Overview

• Newry Crown Court removed the November 3 date after updates on specialist medical assessments for Eleanor Donaldson.
• Prosecutors said two recent specialist reports were completed, but an expert fitness-to-stand-trial opinion is still awaited.
• Judge Paul Ramsey said the case now looks set to move into next year and he hopes to set a timetable at the November 13 review.
• Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has pleaded not guilty to 18 alleged offences, including rape, indecent assault and gross indecency, involving two complainants from 1985–2008.
• Eleanor Donaldson denies aiding-and-abetting charges and neither defendant attended the brief Newry hearing.