The trial of a man charged with the murder of a pregnant woman in Co Armagh a week before Christmas in 2022 has been told he made a fake 999 call to emergency services as part of an elaborate cover story.
Natalie McNally, 32, was 15 weeks pregnant when she was killed at her home in Silverwood Green in Lurgan.
Her boyfriend at the time, 36-year-old Stephen McCullagh from Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, is charged with her murder. He denies the charge.
During the opening of the prosecution case at Belfast Crown Court this morning, the jury of six men and six women was told that the defendant was the father of Ms McNally’s unborn child.
Barrister Charles…