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This programme contains strong language and discussions of suicide

The horsing community's so tight,

they couldn't make sense of why Katie would take her own life.

Katie Simpson was known as a fantastic rider.

She had everything to live for.

Every corner you turn there's a big flashing red flag.

Jonathan Creswell had been convicted in relation

to domestic violence assaults.

I was sexually assaulted when I was 19 years old.

Katie was terrified of Creswell.

They protected him.

This has been a murder.

They continue to treat it as a suicide.

There was a definite orchestrated campaign

to make sure I couldn't investigate this.

She felt that she had to keep a secret.

Katie had started a relationship with a man called Shane McCloskey.

And this chance meeting... ...really lit the fuse...

...ultimately started

a domino effect which ends in Katie's death.

People need to know what happened to Katie.

Shane McCloskey was her first boyfriend.

The first time I ever met

Katie I was one of the Donegal Harriers Hunt.

I thought there was no fear in her and stuff

because that horse that she was hunting that day

for sure didn't look easy.

One word to describe, he looked a bit wild.

Katie, she could light up a room.

She could have brought you around to be, you know,

laughing and not even realising that you were laughing.

Katie could get on with, you know, everyone.

Was always just a pleasure to be around.

I suppose that when we realised that we were both going to give things

a go, me and Katie, we just thought, why not?

On the 1st of August,

Katie had gone out with a friend for an evening in the Moy.

Katie was just telling me about her night out

and what they done, and who they met up with and,

you know, that they had a really good night.

She was in great form.

At around midnight that night,

Shane had travelled from Derry

to meet Katie at her mother's house.

Shane then stayed the night and left at 0600 the next morning.

Katie then starts her event in

the Meadows Equestrian Centre in Lurgan.

We kept in contact that morning.

Around midday during that event,

Katie sends a text to Shane McCloskey saying...

It was just more of the fact of trying

to get my story right, like, I was in my own home,

I wasn't up in Katie's, I never seen Katie.

That I wasn't there.

And one of the messages I did ask Katie,

"Can we not just tell

"the truth?" It was just a straight, "No."

One text that Shane sends to Katie is...

And Katie says...

Shane agrees to lie for Katie

and say that he was with his father.

She then continues, "Just please can you delete them?"

It's very confusing. Maybe she doesn't like me,

maybe... I don't know, you start to over-think

and you start to over-analyse everything.

I think Johnny Creswell thought he owned Katie as part

of his property.

She was clearly in fear

of Creswell finding out that she had been in

the company of another man.

Because of what we'd uncovered

the information against Creswell was overwhelming.

It exploded this case open

for me that can re-elevate this case to murder.

It was approximately five months after Katie had died.

I was so emotional at the time.

I'm just delighted we could do something.

This murder investigation was

going to tell everybody what happened to Katie.

We could not tell anybody. We couldn't,

because we could not alert Creswell

to what we were doing.

Cos he may conceal or damage evidence or intimidate witnesses.

We couldn't highlight

to people around Creswell or even Katie's family,

because the horsey community is so tight and people would talk.

One person got a sense we were launching a murder investigation,

everybody would know about it.

I knew now the pressure was on.

January, February, and into early March,

that was probably the most stressful period.

It was sleepless nights.

I was receiving calls from officers saying how I was making mistakes

and how this was going to make me look stupid in

the long run.

You're trying to make a name for yourself.

You were constantly thinking about it.

And that's where the doubt was creeping in.

Have I been wrong?

Due to concerns I had in relation to the postmortem,

I requested Dr Bentley to review

the photographs that were taken during the postmortem.

He was able to say that Katie had been beaten with

a rod type implement

and this could be shown by

the tramline bruising on her legs and arms.

Shane was able to say she had no injuries,

no bruises.

Up until 0600 on the 2nd, Katie has no injuries.

When the murder investigation had been officially launched,

at that point, we were able to get all

the samples taken during the postmortem to be now tested.

As Katie's death was being treated as a suicide,

all forensic samples that were taken from

Katie during her postmortem were not processed.

They were just stored from that point as no investigation

was being carried out.

Swabs had been taken

to obtain intimate samples from Katie,

particularly because she was bleeding from an intimate area.

It took three weeks to get the results back.

I then received an email which shocked me.

Jonathan Creswell's semen has been found on

Katie Simpson's vaginal swabs.

When we established that

Jonathan Creswell's semen had been found on

Katie Simpson's vaginal swabs,

there was no reasonable situation whereby this could occur.

It was a turning point for us,

because he had obviously been asked at the time,

when he was initially spoken to,

if there was any relationship between the two of them.

And he had said no. As interview coordinator,

it was a good moment for the investigation.

It was something very positive.

Jonathan Creswell is a dangerous sociopath.

He's a danger to women.

He's violent towards women.

You know you have to arrest him.

There was no covert or overt monitoring of Creswell at the time.

We needed to find out where he was staying.

He was in a house in

Briar Hill that his mother lived in.

On the morning of 2nd March, 2021,

an operation is put into place

to arrest Jonathan Creswell, and search his premises,

and then, bring him into custody.

It would be really damaging if we tried to arrest him and missed him,

and then he'd be ahead of the game.

So, we had to make sure that we got there extremely early.

The closer and closer you get

to now going open about what you'll be doing is exciting.

It is extremely intense when you go.

It was 5am, and we hit the house.

KNOCK ON DOOR

There was a huge delay in somebody answering the door,

even though we knew people were in the house.

This raised my suspicions.

When we got in,

I told him he was going to be arrested for

the murder of Katie Simpson.

He was pretending to be shocked and tearful.

"No, not my Katie, not my Katie."

He wasn't expecting this.

Definitely wasn't expecting this.

We have him in custody.

That was an important hurdle to get over.

I rang Paula.

Paula would come down and get the kids.

I went into the house, get the kids, straight out the door,

and then, when I was outside, I spoke to Christina

and gave her a hug, and told her to be brave

and everything will be OK.

Finally got him arrested.

It was a really, really good feeling.

Christina, Creswell's partner, was not going to be harmed.

You know, he'll never be able to harm her.

When I got him arrested, it was like...

It was hard. Like, I fucking got you now,

but the game wasn't over, it was only beginning.

There's a lot of tension in the air.

You've worked for months at this,

and this is it happening now, and the clock is running.

I'm already at the Strand Road police station preparing

for interviews.

I had been able to put together quite

an extensive strategy to include statements,

telecoms information, CCTV,

and would last for a number of days.

Jonathan Creswell was very much the lead

and only suspect in this inquiry.

So, Creswell comes into the interview,

along with his solicitor, and he has his head down,

he's quite sombre-looking.

He's putting forward this idea that this is a travesty of justice,

and he has been wrongly arrested.

He was happy to talk at the start,

and to give it his version of events.

He immediately says he was in a sexual relationship with Katie.

Jonathan Creswell said that his relationship with Katie

had been going on for a number of years,

and that nobody else knew about it.

Christina didn't know about it, according to Jonathan.

I was disappointed that he had brought that out.

It was a setback,

because we had hoped to hold back the presence of

Jonathan Creswell's semen in Katie.

Jonathan Creswell said that, on Sunday,

the 2nd of August, 2020,

when they returned home that night,

Katie and him had sex in the bedroom.

He said he loved her, she was his soulmate.

This destroyed the trump card we had.

Evidence of this intimate relationship was now useless

to us in the interview.

The interview team then asked Jonathan Creswell to draw out

how Katie was hanging,

and to draw out what he saw when he entered the house.

So, he drew the handrail, the spindles...

...and how the ligature was tied up.

He said it was around one spindle

and back over the rail, and down.

He talked about Katie kissing the wood -

this was a reference to the bottom of the spindles on the stairs,

where he told us Katie's face was positioned.

So, for this to happen,

you've the exact measurements of Katie,

and Creswell is saying her head is here.

There's no sign of a ligature mark,

there's no sign of any damage to any of the spindles.

I got a ligature strap the exact same size.

Tried to do it as Creswell said -

tie it over the banister, tie it in a V-shape -

but the noose would've only come down to about here.

The ligature wasn't long enough.

It was out by about a foot.

So, what he was describing couldn't have happened.

As he finished drawing it, he turned to his solicitor and said,

"That's too short, isn't it?"

I knew at that point this was the lie.

This is not how Katie was hanging,

because he wouldn't be asking his solicitor if it was too short.

The interviewers they then asked him about Katie's phone.

Katie's phone was missing.

It did cause me concerns,

because phones hold so much data.

But during our investigation, we were able to see,

from cell site analysis, how Katie's phone moved,

especially on the morning of the 3rd of August,

when she went to hospital.

Katie's and Johnny's phone travelled to his mother's house.

We can see both phones coming back to Gortnessy Meadows

when he finds Katie.

We don't believe Katie had that phone at that time.

We believe, on that morning,

the phone is now with Jonathan Creswell.

We can then see both phones are in the car,

going to the Tirbracken Road to meet the ambulance.

At the Tirbracken Road,

Katie's phone is either turned off,

or has gone on flight mode.

However, we can see that Katie's phone then reconnects to the network

when Katie's in the hospital.

Katie cannot - and is not - operating this phone.

Somebody else has control of Katie's phone at this point.

The interviewers talked about that and asked him.

Johnny knew he was now cornered.

He did not lose the phone at the side of the road,

as he told police.

We are now showing Johnny he had lied to us.

This was huge.

He looked to the solicitor and asked if he could have a break.

Jonathan Creswell returns after

a short consultation with his solicitor.

He has something to tell them.

He says, "I have Katie's phone."

It was buried in a field where he kept his horses.

So, Jonathan draws a map for the interviewers to show them

exactly where the phone can be located.

This was huge for us.

When we interrogated the phone and see what the phone was doing

at the time Katie was in Creswell's car...

...we could see when the Ambulance Service rang Creswell

and the duration of that call.

When Creswell was on the phone to a call handler,

he advises him that he should pull over to the side of the road

to try and get Katie into the recovery position

and start doing CPR on her.

When he alleges he was doing his best to give her

life-saving treatment,

he was, in actual fact, on her phone.

And put it onto flight mode.

At a time when she was at her most vulnerable,

his priority was to put her phone on the airplane mode, with a view

that it couldn't be tracked,

and that he could do anything with it later on when he wanted.

He did not want to save Katie.

Katie's text messages, as well, were assessed by the analyst.

The messaging from Creswell to Katie Simpson on the morning

of the 2nd of August, 2020,

were quite nasty.

They're horrific, the way he talks to her.

He had messaged her and rang her,

and she hadn't answered.

The messages then became more abusive.

It ramped up, the longer he couldn't get a hold of Katie.

When he arrived at that horse show,

he had been in a state of complete anger,

he'd been exchanging angry text messages with Katie.

Come early afternoon,

a fear in Katie.

After those messages, there's limited communication with Shane.

I sent Katie a few messages,

and there were no replies to them whatsoever.

Creswell had ordered her then to get into the car...

...and then, did not take in any way what could be described as

a direct route back to their home.

Creswell is now in possession of Katie's phone,

he's taken it off her.

We're able to track Katie and Creswell's phone

from the show in Lurgan.

We can track the phones moving in sync with the ANPR

and the movement of the vehicles.

At one stage, they crossed the border.

We can only imagine this was because Katie was being subjected

to an interrogation.

They then travelled to the horse yard.

Was this the place where the attack started?

At an area known to Creswell that he could get away with...

beating Katie or abusing, or raping Katie?

And you see it's quite secluded, laneways and open fields

where he could have taken Katie.

In Jonathan's interview,

he says he went to a beauty spot with Katie and...

...where they had sexual intercourse.

We don't believe that - it's rape.

Whether he physically forced it or emotionally forced Katie to do it,

Katie felt she had no choice,

but it was a way to try pacifying.

That is rape, and that's horrendous for any person to go through.

Leaving the show in Lurgan,

to getting to the house at 20 past, half past midnight,

that whole period, she was in Creswell's control.

She could not call for help. He had her phone.

Shane McCloskey sends Katie...

...asking, is she OK? Is she home yet?

It was just a simple message coming and going, er,

I think it was, "I'm OK", or "Everything's OK."

A text reply comes back,

"Yeah, we're just home now."

This is not true because, at that point,

the phones are in Claudy.

Shane then sends Katie another text,

"I thought you were annoyed with me for what happened last night."

The text back from Katie's phone is,

"What do you mean what happened last night?"

Shane replies,

"Because we slept together."

This now makes things so much more dangerous.

Creswell knows Katie has spent the night with Shane.

That was the turning point.

Creswell was no longer in control of Katie.

As soon as we arrested Jonathan Creswell,

there was a lot of people we had to speak to.

These were people that were in and around Creswell

and the centre of the investigation.

Namely Hayley Rob, Jill Robinson,

and Rose De Montmorency-Wright.

Rose shared a bedroom with Katie.

So, we start to look at evidence -

if there is any evidence,

if they are more victim than suspect -

but we keep an open mind.

I got a call that Christina and Hayley wanted to see me.

With Creswell in custody, they wanted to come forward

and provide the police with information

they felt was relevant.

My impression of Hayley was someone who was vulnerable,

but what she was telling me was a shocking story.

She was also in a relationship with Johnny.

This was... baffling to me.

But telling me how Johnny had hit her in the past...

...how he's abusive to her.

You just got the sense from Hayley

that she was totally under this guy's control...

...and that she would do anything that this guy asked.

Christina, Jonathan's partner,

then started to divulge what happened.

Johnny took the women in a car down near the bridge in Derry.

Said he was going to say Katie had fallen from a horse,

because he'd given her a beating the night before.

This now meant that Rose De Mont, Jill Robinson, and Hayley

was withholding information

and perverting the course of justice.

Rose De Mont admitted that Johnny had told her

that he had beaten Katie the night before.

I said, "Why did you not tell police this?"

She said, "I wanted to have his back."

And I never forget her saying that in the interview,

"I wanted to have his back."

The uniformed officers got CCTV footage

from the house next door.

Why, on the CCTV, was Hayley's car

and Creswell's car coming back at the same time,

to 86 Gortnessy Meadows,

after Katie was put in the ambulance?

One of the most significant things at that point is

he gives the police the wrong address.

And this was telling for obvious reasons.

He needed to clean up the scene of what faced him,

and what would have faced police.

I just asked Hayley, "Had you arranged to come in at

"the same time as Johnny?"

And she goes, "Yeah, he rang me to meet me somewhere."

They met at a junction, and he said, "Follow me back to the house."

Johnny stripped off his clothes,

said he needed to have a cold shower,

because he couldn't have the steam in the house if the police came.

He told Hayley to put his clothes in a bag,

and to clean blood from the stairs.

I showed her the footage of her leaving the house

and carrying a bag, and placing it in the boot of her car.

And I said, "What's in the bag?"

And she goes, "That's Johnny's clothes."

She wanted to tell the police,

but I think it was more out of fear she couldn't.

Not just from Johnny, but from who was around her -

other people who were probably putting her under pressure,

such as Jill Robinson.

Jill Robinson was an ex-girlfriend of Jonathan Creswell.

She's slightly older, and she continued to keep

her relationship with him.

She goes with Hayley from Derry back to Omagh,

which is about 40 miles, to wash the clothes.

Why take the clothes all the way from Derry 40 miles to

another laundrette to get them washed?

I can't imagine any circumstances

where someone would ask me to go and wash clothes

after a friend was covered in bruises from head to toe.

We've arranged to bring Jill Robinson into custody.

Jill maintained that she had done nothing wrong.

She accepted that she had taken these clothes to get them cleaned.

"That's what I would normally do for Jonathan."

I believe that Jill Robinson protected Jonathan Creswell.

She particularly liked him.

One of the other strands of evidence against Jill Robinson

was that she had deleted messages on her phone

the date that Katie went into hospital.

The reason that she gave for deleting them was that

it was to free up storage on her phone.

However, there were messages on the 3rd of August

to other people which she had kept.

There's a distinct difference between two sets of women

in this investigation.

Both Jill and Rose, on countless occasions, were asked,

"Are you under control?

"Are you in fear of Jonathan Creswell?"

"No. No, never."

They were never in fear of Jonathon Creswell.

After Katie had died, Rose went to live with Jill.

And I find that speaks volumes.

That you've these two women,

who I believe were not controlled by Jonathan Creswell,

were not scared of Jonathan Creswell,

end up living together.

A file was sent to the PPS.

The PPS made the decision to prosecute Hayley,

Jill, and Rose for their actions

after Katie had gone into hospital.

The evidence against Creswell was overwhelming.

The senior prosecutor just put his hands up and said,

"OK, you can charge him."

I couldn't believe it when they said yes.

You just can't believe you've done it.

I read out the charge, did he have anything to say after the caution?

And he said, "No."

The public prosecution service had agreed with me that

they believed Jonathan Creswell had killed Katie Simpson.

But then, he tried to get bail.

The defence barristers were trying to say this wasn't murder.

It was a largely circumstantial case,

and it is very difficult to keep somebody in custody

on a strong murder charge,

let alone even a circumstantial case.

Due to the amount of witnesses that we need to protect,

and victims we need to protect,

we were gravely concerned when Jonathan Creswell got bail.

It was such a shock.

Christina was living in my house,

so he was let out of prison.

And my niece had to take two young children and flee,

and move to Armagh.

Why does the woman that has been abused

have to get up and leave?

Jonathan now would have been free to further intimidate

the females that he was controlling,

and conceal or damage any other evidence.

Jonathan kind of turned against me.

He rang me.

He was just calling me everything underneath the sun.

And I just kept saying, like, "What's this about?" You know?

He just kept telling me to shut my fucking mouth, you know?

That was the word he just kept repeating,

and I didn't do nothing wrong.

We were trying to get Johnny's movements restricted

to certain counties.

The fact that Johnny was still out,

we had a real concern.

I was in my local supermarket, and I was walking round

and bumped into him.

I don't think he recognised me right away and he says,

"Oh, I'm sorry," and I says,

"Well, you will be sorry, cos - you murdering bastard."

He was so arrogant, in a way,

where he looked me straight in the eye and said

"I never done anything wrong."

He walked off shouting at me.

I could hardly drive home, I was just shaking.

With him being let out on bail,

I think they need to look at

how it affects the family, the victims.

Why let him out?

On the first day of the trial,

Katie's family were all there.

And it was a sort of anxious feeling of,

"Are we ready, as a family, to go through all this?

"To listen to all this?"

You just had to be strong and do it, and just keeping in your mind

that this was all for Katie,

all to get him sentenced the right way,

and do everything right by the law.

From the moment I saw that article,

my life has been laser-focused on this child.

The past few years since 2021 have been

like living in a horror movie.

Just waiting for... answers.

I wanted validation that what he did to me was wrong as well.

I was hoping and hoping, and hoping that some other woman

was going to come out and say,

"Actually, this happened to me, as well."

The only people who could really understand why I was

so focused on it, and why I was wishing for justice so hard

were the likes of James.

It's a tense day, as what's going to happen.

It was the culmination of a significant amount of work

by the major investigation team over a number of years.

When he arrived, he did not look like a man

who has been accused of murder.

Never looked at anybody, not a worry in the world.

What's his defence angle going to be?

What's his story?

I was aware his barristers were urging him to plead guilty.

He had continued to protest his innocence

when he was not for entering a plea bargain or pleading guilty.

At the start of the trial,

Jonathan Creswell pleaded not guilty.

On the first day, when you heard all the evidence being read out,

it was tough to listen to.

We now had the upper hand,

and he had no control over what's going to happen

over the next number of weeks.

The prosecution said on day one of that trial

that Katie was murdered after Creswell flew into a jealous rage

and beat her to death.

In a nutshell, the evidence that we had

against Creswell was overwhelming.

The cover-up that happened, he changed his clothes,

had a shower...

...got somebody to clean the blood, got his clothes washed...

...turning the phone onto flight mode,

as he's pretending to do CPR.

The hiding of Katie's phone.

The very important evidence of the drawing of the inside of the stairs

where it couldn't have happened in the way that he had suggested.

That was pivotal.

And also, the witness statements

from people who'd been involved, who'd been around.

I was wishing that this trial was going to see justice for Abby,

for Katie, for any woman or child

who has been at the hands of Johnny

that didn't speak out.

He was so confident.

Nobody left that court that day thinking he was innocent.

And Johnny left the court that day...

...knowing that he wasn't going to beat this.

I was asked to go and give evidence on day two.

Which was terrifying.

You don't know what's going to happen.

And, like, you get there that morning and...

...everybody's there,

the cameras, the photographers.

We travelled to the court.

When we arrived in, we went into the relative's room,

and Katie's mother was crying.

She was upset.

I got a call from a police officer, and her words were,

"Have you heard what's happened to Johnny Creswell?"

One of the officers came in and told us that

he had took his own life.

The courts took that chance and let an abuser,

a paedophile, a murderer, out on bail.

And I was fucking angry. Erm, really angry.

We've, as a family, felt it was

just one let down after the other.

I believe the judge should have kept him in after

our opening statement that day.

Why was he not supervised, or why was he not held

until this was over, you know?

We know that he left quite a lengthy suicide note.

The details of that have not been made public.

I believe Creswell hung himself.

And the one thing I would like to see is his suicide note.

I would like to see what he wrote in it.

I felt sick.

Must've cried for about an hour long.

Because the fucking coward... ruined our chance of justice.

It was probably one of the most...

...devastating days for everybody.

Everybody involved.

And some people say they're happy that he's gone,

and they're glad he did it,

and they're glad he's dead. But...

...not for us.

Not for the people who got hurt.

Not for us, who never got the justice.

Everybody was robbed by this bastard.

You know, there was no end, and it just came to a stop.

There was no closure.

He needed control, and, as we see in

his relationship with Katie, he had lost control.

He had lost absolutely everything.

The fact is that maybe that was always his intention.

You know, finally, Katie was going to get her story

put into the public.

The motive for Katie's death was jealousy.

I think Creswell was a very jealous, manipulative,

vindictive individual who struck out when he didn't get his way.

Katie was a victim.

When she went against what Jonathan Creswell wanted,

and decided to try and make a life of her own with somebody else,

she was punished - and punished very severely for it.

The case closed - however, all the women who pleaded guilty

to perverting the course of justice and withholding information,

their sentencing had to be done.

Jill Robinson was given a custodial sentence of 16 months

for perverting a course of justice,

which was suspended for two years.

Rose De Montmorency-Wright pleaded guilty to withholding information,

and she was sentenced to eight months,

suspended for two years.

Hayley Robb was given a custodial sentence of two years

for perverting the course of justice,

which was suspended for two years,

and she was given 12 months for withholding information,

which was also suspended for two years.

They all got a suspended sentence.

He had got away by murdering himself.

Now these three women were standing in court.

They protected him.

And that was our last straw.

Should two of those women have walked out of the court?

I don't think so.

This was a challenging case.

It was a team effort from a lot of people who were all interested

in showing exactly what Jonathan Creswell was.

James Brannigan sought to fight for the truth,

because he was an honest copper -

and I hope that doesn't sound too crass a term,

or flippant.

But he had a conscience about his work.

He took his work seriously,

and from the moment he was first engaged in the case,

he knew it was a murder.

He did everything in his power that he could to rectify that

and remedy the case, and put it back on track.

I would like to think that some good has come from our investigation,

and that there is an element of closure -

albeit Katie's family never got to see Creswell face the music,

with regard to how he behaved and what he had done to Katie.

But I would like to think that it has shone a light on some behaviours

within the horse riding industry,

and that perhaps the next person who behaves as Creswell did

may be called out a lot sooner.

If this happened - if I got that phone call on

the 11th of August this year,

I'd do the same again.

You were the first person to ever phone from the police

the whole organisation. Was I? yeah.

To ever phone any member of the family.

On the phone that day, you said,

"How are yous?"

Like that was... unreal.

Nobody had asked how we were.

It's not a week goes by where we don't talk about Katie in the yard,

like, and there's pictures of her up in the cabin there and stuff.

And, like every week you get away,

we bought a horse, we named her My Girl Katie,

and that was named after her.

Yeah, it was Katie's life,

and Katie had so much to give.

She had so much more.

Your fight for the truth is because right is right,

and wrong is wrong.

You know, Katie doesn't have a voice now.

The more awareness of abuse and coercive control,

it needs to be talked about more.

If it helps somebody else...

...it's all worth it.

Maybe that's something, as I say, the police in Derry need to look at.

You know, why did it take a team from a different district

to come in and do their job?

There's so much evidence here.

The shocking thing I think about -

all that evidence was available on the 9th of August. Yeah.

And it was all... there for them on that day. Yeah.

There were so many red flags.

Why did they miss all that?

The Chief Constable John Butcher rightly confirmed that the PSNI

had failed the Simpson family.

In the aftermath of the release of the Police Ombudsman's report,

he was rightly critical of

the previous policing decision-making in this case.

The policing investigation let the Simpson family down badly.

But there has been blame attached to the equestrian world,

and I have to agree with that.

Jonathan Creswell was given free rein to access

young girls through ponies.

When I checked through to see what statements were made by anyone

in any position of authority within the equestrian world

to call out what happened here,

with the notable exception of one or two persons,

otherwise, the equestrian world has been silent.

Well, I commend James Brannigan for his efforts.

From a policing perspective,

he stuck his head above the parapet - and he paid a price for that.

I just think the police force have lost a good man,

a good detective.

Over the course of my career,

I've received a number of threats against my life.

Doing this case has changed my life, it's changed my career.

I've had to leave the job I love so much.

I've found it very hard to forget about this,

and how it affected me in the job.

Both inside and outside the police,

James Brannigan continues to fight for the Simpson family.

I want to have some legacy from what's happened to Katie -

and in that, I'm setting up a charity which is going

to focus on hidden homicides.

What it's going to do is, for families who find themselves

in the same position as us,

even if it's just one member of the family feels

that it's not suicide, it may not be.

What they'll do is they'll go to the charity,

and the charity will direct them on the right path.

James, I just can't thank you enough.

And that's from the bottom of our heart.

I'm just glad for you and... the rest of family that

you know Katie didn't kill herself.

That's it. Yeah.

Thank you. SHE CHUCKLES TEARFULLY

People need to know what happened to Katie.

People need to know what to do

if their loved ones are in this situation.

People need to know what to do if they feel police aren't acting,

and make sure this never happens again to any other person.

That everything that Katie and her family went through

isn't in vain.

This is worth doing.

I'd like Katie to be remembered as a beautiful daughter,

a beautiful sister, a beautiful granddaughter, niece.

She was full of fun, full of devilment...

...and just a beautiful, beautiful girl. Mm-hm.

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