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Why will Jeffrey Donaldson only serve half his sentence?

Newstalk Breakfast

Show Notes

Jeffrey Donaldson is to walk free from prison in just over seven years despite his fifteen-year prison sentence, but how? To explain was Allison Morris Crime Correspondent with the Belfast Telegraph.

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