Natalie McNally murder trial: jury shown CCTV footage including clip of a male getting out of a taxi from Lurgan and throwing two objects over a hedge

Ms McNally was 15 weeks pregnant when she was beaten, strangled and stabbed in her Silverwood Green home in Lurgan. 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-year old 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 early Monday 19.

After being called to the witness stand, a detective sergeant was asked to play a series of clips. The first clip shown was footage of Ms McNally leaving McCullagh's Woodland Gardens home in Lisburn around 1pm on Sunday afternoon.

Also shown was footage of McCullagh leaving his home later that afternoon then a short time later CCTV from a Winemark in Lisburn which captured him buying alcohol.

A clip of Ms McNally turning to her Silverwood Green home that evening was shown. Following this, a compilation of clips showing a male cited as a 'person of interest' by the Crown was played to the jury.

Clips of this male walking through Lisburn then getting on a bus at Dunmurry to Lurgan were played, as was footage of the male paying cash on the bus. This same 'person of interest' was then captured on CCTV getting off the bus and walking through Lurgan.

Household cameras captured images of the same male walking along the Lough Road in Lurgan and again in Silverwood Court and Silverwood Green.

At around 9.30pm, the 'person of interest' appears to have changed clothes and is captured on the same cameras leaving the Silverwood area and in the centre of Lurgan before getting into a taxi.

This taxi travelled from Carnegie Street in Lurgan to Woodland Gardens in Lisburn. After getting out of the taxi at around 11pm, the male passenger is then seen doing something outside the house.

When he was asked by Crown barrister Charles MacCreanor KC what that appeared to be, the detective sergeant said: "The figure appears to throw two objects over the hedge then walks in to the front gate of the defendant's address."

The final clips shown to the jury were captured in the early hours of Monday December 19, 2022. Just after midnight one clip shows a male figure with a blue bin outside the house at Woodland Gardens whilst a second clip at just after 2am shows the same male in the same area walking to the bin, lifting then closing the lid then walking back into the house.

Also shown were three images taken from McCullagh's Instagram account. All three images depict McCullagh wearing a beanie-style hat with a black wig of curly hair underneath.

It's the Crown's case that the 'person of interest' captured on CCTV before getting into the taxi from Lurgan to Lisburn was wearing a beanie hat with dark hair underneath and that this was "the same look that the defendant has used before".

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