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117. John Francis TAYLOR, B.Pharm. Ph.D., Pharmacist, Metropolitan
Police Laboratory, Lambeth, analysed Alison's blood and
urine samples taken by Dr CROMPTON. He found no evidence
of drugs or alcohol.
118. Police Constable 32'SW' Richard LEE, has prepared a
scaled plan of the scene, which he produces as Exhibit RJL/1.
THE INVESTIGATION
119. It will be remembered that both John SHAUGHNESSY and
Michelle TAYLOR were taken to Battersea Police Station shortly
after they discovered Alison's body at 8.30pm. on 3rd June
1991.
120. A statement was taken from each of them that evening
and early morning on the 4th June 1991. It is fair to say
that John SHAUGHNESSY's statement was poor in content. It
dealt with very little background of his life with Alison
and very sketchy details of his movements on the 3rd June
1991.
121. More importantly, the statement taken from Michelle
by Temporary Investigator Sheree BARNES was extremely poor.
It briefly covered how she met John and why they were working
together that particular evening. Quite wrongly the officer
only covered Michelle's movements from 6.00pm. onwards that
day. However that statement is now produced as Exhibit SB/1
122. Initial feed back from the scene at Vardens Road and
the post mortem examination confirmed there was no robbery,
no burglary, and most importantly, no sexual interference
with Alison.
123. Early enquiries at John SHAUGHNESSY's and Michelle
TAYLOR's place of work, the Churchill Clinic, Lambeth Road,
SE1, indicated that the two of them had been having a long
standing love affair.
124. As a result John SHAUGHNESSY. was seen on the 6th June
1991 and a further statement was taken from him. It covered
his movements during the 3rd June 1991 and clarified one
or two minor matters.
125. During the taking of that statement, John SHAUGHNESSY
was questioned about the affair between him and Michelle.
He eventually admitted they had had an initmate relationship
from April 1990 up until some 10 weeks before Alison's death.
126. Detective Superintendent GLENDINNING, the then Senior
Investigating Officer, (S.I.O.) directed that such information
should at that stage, not be included in statement form.
Quite rightly, he felt that should the affair not feature
in the murder of Alison SHAUGHNESSY, then it would be improper
to have it available for public consumption.
127. Two further statements covering additional background
material were taken from John SHAUGHNESSY on the 11th and
13th June 1991.
128. On the 12th June 1991, Michelle TAYLOR was again seen
by Detective Sergeant Alan GARROD, in the presence of her
mother Anne TAYLOR. She made a further statement in which
she described her friendship with John and Alison and her
full movements on 3rd June 1991. Briefly, she stated that
she left for work at the Arndale Centre, Wandsworth, at
5.00am. and stayed there until 9.30am. with Lisa and their
father, Derek TAYLOR.
She and Lisa then travelled in her car to Sanderstead Fire
Station until they left there at about 1.30pm. to go to
their parents home. She changed, and described her clothing
that afternoon as being a black hooded top, green tracksuit
bottoms and white 'Nike' shoes. From her parents house she
and Lisa went to Bromley to shop for a dress for Lisa.
They travelled from there and arrived at the accommodation
hostel at 60 Lambeth Road at 5.15 pm. There they met and
had a drink with Jeanette TAPP. At 6.00pm. she left Lisa
with Jeanette TAPP and met up with John SHAUGHNESSY to help
him with flower arranging. She recalled seeing a number
of people at the Clinic while she and John were together.
Sometime after 8.00pm. she left John alone and returned
to Miss TAPP's room where she found Lisa and her playing
monopoly. She told them she was taking John home and left.
She describes the route she and John took that day, which
incidentally is the same directions they always took. Michelle
then described the events at Flat 3, 41 Vardens Road when
she and John discovered Alison's body. That statement is
now produced as an Exhibit No. AG/7.
129. Jeanette Jackqueline TAPP, was seen on the 13th June
1991 by Detective Constable Kim WESTON. She made a statement
in which she describes how she came to know John, Alison,
Michelle, and Lisa. She covers a bit of background between
Alison, John and Michelle and generally describes the threesome
as a happy trio.
She confirmed that she was at the hostel accommodation at
5.15pm where she met both Michelle and Lisa. She stated
that they all stayed together chatting until Michelle left
them to meet up with John at about 6.00pm. She and Lisa
stayed in her room when at 7.30 pm. they left to go to a
local shop. They popped in to see Michelle enroute to the
shop to ascertain if she wanted anything.
Very shortly after they both arrived back at Miss TAPP's
room Michelle appeared. She stayed to smoke a cigarette
and then announced she was about to drive John home. She
recalled that at about 9.00 pm. the porter Leslie HOWES
shouted up to her that there was a telephone call for either
Lisa or Michelle. The caller was their mother Anne TAYLOR,
who told Lisa that Alison had been found dead. When they
returned to Jeanette TAPP's room she answered the internal
telephone and it was Michelle wishing to speak to Lisa to
tell her that Alison had been killed.
130. At that stage both Michelle and Lisa had a sound alibi
in Jeanette TAPP at the material time of the murder.
131. On the 13th, 14th and 19th June 1991 Church Services
were held in rememberance of Alison at St Georges Cathedral,
St Georges Circus, SE1; Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, WC2;
and St Peter in Chains, Wormsley Road, N8 respectively.
132. Michelle and Lisa attended the last service on the
19th June 1991 when the coffin was present. The body was
flown over to Ireland the next day. John SHAUGHNESSY and
Mr and Mrs BLACKMORE accompanied it on its journey.
133. A further service was held that evening on the 20th
June 1991 in the Church at Piltown, Co. Tipperary. Alison's
funeral was then held there the following day when she was
finally laid to rest. Alison and John were married in that
very same Church on 23rd June 1990.
134. On 27th June 1991, a date yet to be confirmed, Michelle
travelled over to Ireland with a friend from the Clinic,
Patricia KEANE. They had arranged a holiday there at Patricia
KEANE's parents house sometime before the murder. However,
Michelle changed her plans when she arrived over in Ireland
and decided to stay with John SHAUGHNESSY and his brother
Gerard, needless to say that their intimate relationship
continued.
135. Michelle returned to London on Sunday 7th July 1991
and John SHAUGHNESSY travelled back home with Alison's parents,
Mr and Mrs BLACKMORE on 20th July 1991.
136. Owing to the fact that John SHAUGHNESSY had been out
of contact in Ireland for over a month and that Michelle
had also been unavailable for some of that time, it was
very difficult for the investigating team to pursue that
line of the enquiry.
137. However, as soon as they had both returned, it was
decided to invite John, Michelle, Lisa and Jeanette TAPP
to attend Battersea Police Station on 24th July 1991 in
order that various discrepancies in their statements could
be answered.
138. On that day all four attended, as well as Derek and
Ann TAYLOR, Michelle and Lisa's mother and father.
139. A decision was taken by the Senior Investigating Officer
that each of them would be interviewed as witnesses. Consequently
none of them was cautioned; brief notes of the conversations
were documented by the interviewing officers.
140. Michelle was seen by Detective Inspector Trevor HEARD
and Detective Constable Angela THOMAS. Albeit that she admitted
that the intimate relationship with John had lasted longer
than she first told Detective Sergeant GARROD on the 12th
June 1991, she repeated her original account of events and
background material.
141. Lisa was seen by Detective Constable Andrew GALLAGHER
and Detective Constable Margaret JACKSON. The notes taken
included her knowledge of the relationship between John,
Alison and Michelle. She gave a detailed account of Michelle
and her movements on 3rd June 1991. At the conclusion of
that interview she made a full statement detailing hers
and Michelle's movements on the 3rd June 1991.
At 5.35 am. she left her home address with her father, Derek
TAYLOR, and travelled to the Arndale Centre, Wandsworth
where at 6.00 am. they met Michelle. At about 9.20am. both
she and Michelle left in Michelle's car to travel to the
Fire Station at Sanderstead. She recalled leaving there
at 1.20pm. because a fireman made the remark that the TV
programme Neighbours was about to start in 20 minutes time.
From 2.00pm. until 3.00pm. the two girls stayed at their
parents house where both girls changed their clothes. Lisa
wore a red T-shirt, blue jeans and red trainers. At 3.00pm.
they travelled again in Michelle's car to Bromley to buy
a dress for Lisa to wear at Jeanette TAPP's forthcoming
birthday party.
According to her at about 4.20pm. she saw and spoke to a
friend of hers in Bromley Shopping Centre, called Phillip
(not yet traced). She recalled being back at the hostel
accommodation at Lambeth Road at 5.20 pm. because she was
due to make a telephone call to her friend Tessa JORDAN
at 5.30pm.
Michelle went to her room first but quickly followed Lisa
to Jeanette TAPP's room. Lisa left them for a short while
and telephoned Tessa JORDAN. On her return to the room,
Jeanette TAPP showed her and Michelle the goods she had
bought for her birthday party.
At 6.00pm. Michelle left her and Jeanette TAPP alone in
the room playing monopoly. Then at 7.30pm. the two girls
went to buy some sweets and drink from a nearby shop. They
saw John and Michelle on their way and asked them if they
wanted anything from the shop while they were there. On
their return to Jeanette's room, Michelle joined them shortly
afterwards and after using the toilet and smoking a cigarette
she left to drive John home.
At 9.30pm. Priscella, the girl who lives in the room next
to Jeanette, called to say that she (Lisa) was wanted on
the telephone. It was her mother who told her of Alison's
death. When she returned to the same room, Leslie BOWES,
the porter, shouted there was another call on the internal
system.
That time it was Michelle who told her Alison had been killed.
Jeanette TAPP arranged for a cab to take Lisa home where
she arrived at about 11.00pm. These statements are produced
as Exhibits AJG/2 and AJG/3.
142. Owing to the fact that the brief notes taken during
the interviews with Michelle and Lisa were not taken under
caution and not fully contemporaneously recorded, they have
not been exhibited. Detective Sergeant Bernard GLEESON and
Temporary Investigator Jon BISHOP spoke to Jeanette TAPP.
They too made brief notes of that interview. However they
did take a further statement from her, in which she confirmed
the alibi of Michelle and Lisa at the time of the murder.
She added that Michelle and Lisa saw her the next day, the
4th June 1991, when they came to collect an overnight bag
Lisa had left in her room the night before. (Sadly that
has not been found by Police).
143. Derek and Ann TAYLOR were also interviewed in the same
way as their daughters. However afterwards both made written
statements in which they confirmed Michelle's and Lisa's
movements earlier in the day of Monday 3rd June 1991.
144. After the relevant interviews had taken place, Michelle
gave permission for her room at 62 Lambeth Road, SE1 to
be searched. The only item of any significance found were
note pads in which Michelle had recorded her innermost thoughts
about Alison and her relationship with John. They are produced
as Exhibit AS/13.
145. Michelle also gave permission for her car to be searched.
In it was a jacket belonging to Lisa, and upon examination
it was found to have blood stains on the inside of the sleeves.
The jacket is produced as Exhibit AS/12.
146. Lisa gave consent for her room at her parents address
at 76 Kimble Road, Forest Hill, to be searched but nothing
of any significance was found.
147. As Detective Superintendent GLENDINNING was about to
take annual leave and then transfer to another post on promotion,
the enquiry was allocated to Detective Superintendent Christopher
BURKE on 29th July 1991.
148. On Friday 2nd August 1991 Fingerprint Branch at New
Scotland Yard made a positive identification of Lisa's fingermark
impressions on the back of the front door of Flat 3, 41
Vardens Road, SW11. The comparison was made with her elimination
fingerprints given to police on 24th June 1991.
149. In her original statement she clearly stated that she
had never been to Alison and John's home at 41 Vardens Road,
SW11, which is supported by John and Michelle, and her mother,
in their statements.
150. On Wednesday 7th August 1991, at 76 Kemble Road, Forest
Hill, Michelle TAYLOR was arrested at 5.35am. for the murder
of Alison SHAUGHNESSY, by Detective Sergeant Gerard GALLAGHER,
and Lisa TAYLOR was arrested at 5.40am. for the same offence,
by Detective Constable Coren SMITH.
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