Allison Morris
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She had been beaten, she had been strangled and she had been raped repeatedly and that had been going on from the previous day.
What happened was that Kitty had been secretly, because Cresswell had such a control over her, she wasn't allowed to see anyone else or see other men.
She had been secretly meeting a boyfriend, someone who had real affectionate love for her.
and someone had seen the two of them together and told us to Cresswell.
He had went and picked her up from a horse show and driven her home, stopping repeatedly along the way to rape and beat her.
And this had went on until the next morning, when I think he must have panicked when he realised that he had this on this occasion, and he had clearly beaten and abused Katie multiple times over the years, but on this occasion he'd went too far and she'd went to the point where she had stopped breathing, was barely alive, and that was when he phoned Cresswell
the ambulance but they were injuries that were not consistent with his explanation.
They weren't consistent with a fall from a horse or with the way he said that she was trying to end her own life and that is where they should have been picked up.
One of the body worn footage of the police when they did the first walkthrough of the house which again wasn't treated like a crime scene is four seconds long.
A second clip available to when the report was being carried out is three seconds long and is blurry and shaky and so of no evidential value.
And that in itself, I suppose, is something, you know, you imagine attending the scene where someone says they found a young woman, a young woman who was in a state of undress and wearing, you know, bloodstained underwear.
You'd imagine the first thing would be to go in and do a walk through the crime, the scene that this was meant to have taken place with your body wearing camera on and assess if it fitted with the story.
And none of that was done.
There was a number of people who were raising the alarm.
One was actually a journalist, a court reporter, Tanya Fowles.
She had reported on Cresswell's earlier conviction for a very brutal assault on his former partner, Abi Lyle.
He was jailed for that.
And yet, despite that, when he came back out, he was welcomed like a hero with a party by those sort of questions he set and went straight back to work again.
And Abby Lyle waved her hand nimbly and told that story.
Some people who are listening to this, if they are into the world of show jumping, will recognise Abby Lyle has been in the last Olympics representing Ireland and is expected to represent them in the next Olympics.