https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c720k0yl80yo

A senior police officer has been accused of being resistant to investigating the death of showjumper Katie Simpson as a murder.
The 21-year-old died in hospital six days after an incident in a house in County Londonderry, in August 2020.
In the months after Katie's death police treated her death as suicide before it was upgraded to a murder investigation.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said Katie Simpson’s murder had left a family devastated and they continue to suffer unimaginably.

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Det Ch Insp Jonathan Caldwell led a major investigation team based in Londonderry
At the time of Katie's death, Det Ch Insp John Caldwell led a major investigation team based at Maydown PSNI Station in Derry.
Alliance MLA Nuala McAllister, a member of the Policing Board, has told a BBC Spotlight investigation that a police officer from another team, who was trying to push for an investigation, was getting pushback.
“I am aware that there was an individual officer who did a lot of work and actually brought it forward to his superior to say: ‘This isn’t right here.’
"He met a lot of resistance, not from his superior but from within the team around the district in which Katie lived and where the death actually occurred,” she said.
“There was a police team in the PSNI who just didn’t want to know. I’ve been informed that it was DCI John Caldwell who led that team.”

by Michael_of_Derry

9 comments

  1. Answer: the victim was a woman and the person in the local force responsible for blocking the investigation was a man

    Women have made it clear for decades that the police, the legal system, and even doctors do not listen to them or take their issues seriously enough

    Edited for clarity

  2. Something stinks here, there are usually a lot more going on when it comes to such predators.

  3. Ha. Dude had every police officer working on his case, but meh to doing his job. Sure he got awards nall, cool cool cool

  4. The whole case is weird. Poor Katie. Her family must be in hell

  6. What a lowlife scumbag Jonathan Creswell was and what a joke the police are in this country.

  7. Didn’t recognize the name initially but Johnathan Caldwell was the man who survived the shooting last year at his son’s football match

  8. No mention of the sister in the documentary at all. So many unanswered questions.

  9. So odd. The fact a nurse presented at the station with concerns, including unexplained bruising and vaginal trauma , on top of a post mortem and the criminal record of the man who brought her in and they fail to look into it further? Astounding

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