Allison Morris

Why would you lie about messaging someone else?

She said that she tried to calm him down and explain herself, but this wasn't working.

And this went on for most of that day.

So the woman said she did try and contact her mother to come and get her.

McCullough asked her would she leave the home.

and her mother was unavailable and so he told her he had to work but when he finished work later that evening he would drive her home she says throughout the day she tried reconciling with him as she put it and she even said that sometimes she pestered the defendant he didn't want to speak to her she again said she asked her mum to come and get her but she wasn't available

She talked about an incident where he went down into the back garden for a cigarette and she said she gently tried to pull him back into the house and then an argument broke up.

She said McCullough snatched her phone to try and say he was phoning her mother to come and get her.

And then later that evening when McCullough was given her a lift home, she lived in the Portadown direction, at around 1.30 in the morning, she said she became upset.

And this is the part...

where I think that people should be aware that what we're going to talk about now are subjects that some people could find really upsetting because she said she tried to throw herself from a moving vehicle she said she started to say I don't want to live anymore I want to kill myself and she started trying to open the car door at least she did open the car door

She said at that stage she thought her life was not worth living and that was when she tried to throw herself from the car.

She said the defendant pulled her back in and what she said was, he said, I don't want this to be a murder car.

And the woman said that he then slapped her and punched her in the temple.

And after that, she said he was angry and shouting at me.

And McCullough, she claimed, said to her that she could go and kill herself in her own time.

She said that on January 2nd, 2020, the woman then made a second statement to police, withdrawing the first complaint.

And she said she came to the conclusion herself that she didn't want Stephen to get into trouble.

She said, because I thought we could reconcile because I didn't want him to go to prison.

And then she said, back then, I thought he was only trying to knock sense into me because that is what he said.