Stephen McCullagh has lodged an appeal against the sentence he received for murdering his pregnant partner Natalie McNally.
McCullagh, 36, from Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, County Antrim, denied murdering Natalie, who was killed in her Silverwood Green home in Lurgan on 18 December 2022.
He was found guilty in March, after a trial lasting more than four weeks.
The 31 year sentence is the minimum term McCullagh must serve in custody before he can be considered for release by parole commissioners.
The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has been notified that an appeal against the sentence has been lodged.
Before handing down the sentence, Mr Justice Kinney described the crime as “a brutal and senseless murder planned in remorseless detail, cold-blooded and calculated”.
