Podcast Appearances
It was pneumonia coupled with the cranial injuries and I'll find it to get it correct.
I don't know if you want to pick up something there that you spotted or that interests you in the review.
The most serious being the 2009 attacks against Abbey Lyle, who ends up kind of freeing herself from him, going for help and coming to court.
He pleads guilty at the last minute to a string of offences.
And we don't hear a huge amount of evidence because of that.
But those who did hear what he was originally facing during bail hearings were completely shocked.
And one of those people was Tanya Fowles, was a court reporter at the time.
And she describes to us in the podcast how she,
was chilled to the bone when you're looking at this small, you know, innocent looking, I suppose, jockey.
And you're hearing the kind of things he did because, of course, he not only beat her repeatedly and over her pattern, he brought her in a car over the border, told her she was in the forest of Castle Leslie and attempted to string her by the neck of a tree, having beaten her to the point that he was sweating so heavily he had to take off his shirt.
And despite, she was clearly the oldest of all the women that surrounded him, by far.
She was in her 40s and the others were much younger.
Much younger, yeah, yeah.
The report opens with some comments from Noelene Mullen, who is the mother of Katie Simpson.
Just read a little bit of that, the family forward.
And Cresswell, just pointing out, was the father of her grandchildren at this point.
I mean, he's not somebody who isn't welcomed into this family at this point.
He has been welcomed into the family and he's very much part of the family.
And him and Christina are seen as a very stable couple who Katie is allowed go and stay with and is sort of...
you know, when she, at one point, and it details this in the report, when she kind of gets away from him, goes over to Scotland to work.