time Michelle had attained
a purple belt grade and Lisa a blue belt grade.
42. After she left school Michelle obtained employement
at the Churchill Clinic, 80 Lambeth Road, SE1. On 6th July
1987 she started there as a Bought Ledger Clerk. According
to a colleague, Sally PEEK, an Administration Officer, Michelle
was extremely competent, regarded as a clever girl, and
was well thought of.
43. Albeit that she would have met John SHAUGHNESSY during
the course of her working days, they did not really meet
until John transferred into the stores or purchasing department
in 1989. As previously stated their friendship developed
from there. It would be fair to say that it was common gossip
within the Churchill Clinic that both Michelle and John
were having an affair before and after John and Alison's
marriage.
44. It will be remembered that Michelle moved into the Clinic's
accommodation at 62 Lambeth Road in May 1990. She became
extremely friendly with Jeanette Jackqueline TAPP, a housekeeping
assistant aged 24 years. Miss TAPP lived in the Clinic's
accommodation at 60 Lambeth Road and occupied the room next
to John and Alison.
45. Albeit Michelle would sometimes be in Alison and John's
room to watch television, she more often than not was in
the company with Jeannette TAPP. It was through this association
that TAPP became friends with Lisa TAYLOR.
46. In April 1991 Michelle resigned from her accounts job
at the Clinic and took on part time employment as a housekeeper.
She worked from 3.30pm. to 8.30pm. on Thursdays, Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays. Michelle gave the excuse that she
changed jobs so that she could spend more time on her catering
work because she wanted to start her own business in that
kind of work.
47. For the past three to four months she has also been
working for her father, Derek TAYLOR, who runs a floor cleaning
business. He is a sub-contractor and takes work from three
separate companies; Initial Contract Services Ltd., T &
L Cleaning Contractors, Aldershot and Blue Ribbon Cleaning
Company, Aldershot.
48. The work entails cleaning floors in Shopping Centres
such as the Arndale Centre, Wandsworth and occasionally
Fire Stations and Schools. 49. They have a fairly stable
routine. At 6.00am they clean the floors in the Arndale
Centre at Wandsworth until 7.00 o'clock ish when they go
for breakfast at nearby MacDonalds. At 7.30am. they return
and
49. /Continued... clean the floors in Woolworths in the
Arndale Centre until about 9.30am. According to Derek TAYLOR
the contract for Woolworths on a Wednesday morning stopped
about two to three weeks prior to the murder incident.
50. While Michelle helped John on Monday evenings she never
received any regular money for the work, only the odd cash
payment when John thought it necessary.
51. As previously stated she attended two evening classes
with John, but more recently she had to stop attending these
because of a knee injury.
52. It is quite clear to some of the staff at the Churchill
Clinic and indeed the investigating team that Michelle had,
over the past two to three years, become completely and
utterly obsessed with John. What is more, she would do anything
to gain his total undivided love and attention.
53. When Lisa TAYLOR left school she worked on a Saturday
in a Sports Shop in Forest Hill called Muscle and Fitness
Shop. However it closed down and on 14th May 1990 she also
worked at the Churchill Clinic in the accounts department.
However Ann Marie OWENS states that she was not suited to
the work and her contract was terminated on 28th June 1990.
54. Like her sister Michelle, she also worked for her father
in the floor cleaning business. Not much else is known about
Lisa at this stage, except to say that she appears to be
a much quieter girl than her sister, but as Michelle a very
capable physical girl, who would give her sister and her
family every support, no matter the cost.
55. According to Lisa, she first met Alison when John arranged
a trip to France sometime before she worked at the Clinic
in May 1990. However, she did meet her on a few other occasions,
such as the dinner at her parents house in July / August
1990 just after the wedding.
56. What is important is that Lisa has NEVER been to Flat
3, 41 Vardens Road, SW11, the scene of the murder. She states
in her statement and it is confirmed by John SHAUGHNESSY,
Michelle TAYLOR, and Ann TAYLOR her mother.
EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE MORDER - MONDAY 3rd JUNE 1991
57. As usual, Derek TAYLOR started his working day at 3.45am.
cleaning the floors at Riverdale Centre, Lewisham. He returned
home, picked Lisa up and then left for the Arndale Centre,
Wandsworth at about 5.30am. to 5.40 am. At 6.00am. they
were met there by Michelle who had spent the previous night
in her room at 62 Lambeth Road.
58. Joseph Colin ROBSON, Security Officer for Sterling Services
was there to meet them as usual. This is a regular, strict
routine, because Mr ROBSON has to make a telephone call
to his company by 6.05am. and if they miss him at 6.00am.
they cannot gain access to the premises.
59. Michelle, Lisa and Derek TAYLOR spent the next hour
cleaning windows and floors until about 7.00 o'clock to
7.10 o'clock when they went for breakfast at a nearby MacDonalds
fast food restaurant within the complex. At 7.30 am. until
9.20 am. the three of them cleaned the floors in Woolworths
Store.
60. John and Alison left their flat at 41 Vardens Road,
SW11 at 8.20am. and took their normal route to work. Mr
David HARDY, Senior Office Manager, Barclays Bank, 366 the
Strand, WC1 confirms that Alison booked on duty that day
at 9.00 am.
61. Patrick Joseph NOONAN, a Porter Storeman at the Churchill
Clinic booked on duty at 9.00am. that day with John SHAUGHNESSY.
62. At about 9.20am. Michelle and Lisa TAYLOR left the Arndale
Centre, Wandsworth, and travelled in Michelle's White Ford
Sierra Estate car, index number RHX 958Y to the Fire Station,
Lumpsfield Road, Sanderstead.
63. Christopher SCOGINGS, Fireman, saw both girls at 10.22am.
in the Station. As he was the "duty man" that
day he recorded the time and the fact they were on the premises,
in the "Log Book". They were seen during the morning
by David MORRIS, leading Fireman and Molly BROOKS, the Cook.
Albeit that no one saw them actually leave the premises,
the "Log Book" shows they left at 1.00pm. A photostat
copy of the Log Book is produced as Exhibit No. CJS/1.
64. According to Michelle, Lisa and their mother Ann TAYLOR,
the girls arrived home between 1.30pm. and 2.00 pm. Michelle
changed into a black hooded tracksuit top, green tracksuit
bottoms and pink and white 'Nike' trainers. Lisa changed
into a red 'T' shirt, blue jeans which had 'Fuel' embroidered
on both back pockets, and red 'Fila' trainers.
65. At some time around 2.30pm, which has not been verified,
both girls leave their parents house in Michelle's car to
travel to Bromley on the pretence of shopping for a dress
for Lisa.
66. John SHAUGHNESSY states that in the middle of the afternoon,
at between 3.00pm. and 3.30 pm. he received a telephone
call from Michelle, and she told him she would be late arriving
to help him with the flower arranging. Michelle confirms
that she did make that telephone call but says that it was
done when she left the Fire Station in Sanderstead just
after 1.00pm.
67. Carol Ann HEALY, staff nurse at the Clinic, was going
off duty at 4.00pm. When she walked out of the front gate
she saw Michelle driving her white estate car out of the
hospital, turn right in Lambeth Road and drove towards the
river. She saw that there was a female passenger who she
didn't know, but describes her having her hair in a pony
tail.
68. In the late afternoon, at about 4.30pm. John SHAUGHNESSY
received a telephone call from Alison. Nothing of any consequence
was said and they concluded by saying they would see each
other later. She used to ring him most days and hold a similar
conversation.
69. Mr David HARDY, Alison's boss at Barclays Bank, confirms
that she left the bank at 5.02pm. He produces a printout
from a computer which verifies Alison's time at work that
day. Exhibit No. DH/1 refers
70. Jane Margaret WILLIAMS, Barclays Bank Supervisor, left
the Bank with Alison and two other girls. They went one
way while Alison and her walked to the traffic lights at
the corner of the Strand and the Aldwych. Alison waited
for her bus and Jane WILLIAMS walked on to the next bus
stop. Alison was wearing a denim jacket, black T-shirt/sweater,
a floral skirt and she had her handbag over her shoulder.
71. Livia WHYTE, a Student aged 15 years, had just travelled
by train from Waterloo to Clapham Junction when sometime
between 5.30 pm. and 6.00 pm. she recalls a female answering
Alison's description, walking out of the Station.
72. Michael CASEY who occupies Flat 2, 41 Vardens Road,
SW11 arrived home at about 5.40 pm. to 5.45 pm. He unlocked
both locks of the communal front door and having entered
believes relocked them. As soon as he got into his flat
he made himself a cup of tea and switched on the television
and watched the News.
73. Mrs Christina WRIGHT the elderly occupant of the basement
flat at 41 Vardens Road, saw Alison arrive home alone between
6.00pm. and 6.30 pm. She recalls the time because, as usual,
she was watching the BBC 6 O'clock News. However her timing
is wrong because Alison's journey from work to home is about
35 minutes which would put the time at about 5.40pm to 5.45pm.
having left work at 5.02 pm.
74. John SHAUGHNESSY confirms in his statement that Alison
more often than not arrived home between 5.30 pm. and 5.45
pm.
75. Albeit there is no evidence to support it, it is strongly
believed that Michelle and Lisa waited for Alison to get
near or even open the front door, before they approached
her.
76. Having entered the hallway, Alison picked up her mail.
Invariably, Michael CASEY would pick up Alison's and John's
mail during the day and place it against the right hand
wall, ready for them to collect in the evening, as you enter
the premises. Obviously Alison didn't double lock the front
communal door as she usually did on each occasion, being
extremely safety conscious, because she knew that both Michelle
and Lisa would be leaving the place after a short period
of time. What they actually said to her about the reason
for them both being there is still a mystery. One can only
guess that they would have said they were on an errand for
John or something similar.
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