{"id":477391,"date":"2026-05-10T07:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477391\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:17:12","slug":"jonathan-creswell-can-never-hurt-another-woman-says-aunt-of-murdered-showjumper-katie-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/477391\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Creswell can never hurt another woman, says aunt of murdered showjumper Katie Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A review of the PSNI investigation into the death found young woman was \u2018failed\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Katie Simpson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/334409c9-84db-4dff-8bb6-caae882ff14b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Katie Simpson<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On the first day of Jonathan Creswell\u2019s trial for the rape and murder of showjumper Katie Simpson, the young woman\u2019s grieving family were front and centre. There would be no second day in court. Creswell would die by suicide following the first day of his 2024 trial at the Crown Court in Derry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI was there on day one of the trial. He obviously knew there was no way out. The court case would have given us something, it would have given us the truth,\u201d Colleen McConville, Katie\u2019s aunt, told the Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A review of the PSNI investigation into the death found young woman was \u2018failed\u2019 Katie Simpson On the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[44947,9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,954,101039,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-477391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-ali-bracken","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-northern-ireland","20":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116549061761074257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}