Stolen Sister: 07 - A Chance for Justice
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What stories of victims are highlighted in this episode?
Throughout this series, we've been telling the stories of Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, victims of John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans. But there are other victims too, other families who never got justice. Remember, when the two men first came to Ireland, they were on the run from charges relating to three women in the Greater Manchester area.
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Now we know that true crime podcasts are hugely popular and the makers of a brand new one from Ireland need your help.
Producer Liam O'Brien recently appeared on BBC Radio Manchester seeking new information around Shaw and Evans.
they actually got to know each other in prison. Once they got out, they kind of went on a rampage around the Greater Manchester area through October 1974, and they raped three young women, a 15-year-old girl near Macclesfield, a 31-year-old lady near Ince and then a 17-year-old girl near Atherton. Actually quite a huge manhunt for them.
We don't know the lifelong trauma that these women and their families may have endured.
What new evidence has emerged about John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans?
Those women never got justice. They never got what they deserved, which is the men who attacked them to face the courts for what they had done to them. We're hopeful that these women are alive and that they may still want...
And in the six weeks since we began this podcast, we've discovered that there were yet more lives touched by Shaw and Evans. I'm Ros Purcell from RT Documentary on One. This is Stolen Sister. Episode 7, A Chance for Justice. In the month Sean Evans murdered Elizabeth and Mary, we can see they moved around the country a lot, constantly looking to break into houses, pubs and caravans. While doing this, they were also looking for victims. We've been asking you to get in touch if you've any information on the actions of John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans. We hoped for some new witnesses to come forward, but we've been taken aback by just how many people got in touch. We're going to share some of the accounts of these new witnesses in this episode, mostly voiced by actors.
We've put these new witnesses in touch with James McGill, the Plunkett family's solicitor.
We believe that if a decision was taken not to prosecute John Shaw for this murder, it was in all probability influenced by a view that there was inadequate corroborative evidence of his confession. People have come forward once they started hearing the podcast. So there is evidence available that would not have formed part of the case file at the time of trial that may justify a cold case review at this stage.
So these new witnesses are critically important to the hopes of the Plunkett family to get Gardaí to open a cold case review, which could potentially lead to the DPP finally putting John Shaw on trial for murdering Elizabeth. If we go back to where the series began, on the 28th of August 1976, Elizabeth and her friends were making their way to British Bay, and Shaw and Evans were also travelling from Dublin to Wicklow. I was at the bus stop in Blackrock. This is Dolores, and in 1976, she was a young mother who had a brief but troubling encounter in South County Dublin with two men in a car with English accents. I'm standing there minding my own business, and next time this car comes along... And I went past and then I came back and stopped and said, hi, we're going your way, we're hopping and we'll give you a lift.
And I said, excuse me? And I thought, yeah, right. I said, no way. And he says, oh, come on. And I said, I didn't even say no, thank you. So he drove off. And I swear to God, I could put my hand on my head and say it was them. Not far down the road from Black Rock is the town of Bray in County Wicklow. A man got in touch with us who vividly remembers an encounter he had on a Saturday afternoon at the end of August 1976.
I was 12 and a half years old. I was looking at CB radios in Dicker's electrical shop window. A slightly below average, medium build, unkempt man with an English accent and a head of hair like a scraggly bird's nest asked me what I was looking at. I didn't like the look or sound of him, so I ignored him.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What stories of victims are highlighted in this episode?
0:02–1:15
2
What new evidence has emerged about John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans?
1:15–8:51
3
How are new witnesses contributing to the case of Elizabeth Plunkett?
8:51–18:40
4
What incidents occurred in Ireland that relate to Shaw and Evans?
18:40–19:40
5
What details do witnesses provide about their encounters with Shaw and Evans?
19:40–31:21