Eleanor Donaldson

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He loved being Sir Geoffrey.

Eleanor Donaldson loved being Lady Eleanor.

She swanned around Dremore, loving everything that came along with that.

But he was a man who was, and we know from the reporting of our colleague Sam McBride, a man who had very powerful friends and very high levels of government.

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His wife, Eleanor Donaldson, faced a trial of the facts, as we know, after being found medically unfit to stand trial.

She will be dealt with by way of a separate hearing next month.

That's somewhere in mid-November.

It's a year that he became a man cloaked in this air of respectability.

He loved being Sir Geoffrey.

Eleanor Donaldson loved being Lady Eleanor.

She swanned around your moor loving everything that came along with that.

He is appealing his conviction.

And obviously, we know his wife, Eleanor Donaldson, had gone through a trial of the facts.

She is now due before the courts next month, where she will find out the result of that.

Now, what happens in respect of the process? Because as you say, no charges filed yet.

It will be, um, the three appeal court judges will be asked to consider quite narrow points of law, and they, they really c- center around a number of things.

One was the directions that the judge gave the jury, and the other is the fact that him- himself and his wife, Eleanor Donaldson, their, she had what was c- known as a trial of the facts because she was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, that both of those ran alongside each other with the same jury.

And, and the defense are arguing that they should've run, been run separately because Eleanor Donaldson's, um, police interviews were played to the jury, but she wasn't there, so she couldn't be cross-examined, and they're saying that would, that was prejudicial to Jeffrey Donaldson.

So it's on quite narrow points of law.

We don't know when that's gonna happen.

It's understood that Donaldson is being held in a part of the maximum security Maghaberry Prison, used for prisoners with healthcare needs, the Moyola Unit, for his own safety.

His wife, Eleanor Donaldson, faced a trial of the facts on mental health grounds.

The jury found that she had aided and abetted her husband's offending, and she could be given a treatment order or absolute discharge.

She has applied to appeal.