Ciaran Dunbar

You could see that his eyes sort of filled with tears a little bit.

But in terms of throughout the entire sentencing remarks, he sat...

very slouched.

He played with his beard most of the time.

He sort of twiddled his, he has a very sort of overgrown, disheveled beard now.

And he sort of just played with it the entire time.

And when he was asked to stand by Justice Kinney and told that he would be sentenced to 31 years, there was no reaction whatsoever.

Just to be clear, that's a very, very long sentence.

A very long sentence, yeah.

I mean, I have covered multiple sentencing of the most horrific cases and we've done podcast episodes about it.

You know, I think back to the Derry Lynn massacre where we thought he was going to get a whole life order and that involved a man who, you know, burnt an entire family alive.

I think in the end, I think he only got about 20, 20 years.

So whenever we heard 31 years, there was a visible sort of shock amongst the journalists because even afterwards, there was a bit of discussion on

This is possibly one of the longest sentences that's ever been passed down, especially in recent history.

Like I said, I mean, throughout the actual sentencing remarks, there was visible emotion from a few family members.

You know, her brothers and her parents were sat just in my eyeline, just behind McCullough.

They didn't, you know, overtly show any major emotions throughout.

They were very stoic, probably just taking it all in.

Probably, you know,

I don't want to assume, but they were obviously listening very, very intently.