CCTV IMAGES FEATURING 'PERSON OF INTEREST'

A COMPILATION of CCTV footage concerning a “person of interest” was shown yesterday at Natalie McNally’s murder trial.

- BY ASHLEIGH MCDONALD

This footage included a clip of a male getting out of a taxi from Lurgan, throwing two objects over a hedge then walking in the front gate of the address of the man accused of her murder.

Ms McNally was 15 weeks pregnant when she was beaten, strangled and stabbed in her Silverwood Green home in Lurgan, Co Armagh.

It's the Crown's case that the 32-year old was murdered between 8.50pm and 9.30pm on Sunday December 18, 2022.

The father of her unborn child, 36-yeaold Stephen McCullagh from Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, has been accused of and has denied her murder.

During the fourth day at the trial at Belfast Crown Court, the jury of six men and six women were shown a compilation of CCTV clips and footage throughout Sunday December 18 and into the early hours of Monday 19.

The footage was gleaned from businesses, bars and households as well as a cameras on a Translink bus.

After being called to the witness stand, a detective sergeant was asked to play a series of clips.