Court quashes Cahoon murder conviction

A man who had been jailed for life for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal.

Stephen Cahoon, aged 42, with a last address at Harvey St, Derry, admitted strangling mother-of-four Jean Teresa Quigley, aged 30, on July 26, 2008, but denied it was murder.

A jury unanimously found him guilty of murder at the Central Criminal Court on April 30, 2012, and he was immediately sentenced to life imprisonment by Mr Justice Barry White.