Allison Morris

And that sort of inbuilt, I suppose, misogyny is something that's quite difficult to take out of an institution like the PSNI.

Yeah, and in conclusion 17 of this report, it says the failure of police to record and act on key information or check criminal records relating to Cresswell points to a systemic issue in terms of police and domestic abuse and coercive control.

And without consistent documentation and risk recognition, that sort of pattern of behaviour went, I suppose, unreported.

There were so many missed opportunities.

And as you said, you know, people can go and they can look online.

I interviewed...

Abby Lyle just before Christmas there because her story is so inspiring and so empowering she escaped this man who almost killed her he threatened to kill her he threatened to drown her in a bath of bleach and took her to a forest where he said he was going to put her body and she managed to get out of the course of control and escaped that and went on to ride at the Olympics which I think is you know for anyone listening to this and you're in an abusive relationship and you can't get out of it go and read Abby Lyle's story because it shows that there is life after abuse.

They should have.

And also, it's worth reminding that when Jonathan Cresswell got out of prison, as I said, he was welcomed home.

Do you hear he was welcomed?

There was a party thrown for him.

Abby Lyle had to move to England to train there because she was victim-shamed.

She wasn't believed.

And there's people within that world who still didn't believe what she was trying to tell them in relation to this.

And that, I suppose, is the fact that this report...

just doesn't look at police failings, which are damning, but it also looks at failings in terms of the safeguarding in that world and how that world is structured and organised.

And the fact that there's men, predatory men, have access to very young girls who are just horse mad, you know, and that's all they want to do.

And that, I suppose, that, you know, that desire to turn that into the living and turn it into their careers, making them really vulnerable, the predatory men, and also the health trust, which failed to impose safeguarding, and also which failed to flag up the fact that this young girl, a child at the time,

was showing up at least once a year at ANA with really serious injuries, some facial injuries, soft tissue injuries, broken bones, and no one was being flagged up to go and see what circumstances were that she was living in.

The PSNI have released a statement and have apologised, and I know that there is a real... We have a new Chief Constable, John Boucher.