Catherine Cairns

When we focus on the sort of unusual aspects of the case, we lose sight of the brutality of this murder.

Like it took the pathologist 40 minutes to relay every injury that Natalie sustained.

She's just absolutely horrific.

And when you think that she was 15 weeks pregnant and she was slight in stature compared to McCullough,

That brutality, it's so shocking.

There are very unusual aspects to this case.

The framing of another person, the meticulous planning, the creation of a six-hour video.

But at the heart of it, it was a domestic murder, which sadly we're all too familiar with in Northern Ireland.

I would like to thank the jury as well because sometimes they can be forgotten in all of this process.

What the jury had to listen to was very harrowing over that period of time and I'm sure the pressure was enormous but you know we're very grateful they did a very good job and they looked at everything very carefully and came to the decision that McCulloch was guilty.

I always had confidence that the case was very strong and that if you pulled together all the strands of evidence, then it did show that he was guilty.

But obviously there's never any guarantees, so you're always pretty anxious waiting for a jury's verdict.

One thing about McCullough is that because he's never shown any remorse, he's never actually explained why he did this.

I mean, it's a completely senseless killing and Natalie should be here today.

There's absolutely no reason why she should have been murdered.

It's outrageous and he needs to explain why he did it.