Alison Morris

He said, look, would you like to have a chat?

And I said, I would.

Mr. Donaldson told police he then attended the centre in around 1996.

He said, I drove to RMI and met the Hoyes.

And the then said complainant B told him that she had been very uncomfortable with aspects of their relationship, but he said that there were no allegations of any inappropriate behaviour put to him.

Police asked, did you not wonder what it was that you had done to make her feel uncomfortable?

And he said, we talked, we would have talked through, but at no stage was there any talk of you did this to me or you did that to me.

Police asked, was it possible that he didn't have to ask any of the parties involved what the actual problem was because he already knew?

And Donaldson replied, no, that was not put to me.

Yeah, so he was asked again what he was apologising for and Donaldson said, making her feel uncomfortable and he said, I'm sorry that she felt that way.

But Geoffrey Donaldson said he had no role in the witness being sent to that centre.

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.