Allison Morris

She said Miss McNally challenged him and wouldn't go along with everything he said and that she was very much her own person but that they seemed great together was her actual words.

So then asked by Charles McRainer Casey, who is the lead prosecutor in this case, how McCullough seemed on December the 17th when she dropped Christmas presents off her house, she said that he had seemed relaxed.

Yeah, on the night that Natalie died, there were messages read to the court previously, this was last week,

where McCulloch finished a live stream.

There was a message from Natalie which he hadn't responded to.

Well, he said he finished a live stream.

We know now from the cyber evidence that live stream was pre-recorded.

And he responded to that.

And then he had a conversation with Anne, very quick, trivial, sort of back and forth between the two of them.

And then the next day he had also messaged her to say that Natalie wasn't responding to him and he thought she might have been angry because he was drinking alcohol.

during the gaming stream and he had promised her he wouldn't drink because she was pregnant.

So there was quite a few messages had gone on between the pair from midnight on December the 19th until the early hours of Monday the 19th where McCullough had said he thought he was going to be in trouble.

And, you know, he had previously told the court that he had asked her to accompany him before he had to go away.

to visit Natalie and she had declined.

At that stage she told him she had other plans but she told the court that it was Christmas time and she didn't want to be dragged into an argument and she thought they were just having a bit of a tiff.

Later that night she got a call from McCullough after he had discovered Miss McNally's body and a female police officer told her that Miss McNally had died and asked Miss McCullough if she could come to Lurgan as he was inconsolable.

Well, she said he was inconsolable and when she actually arrived at the scene, she was told to go back and sit in the car and she said she was in shock as her friend and her baby were dead.

Miss McCullough then said she was told that McCullough was taken in for questioning and that she couldn't go with him and the next day she saw a news article about how Miss McNally had been murdered and later McCullough phoned her to say that he had been released.

After his release she said that Mr McCullough told her of his experience in police custody and how he had found Miss McNally.

He said he had found her lying face down in a dog bowl and that there was blood on her.