HOLD UNTIL TOMORROW…….. A HUSBAND ACCUSE

HOLD UNTIL TOMORROW.

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A HUSBAND ACCUSED OF HIRING A ‘HIT MAN’ TO KILL HIS WIFE TOLD
AN OLD BAILEY JURY HE IS STILL IN LOVE WITH HER.

‘I LOVED HER WHEN I MARRIED HER, I LOVED HER ALL THE TIME – I
STILL LOVE HER’ SAID ALLEN HARPER-TAYLOR.

HARPER-TAYLOR TOLD THE JURY HOW HIS MARRIAGE FAILED WHEN HE
BECAME A ‘WORKALCHOLIC’ AND NEGLECTED HIS WIFE.

‘IT CAUSED TROUBLE’, HE SAID.

HIS WIFE, JULIE, WOULD BE
ANNOYED WHEN THEY WERE INVTITED TO PARTIES AND HE WOULD NOT APPEAR
UNTIL THE END OF THE EVENING.

‘THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE COMPANY WAS WAS SO WE COULD LIVE A LIVE
OF LUXURY AND SEND THE CHILDREN TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS’, HE CONTINUED.

THE JURY HEARD HARPER-TAYLOR HAD GONE INTO HIS BUSINESS ‘ONE
HUNDRED PERCENT’ – WORKING FROM 7.

30 AM TO MIDNIGHT SEVEN DAYS A
WEEK.

‘THERE WAS NO RETREAT’, HE CONTINUED.

‘IT WAS A BATTLE WITH
THE BANK.

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HARPER-TAYLOR SAID THE COUPLE MET WHEN THEY WERE TEENAGERS
AND LIVED TOGETHER FOR SIX YEARS BEFORE THEIR MARRIAGE.

HE ADMITTED HE HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF DISHONEST HANDLING AND
JAILED FOR EIGHT MONTHS WHEN HE WAS AGED 22.

HE TOLD THE JURY SHE HAD WAITED FOR HIM TO BE RELEASED FROM
PRISON.

‘WE WERE INSEPERABLE FROM THAT TIME’, HE CONTINUED.

‘WE HAD OUR UPS AND DOWNS’ BUT HE DENIED IT WAS A STORMY
RELATIONSHIP.

HE SAID HIS WIFE HAD BEEN A PHOTOGRAPHIC MODEL FOR MEN’S
MAGAZINES.

WHEN SHE BECAME PREGNANT WITH THEIR FIRST CHILD THEY
SEPERATED FOR THE FIRST TIME.

‘SHE PUT IT DOWN TO THE FACT THAT THE PREGNANCY RUINED HER
MODELING CAREER’, HE SAID.

DURING ANOTHER SEPERATION TWO MONTHS BEFORE THEIR MARRIAGE IN
1978 HE SAID HE ATTEMPTED SUCIDE WHEN WIFE TOLD HIM SHE HAD AN AFFAIR
WITH HIS CLOSE FRIEND LESLIE BAKKER.

BUT HARPER TAYLOR DENIED HE AND HIS WIFE WERE INCOMPATABLE
DESPITE THE FACT HE WAS SUSPICIONS THAT SHE WAS SEEING OTHER MENHE SAID THERE WAS ‘ABSOLUTELY NO TRUTH’ TO HER ALLEGATION THAT
HE TOLD HER TO ‘GET OFF HIS BACK AND GO OFF WITH ANOTHER MAN’.

HE CONTINUED: ‘I LOVE HER VERY DEARLY.

THAT WOULD BE THE LAST
THING I WOULD EVER WANT TO DO.

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THEN HE REVEALED HOW HE FOUND ABOUT ABOUT HER AFFAIR WITH
OSBOURNE.

‘THIS MAY SOUND RIDICULOUS BUT WHILE WE WERE MAKING LOVE SHE
ACTUALLY SAID SHE HAD MADE LOVE WITH OSBOURNE.

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‘I DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHY SHE HAD DONE IT’, HE SAID.

THE COUPLE AGAIN SEPERATED AND RECONCILED.

HARPER TAYLOR TOLD THE JURY THEY WERE ‘VERY, VERY CLOSE’ AFTER
THE BIRTH OF THEIR THIRD CHILD, BEN.

‘I WAS AT THE BIRTH OF ALL MY CHILDREN’, HE SAID.

‘I HAD BEN
IN MY ARMS WITHIN SECONDS OF COMING OUT OF THE WOMB.

BUT THERE WERE ARGUMENTS.

HARPER TAYLOR DENIED THE ROWS WERE
BECAUSE OF HIS JEALOUSLY AND SUSPICION.

HE SAID THEY DISAGREED OVER
DISPLINING THE CHILDREN.

‘SHE SAID THERE SHOULD BE PHYSICAL RESTRAINT
AT TIMES – I DID NOT AGREE’.

HE INSISTED HE HAD NEVER HIT WIFE UNTIL FEBUARY LAST YEAR.

‘SHE SAID SHE WANTED A DIVORSE.

IT CAME OUT OF THE BLUE’.

SHE SAID SHE HAD BEEN SEEING SOMEBODY ELSE I JUST DID NOT WANT TO
KNOW.

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HARPER TAYLOR INSISTED THAT AS HE WALKED OFF TO BE ALONE HIS
WIFE STOOD IN FRONT OF THE DOOR.

‘I PUSHED HER VERH HARD AND SHE FELL
ON THE FLOOR.

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HE TOLD HE JURY HOW HE CARRIED HER INTO THE HOSPITAL, STAYED
WITH HER, AND BROUGHT HER HOME.

‘SHE WAS IN PAIN.

I WAS UPSET – I COULD NOT APOLOGISE
ENOUGH.

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HE CONTINUES HIS EVIDENCE ON FRIDAY.

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