PSNI wasn’t quite prepared for mayhem outside Jeffrey Donaldson court appearance
On this of all cases, the police should not have been caught on the hop
It didn’t take a genius to predict that Jeffrey Donaldson’s appearance in court on sex offence charges last week would attract a frenzy of interest from the media and the public. But obviously the PSNI wasn’t quite prepared.
For their policing operation around Newry courthouse last week was something of a shambles and allowed a potentially dangerous situation to develop in which someone could easily have been hurt.
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