DUP leader Gavin Robinson has been publicly saying that his party and party officers did not know about the inappropriate and/or criminal behaviour that former party leader Jeffrey Donaldson was engaging in.

BBC Spotlight reported that not long before Donaldson became DUP leader in 2021, the then-North Antrim MP Ian Paisley said he was approached by a young woman who said she had been "exploited" by Donaldson and that he should not be allowed to lead the party.

Paisley said the woman did not want to make a formal complaint but he said he told Poots, when he was elected leader.

Paisley described her as a "victim" in a text to another politician during the DUP leadership contest between Donaldson and Poots in 2021.

Gavin Robinson says those concerns were not shared with the party. Assembly speaker - the DUP's Edwin Poots - contradicts that.

So who in the DUP knew what and when?

DUP leader Gavin Robinson spoke to the Stephen Nolan Show.

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