Allison Morris

But she'd been with him from she was at school and the sort of coercive control, the verbal abuse, the physical abuse.

The manipulation, the state of, she was basically a human, a slave to this man.

She worked in the stables, he kept her pay.

They had her doing all sorts of things that would have been amount to human trafficking almost in terms of how she was treated.

She was constantly, at least once a year, attending A&E with really serious physical injuries.

that include head trauma, facial lacerations, soft tissue damage.

She was accompanied by medical visits.

They were inconsistently recorded.

And all of this was put down to horse riding.

But no one ever checked to see if this child was being abused when it should have been.

So there were so many things missed.

Also, Criswell stopped one time in a van with horses that were in distress in the back of it.

And he had a 15-year-old Katie sitting in the front seat.

And at that stage, that should have been red flagged and reported to social services that she was at risk.

She was someone who was a convicted domestic abuser at that time.

And he also had a very lengthy and significant criminal record.

And he was grooming, you know, young women within that equestrian world, which does not escape criticism in this report.

But then you come to the day that she died.

And that is when you just, it's almost incomprehensible, the series of failings.

You can't actually say it was even a failed investigation because there was no investigation to be failed.