Man to face third trial for murder of his pregnant girlfriend

A man whose conviction for murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend was quashed in March faces a third trial for her killing, despite an appeal by his lawyers that a second retrial would not be justified.

Stephen Cahoon, aged 42, with a last address at Harvey Street, Derry, admitted strangling mother-of-four Jean Teresa Quigley, 30, who was 10-weeks pregnant at the time, 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.