‘Don’t call Jeffrey Epstein a paedophile’ – that was the demand of a top NI lawyer to a London newspaper in 2011.

Paul Tweed was brought in to try and limit the damage to the sex-offender's reputation after he was released from prison.

The Belfast solicitor is one of the best-known libel lawyers in the UK and Ireland.

He has told the Belfast Telegraph that he “categorically rejects the suggestion that he acted in any way inappropriately”, saying he acted within his professional and regulatory obligations.

The Belfast Telegraph’s Northern Ireland editor Sam McBride joins Ciarán Dunbar in the studio.

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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Vehicles believed to be unmarked police cars arrived at his home in Sandringham this morning, where he had been living following his departure from Windsor. The former prince was stripped of his title in October 2025 over his links to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Mountbatten-Windsor, who denies all wrongdoing, turned 66 years old today.

Ciarán Dunbar is joined by TRT World News Anchor Enda Brady.

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A former PSNI officer who searched the culvert in which the remains of Noah Donohoe were ultimately found has indicated felt the search operation had been as professional and as urgent as possible. He also said there had been “no suggestion or evidence he had ever gone into the culvert”. The inquest into the death of 14-year-old schoolboy Noah Donohoe is continuing in Belfast.

Liam Tunney is covering proceedings for the Belfast Telegraph.

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