Alison Morris

We were told during the witness's evidence that she'd been there for around a year after...

coming into problems in her teenage years.

When asked by police was it possible he attended the meeting because the witness had been abused and that Donaldson was apologising to her because he thought this might be the best way to make all this go away.

He replied no, that was not the nature of the conversation I had on the phone with David Hoy.

So we didn't quite get through all of Geoffrey Donaldson's police interview tapes today.

They were broken into four sections and we still have one of those sections left to hear.

So the court has asked that we all have a slightly earlier start to try and get the prosecution case concluded tomorrow.

So that means we'll go in tomorrow morning, we'll hear the rest of Geoffrey Donaldson's interview with police.

from 2024 and then they will play the interview tapes with police of Eleanor Donaldson after her arrest in 2024.

That's all we're going to hear from Eleanor Donaldson because remember she's having a trial of the facts so she is only represented in court by her legal counsel and whatever interviews she gave before she was deemed medically unfit.

So we will then hear those.

They are hoping to get those tapes played before the end of business tomorrow because Rosemary Walsh's prosecution case says she would be really keen for the prosecution to close their case tomorrow afternoon.

And after that, we move into the defence case.

And in the defence case, we expect on Wednesday to hear from Geoffrey Donaldson himself.

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The murder of Pat Finucane was one of the most notorious of the troubles.

UDA gunmen shot dead the 39-year-old solicitor at his family home in North Belfast in 1989.

A series of investigations revealed collusion with the state.

The first hearing of a public inquiry into the killing is to take place next month, with Sir Gary Hickenbottom as chairman of the inquiry.

The inquiry will seek to determine the circumstances of Mr Finucane's murder.