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Natalie McNally Murder Trial: 'We Didn't Plan Out an Abili', Says Witness
The witness denied any coordinated alibi with the accused, stating no joint planning occurred despite police questioning and cross-examination in the murder trial.
- On Thursday , the unnamed witness told jurors she and her former partner did not plan an alibi for Natalie McNally, 32, who was 15 weeks pregnant when she was killed.
- Court evidence shows message exchanges on December 18 retained on Ms McNally's phone, while prosecution alleges the gaming livestream was staged and police cite December 18 Translink late-night travel searches.
- During cross-examination, the witness said she checked her partner's phone while he slept and found few messages, adding he regularly deleted texts and her second police statement was made at night with poor memory.
- Court presented McCullagh's police interviews, including the February 1, 2023 session, where he repeatedly replied 'no comment'; detectives showed GPS and CCTV evidence placing a male at Ms McNally's house during a 39-minute timeline, which McCullagh denied, disputing investigators' device-activity findings.
- At Belfast Crown Court, jurors were read agreed evidence on Friday that included a 39-minute audio recording made in the McNally family home, and a November 8 note about Ms McNally's house.
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'We didn't plan out any sort of alibi', Natalie McNally murder trial told
The woman told police that on the night Ms McNally was murdered, she and her partner had spend the evening together in his flat and that he fell asleep watching the World Cup Final on TV
·Belfast, United Kingdom
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