The Democratic Unionist MP for the area, Iris Robinson, described the murder as "an horrific attack".

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While the body politic was still absorbing them, however, the Iris Robinson affair erupted on an astonished public.

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The MP Iris Robinson made headlines internationally for drawing freely on the language of the King James Bible in her description of homosexuality and suggesting that gay people can be "cured".

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