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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

DUP seeks to distance party from ‘wicked deceiver’ Jeffrey Donaldson

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in a blue suit and glasses walks past police officers and a camera operator
Jeffrey Donaldson leaving Newry crown court on 19 June after the jury had retired to consider its verdict. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

The Democratic Unionist party has denounced Jeffrey Donaldson as a “wicked deceiver” who led a “double and duplicitous life” a day after its former leader was convicted of child sexual offences.

Leaders at the Stormont assembly sought to distance the DUP from Donaldson and described him as a manipulator who had hoodwinked Northern Ireland and hid his crimes behind a facade of respectability and Christian faith.

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