Mr Justice Kinney stated the offence comes with a life sentenceprinted at 15:57 GMT
Cormac Campbell
BBC News NI South-east reporter
Image supply, Social MediaAddressing McCullagh the trial choose Mr Justice Kinney says the offence comes with a life sentence.
“You have been convicted of the murder of Natalie McNally date will be set for the setting of a minimum tariff,” he says.
The judge commends the jury for their service in light of the traumatic and distressing evidence they had sat through.
As the judge tells them they would never have to sit on another jury the McNally family in the public gallery applauds them.
It was the prosecution case that although McCullagh has never explained his actions, it is likely that his motivation for the murder was reading messages sent by Natalie McNally to other men in the weeks before her death.
Some of these messages were sexually explicit in nature whilst others discussed potentially breaking up with McCullagh.
It was confirmed that McCullagh had the PIN for Natalie’s telephone.
