Overview
- Evidence is scheduled to begin Tuesday, with the judge indicating the hearing is likely to last around five weeks.
- A panel of six men and six women was selected on Monday after directions from Mr Justice Patrick Kinney.
- The Criminal Bar Association granted an exemption to allow the case to proceed despite ongoing industrial action.
- Defendant Stephen McCullagh, 35, of Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, denies murdering Natalie McNally, 32, who was fatally stabbed at her Lurgan home on 18 December 2022 while 15 weeks pregnant.
- The trial had been postponed from November after a large volume of new evidence was disclosed to the defence.