Bob Woffinden, an investigative journalist who campaigned to free prisoners he thought were wrongly imprisoned, such as James Hanratty (posthumously proven to have been guilty) and the killer of Helen McCourt, claimed they must be innocent because he posited that it was a highly unusual case and two women could not have carried out the murder. Del wanted to prove that Alison Shaughnessy could not have been at home until after six, as her neighbours said, and he tried to follow up a hint that she had stopped on her way back from work to pick up a parcel from the post office.

alison shaghnessy murder - taylor sisters convicted; england: london: old bailey: two female friends/relatives of alison shaughnessy as screaming and.alison shaughnessy murder: taylor sisters appeal; b)c4n: england: london: peckham: int seq taylor family including michella and lisa taylor in. They struggled on, slowly attracting more attention from decent newspapers and television programmes. To reach home, she would have walked to the bus-stop, taken a bus to Waterloo, then a train to Clapham Junction, and walked to her flat. A careful reading of the diary entries thereafter would have shown her growing disaffection with him, and sympathy with Alison.

Alison was everything Michelle wasn't , attractive, sociable, a good job, a home and a husband and a loving family where she was an overweight chav with a bad perm and a fondness for murderers such as Winton Sillcott , easily flattered and willing to shag anything that so much as nodded in her direction , an easy ride .Michelle made friends again with both of them and when they were married in Ireland in the summer of 1990, she went to the wedding. The prosecution QC John Nutting was heavily criticised for his defence of the conviction at the appeal, after he declared that the fact that the document had not been discussed at the trial was unjustifiable and the investigating officers were very sorry. A number of journalists embarked on a campaign after the trial to try and free the Taylors, believing that the sisters' character showed they must be innocent. The final straw may have been, alleged the prosecution, when John told Michelle only days before the murder that he was planning to give up the flower arranging sessions he did with her every Monday, which was the only time they had together and when they invariably had sex.