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07/08/91
- RECORD OF TAPE RECORDED INTERVIEW of LISA JANE TAYLOR
Record of tape interview
Person interviewed: Lisa Jane Taylor
Place of interveiw: Battersea Police Station Interview Room
Date of interview: 7th August 1991
Time commenced: 11.14am
Time concluded: 11.26am
Interviewing Officer: DS S Gleeson
Other person(s) present: WDC C Smith, M Homles, Andrew Keenan
& Co (Solicitor)
DS G
This is a continuation of the interview of Lisa TAYLOR.
The same persons are present as were present in tape 1.
The time is 11.14am according to my watch. I must remind
you Lisa that you are still under caution which means you
don't have to say anything. Do you understand?
LT
Yes.
DS G
Can you just state for the purposes of the tape that nothing
untoward happened whilst the tapes were being switched over,
meaning the case wasn't discussed.
LT
Yeah.
DS G
Okay?
LT
Yeah.
DS G
Right. Prior to concluding the last tape, I was asking you
about the phone calls you had from your mother and very
shortly after that this was at the clinic on 3rd June, and
subsequently, you had a phone call from Michelle a couple
of minutes later or within a very short period of time anyway,
where Michelle told you that Alison was
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dead. I think in fact, she made that phone call from the
Police Station yeah? Is that correct?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Can you answer me this much then, were you friends with
Alison SHAUGHNESSY?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Did, did you like her?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Did you hate her?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Are you sorry she's dead?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Does it concern you that she's dead?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Do I take from that you didn't like her?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Because you see, according to the enquiries I made and other
officers made at the Churchill clinic, and all those people
that knew Alison SHAUGHNESSY, or that had any association
with Alison SHAUGHNESSY who I never met obviously, but uh
I can only describe as a very shy, quite, pleasant girl
of 21, you wouldn't have known her that well would you?
LT
No comment.
DS G
You'd met her a couple of times through your sister Mlchelle
and obviously knew John during the period you were working
there, but um, you wouldn't have been a big friend of Alison's,
is that fair
DS G
comment?
LT
No comment.
DS G
When Michelle phoned you on the night of Alison's death,
this is after you spoke with your mother on the phone, Miss
TAPP describes you as being hysterical when you came off
the phone, crying, upset really in a bad way. Is that a
fair comment?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Well without sounding callous, everybody feels sympathy
for any victim, you've got a victim of a crime, especially
with regard to a murder but, I, I find it hard to understand
why you were so upset that night for someone that you didn't
really know that well Do things like that normally upset
you or are you upset very easily?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Following your conversation with your sister, you went back
downstairs. JJ lives on the first floor in the residency
of the clinic is that right?
LT
No comment.
DS G
You went back downstairs to, I believe where there's a phone
outside your sister's, a pay phone I believe, outside your
sister's room and rang your dad at home. Is that right?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Your dad spoke to you about Alison and what he knew which
didn't obvipusly appear to be a lot at that time and that
you subsequently caught a taxi home from the hospital, from
the clinic, which in fact is verified by Miss Tapp. Is that
er is that right?
LT
No comment.
DS G
You stayed up into the early hours fo that morning and um,
after Michelle and John SHAUGHNESSY had been spoken to at
the Police Station, that your mum had gone to the Police
Station and returned with Michelle and John came and stayed
the evening, stayed the night, and that they remained talking
throughout the night and that you went to your room about
quarter to four in the morning. Is that right?
LT
No comment.
DS G
John returned to work the following morning to the Arndale
Centre, is that right?
LT
No comment.
DS G
At the end of your statement you say, "I cannot think
of any reason why anyone would want to kill Alison, or of
any person who would want to."
LT
No comment.
DS G
It's a blatant lie isn't it?
LT
No comment.
DS G
It's a lie because you and your sister murdered Alison SHAUGHNESSY
you stabbed her to death, didn't you?
LT
No comment.
DS G
And how you can sit here and have the gall to pretend that
nothing happened is absolutely beyond me. Can you look at
me and tell me you had nothing to do with the death of Alison
SHAUGHNESSY?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Did you kill Alison SHAUGHNESSY?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Is that a yes or a no?
LT
No comment.
DS G
We're not talking about minor offences and such, we're talking
about somebody stealing something, Lisa, we're talking about,
as your solicitor no doubt explained to you prior to the
interview, that we're talking about a very serious offence
here, in fact the most serious offence, taking somebody's
life. You and Michelle murdered Alison SHAUGHNESSY on 3rd
June at 41 Vardens Road, didn't you?
LT
No comment.
DS G
It's rather ironic that you had no axe to grind with Alison.
None whatsoever. You may even have liked her, I don't know.
But you know how your sister fe
LT
about Alison SHAUGHNESSY's husband, John SHAUGHNESSY don't
you?
LT
No comment.
DS G
You know that your sister Michelle was infatuated with John.
Would do anything for him. And she wanted John for herself.
And the only way of having John for herself was getting
rid of Alison, because John SHAUGHNESSY never had any intention
of divorcing his wife or leaving his wife, isn't that right?
LT
No comment.
DS G
At the final part of your statement, excuse me, it states,
'I have been asked what the relationship was between John
and Michelle and to my knowledge they used to go out together
as boyfriend and girlfriend. But since Johnengagement to
Alison. they have not. they
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have just been good friends." Is that something you
know for yourself or is that something your sister Michelle
has told you?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Would you be surprised to know that since their wedding,
John and Michelle's wedding, that your sister has been sleeping
with John SHAUGHNESSY?
LT
No comment.
DS G
'Cos we could here be in a situation where as far as you're
concerned, there wasn't a relationship because that's what
your sister told you, as what she told her very good friend
JJ TAPP. Were you aware of Michelle and John's relationship
continuing since John and Alison's marriage last year?
LT
No comment.
DS G
Ironically, Alison SHAUGHNESSY died about a week or ten
days before her first wedding anniversary. Were you aware
of the fact that her wedding anniversary was coming up?
LT
No comment.
DS G
I've got nothing more at this stage to ask you Miss TAYLOR.
Coren? Anything that you wish to cover?
WDC SMITH
No.
DS G
No. Mr HOLMES, any representations at this stage?
MH
No.
DS G
Okay. Prior to conculdlng this interview Lisa, is there
anything wish to tell me or wish to say?
LT
No.
DS G
No. I'll serve a form on you now which tells you how vou
can have
DS G
access to a copy of this tape recording.
WDC SMITH
There's one on there.
DS G
Do excuse someone's been writing on that Mr HOLMES
MH
Yes, that will do for me
DS G
I'll give it to Mr HOLMES. The time by my watch is 11.26.
This interview is concluded. |
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