As Jeffrey Donaldson awaits sentencing in Maghaberry Prison, a senior lawyer told Belfast Live that Northern Ireland Court of Appeal precedents and the "totality principle" point toward an extended custodial sentence measured in decades rather than years.

'Every time this b*****d moves or gets visitors we get locked down'

It is Northern Ireland's only high-security Category A prison

He will spend the next few days getting used to the prison regime

The cases include those of a man who punched and choked his former partner and a man who kicked, punched and struck his dog with the butt of his shotgun