{"id":48161,"date":"2026-06-22T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:03:23","slug":"jeffrey-donaldson-guilty-ex-dup-leader-convicted-on-child-sex-abuse-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48161\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Donaldson guilty: Ex-DUP leader convicted on child sex abuse charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Jeffrey Donaldson guilty: Ex-DUP leader convicted on child sex abuse charges\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3nJ2q-zEXsg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nJeffrey Donaldson guilty: Ex-DUP leader convicted on child sex abuse charges<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFormer DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson dominated Unionist politics for decades. Today, he was found guilty of rape and sex abuse charges involving two women, dating back decades. <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old was convicted of 18 offences against the victims when they were children &#8211; while his wife was found to have &#8220;aided and abetted&#8221; the abuse by failing to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>If you or anyone you know has been affected by the issues raised in this report you can find places to seek help at Channel4.com\/support<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Donaldson guilty: Ex-DUP leader convicted on child sex abuse charges Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson dominated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[366,352,365,6655,482,13741,35223,44845,44847,2887,3680,24562,463,44846],"class_list":["post-48161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-democratic-unionist-party","tag-donaldson","tag-donaldson-guilty","tag-donaldson-trial","tag-dup","tag-guilty","tag-jeffrey-donaldson","tag-northern-ireland","tag-northern-ireland-court"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116795328677484733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}