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Allison Morris

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1106 total appearances

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The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

And she has gone on to turn her life around.

The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

But she was initially the person who told police about the brutal nature of the way that Cresswell was treating her and other women.

The Claire Byrne Show
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That was completely ignored.

The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

Then there was another whistleblower who was a friend of Lyle's.

The Claire Byrne Show
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both Katie, Christina and Criswell at one stage and that was a guy called Paul Lusby.

The Claire Byrne Show
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He tried to report it to the ombudsman, the police ombudsman.

The Claire Byrne Show
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They wouldn't accept his complaint because he wasn't a family member.

The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

He had went to a police station.

The Claire Byrne Show
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They wouldn't take a statement of him but they did take notes.

The Claire Byrne Show
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as he relayed to them what his concerns were and the report found that those notes were destroyed and they were never acted on and there was a nurse as well and as well as one of Kitty's aunts I think had raised concerns too.

The Claire Byrne Show
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Eventually they agreed to reopen it and they did manage to build a circumstantial case but the fact is that a lot of the evidence was lost and I should say that Paul Lusby who is the sort of hero of this piece in terms of he just would refuse to give up and kept going back

The Claire Byrne Show
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and trying to make ombudsman complaints, to make police complaints.

The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

He also took his own knife after this.

The Claire Byrne Show
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He was not hated at all.

The Claire Byrne Show
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And he is another, I suppose, victim of this terrible story.

The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

Yeah, and that was it.

The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

Kitty was denied justice.

The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

You know, as you said, the prosecution opening took place by the next day.

The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

He didn't show up in court and when there was a check done on his house, he had taken his own life.

The Claire Byrne Show
Claire Byrne Recommends: Newstalk Daily

And clearly that was the sort of, I suppose, last act of power in terms of what he could do to evade justice.