A 55-year-old Ballynahinch lady has pleaded guilty to breaching a lifetime anonymity order by posting data seemingly to reveal the alleged identification of a sufferer in the Jeffrey Donaldson intercourse abuse case.
Donna Toman of Lord Moira Park appeared at Downpatrick Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
A defence lawyer mentioned she was getting into a guilty plea to a cost relating to a social media publish earlier this yr.
The cost states the publish “was likely to lead members of the public to identify a person as the person against whom a qualifying offence is alleged to have been committed”.
On 29 July police said that the lady’s arrest associated to the Jeffrey Donaldson trial.
District Judge Magill mentioned he needed a pre-sentence report by 12 October including that it was a “serious offence”.
The court docket heard the offence can deliver a six-month sentence.
Donaldson, who was an MP from 1997 till 2024, was convicted in June of 18 counts of sex abuse together with one depend of rape, which he dedicated in opposition to two girls after they have been youngsters.
He was informed by the decide that the sentence could be a prolonged one.
It has since been confirmed he’s to appeal his convictions.