{"id":491274,"date":"2026-03-23T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491274\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:14:09","slug":"natalie-mcnally-stephen-mccullagh-found-guilty-of-murdering-his-pregnant-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491274\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie McNally: Stephen McCullagh found guilty of murdering his pregnant partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is Stephen McCullagh?published at 16:10 GMT<\/p>\n

16:10 GMT<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Pacemaker<\/p>\n

Stephen McCullagh is a 36-year-old man from Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, County Antrim.<\/p>\n

The YouTuber was in a relationship with Natalie McNally at the time of her death and she was pregnant with his child.<\/p>\n

On the night of the Natalie McNally’s murder, McCullagh broadcast a six-hour gaming “so called live stream” of him playing computer games, drinking, vaping and commenting to the camera. The stream’s title was Violent Night.<\/p>\n

Unusually, he told viewers that he couldn’t interact or respond to comments \u2013 as streamers usually do \u2013 due to technical problems.<\/p>\n

But the stream was not live – something he later admitted to police.<\/p>\n

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In the six weeks that followed, McCullagh acted out the grieving boyfriend, attending her wake, visiting her grave and messaging her grieving brothers.<\/p>\n

McCullagh denied the murder, offered no explanation for the pre-recorded live stream and didn’t take the stand during his trial.<\/p>\n

Read more about McCullagh and how he was brought to justice.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is Stephen McCullagh?published at 16:10 GMT 16:10 GMT Image source, Pacemaker Stephen McCullagh is a 36-year-old man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-491274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}