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Ciaran Dunbar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

It's important to note that the judge did refer to those remarks.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

and said that he did not consider that to be true remorse.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

You know, the remorse has to be taken into account when it comes to sentencing.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

It's in the sentencing guidelines in Northern Ireland's judicial system.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

And, you know, it's something that judges are bound to when it comes to making their decisions around, you know, how long a person will spend on tariff.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

But he, you know, and there was a reference to those remarks made to the probationary officer and the judge, again, very pointedly said, we don't consider this to be true remorse.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

Curtis, that's just shocking.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

It really is.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

It really, really is.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

I think knowing what we know now and listening to that and the hysterics that he's clearly putting on and the performance.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

And it's the call handler as well, you know, who's doing her best to try and help him, you know, asking somebody with him to go get a defibrillator, you know, talking about the, you know, him mumbling that she's pregnant and that she's cold and

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

It's absolutely brutal.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

And it's really, really, really horrific that somebody walked into her house, discovered her body lying there, knowing that he had killed her, knowing that he had left her that way in such a brutal, horrific way, and decided to pick up the phone and ring 999 and pretend like this was a new discovery.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

What goes through someone's head to think to do that?

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

And also...

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

Yeah, I mean, I think anybody that's listened to it can tell that it's not genuine.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

And like you said, we have the benefit of hindsight now.

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

But I mean, the theatrical nature of the screaming and the shouting and the sort of performance, it's like somebody has just taken, you know,

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

What would I imagine somebody to be like ringing 999 in that circumstance?

Crime World
Natalie McNally murderer Stephen McCullagh gets 31 years

And he's just decided to put that on.