3. Letter of 'regret'
5/28/20267 min
A special series from The State of Us podcast. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has pleaded not guilty to all 18 charges he faces, including one count of rape. His wife, Lady Eleanor Donaldson, faces a trial of the facts on related charges of aiding and abetting, which she has denied. The trial is told Sir Jeffrey Donaldson wrote a letter to one of the two alleged victims expressing ‘regret’. WARNING : Contains distressing content – For more on this story check out bbc.co.uk/news/northern Ireland or the BBC News NI website
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First 90 secondsDeclan Harvey· Host0:00
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Speaker 20:32
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Speaker 30:54
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Speaker 20:58
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Tara Mills· Host1:01
[electronic tone] A woman who alleges the former DUP leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, sexually abused her when she was a child claims he expressed regret to her in a letter.
Declan Harvey· Host1:14
The woman, known in court as Complainant A, is the first person to give evidence in this trial.
Tara Mills· Host1:22
She said it was hard to take seeing him as a public figure, pretending, she said, to be a good person.
Declan Harvey· Host1:27
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and his wife, Lady Eleanor Donaldson,