Claims extracted
14
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
7%
1 of 14 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
70/100
Daily Mail's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
7
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
The wife of Jeffrey Donaldson, the disgraced former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has been placed on the sex offenders' register for 'aiding and abetting' her husband.
asserted
wife → place → husband
Eleanor Donaldson was found to have covered up child sex offences committed by her husband for more than two decades.
asserted
Donaldson → find → decades
Earlier this year, former politician Donaldson, 63, was unanimously convicted during a trial of the facts of 18 offences committed against two victims over a 23-year period.
asserted
Donaldson → convict → period
The charges included one count of rape, 13 of indecent assault and four of gross indecency, taking place between 1985 and 2008.
Now his wife has been placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.
asserted
wife → include → years
She was also handed a three-year supervision and treatment order (STO) by a judge at Newry Crown Court.
asserted
She → hand → Court
Eleanor briefly appeared on Friday during the proceedings via videolink so that Judge Paul Ramsey could explain the court order to her.
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Ramsey → appear → her
The 60-year-old from Dromore, Co Down, had faced a trial of the facts at the same time, after she was found unfit to participate in a conventional trial on mental health grounds.
asserted
she → face → grounds
Eleanor Donaldson, pictured leaving court in 2024, has been placed on the sex offenders' register for 'aiding and abetting' her husband, Jeffrey Donaldson
Donaldson, seen arriving at Newry Courthouse in 2024 after being charged, has been sentenced to 15 years and will serve half of that in prison
During the trial of facts, the court heard that Eleanor had witnessed one of the assaults, but instead of intervening, she walked away and pulled the door shut behind her.
asserted
she → picture → her
She was found to have done the acts alleged in relation to five charges, including four of aiding and abetting her husband's abuse.
asserted
She → find → abuse
Donaldson's crimes included kissing one victim, Victim A, and putting his tongue in her mouth when she was of primary school age.
asserted
she → include → age
He also put his hands up her top to grope her and looked at her naked body using a light.
asserted
He → put → light
The second victim, Victim B, was also in primary school when he raped her.
asserted
he → rap → her
He indecently assaulted her on nine occasions, including once in front of his own wife.
asserted
He → assault → wife
Donaldson has been sentenced to 15 years and will serve half of that in jail.
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Donaldson → sentence → jail
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