Following on from the successful conviction of paedophile monster
Russell Bishop at the Old Bailey in London on the 10th December
2018; interest is growing for the reinvestigation of the unsolved murder of
Katrina Taylor in 1996.
To understand what happened to Katrina Taylor in the fateful
night of 4th July 1996, I would recommend you take the time to read
the following investigation which explains it all.
·Katrina
Taylor Unsolved Murder Covered-up Evidence
With police forces across the nation always ready to
reinvestigate cold cases on the basis of new evidence; as we have seen with a
successful outcome in the Babes in the Woods case, and an unsuccessful result
in the Suzy Lamplugh case; Sussex Police
are find themselves under the spotlight, appearing to be reluctant to reopen
the Katrina Taylor case.
While there is no “new evidence,” to be introduced to the
case; an argument is being made that original evidence wasn’t presented to the original
trial in 1997, which alluded to a fifth man being involved in the cover-up of
Katrina Taylor’s murder.
In simple terms, the
allegation against Sussex Police and the Crown Prosecution Service is that a
main witness, a certain Mr. David Joe Neilson, wasn’t called to give evidence.
The public are left to make their own conclusions as to why?
Perhaps a criminal and corrupt element within Sussex police,
conspired with a known Crime Lord to interfere with evidence, and reach a deal
which allowed the killers of Katrina Taylor to walk free.
Exclusively
presented by "Guerrilla Democracy News", new evidence in the Katrina
Taylor unsolved murder in 1996, has been uncovered which gives Sussex police
reason to reopen her case, on the grounds that original evidence was not
presented in court.
Katrina Taylor's
1996 unsolved murder remains one of the nation's most notorious unsolved
murders, and has a connection to Brighton's equally notorious murders of Nicola
Fellows and Karen Hadaway in 1986.
Russell Bishop
has been found guilty of murdering both Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway in
December 2018 at a trial in the Old Bailey, drawing to a close one of the
nation's most unsettling mis-carriages of justice.
With police
forces across the country always prepared to reinvestigate cold cases,
dependent on new evidence; "Guerrilla Democracy News" is taking a fresh look at the 1996 unsolved
murder of Katrina Taylor in Brighton, UK, uncovering a relationship between the
1986 Babes in the Woods murder of Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, and the
1996 murder of Katrina Taylor.
While one has
been resolved, Katrina Taylor's murder remain the nation's most notorious and
controversial unsolved murder cases. Made the more shocking with the back
stories of both cases, revealing insights into the more shadowy and criminal
side of Brighton's life.
What
is the connection?
Aged 9 years old,
Brighton born Katrina Taylor played Nicola Fellows in the BBC Crimewatch
re-construction of their final movements in 1986.
She went on to be
brutally murdered ten years later.
Before 2018, both
the Babes in the Woods and Katrina Taylor's murders, remained unsolved.
While Russell
Bishop was found found guilty of murdering the Babes in the Woods, and justice
has been served, the killers of Katrina Taylor have yet to be brought to
justice.
With the advancement
of forensic evidence instrumental in the re-trial and convictionof Russell Bishop (of which he was acquitted
in 1987) and the new evidence that prompted a unsuccessful search for Susie
Lamplugh who was thought to be buried in a garden with a connection to the
chief suspect John Cannan aka Mr Kipper; a new campaign is taking hold to
reopen the Katrina Taylor murder.
"Gerrilla Democracy News"presents new evidence of a fifth man involved
in the murder of Katrina Taylor.
Katrina Taylor,
aged only 19 and a mother to an eight-month-old
baby, girl was brutally murdered on the 4 July 1996, killed by five stabs to
the heart.
Events leading up
to her murder began on 8 May 1996, when Katrina acted as a look out for a
burglary at the home of Neisha Williams.
Katrina Taylor's
boyfriend Mattie Laurie and his friend John Cosham, broke in and stole a number
of electrical items including a stereo.
Supporting a
heroin addiction costing up to £200 a day, Katrina would have been doing
whatever she could to finance a habit which was slowly destroying her life and
the lives of her loved ones.
They returned to
Neisha's property later to steal the washing machine, and in doing so caused a
flood to two rooms and set fire to furniture.
Neisha Williams,
a mother to two young children with Trevor Smith, was forced to move in with
her brother Simon Williams, at his place at 77 Centurion Road in central
Brighton.
Centurion road is
meters from Brighton's oldest Church and graveyard at St Nicholas Church.
Neisha was furious;
as was London based Trevor Smith who was more concerned about the danger to his
children from the fire.
Its important to
note that neither Neisha or her kids were at the property at the time of the
burglary. Neisha returned to her property the next day, and was heard to vow,
“Whoever did this is dead.”
According to
court transcripts, we learn that Neisha contacted Trevor Smith, who promptly
formed a posse of seven men, who were intent on revenge, rampaging through Brighton hellbent on finding those
responsible.
The
posse was made up with Simon Williams, his brother Jason Williams, Neisha
Williams, Trevor Smith, Fergal Scolland and two other men called Wallace and
Fleming.
Having
first burst into the family home of the Taylor's and having attacked Katrina's
sister Kerry; they eventually tracked down John Cosham, who was severly beaten
and stabbed in both legs with a screw driver.
Mattie
Laurie managed to evade capture having already been arrested and detained by
police for a separate robbery charge.
Katrina
Taylor was next on their list and nothing was going to stand in their way.
Neisha
Williams didn't report the burglary to the police, but Kerry Taylor did, and
the following day Katrina was arrested for her part she played.
Sussex
police Detectives asked magistrates to remand her in custody, but she was
granted bail to look after her baby daughter.
The Night of the Murder
It
was two months later, on the 4th July 1996, that Katrina's luck ran
out.
She
was spotted sitting on the steps of a Brighton seafront hotel by Simon
Williams, who at the time was in his car with his girlfriend, Sarah Jackson..
According
to eye witnesses Simon stopped his car, got out, and Katrina ran into the
hotel. The hotel's manageress recalls Katrina running in saying, “that black
guy is going to kill me.”
Simon
Williams entered the hotel and grabbed hold of Katrina, all the while Katrina
pleading Simon not to hurt her. “Don't hurt me, I know you're going to hurt
me.”
Evidence
of witness intimidation now rears it's ugly head, with the fact that in her
police statement the manageress said Williams had 'dragged Katrina to his car',
while giving evidence at trial, she said Katrina had 'gone to his car under her
own steam'.
Sarah
Jackson revealed in court that Katrina kept saying, “Don't do anything to me,”
and repeated the claim that she got into the car under her own volition.
Regardless
of the manner in which she got into the car, the truth was the game was up and
Katrina had been found.
According
to evidence given in court, both Katrina and Simon Williams arrived at 77
Centurion road at about 6.15pm.
Within
a short time of Neisha setting eyes on Katrina she rang Trevor Smith, who just
so happened to be on his way back to London with Fergal Scollan. They had got
as far as East Croydon when the call came through, and immediately disembarked
to catch the next train back to Brighton.
While
Smith and Scollan travelled back to Brighton, and according to Sarah Jackson's
evidence, there were angry words said between Neisha and Katrina, as you expect
there would.
Katrina
admitted to having sold Neisha's stereo and admitted to have acted as a
lookout, while her home was burgled. It was agreed that Katrina would pay
Neisha £10 a fortnight out of her Giro cheque, and according to Sarah Jackson,
tensions eased.
Sadly
events were set to escalate and take on a more sinister turn.
Trevor
Smith and Fergal Scollan arrived back at 77 Centurion Road at about 7.30pm.
Sarah Jackson described them as hostile. Revealed via her evidence in court,
she said she heard Neisha come upstairs and say through the door, “Trevor has
got a knife out.”
Sarah
Jackson left 77 Centurion Road at about 8.15pm, after which Simon Williams
drove her home.
Once
Simon Williams returned to 77 Centurion Road, its agreed by all parties that
the only people in the house were Katrina Taylor, Simon Williams, Neisha
Williams, Trevor Smith and Fergal Scollan.
There is no direct evidence to suggest what occurred between
this time and the death of Katrina, only the killers of Karina knew what
happened that fateful night.
The
fact Smith, Scollan and the two Williams were charged with false imprisonment,
proves that Katrina was held at 77 Centurion Road against her will.
The
bail conditions called for Katrina to return to her hostel in Brighton by 11pm.
The fact she didn't return implies she wasn't free to return at that time.
We
can only surmise that Katrina made a run for it. Waited for an opportunity to
escape, and once it came she took it. She would have ran for the door and ran
as fast as she could.
But
with Smith, Scollan and Williams in hot pursuit, she would have only reached
the graveyard of St Nicholas church before being caught and murdered in cold
blood.
Cold Blooded Murder
Katrina's
body was found the next morning by a man walking his dog. According to the
pathologist's report, there were two possible scenarios as to how she was
killed.
One;
she had been held by one person from behind while another stabbed her from the
front, or two; one tall strong person had held her from behind with his left
arm and stabbed her in the front with his or her right man.
The
pathologist concluded she must have been restrained because there were very few
defensive wounds on her hands and arms. There would have been little or no
blood staining on her attacker(s) or on the knife.
Katrina Taylor was dead. Murdered in the grounds of St Nicholas
Church in central Brighton.
Time
of death was estimated to be between 10.30pm and 3.30am. Her body was found at
8.30am on the 5th of July, and there was evidence of a disturbance,
including screaming, in the churchyard at around 11.15pm the previous evening.
The
pathologist's evidence was that Katrina had been stabbed five times with a
knife, and her death had been almost instantaneous following two stab wounds to
the heart.
The Aftermath
At
about midnight on the night of the murder, Trevor Smith and Fergal Scollan had
missed the last train back to London. As a result they persuaded Simon Williams
to drive them to London Victoria; where-after they caught a night bus to their
home in Cricklewood, from which they caught a taxi to Purley Avenue where their
girlfriends lived. Simon Williams returned to Brighton after dropping them off
at Victoria.
Introducing
a new player to the picture, Trevor Smith's girlfriend, Jennifer Loannou.
She
evidenced her diary to the trial purporting to show that Trevor Smith had spent
the whole of the evening of the 4th July with her. Evidentially an
attempt to give Smith an alibi.
She
went on to give evidence that both Trevor Smith and Fergal Scollan spent the
weekend of the 6th to the 8th July at her home and were
'subdued'
On
the evening of the 9th July, Smith and Scollan asked Jennifer
Loannou if they could use her father's flat. Having agreed, they laid low until
they were arrested by police on the 24th July.
The
police had raided Smith's and Scollan's home in Cricklewood on the 9 July and
found the place empty, though they did find cannabis plants, which was the
reason both Smith and Scollan gave as reason for hiding out at another
property.
According
to Jennifer Loannou, both Smith and Scollan had a conversation of going to
Cyprus, asking whether extradition from Cyprus was a possibility.
Back in Brighton
Simon
Williams returned to Brighton during the early hours of the 5th
July, having dropped both Smith and Scollan at Victoria Station in London.
New Evidence
According
to a new witness who wasn't called to give evidence in any trial, David Neilson
from Peacehaven, recalls Simon Williams returning to the top flat of 318 South
Coast Road in Peacehaven.
In
a sworn statement by David Neilson dated 7 February 2000, he claims that on the
“Friday PM, 5th July, Simon Williams was in the flat. He was
always very noisy when in the flat (which I will add that at no time ever had
any furniture or carpet) but on that day he continually walked the entire
length of the flat. He then went outside several times slamming the front door.
I was getting agitated as to the unnecessary disturbance. My first thought was
that he was waiting for a delivery, which had not arrived on time, but because
of his actions I took special note as he did several things out of character.
He walked around the front of the building and into Cairo Avenue, he then sat
by the drain where the knife was found. This is a back road entrance to the
building and when I first looked I expected to see a delivery vehicle.He then went back into the flat making more noise. I heard him
talking on the telephone. A while later he repeated his actions of going to the
area of the drain. This is why his actions of that day stuck in my mind.”
The
fact that Simon Williams went to Peacehaven on the day after Katrina Taylor's
murder churns up a number of questions about what Williams was doing and why he
went to Peacehaven?
These questions are answered by the testimony of David Neilson
but never put forward in the trials.
We must
remember that within weeks of Katrina's murder, a team of 50 detectives and 15
forensic experts had gathered 400 exhibits - including the murder weapon,
(which Simon Williams had disposed of down a drain in Peacehaven) - and 150
statements.
The
police found the murder weapon because David Neilson witnessed Simon Williams
acting suspiciously around a drain near Cairo Avenue in Peacehaven.
The Fifth Man
The fifth
man is a crime lord called Mark Slade, aka Marcel Sulc.
Mark Slade aka Marcel Sulc
Simon
Williams worked for Mark Slade by managing the post, deliveries and pick ups,
from the property of 318 South Coast road, Peacehaven.
All
evidence of Mark Slade's presence at 318 South Coast Road and all crimes
reported to the police concerning 318 South Coast Road have been erased from
the case file.
If David
Neilson was called to give evidence, the jury would have heard that Mark
Slade's gang were using the flat above Mr Neilson, Top Flat, 318 Southcoast
road, Peacehaven, East Sussex, for varying types of criminal activities from
credit fraud and drugs.
According
to Mr Neilson, Slade openly boasted of having a string of criminal convictions,
including blackmail, deception, handling stolen goods, actual bodily hard,
firearms, burglary and drug dealing.
Simon
Williams worked for Slade as the 'pick up man', signing for goods delivered,
and for answering the telephone.
Serious
questions are now being asked of Sussex Police as to why Mark Slade and the
criminal activities associated with 318 South Coast Road weren't presented in
court.
The Murder House
Labelled
the 'Murder House', due to its connection to he murder, the up stairs flat was
used as a base of major criminal activity, the details of which had been
reported to Sussex police by David Neilson on a number of occasions.
It can be
argued that if the crimes reported by David Neilson, Simon Williams would not
have been free to contribute to the murder of Katrina Taylor.
The truth
remains none-the-less; Sussex police dismissed without investigation these
criminal activities by Crime Lord Mark Slade, even before the murder of Katrina
Taylor.
As Mr
Neilson comments, “No action or enquiry was made, which is unfathomable,
considering the seriousness of events surrounding the building.”
Who is Mark Slade aka Marcel Sulc?
As
reported in the Guardian by Martin Brighton and Tony Thompson on 25 August
2002, Mark Slade was a notorious fraudster with the reputation as the new king
of the slum landlords.
As you can
see in this rare picture captured of the elusive Crime Lord, you will notice he
is holding a bag of crack cocaine.
Mark Slade about to sample crack-cocaine
His modus
operandi was to seize properties owned by other people, by using the civil
courts to repossess flats for non-payment of nominal ground rents - usually of
only around £50.
He'd receive
ground rent cheques from his leaseholders but not cash them, exposing a
loop-hole, giving him the lawful authority, to break into the flats, change
their locks and throw out all their contents.
He
effectively obtained properties at no cost, which he sold on pocketing the
cash, making 'Pure Profit'; hence the name of one his companies, among an array
of other imaginatively named companies, including Deadly Ltd and Grim Ltd.
Sulc once
bragged to lawyers representing the Halifax bank, “You may be good at
repossessing houses, but my people are better.”
“Over the past decade Sulc has built up his seaside empire
without a whimper of protest from the authorities.”
The
names Marcel Sulc chose for his property businesses were reflective or his
arrogance and impunity against the Law.
GRAB-IT
LIMITED, PURE PORFIT LIMITED, UPFRONT UK LIMITED, GRIM LIMITED
People who
encountered the 'security consultant' are terrified.
Sulc,40 - real name Mark Slade - boasts of owning at least 1,000
properties on the South Coast. He is fast building a reputation as the new king
of the slum landlords.
His
activities were so notorious in Hastings and the surrounding area that locals
have dubbed him 'Van Hoogstraten Junior', after the Sussex-based property
magnate who famously described his tenants as 'scum'.
Slade's
criminal activity was eventually challenged by a group of leaseholders who
launched a campaign to expose the landlord's criminal activities.
A run of
successes in the courts have seen four leaseholders win back their flats seized
by Sulc and are pursuing him for damages.
“Marcel Sulc is a menace. Nothing this man does is doing this
town any good at all,” says Liberal Democrat councillor Pam Brown.
During a
civil court case in March 2002, Sulc was forced to admit that the techniques
his company had used to attempt to obtain the flats were illegal. The judge
said the landlord was clearly guilty of a criminal offence.
A previous
case involving a property in Warrior Square, Hastings, ended with a judgment of
£25,000 against the Sulc-owned company Deadly Ltd. While the claim was being
assessed, Sulc resigned as a director of the firm, thus ridding himself of any personal
liability.
Above the Law & Punishment
Many people
in Hastings are afraid of Sulc. One local housing officer told The Observer
newspaper that it was too risky to speak about him, and a surveyor refused to
assess independently the value of work to be carried out at the landlord's property
because of his reputation.
In 1992
Sulc, then still going by the name Mark Slade, was one of three men convicted
of fraudulently obtaining more than £1 million through a series of bogus
mortgage applications.
After being
turned down by the Court of Appeal, the three finally had their convictions
overturned by the House of Lords in July 1996 after uncovering a legal loophole
that shocked the world of financial services.
Slade had
been charged with obtaining property by deception, but argued that, as the
money involved had been transferred between bank accounts, there was no
identifiable property involved. The law lords reluctantly agreed. Although Sulc
had clearly committed a serious crime and had lied to obtain money, he could
not be prosecuted for it.
Quashing his
conviction, the country's highest court called for immediate action to close
the loophole. A new offence of obtaining a money transfer by deception has
subsequently been introduced.
In 2000, a
report on the criminal abuse of leaseholds by Detective Constable Peter Savage,
of the Sussex Police Commercial Investigation Unit, uncovered several scams
employed by anonymous companies operating in the Hastings and St Leonards area
which mirror those being used by Sulc.
Paul
Whitehouse was the Chief Constable of Sussex police at the time of Katrina's
murder.
There is also a connection between Mark Slade and the attack on
the 2015 Brighton Kemptown Election Office of Matt Taylor & David Neilson
Screaming
down the camera that “Democracy Stinks in Brighton Kemptown,” Matt Taylor
revealed in a number of vlogs, published in the up-run to the May 2015 General
Election; that his election office at the notorious Murder House in Peacehaven,
was attacked on the 15 January 2015, by members of Mark Slade's gang.
Footage of
the aftermath of the attack captured by Matt Taylor reveals the attacks signal
to a passing car, which slowed down but sped up once realising he was being
filmed.
Matt
Taylor's Independent campaign for become MP for Brighton Kemptown was sabotaged
when the ownership of the front flat of the property at 318 Southcoast Road was
called into question, follow by civil proceedings served to take ownership of
the property, thus closing down Matt Taylor's independent political bid for
public office.
Acknowledged
as a very import witness; David Neilson was not called to give evidence in any
trial relating to Katrina Taylor; but yet he was the person who helped solve
her murder, by being a critical witness.
Nor was Mr
Neilson offered witness protection or even support.
After the
murder he was attacked inside his flat by members of Slade's gang.
Insert
guerrilla democracy link to Neilson beaten article
A Very Very Important Witness
In this
Youtube clip, we listen into a conversation between Mr Neilson and Eddie
Preston, a solicitor for Katrina Taylor's killers during the retrial of 1999.
Acknowledgement
of the importance of Mr Neilson's testimony, is evident by the statements, “From
our point of view we regard you as being a very very important witness.”
“Your
evidence is of immense importance, all the information you've gathered together
is crucial.”
Who killed Katrina?
At the trial at Lewes Crown Court in June 1997, Neisha was found
guilty of false imprisonment but she and her brother, Simon Williams were
cleared of murder.
Trevor Smith and Fergal Scollan were found guilty.
As reported
by the Guardian, Smith and Scollan launched an immediate appeal claiming the
judge had misdirected the jury over aspects of the evidence. The Court of
Appeal ordered a retrial which began at the Old Bailey in October 1999.
For legal
reasons, Neisha and Simon Williams did not give evidence. Lawyers for Smith and
Scollan successfully argued that there was no case to answer, and the judge
directed that both men be acquitted of murder because of insufficient evidence.
Scollan had a charge of false imprisonment dropped. Smith admitted the same charge
and was sentenced to 30 months but walked free because of time served.
Katrina's
mother, Kathy Taylor, told The Observer newspaper, “I am disgusted how
this has turned out. It has destroyed my faith in the justice system and the
police. My daughter was stabbed to death and no one has been made to pay. I
won't rest until they are.”
Despite
a big police inquiry and two Crown Court trials, no one has been found guilty
of her murder.
Campaigners
for 'Justice for Katrina' believe Sussex Police failed to investigate the crime
properly. They want a full investigation by the Police Complaints Authority.
In a number
of websites, a list of Sussex officers are named and accused of varying degrees
of incompetence, from allegedly failing to investigate the background of key
witnesses, to failing to respond to information about the whereabouts of the
accused.
"Guerrilla Democracy News" has uncovered evidence
that links the murder of Katrina Taylor in 1996, to a fraud gang operating out
of nearby Peacehaven, and prove this has not been properly investigated.
A
spokesperson for Sussex Police said, “The police thoroughly investigated
this murder. The file remains open, and if anyone has information we would urge
them to come forward.”
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