Jeffrey Donaldson

Then, as I said, Miss Walsh said she wanted to turn the clock back and she went back to the 1980s and she spoke about how Mr Donaldson had spent three years working for a prominent unionist MP.

He was also chairman of the Ulster Young Unionist Council, he said at the time.

He told the court and then Miss Walsh said, was it fair to say that he is skilful at communicating with people?

He said, do you mean just talking to people?

He said, I would have spoke at various meetings.

I wouldn't say on those days.

I was nearly as an effective communicator as I was when I became MP.

He was then asked about an incident with Witness B, which she alleged happened when Mr. Donaldson was alone in a room with her and had pulled her top up in play with her breasts.

The witness claimed that Eleanor Donaldson, as we have said earlier, during the defence question, that she had walked into the door of the room and walked away.

He said in terms of his recall of the event that when he was, and this is to do with his police statement, when I was being asked about an incident, not even a year was given.

He said, I was trying to recall something that happened 30 years ago.

I'm trying to remember all of that.

He said nothing untoward happened, nothing inappropriate happened.

And he did then keep reiterating that this had happened 30 years ago and that he didn't know the date and time of the incident to which Miss Walsh... It's an alleged incident, which he obviously denies.

Yeah.

Then he said, not done to where it happened, I miss bullshit, but you're the person who could tell us when it happened.

And he replied, I don't know when it happened because it did not happen, he responded.

The incident, this whole description didn't have happened.

He said, I have never done this before, since or at the time, he said.

And then when asked about his police statement when he claimed Witness B had said on his name on occasion, he said, I wasn't clear.