{"id":55670,"date":"2026-06-30T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/natalie-mcnally-stephen-mccullagh-who-murdered-natalie-to-appeal-his-sentence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:30:31","slug":"natalie-mcnally-stephen-mccullagh-who-murdered-natalie-to-appeal-his-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/natalie-mcnally-stephen-mccullagh-who-murdered-natalie-to-appeal-his-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie McNally: Stephen McCullagh who murdered Natalie to appeal his sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Stephen McCullagh has lodged an appeal against the sentence he received for murdering his pregnant partner Natalie McNally.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McCullagh, 36, from Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, County Antrim, denied murdering Natalie, who was killed in her Silverwood Green home in Lurgan on 18 December 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c393nz3lx71o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">found guilty in March<\/a>, after a trial lasting more than four weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31 year sentence is the minimum term McCullagh must serve in custody before he can be considered for release by parole commissioners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has been notified that an appeal against the sentence has been lodged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before handing down the sentence, Mr Justice Kinney described the crime as &#8220;a brutal and senseless murder planned in remorseless detail, cold-blooded and calculated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdx7z2l199no?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen McCullagh has lodged an appeal against the sentence he received for murdering his pregnant partner Natalie McNally. McCullagh, 36, from Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, County Antrim, denied murdering Natalie, who was killed in her Silverwood Green home in Lurgan on 18 December 2022. He was found guilty in March, after a trial lasting more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[3529,15752,15192,4719,10810,889,4505],"class_list":["post-55670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-appeal","tag-mccullagh","tag-mcnally","tag-murdered","tag-natalie","tag-sentence","tag-stephen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55672,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55670\/revisions\/55672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}