Allison Morris

He said that McCullough was playing a YouTube video on his phone and said that it was the live stream from December the 18th.

Because we know for anyone following this story that McCullough originally said that for six hours on the Sunday night that Natalie was murdered, he was playing live streaming a game online.

on YouTube Grand Theft Auto Mr Haddock said he kept saying look at me playing these stupid little video games and he said he looked very distraught he said that McCullough fast forwarded the video by three hours and said that this was around the time that Miss McNally died he says McCullough said I should have been there to protect Natalie

that no one would have got past him her cousin said i felt really sorry for him he said that he had told mccullough that he had struck gold with miss mcnally and he tried to reassure him um and this was as i said there was quite a few members of the family i was in court the day not least father noel give evidence he said that they had welcomed mccullough into their home that as far as they were concerned that he was a grieving partner a grieving father to be that he was treated with the utmost respect anytime that he was in their home that he had dinner in their home

He also talked about Natalie bringing McCulloch home for the first time to meet them.

And he said that was on the 30th of October and he was introduced as Natalie's new partner.

And then a short time later, he came back to the house for a second time and that was when they broke the news that Natalie was expecting a baby.

So they had only met McCulloch twice until this happened.

The police had told him he wasn't a suspect.

So as far as they were concerned, they were being protective of him.

They felt...

that he had no one because he had already told him that he didn't have any family, that his parents were dead.

I suppose one of the things that struck me about the dad's evidence is that he says one of the first times that they had met him, he had said that his parents were dead and he didn't have anyone.

And they said, well, do you have family now?

And he was to come to their house on Christmas Day.

for his Christmas dinner.

He said that as far as they were concerned, they were happy for Natalie, albeit he was worried because she was diabetic.

So Natalie's father said his concerns for Natalie weren't attached to the relationship.

They were just attached to the fact that she was diabetic and he was worried that she might miscarriage the baby or that something might happen in terms of her health.

And so that's what he was more concerned about.