The equestrian trio who covered for a killer: Beautiful, young Katie was raped and murdered by her sister's jockey boyfriend, then betrayed by 'friends'...
now one confesses her shame By KATHRYN KNIGHT Published: 19:11 EDT, 11 July 2025 | Updated: 19:11 EDT, 11 July 2025 e-mail View comments In the tight-knit equestrian community circles in which they mixed, Jill Robinson and her friends worked hard and played hard. ‘We were wild enough all right,’ she recalls . ‘A lot of it can be like a Jilly Cooper novel.
We worked together, hung out together, living the horsey dream.’ Among those living that dream were a clutch of young women: Christina and Katie Simpson, horse-mad sisters from the village of Tynan in Northern Ireland , groomer Hayley Robb, and a teenage British equestrian star called Rose de Montmorency-Wright. Then there was Christina’s partner Jonathan Creswell, a charismatic 36-year-old jockey-turned-trainer who walked through the local stable yard in Derry with all the swagger of a celebrity.
Creswell charmed everyone he met, and if anybody suspected that his wide smile and knowing strut masked a profoundly sinister side, then they said nothing. Indeed to many, Creswell was a hero, especially when they learned that on August 3, 2020, he had tried frantically to save the life of Katie Simpson, the 21-year-old younger sister of his partner Christina, after finding her hanging from a banister. As a weeping Creswell told police, he had managed to cut her down a.
