Colin Stagg has been through a version of justice, albeit truncated, and he has been found not guilty. But I wonder whether he can actually say hand on heart that he believes people will meet him in the street and believe that. I do not believe the system served anybody that particular day. [7] year-old Veronica 'Vera' Anderson was found dead in her Ford Cortina on Tannery Lane, Penketh, Warrington, on 25 August 1991. Her throat had been cut. [51] Anderson had last been seen the previous day at her home on Hadfield Close, Widnes. That evening, she received a telephone call, then left her six-year-old son with a neighbour. It was not expected that she would be gone for long. [84] How life changed for the grieving relatives and blundering police". The Independent. 19 December 2008 . Retrieved 21 August 2021. In 1993, a second person was tried for Royal's murder. As with the previous defendant, someone close to him having a connection to the man Royal had fatally stabbed (in this case his girlfriend, who was the sister of that man) was viewed as a motive, and he spent nearly 14 years in prison for the murder before his conviction was overturned in 2007. [13] McInally, 23, was last seen getting into a car with two men in Cadogan Street, Glasgow, on 15 October 1991. Her body was found in woodland in the city's Pollok Park and she had been strangled. Two men were charged with the sex worker's murder, but there was not enough evidence for either to stand trial. In 2017, McInally's son called for the investigation into his mother's murder to be reopened, claiming he had new evidence. [94]

Former international boxer Brooks, 53, died on 16 July when a gang stabbed him at one of the two Loughton pubs he ran with his wife. A suspected motive was retaliation for him having barred a group of men from one of the establishments the previous week. [76] The undercover officer won Stagg's confidence and drew out fantasies from him that psychologist Paul Britton interpreted as "violent", but he did not admit to the killing. Police released a taped conversation between the police officer and him in which she claimed to enjoy hurting people, to which he mumbled, "Please explain, as I live a quiet life. If I have disappointed you, please don't dump me. Nothing like this has happened to me before". When she went on to say, "If only you had done the Wimbledon Common murder, if only you had killed her, it would be all right", he replied, "I'm terribly sorry, but I haven't". [6] Stagg was nevertheless arrested and charged on the basis of claims that he had described aspects of the murder scene that only the killer would have known. So by the time that Alison returned home that day, Michelle was already on duty at the Churchill. Mrs Wright’s evidence – a detailed statement made under no pressure whatsoever – should have provided the starting-point for any inquiry. Instead, it was ignored. By the time the statement had been passed to the defence lawyers, and they were able to see her, they found Mrs Wright in such a state of anxiety about the murder, and the investigation, that she could not, in their judgment, be called to the witness stand. Her statement was merely read out to the court. The prosecution successfully undermined it by introducing opinions about her medical condition. Downes was a 22-year-old mother of three. Her body was found close to Lamberts Restaurant on the road between Shifnal and Wolverhampton on 2 February 1991. She had been strangled and had extensive head injuries, and some of her clothes were missing. Downes was a sex worker and was last seen alive in Wolverhampton's red-light district. [56] Police believe she may have been a victim of Alun Kyte. [57] The 44-year-old mother-of-three had her throat slit while sunbathing outside her family home. Her husband Peter found her body and was later charged with her murder, but the case collapsed. Nobody else has been charged. [28] [29]DNA profiling and the case that started it all". The Times. London. 21 June 2006. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011 . Retrieved 22 May 2010. Nine-year-old Christopher Stanley was last seen on 29 July 1992 talking with a friend and a neighbour on St Aubyn's Avenue, Hounslow. His body was found the next day in a wartime pillbox on Hounslow Heath; he had been strangled. A man stood trial for Stanley's murder the following year but was acquitted. [126] [127]

The court said that the DNA was somehow more scientific and overrode the fingerprint, which is really a ridiculous observation," explained Dr Zakaria Erzinçlioglu, former director of the forensic science research centre at the University of Durham. "You have to touch something to leave your fingerprint; you don't have to touch something to leave your DNA, especially when there's a severed artery and blood spurting all over the place." That was June 5 1991. The next day, the social worker spoke to a colleague whose wife, it turned out, had been threatened by Derek Williams. They agreed that he was an unstable character with some unpleasant obsessions about women. They also discovered that apart from sleeping rough in the Strand, where Alison Shaughnessy worked, he also drank in a pub in Clapham which she had often used. For all they knew, he had been following her for weeks. They called the police again to share their suspicions. a b c d Fergus, Lindsay (3 February 2002). "ALISON WAS STABBED, BUT I LOST MY LIFE TOO; Woman cleared of Irish murder tells of her pain". The People . Retrieved 20 July 2022. year-old Maria Christina Requena went missing on New Year's Day 1991, and her remains were found on 6 January in five plastic bin bags in the lake at Pennington Flash. She was a sex worker and the location where she was found is less than two miles from where the body of Linda Donaldson was discovered in 1988. A link with Donaldson's murder has been suggested, [51] as has a link with the 1994 murder of Julie Finley. [52] Police have investigated prostitute killer David Smith as a suspect in both Requena and Donaldson's cases. [53] a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Someone+murdered+our+Alison..+%26+we+want+JUSTICE%3b+PARENTS+HEARTACHE+AS...-a099543754

They say that JJ lied in court and, even though she was one of their best friends, they say they do not blame her. Lisa said: “I feel sorry for her. If she had the same police that I had, then I feel sorry for. You can’t blame her. She was just like us. She’d never had anything to do with the police, she was in there by herself, with no solicitor. What can she do?