“I am meeting the family in the near future and very much look forward to talking to them about what we did and did not do and what we got wrong.”
It is “abundantly clear” that police got things wrong in the initial investigation into the death of showjumper Katie Simpson, PSNI chief constable Jon Boutcher has said.
Ms Simpson, who was from Tynan, Co Armagh, died in hospital almost a week after an incident in Gortnessy Meadows, Lettershandoney, on August 3, 2020.Read more: Three women who covered for Jonathan Creswell sentencedThe trial of Jonathan Creswell, 36, over the rape and murder of Ms Simpson ended in April following his sudden death.
“We relied far too much on the lack of any presenting medical evidence around what had happened to Katie when she was first admitted to hospital and on the forensic post mortem that was conducted on August 11 2020.” He said: “It is how a man previously convicted of such a heinous and similar crime, from what we now know was a controlling and coercive individual almost on an industrial scale, how he became something of a poster boy accepted in society and no-one put their hand up and reported him.”
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