James Brannigan

And the guy driving the car said she's hung herself.

You know, at what point do we look at him instead of looking at her?

And this is what has to change.

And in the report yesterday, there's...

Research pointed to, in relation to identifying reoccurring indicators for staged homicides, and it's research done by two researchers, Yifat Biza and Hava Dayan in 2020.

And the six reoccurring factors all appeared in this case with Katie.

And this is research that's available.

And in our charity work we're doing, we've over 100 families now, and 25% of our cases have these six recurring indicators in it also.

They show that they should be treated as homicides.

And how do we stop this happening again?

That's something we're working on here, and I think we have to be

proactive on this and not coming out with the platitudes to the family now yes there's learning from this no it needs action and it needs action very soon.

Yeah, I was based in Armagh, this happened up in Derry, and when a member of the public came to me, asked me had I heard about this and to look at it.

And as soon as I started looking at basic questions, like any questions a family should have, how did this happen?

Where was her phone?

How did she do that?

Why did he get her down?

Why did he not call an ambulance?

These are basic questions that an investigator should look at.

And when I started looking at it, this is where the intimidation started from senior officers warning me not to look at it for whatever reason.