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to be incredibly calm during the stresses of the investigations. It was pointed out in court that, when the Taylor sisters claimed to Tapp to have been waiting for her there since "just after five" that they were already creating an alibi for themselves before the murder had even been discovered at 8:30 p.m., and they were already trying to cover their tracks for the period around 5-6 p.m. when it was not yet known that was when
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solution would be for Alison to disappear as if she never existed". This indicated to police that she had a clear motive to kill Alison. In her first three statements to police, she made no mention of the affair. When asked if she knew if John had any extra-marital affairs, she did not disclose hers and instead claimed he had affairs with other women. She claimed that she did not really know John or Alison, and had certainly never been to the
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to clean the windows. This claim was discredited by the fingerprint expert, who insisted that the fingerprints were no older than 72 hours old and certainly not as old as two or three weeks, meaning that
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Alison had arrived home at 5:37 p.m., and police believed that she had been killed minutes after entering the flat. However, there was no sign of a break-in, and she had taken time to pick up the post as she came in, suggesting to police that she felt comfortable with her killer(s) as they came in
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A resident on Vardens Road named Dr Unsworth-White had also come forward to inform police that he had seen two young women hurriedly coming out of the flat at 5:45 p.m. while he was cycling past. One had a ponytail, a hairstyle favoured by Lisa Taylor, and he had never seen them in Vardens Road
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broke down, confessing to her guilt. From then on O'Mahoney campaigned to have the Taylors re-convicted. Responding to the book's publication, John Shaughnessy said: "It's good news, it's good news. Those two should never have walked in the first place".
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