Allison Morris
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She has marks to her neck.
And she was practically naked from the waist down in the car, apart from her pants hanging.
and they have bloodstains on them.
They are then put into an evidence bag, and they're not examined until months later.
And none of this appears to be suspicious to the police who attend in this scene, because the only person they speak to is Criswell himself, the killer himself.
Yes, and there are whistleblowers in this case.
There's people who try to raise the alarm.
There is a guy called Paul Lusby who tried his best and is the hero, I think, of this piece.
When we talk about Katie Bainfield, by almost every adult around her, apart from Paul Lusby who did his utmost best to try and raise the alarm and he was repeatedly turned away by the ombudsman because he wasn't a relative of hers.
He does go to a police station and they don't take a statement but agree to take down notes and he details all his concerns and then when he goes back and asks, those notes have been destroyed, they haven't been kept and nothing that he told remains.
Police was followed up on.
There are other people.
There was a nurse who tried to blow the whistle.
And there are some police officers who did try and look into his past.
But Cresswell had a criminal record.
He'd been to prison for a brutal assault on his former partner, Abby Lyle, also a woman who works in the equestrian world.
And a lot of people who are into that will know is now an Olympian.
She represented Ireland in the last Olympics and she is probably going to be at the Olympics again soon.
Next time out, she managed to escape and now lives in England and has very bravely waved her anonymity and spoken about how controlling and coercive Cresswell actually was.
There are page after page after page of failings, but not one single investigative lead was looked at.