Allison Morris
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And so these are actions that they're saying that there were missed opportunities within the hospital as well and that there's scope for change there.
And a lot of this, too, is to do with learning, because we can't go back and get justice for Katie.
That ship sailed.
It's gone.
But what you can do is make sure this doesn't happen again.
And, you know, what you had said is, you know, is this an isolated case?
Well, that's one of the questions that I asked the minister today, because given the level of failings and the lack of just complete investigative interest by the police at the scene...
It would seem that there is a very real likelihood that there are other cases out there that have been treated as suicides or accidental deaths that could possibly fall into the category of murder.
And going back and trying to investigate them as cold cases is very difficult because the evidence is now all gone.
But there have been a number of cases have been identified and they are being investigated and looked at.
And one of the things that the minister said today, Naomi Long said today,
that, you know, the people who do have concerns about their loved ones' deaths shouldn't be afraid to come forward and say, you know, that none of this, there's something just not smelling right here, something seems off and they should be listened to if they come forward and that should be fully looked at.
She spoke to the press, yes, outside.
She said that she was happy that the politicians were taking it so seriously.
She was glad that they would be learning from it, but she was sad that so many opportunities were missed in terms of safeguarding of Kitty when she was alive and obviously in the investigation when she was, after she was admitted into hospital.
She has put a statement at the front of this report that is, you know, that's heartbreaking.
She says she finds it hard to read the report because so many things were missed and not done properly.
And she talked about how she was, she'd only been allowed in to see Kitty on her own, but she wasn't.
The crest bulb was there.
at all times she says after Kitty died things became very difficult and seven months later when the police came to our door they couldn't believe it because they had believed everything that Cresswell had told them she says but then slowly we began to see things we hadn't seen before and that she's tried to help police as much as she can and at the end of it she says some days I do not believe that Jonathan Cresswell is dead I do not believe that this is the only justice Kitty will receive I believe he was helped to avoid being held accountable for a murder I believe he planned it