| The Dream Solution
- Introduction |
'I hate Alison,
the unwashed bitch. My Dream solution would be for Alison
to disappear as if she never existed and then maybe i
could give everything to the man i love.'
These words of hate scribbled in a diary helped convict
sisters Michelle and Lisa Taylor of the savage murder
of newly wed Alison Shaughnessy. Alison had been stabbed
54 times during a frenzied attack in her own home.
At their sensational trial the prosecution alleged that
21-year-old Michelle Taylor who had been having an affair
with Alison's husband - had murdered Alison in a jealous
rage and that she was aided in her brutal attack by her
18-year-old sister Lisa.
The case was reported in the tabloid press under lurid
headlines such as Love Crazy Mistress Butchered Rival
Wife. The jury found the Taylor sisters guilty of murder
Incredibly, having served less than one year of their
sentences, the Taylor sisters were freed thanks in part
to a exhaustive campaign by Bernard O'Mahoney.
Bernard, having witnessed their trial, was convinced that
a major miscarriage of justice had occurred and with his
help their appeal was successful. Following their release
O'Mahoney sat down with the sisters to write a book about
their ordeal It was at this time that he and Michelle
Taylor began a passionate affair.
He first became suspicious when she began behaving towards
him in the obsessive way the prosecution alleged she had
behaved towards her former lover, Alison's husband. As
O'Mahoney tried to extricate himself from the affair he
stumbled across an incriminating letter that could mean
only one thing: Michelle Taylor was guilty of Alison's
murder.
Following a heated confrontation she finally broke down
and confessed her guilt. The sisters fought for years
in the high court to gag O'Mahoney. But in a legal battle
almost as dramatic as the one that saw the sisters freed,
O'Mahoney won the case.
The Dream Solution tells the story of his two crusades
- the first to prove the sisters' innocence, the second
to be allowed to tell the world of their guilt. At a time
when a series of high-profile cases have undermined public
confidence in the judicial system, this book will provide
incontrovertible proof of a different sort of miscarriage
of justice - one in which the guilty have been set free. |
| Contact : bernard.omahoney@bernardomahoney.com |
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