{"id":617200,"date":"2026-06-02T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617200\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:19:32","slug":"sir-jeffrey-donaldson-rape-accuser-says-he-apologised-to-her-years-later-at-a-christian-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617200\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Jeffrey Donaldson rape accuser says he apologised to her years later at a Christian centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Complainant B&#8217;s ABE (Achieving Best Evidence) interview, which lasted 75 minutes was played at Newry Crown Court on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At points in the interview, she was tearful and her words were occasionally inaudible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She alleged Sir Jeffrey used to put his hands down her underwear &#8220;quite a lot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Recalling the alleged rape incident, when she was of primary school age, she claimed he put his feet between her feet and then pulled her legs apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His breathing was heavy and he was panting, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She then added she felt something &#8220;different&#8221; and &#8220;something I&#8217;d never felt before&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Complainant B stated: &#8220;I hated it yet I thought&#8230; he&#8217;ll just stop and lose interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought what&#8217;s the point in shouting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the following day she felt &#8220;really sick&#8221; and &#8220;anxious&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Complainant B also said she remembered another incident in which Sir Jeffrey allegedly lifted up her top and &#8220;played&#8221; with her breasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She claimed to detectives that Lady Eleanor Donaldson had witnessed it and walked away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Complainant B&#8217;s ABE (Achieving Best Evidence) interview, which lasted 75 minutes was played at Newry Crown Court on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-617200","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\/617200","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=617200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}