McCullagh texts Natalie’s cellphone and his pal Anne to additional embed his alibi.
The messages counsel Natalie could also be indignant with him for ingesting throughout her being pregnant and likewise that she could also be having difficulties together with her diabetes.
He additionally finds time to submit a video evaluation of a Star Wars Lightsaber toy.
That night he travels to Lurgan, apparently to verify on Natalie who no-one has heard from for nearly 24 hours.
He calls 999 from Natalie’s residence, sobbing.
Over the course of a 10-minute name, emergency providers are advised “she’s gone” and that there is “blood everywhere”. He conducts CPR.
Prosecutors advised the courtroom it was all an act.
McCullagh tells police on the scene that he believes an “abusive ex-partner” was accountable.
He additionally tells them about his reside stream the earlier evening. He is arrested on the scene however later launched.
Police had accepted his alibi and, on Christmas Eve, advised McCullagh he was not seen as a suspect.
The former accomplice McCullagh had accused can be arrested and interviewed – he too has an alibi and is launched.
That alibi was outlined completely in courtroom throughout McCullagh’s trial, with the jury proven a video of him asleep in entrance of the TV through the World Cup closing.
