# Donaldson Trial: Jeffrey Donaldson asked alleged victim for forgiveness for ‘hurt and pain’ caused Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/donaldson-trial-jeffrey-donaldson-asked-alleged-victim-for-forgiveness-for-hurt-and-pain-caused Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/donaldson-trial-jeffrey-donaldson-asked-alleged-victim-for-forgiveness-for-hurt-and-pain-caused.md Podcast: [The BelTel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912) Published: 2026-05-28T17:49:49+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-beltel/episodes/donaldson-trial-jeffrey-donaldson-asked-alleged-victim-for-f Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/e/6a18803d029c20a5f6fb5858/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beltel-5373912/episodes/donaldson-trial-jeffrey-donaldson-asked-alleged-victim-for-forgiveness-for-hurt-and-pain-caused Duration seconds: 576 ## Resource The trial of Jeffrey Donaldson for alleged sex crimes has heard he wrote a letter to an alleged victim asking for forgiveness. The court was read the letter from June 2020 to a woman he is accused of abusing. In it he asked for her forgiveness for “hurt and pain I have caused”. In the letter to Witness A, he referred to “sinful and selfish actions” and wrote he wanted to “take full responsibility for all I have done”. An interview recorded in March 2024 was shown to the court, which showed Witness A recounting two main alleged incidents. The witness said that inappropriate touching had become “a very casual thing”.  63-year-old Donaldson has pleaded not guilty to 18 alleged historical sexual offences.    Allison Morris is covering the trial for the Belfast Telegraph. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beltel-5373912/episodes/donaldson-trial-jeffrey-donaldson-asked-alleged-victim-for-forgiveness-for-hurt-and-pain-caused/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/donaldson-trial-jeffrey-donaldson-asked-alleged-victim-for-forgiveness-for-hurt-and-pain-caused.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.