Podcast Appearances
But up until that point, he goes back into the folds of that family, you know, and continues the pretense and continues to work and continues to just get on with things, doesn't he?
Until the knock comes the door, he's arrested.
Well, Katie's mother talks about the bail.
She says when Jonathan Cresswell was released on bail, it felt like everything collapsed.
Even after my other daughter, Christina, went to the police and disclosed that he had abused her, locked her up, groomed her, controlled her and broken her bones, he was still granted bail.
I watched the hearing via webcam.
I remember the judge's face.
He looked concerned, but Cresswell was not recalled to custody.
It was an incredibly stressful time.
We didn't know we could object to the bail decision.
We were just thinking of our grandchildren and hoping they would have more time to live safely before he was released.
Now, that bail was interesting because there had been a lot of warnings in the run up to that, that the investigation team were slow.
And that this guy could not be kept in custody for an unforeseeable amount of time.
We know that the north of Ireland, the justice system does move very slowly when somebody can be charged.
They can be a long, long time waiting to go to trial.
And the longer that goes on, the more chance they really have of getting bail.
He was released with very strict bail conditions.
He wasn't allowed to go to Armagh.
He had to give a bail address up.
And he wasn't allowed to involve himself in the equestrian industry.