A Derry man put on trial three times for murdering a pregnant mother-of-four has had his conviction upheld on appeal.
Stephen Cahoon (44), with a last address at Harvey Street in Derry, admitted strangling his ex-girlfriend Jean Teresa Quigley, who was 10-weeks pregnant with his child at the time, but had denied it was murder.
A jury at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin unanimously found Cahoon (pictured above) guilty of murder and he was accordingly given the mandatory life sentence by Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy in December 2015.
It was Cahoon’s third trial and second recorded conviction for Ms Quigley’s murder.
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