The jury will continue their deliberations today.Mr Sherlock, a computer analyst who has been sitting through every day of the three-week trial, was joined by members of his family as the jury returned its guilty verdict yesterday.Woolley, 36, had claimed the death was a “terrible accident” but the court was told that he had been seen smiling as he drove from the scene.He showed no emotion but Ms Moorhouse burst into tears and held his hand as the couple, who have a one-year-old baby, were taken back to the cells.Woolley had admitted manslaughter but had denied the more serious charge, which carries a mandatory life sentence He was also convicted of theft. The court was told that Ms Moorhouse had been pictured on CCTV cameras wandering around the station on Easter Monday this year before snatching Mrs Sherlock’s bag.The court was also told that Ms Moorhouse and Woolley had a £300-a-day heroin habit between them. Ms Moorhouse stole up to six handbags a day, the court was told, with Woolley working as her getaway driver. That day they had gone to the station to steal.Videotape footage seen by the jury showed Ms Moorhouse running through Euston station with Mrs Sherlock, 42, in close pursuit. She was heard to shout: “Stop that thief – she’s got my bag.”Woolley was waiting for his accomplice in his Ford Fiesta outside the station, and as Ms Moorhouse got into the car, Mrs Sherlock spread herself over the bonnet to try to stop him from driving away.But he drove off with Mrs Sherlock still gripping the windscreen wipers, then reversed and drove off again.As they reached a major junction, and still refusing to throw the bag out of the window, Woolley reversed into a sidestreet where he hit a kerb and found a bus in his way.Mrs Sherlock then fell off the car. Finding his way backwards blocked, Woolley drove over Mrs Sherlock dragging her body underneath the car, and she was “knocked about like a rag doll”, the court was told.

Ms Moorhouse told the court she felt two bumps as the car went over the victim.She claimed that she had turned to Woolley and told him that he had driven over Mrs Sherlock. She said Woolley told her to shut up, but said her recollection was hazy because she had been taking crack cocaine.Woolley told the court that he had been addicted for nine years, using heroin and crack cocaine, and needed to take drugs every four to five hours. Asked why he had not stopped when Mrs Sherlock first jumped on to the car, Woolley told the court: “Panic I was scared I did not know what it was about. It looked as if someone was after her [Moorhouse].”The two were forced to abandon the car after two punctures and were seen walking away arm in arm. They then used Mrs Sherlock’s cash card to draw out £100 and went to a house to get heroin, the court was told.The couple, who lived together in north London, were arrested at a relative’s house three days later, where they had been trying to hide under a bed.The court was told that in a jacket found in the room was a note written by Ms Moorhouse, which read: “Dear Lord I have sinned.

Forgive me for a terrible sin, God rest the poor woman’s soul.”. The leading Belfast loyalist Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair is to appeal against the Government’s refusal to parole him from prison at Christmas. Adair, best-known of the leaders of the illegal Ulster Defence Association, has been ordered to stay in Maghaberry on the orders of John Reid, the Northern Ireland Secretary. His arrest was ordered in August last year by Peter Mandelson, who was then Northern Ireland Secretary, after he was considered to have breached the terms of his licence. Adair had been freed 11 months earlier under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.He was locked up in an attempt to calm the inter-loyalist feuding which led to more than a dozen deaths and the displacement of several hundred families from their homes in the Shankill Road district of Belfast.When Adair was returned to prison the authorities made clear they believed he was deeply involved not just in the violent feud but also in sectarian attacks, attempted gun-running and drug-dealing.He is due for release next year when his sentence expires, but had expected to enjoy the Christmas parole which has traditionally been granted to most paramilitary prisoners.

It is believed two hundred others in the prison have been given leave.Describing the decision as grossly unfair, his associate John White said yesterday: “On the one hand republicans are being given amnesties and yet here’s a man who has been denied the opportunity to spend time with his wife and four children. So this has all gone down very badly within my community.”Alban Maginnis, a north Belfast spokesman for the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, said releasing Adair would have been “utter madness” in the context of continuing violence in the area, including two murders in the past two weeks. He added: “I believe he is still a very powerful paramilitary leader with a very influential position within the UDA.”Several months ago, the Government formally announced that they regarded the UDA ceasefire as over, in the wake of widespread violence in north Belfast and elsewhere. Earlier this month the UDA shot dead William Stobie, a former member of the organisation who was also an RUC Special Branch informer. Stobie had earlier been acquitted of the murder of Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane, shot by the UDA in 1989.Adair, 38-year-old command-er of the Ulster Freedom Fighters’ notorious C Company, is expected to apply for a judicial review of the parole decision in the High Court in Belfast.. Painting a monarch is all too often an exercise in vanity.