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  1. Jeffrey Donaldson facing ‘lengthy sentence’ for child sex offences, court told – The Irish Times

    Jeffrey Donaldson’s convictions for child sex offences “obliterate all the achievements he has made in his life” and…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #belfast #criminal-courts #dup-links #JeffreyDonaldson #northern-ireland #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/745999/

  2. #JeffreyDonaldson may have fallen from the attention of the GB media, who after all have proper English politics to talk about, but NI media are on the job.

    Just listened to a couple of interesting episodes of Radio Ulster’s Talkback.

    The Spotlight documentary will have to wait till later.
    bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002

    #NIpolitics

  3. "Politician, Predator and Paedophile".

    #BBCNI's #Spotlight team did a great job with their documentary on #JeffreyDonaldson, the knighted child rapist and paedophile who was a #DUP MP for 27 years.

    Highly recommended.

    youtu.be/Y80CT3mbykk

    #nipol

  4. In March 2024, the #PSNI arrested a #sexcrime suspect. A knight.

    Not just any Knight. Not just a knighted #MP. This was a #PrivyCounsellor, leader of the 5th-largest party in the #HouseOfCommons. The Rt Hon Sir #JeffreyDonaldson MP.

    On 22 June 2026, Donaldson was convicted on 18 sex offence charges, including #rape & #CSA. Irish news has big questions. Who knew what when? Is there more?

    But in Britain's sunday papers, nothing. Most senior UK rapist politician ever. But crickets. 😡

    #ukpol

  5. The Rt Hon Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was a knight, and a member of the UK's #PrivyCouncil. Procedures for ending both are routinely invoked when the title-holder gets a non-trivial prison sentence.

    Rapist #JeffreyDonaldson has been warned that he wil get a very non-trivial sentence. His title and PC membership will be revoked.

    So what's in it for him to surrender voluntarily?

    I don't see the reward. Any insights?

    IrishTimes: archive.is/v0Kuh

    BBC: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2471

    #nipol #ukpol

  6. Ah, he spent the whole of his first day as a convicted #pedophile reading the Holy Bible. Such a holy man he is.

    #JeffreyDonaldson

  7. Jeffrey Donaldson was my local MP when I lived in Northern Ireland. I met him twice.

    Once he turned up to give a talk to a dozen sixth formers at our Politics Society. He turned up flanked by two security guards dressed head to toe in black with earpieces and tasers.

    On the second occasion I was there to raise an issue as a constituent and although he pretended to listen the piece of casework was never resolved.

    I knew he was arrogant and useless, but these crimes against two children go far beyond anything else he got wrong. And he has put them through a torturous 2+ year legal process as adults by doubling down and pretending his conduct was above board.

    Sentencing is due in September. They should lock him up for as long a time as being guilty on all counts allows. Well done to the victims and the jury for standing up to someone who thought he was above the law and proving him wrong.

    #JeffreyDonaldson

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j

  8. CW: Sexual abuse, child abuse, Donaldson

    Sir Jimmy Savile and Sir #JeffreyDonaldson are/were both knights (Savile was also a papal knight).

    Savile’s honour could not be rescinded because he was already dead, but Jeffrey will probably get his stripped away shortly.

  9. CW: Sexual abuse, child abuse, Donaldson

    Something that came up during the trial was the revelation that a religious organisation held some sort of mediation between Donaldson and his victim in the late 90s.

    Obviously we don’t know the details, but it seems to me that this needs to be thoroughly investigated, to see if a Church was yet again involved in another child abuse cover-up.

    #JeffreyDonaldson of course bangs on about “the Christian faith that sustains him”.

  10. CW: Sexual abuse, child abuse, Donaldson

    On another occasion the same week, I was milling around in the reception area of Ulster Unionist headquarters after hours, waiting for a lift.

    Donaldson was in and out of an empty meeting room, red-faced, absolutely furiously shouting down a phone about something or other. It was very uncomfortable to be there. He did not leave me with a good impression, even back then.

    #JeffreyDonaldson

  11. CW: Sexual abuse, child abuse, Donaldson

    #JeffreyDonaldson is now the second most notorious paedophile I’ve met, or at least been in the close vicinity of, after Jimmy Savile. I think I shook Donaldson’s sweaty little hand when I was introduced to him whilst on work experience.

  12. CW: Sexual abuse, child abuse, Donaldson

    #JeffreyDonaldson has been found guilty of the sexual abuse of two children who cannot be named over a long period, including one charge of rape.

    bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwy2qp32d1

    The former DUP leader was in 2020 the chair of the cross-party Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group.

    That group hosted anti-sex education and anti-LGBT speakers, see below.

    If people don’t want their kids to know the facts about sexual behaviour, we should be asking why.

  13. #Rapist #JeffreyDonaldson is in prison. The former #DUP leader was convicted of all 18 sexual offences he was charged with, and will be sentenced in September. His wife Eleanor faced only a "trial of the facts", but all charges were upheld.

    Sexual abuse by powerful men is an all-Ireland problem. It's a scandal that yet again, justice has been delayed by decades. 😡

    This isn't just one wicked criminal, or one party. It's an all-Ireland cultural failure.

    rte.ie/news/courts/2026/0622/1

    #nipol #iepol

  14. A judge has ruled that the wife of former #DUP leader #JeffreyDonaldson is unfit to face a criminal trial on sexual offences charges due to the state of her mental health.

    60yo Eleanor Donaldson will now face a "trial of facts". A jury will decide whether she committed the offences, but they cannot find her guilty.

    rte.ie/news/ulster/2026/0520/1

    I assume that the judge weighed the facts impartially. But still, it seems to be mostly rich people who get this option of a #TrialOfTheFacts.

  15. [15:12] Jeffrey Donaldson case delayed as wife ‘unfit to stand trial’

    The trial of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and his wife Eleanor Donaldson on charges relating to alleged historical sex offences is to be delayed.

    independent.ie/irish-news/cour

    #DUP #JeffreyDonaldson #EleanorDonaldson

  16. [14:26] Trial of Jeffrey Donaldson and wife delayed

    The trial of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and his wife for alleged sex offences is to be delayed because of illness.

    rte.ie/news/courts/2025/0314/1

    #DUP #JeffreyDonaldson

  17. [18:01] Eleanor Donaldson asks court to strike out two charges

    The wife of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has asked a court to strike out two charges she faces, linked to the sex offences case involving her husband.

    rte.ie/news/courts/2025/0221/1

    #DUP #JeffreyDonaldson #two

  18. [12:16] Eleanor Donaldson application adjourned for second time

    An application by the wife of the former DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, to drop two charges against her linked to his alleged sexual offending, has been adjourned.

    rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0123/

    #JeffreyDonaldson #two

  19. [08:00] Sense of disbelief after Jeffrey Donaldson charged

    Northern Editor Vincent Kearney looks back at the revelation in March this year that then DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson had been charged with historical sexual offences.

    rte.ie/news/2024-in-review/202

    #VincentKearney #Marchthisyear #DUP #JeffreyDonaldson

  20. [12:01] Application to drop two charges against Eleanor Donaldson

    Lawyers for Eleanor Donaldson, the wife of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson, will seek to have two of five sexual offence charges against her dropped at a court hearing in December.

    rte.ie/news/2024/1025/1477433-

    #EleanorDonaldson #DUP #JeffreyDonaldson #two #five #December

  21. I wish people would stop describing Jeffrey Donaldson as being charged for 'historical sex offences'. I am sure that for the victims of sex crimes they are very much not historical, but rather are ever present no matter how long ago they occurred.

    #JeffreyDonaldson #NorthernIreland

  22. 2/2

    Never without his born-again Christian badge ... #jeffreydonaldson

  23. Issuing a clarification on my previous comments on #JeffreyDonaldson: my description of him as a “weaselly wee bastard” was a terrible slur on the noble weasel, blameless short people and those born out of wedlock. I apologise unreservedly.

  24. Slugger O'Toole: 'One of the great lessons in life is that the more someone publicly professes to be a ‘Christian,’ the more unchristian their private life is.'

    sluggerotoole.com/2024/03/30/p

    #NorthernIreland #Ireland #DUP
    #JeffreyDonaldson #SexualAbuse

  25. You know I've no idea whether #JeffreyDonaldson is guilty or innocent of what he is accused of. But I wonder why he didn't take "gardening leave" whilst the matter took it's course in the courts and for a decision to be made on his leadership when that was resolved

  26. The DUP said: "The party chairman has received a letter from Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP confirming that he has been charged with *allegations of an historical nature* and indicating that he is stepping down as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party with immediate effect".

    Raise your hand if you're even vaguely surprised.

    #dup #JeffreyDonaldson #ireland #politics

  27. From 2020:

    “The #DUP's Westminster leader will chair a parliament briefing with a church minister who claimed education on LGBT issues in schools was "state-sponsored abuse" and compared the push to introduce topics into the classroom to Nazism.

    Sir #JeffreyDonaldson is chair of the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group…”
    m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/

  28. CW: Details of child sex abuse

    It appears that the charges against Jeffrey Donaldson have been published. He, apparently, has been charged with 10 offences including child rape and gross indecency against two children, his wife charged with 3 offences including aiding and abetting her husbands offences. Both deny the charges. Horrific.

    belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast

    #NorthernIreland #Ireland #DUP
    #JeffreyDonaldson #SexualAbuse

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