{"id":608521,"date":"2026-05-28T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608521\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:24:12","slug":"sir-jeffrey-donaldson-jury-in-trial-of-ex-dup-leader-hears-victim-claim-she-was-abused-from-quite-a-young-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608521\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: Jury in trial of ex-DUP leader hears victim claim she was abused from &#8216;quite a young age&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In another alleged encounter, she claimed Sir Jeffrey had used a bright light, possibly a torch, to look at her private parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the experience had made her feel &#8220;really frightened&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At this point in the police interview she became tearful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She went on to claim that Sir Jeffrey had also put his hands under her bra and rubbed her breasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later, as an adult, she said she realised the incidents were abnormal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described having to watch Sir Jeffrey receive &#8220;accolade after accolade&#8221; in public life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described herself as having been sexually aware from a young age and getting nightmares &#8220;about men doing horrible things to children&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In another alleged encounter, she claimed Sir Jeffrey had used a bright light, possibly a torch, to look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-608521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}