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Jeffrey Donaldson's Wife Eleanor Put On Sex Offenders' Register

Jeffrey Donaldson's Wife Eleanor Put On Sex Offenders' Register

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Eleanor Donaldson, wife of former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, has been placed on the sex offenders' register for five years and given a three-year supervision and treatment order. A jury found she aided and abetted his abuse of two girls, but she could not be jailed because she was ruled medically unfit for a normal trial. She appeared tearfully by video link in Newry.

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