[There is online footage of me approaching a man who perhaps had been part of the shouting, to ask if an organised group had led it. I wondered if it was republicans, or loyalists, or vigilante groups that follow sex cases, or maybe just random members of the public. By merely asking those questions, some people on social media suggested I was blindly defending Sir Jeffrey, regardless of the facts. That is wrong. I know little about the details of this case, which are under wraps. Many rumours surrounding this case contradict each other and some have already been shown to be nonsense. I have no reason to believe that people present outside court on Wednesday knew any more than the rest of us.The principle that someone is innocent until proven otherwise seems at times to have been lost in the atmosphere around this case.](https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/ben-lowry-we-witnessed-sombre-and-shocking-scenes-at-the-jeffrey-donaldson-court-hearing-4607418)
>The principle that someone is innocent until proven otherwise seems at times to have been lost in the atmosphere around this case
Funnily enough, Ben didnt offer the same principle when his rag wrote about Eugene Reavey, a man falsely accused of the Kingsmill massarcre by Ian Paisley using parlimentary privilage!
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Ben wrote in his rag :
[There is online footage of me approaching a man who perhaps had been part of the shouting, to ask if an organised group had led it. I wondered if it was republicans, or loyalists, or vigilante groups that follow sex cases, or maybe just random members of the public.
By merely asking those questions, some people on social media suggested I was blindly defending Sir Jeffrey, regardless of the facts. That is wrong. I know little about the details of this case, which are under wraps. Many rumours surrounding this case contradict each other and some have already been shown to be nonsense. I have no reason to believe that people present outside court on Wednesday knew any more than the rest of us.The principle that someone is innocent until proven otherwise seems at times to have been lost in the atmosphere around this case.](https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/ben-lowry-we-witnessed-sombre-and-shocking-scenes-at-the-jeffrey-donaldson-court-hearing-4607418)
>The principle that someone is innocent until proven otherwise seems at times to have been lost in the atmosphere around this case
Funnily enough, Ben didnt offer the same principle when his rag wrote about Eugene Reavey, a man falsely accused of the Kingsmill massarcre by Ian Paisley using parlimentary privilage!