Jilly Beattie
@jillybeattie
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Journalist: Investigations : Documentaries. Dog fan. Ginge. Oculus Aperio. Views my own. [email protected]
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined April 2011
@ChiefConPSNI @PoliceServiceNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher is a class act. Turned up to support @EugeneReavey1 at the launch of his book ‘The Killing of the Reavey Brothers’ and accepted a spontaneous invitation to speak - and speak truth. #leadership
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Of all the great people I’ve worked with across the globe, none are finer than those I had the honour to serve with in the #RoyalUlsterConstabulary and the @PoliceServiceNI. While some may attempt to rewrite history, those of us who served know the truth and the sacrifice made by
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Today on #RemembranceSunday we reflect and remember all those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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✅Let’s have a sentencing council for Northern Ireland. ✅Compulsory professional development training for judiciary. ✅Overhaul sentence reduction criteria. ✅Sentencing remarks in writing to victims free of charge. Then we’ll be in a position to have broadcasting in court.
News outlets will be able to broadcast sentencing remarks by judges in plans being taken forward by @Justice_NI. Read about the plans to allow journalists to record and broadcast some court proceedings here: https://t.co/fFJM7Zfg9N
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#Donaldson case delayed again. On Nov 13 - 597 days since #jeffreydonaldon & #eleanordonsldson were charged by police - we should be given the trial start date. The trial will likely be in 2026.
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@allianceparty Some background context required from our perspective when interpreting this frankly disingenuous tweet: There was also a period of Direct Rule between Jan 2017 - Jan 2020. It was the UK government that decided upon and funded the uplift of police numbers in that period as part
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Seriously, did no Stormont politician bother to recognise Jonathan Anderson’s Dior triumph at Paris Fashion Week? The NI creative genius was global news for reviving the fashion industry. We should be engaging with the best of us to recover from the worst
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Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson, the first sole creative director at iconic fashion house Christian Dior since the revered founder himself, has c...
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“In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. What message do I want to leave?”
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“In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. What message do I want to leave?”
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There will be confidence in our justice system if the system is coherent & working. Blaming everyone else can’t be the best the Minister can offer. I’ve offered solutions, debated them on the assembly floor, written to the minister, who has replied & been forced to take action.
🚨🗣NEW: 'Our justice system isn’t fundamentally broken, but it is under strain… complaining constantly does nothing.' 🎥🎤Chief Reporter @jamesgould23 speaking to Justice Minister @naomi_long. She first addressed so-called “vigilante” violence and the PSNI’s response.
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@BeattieDoug @Troubles_Truth Doug you’ve endless ideas - I’m glad to be working with you because our Justice Minister is part of the problem, not the solution.
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#jeffreydonaldson & #eleanordonaldson case due for review at Newry Court on Oct 10, 2025. Prosecution today confirm they await reports regarding medical fitness of EleanorD. Trial still due to start November 3. Neither defendant appeared at #newry court this morning
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#Donaldson Court 13 Laganside. Review into fitness of Eleanor Donaldson to attend court. Jeffrey Donaldson 62, faces 18 sex offence charges, incl rape. She faces 5 charges, including aiding & abetting. Each was police charged 491 days ago. 23 not guilty pleas have been entered.
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Happy to have launched an exhibition of my dear late mum’s art to raise funds for @MarieCurieNI. With deep gratitude for their care of Myrtle and of us. https://t.co/bgdIcTSJaX
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“This event is much more than an art show, it is a joyful celebration of a life lived fully, fearlessly and creatively"
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What is today’s definition of ‘celebrity’? McCollum was convicted of drug smuggling #perutwo #truecrime
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⚠️𝚂𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚑 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚐𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 27𝚝𝚑 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝙽𝙸 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 30, 2020. 27 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 270 𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚔𝚜. ⚠️𝙰𝚗 𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚘𝚏 1 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 10 𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚔𝚜⚠️
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Our sisters. 27 women. Each one lost to violence in 5 years in Northern Ireland. And many more before them.
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⛔️Zak Hughes, 27, keeps head bowed in Newtownards Magistrates Court as he faces murder charge of pregnant mum Sarah Montgomery, 27, and the ‘destruction’ of her unborn baby boy who was due in August. A vigil will be held at 6.30pm in Donagahdee for Sarah and her baby.⛔️
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Generational trauma. Their average age is 19 and they’re living with the consequences of violence and trauma visited upon their familes in the most horrific way before they were even born. And they’re doing something about it. 💪
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