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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has now been cross-examined by the prosecution in Newry Crown Court where he is on trial over 18 alleged offences. He has plead not guilty to charges including rape and allegations of indecent assault and gross indecency. Both complainants alleged they were abused as children. His wife, Lady Eleanor Donaldson, from Dublinhill Road in Dromore, denies several charges of aiding and abetting her husbandâs alleged offending. She is facing a trial of the facts on mental health grounds. Allison Morris is covering the trial for the Belfast Telegraph.
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A rugby ace behaving badly, the Belfast riots draw sick comments from a US rapper, and glamour model Katie Price says Daniel Kinahan and her hubby are sharing porridge in a Dubai prison.
This is a wrap up of the top stories on crimeworld.com this week.
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The brother of an Irish soccer star has been reported missing and feared dead in Spain. The victim in his 30s had been living in Spain for a number of years and associating with members of the Kinahan organization. Nicola speaks to Niall Donald on this breaking news story.
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Crime Worldâs Ken Foy goes in search of a statement from Daniel Kinahan about the Panorama programme.
Much to his surprise, he ends up in a 35-minute-long phone conversation with the man himself.
Ken gets his statement, and the reaction to the BBC documentary is fierce, prompting yet another release from Daniel denying any involvement in the drugs trade. Itâs just a âwitch-huntâ he claims.
But his attempts to âsportswashâ his reputation are truly scuppered when in April 2022 when an extraordinary press conference at Dublin City Hall is jointly held by the Irish, American and British law enforcement agencies.
Are the Kinahans finally KOâd?
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Jeffrey Donaldson has denied raping a seven-year-old child, under cross-examination, saying âit simply didnât happenâ. The former MP spent Thursday on the witness stand in Newry Crown Court. During the questioning, he admitted having an affair. Mr Donaldson is accused of rape and several counts of gross indecency and of indecent assault. The sixty-three-year-old has pleaded not guilty to the 18 alleged offences.
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Eleanor Donaldson âmet with a blank wallâ when asking her husband Jeffrey about an incident with an alleged abuse â a jury has heard.
Eleanor Donaldson also accused her husband of infidelity during police interviews.
And Jeffrey Donaldson told police a letter sent to one of his alleged victims had nothing âto do with any allegation or any action involving sexual abuseâ.
His trial over alleged sexual offences is continuing in Newry Crown Court.
The 63-year-old has pleaded not guilty to 18 charges, including one count of rape and allegations of indecent assault and gross indecency.
His wife Eleanor Donaldson faces five related charges including aiding and abetting â she is facing a trial of the facts due to her mental health issues.
Allison Morris is covering the trial.
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MTK Global gets a major boost when US boxing promoter legend Bob Yalen is announced as their new president.
Nothing is going to stop Daniel Kinahanâs attempt to break America. A bizarre book, rap song and film about the Regency Hotel attack are released that paint the event in a very different light.
For a while it seems to work, MTK sign tournament contracts with Sky Sports and ESPN.
However, Danielâs connection to the company proves troublesome again.
And then begin whispers about a new BBC documentary in the works, charting Danielâs ongoing rise in the boxing world and his links to criminality.
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Northern Ireland has seen serious race riots for the third year in a row. Masked men staged violent protests in number of areas, but the trouble was concentrated in the greater Belfast area, with homes set alight off the Crumlin Road and in east Belfast. A Glider bus was set alight on the Newtownards Road and a police car was burned in Portadown.
The disorder followed an attempted murder involving a knife in north Belfast on Monday night â a 30-year-old Sudanese man has been charged.
The Belfast Telegraphâs Kevin Scott was on the ground in Belfast and Liam Tunney was in court.
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Daniel Kinahan is determined to dominate the boxing world â not even an attempt by a rival gang to assassinate him at The Regency Hotel in Dublin can slow him down. He continues to woo top level boxers onto his books. However, things get too hot on the Costa for the Kinahan brothers, they move to Dubai and eventually intense attention from policing authorities sees Daniel step down as the public face of MGM. But heâs still expanding the business with major signings like Carl Frampton. In the meantime, his cartel business is facing major disruption, by the end of 2018 more than 70 Irish Kinahan associates are convicted or awaiting trial. Daniel doubles down on his propaganda war to sportswash his reputation.
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Notorious hitman and enforcer Lee McDonnell died in a Garda cell just a week after his last notorious crime. McDonnell is suspected of being the man who stabbed Thomas Griffen who tried to flee for his life by jumping in the Liffey but was later pronounced dead.
Nicola talks to Niall Donald about McDonnell and his notorious criminal past.
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On 5th December 2000 Ann OâGrady rings the Collins family to tell them Sandra has failed to return home after being out the night before.
A major search is launched, covering miles of the surrounding countryside.
Lifeboats comb the nearby waters, but thereâs no sign of Sandra, apart from her dark pink coloured fleece jacket, which mysteriously turns up on the pier five days after she goes missing.
There are two scraps of paper in the pockets, one has the phone number for an abortion clinic in the UK, the other has a mobile number for a local man.
But the Collins family arenât told who he is or what his connection to Sandra is about.
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Itâs late January 2021 and Crime World reporter Ken Foy is waiting by his phone for a call from one of Irelandâs most notorious mob bosses. It takes several hours for the call to come through and when it does Foy canât quite believe that he is talking directly to Daniel Kinahan - head of an international drugs cartel. But Kinahan is not calling to discuss his main business, instead he wants to talk boxing and an upcoming BBC documentary thatâs promising to highlight his criminal links. He wants some positive publicity - itâs a propaganda push.
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âI canât get my head aroundâ the abuse allegations made by Witness B, Jeffrey Donaldson told police.
The tape of the former MPâs interview with the PSNI was played at his trial in Newry Crown Count on Monday morning.
The jury also heard Donaldson deny that he apologised to Witness in the case because he thought it would âmake this go awayâ.
âI wasnât doing anything untoward,â Jeffrey Donaldson told police officers in relation to accusations made by Witness A.
Donaldson (63) is accused of rape and several counts of gross indecency and of indecent assault. He denies all 18 alleged offences. There are two alleged victims, Complainant A and Complainant B.
His wife Eleanor Donaldson, from Dublinhill Road in Dromore denies several charges of aiding and abetting her husbandâs alleged offending.
Allison Morris was in court.
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Sean McGovern, right-hand man of Daniel Kinahan, was handed down a massive 24-year sentence yesterday for his role in a murder and a surveillance plot against a Hutch associate during the Kinahan and Hutch feud.
Noel âDuck Eggâ Kirwan was an innocent man who stood beside the Monk as he attended his brother Eddieâs funeral after his murder in February 2016.
That, gardaĂ have said, was enough to have him assassinated days before Christmas that year as Kinahan killers stalked their prey.
Nicola and Niall speak to Eamon Dillon.
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The murder of Pat Finucane is one of the most notorious of the Troubles.
The 39-year-old Belfast solicitor was shot dead at his family home in north Belfast in 1989 by UDA gunmen.
A series of investigations revealed collusion with the state. The first hearing of a public inquiry into the killing is set to take place soon â with Sir Gary Hickinbottom as chairman of the inquiry.
Pat Finucaneâs family, including his son, Sinn Fein MP John Finucane, has long fought for an inquiry into the case to be opened.
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âJonathan Gill's latest court appearance, a family divided in two by a son's brutal killing of his allegedly abusive mother, wife killer Joe O'Reilly graduates from a university course in jail, and a prison watchdog boss has custom-made pillows designed of a killer's face.
Eimear Rabbitt is joined by Neil Fetherston as we discuss the biggest stories on Crime World this week.
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Newry Crown Court has heard Jeffrey Donaldson sent a message to a minister supporting one of his alleged victims, saying he wanted to ârepent before them as he had before God.â
The husband of an alleged victim in the abuse trial has broken down as he gave evidence on Thursday.
63-year-old former MP Jeffrey Donaldson has pleaded not guilty to all the 18 charges he is facing, they include rape and several counts of gross indecency and of indecent assault. His wife Eleanor Donaldson, from Dublinhill Road in Dromore, County Down denies several charges of aiding and abetting her husbandâs alleged offending. She is facing a trial of the facts.
Allison Morris is covering the trial for the Belfast Telegraph.
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Siblings Bridie and Patrick Collins have spent 26 years trying to find their missing sister Sandra who vanished on a December night in 2000 from the small fishing village of Killala in County Mayo.
Over the past year, the Crime World team has been delving into the story of Sandra in the hopes of unearthing information that might lead gardai to her remains.
Nicola talks with Bridie and Patrick about Ghost: The Disappearance of Sandra Collins and their ongoing efforts to find her.
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Troubles with wedding dress shopping in an electronic tag, sports stars finding themselves on the wrong side of the law, and the weekâs most bizarre story.
This is a Crime World weekly round up from crimeworld.com.
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The heartbroken family of murdered computer science student Qayyum Balogun believe he was chased down and murdered for trying to protect a girl from an assault during a music event.
The 21-year-old was stabbed to death in the early hours of Monday morning just off Grafton Street in Dublin.
Nicola talks to Eimear Rabbitt about what happened to Qayyum and who the Gardai suspect in his murder.
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