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Donaldson sex abuse trial hears police interview from alleged rape victim
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- Julian O'Neill BBC News NI crime and justice correspondent, at Newry Crown Court Pacemaker.
- The woman, known as Complainant B, is the older of two alleged victims who have accused the former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader of sexual abuse.
- She spoke to police weeks before he was arrested along with his wife in March 2024.
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Julian O'Neill BBC News NI crime and justice correspondent, at Newry Crown Court Pacemaker. The jury in the Sir Jeffrey Donaldson trial has been played a video recording of the police interview with a woman he allegedly raped and indecently assaulted when she was a child.
The woman, known as Complainant B, is the older of two alleged victims who have accused the former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader of sexual abuse.
She spoke to police weeks before he was arrested along with his wife in March 2024.
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