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While not naming the disgraced former MP, the Metropolitan Police has issued a statement confirming a 63-year-old man is being investigated.
The Metropolitan Police are investigating an allegation that former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson raped a woman inside Parliament in 2016. Scotland Yard confirmed it received a report from the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Donaldson, 63, is currently jailed after earlier being convicted of unrelated sexual offences.
Sky News – UK While not naming the disgraced former MP, the Metropolitan Police has issued a statement confirming a 63-year-old man is being investigated.
BBC News – UK While not naming the disgraced former MP, the Metropolitan Police has issued a statement confirming a 63-year-old man is being investigated.
Met police investigating after referral from PSNI about allegation former DUP leader raped woman in 2016 The Metropolitan police are investigating an allegation that the former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson raped a woman inside parliament in 2016. Scotland Yard confirmed it received a report from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on 13 October about an alleged rape in the Palace of Westminster involving a…
Sky News – UK Police are investigating former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson over an allegation that he raped a woman in the Houses of Parliament, the PA news agency reports.
NYTimes – World The FBI says the case is of “the utmost concern” to Washington and its allies, while army counterintelligence chiefs warn that insider threats are “real and persistent”.
BBC News – UK TV presenter says he was ‘genuinely unaware’ of pair’s conduct despite joking about Walliams going home with 15-year-old girl in 2004 The TV presenter Jonathan Ross has said he is “as horrified by the revelations about David Walliams and the crimes of Russell Brand as the rest of the nation”, adding that he was “genuinely unaware of their conduct” despite making a joke about a 15-year-old “going home” with Walliams…
Sky News – UK Police confirm they asked Brand to leave his ex-girlfriend's house after she reported an alleged assault.
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