Olympic equestrian Abi Lyle has revealed how she was repeatedly assaulted by horse trainer Jonathan Creswell during their nine-month relationship before he raped and murdered a showjumper.
Former jockey Creswell fatally strangled Katie Simpson, 21, in August 2020.
He died by suicide in April 2024 after the first day of his murder trial, which later saw the convictions of three women who helped him cover the attack up and cleaned blood in his house.
The brainwashed allies even supported his lie that the marks he inflicted on Ms Simpson's body with a horse whip had been the result of a riding accident.
Now Olympic dressage competitor Ms Lyle, 40, has shone light on Creswell's dark past in an interview with The Telegraph to coincide with Sky's new documentary Death of a Showjumper.
