A 43-YEAR-OLD man from Derry has been found guilty for the second time of murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend seven years ago.
Stephen Cahoon, of Harvey Street, had denied murdering mother-of-four Jean Quigley (30) at Cornshell Fields in the city on July 26, 2008.
But a jury at Dublin's Central Criminal Court unanimously found Cahoon guilty of the murder on Thursday.
He had previously been convicted of the murder in 2012, but that verdict was quashed earlier this year.
Cahoon had admitted he strangled Ms Quigley, who was pregnant with his son, but had denied it was murder.
A prosecutor said there was evidence Ms Quigley's door had been broken and there were defensive injuries and bruising to her arms, scalp and head.
The prosecution lawyer said: "There was no loss of self-control that was temporary and overwhelming to give rise to a defence of provocation".
The trial was the third Cahoon had faced over the murder.
A hung jury failed to reach a verdict in 2009.
In 2012 Cahoon was handed a life sentence after another jury found him guilty of murder.
But it was later decided that the judge had made an error in his instructions to the jury and the Court of Appeal in Dublin quashed his conviction in March of this year.
Cahoon has already served almost 10 years in prison.
