A man has been found guilty of murdering Damien Heagney, as well as dismembering and disposing of his body.
Cookstown man Damien Heagney, 47, was last seen alive at the end of December 2021.
He was reported missing in July 2022 and the following month his partially dismembered remains were recovered from the Cappagh Reservoir in County Tyrone.
Stephen McCourt, 41, from Riverview in Augher, County Tyrone, had denied the charges but was found guilty on Wednesday.
Mr Heagney was last seen in Dromore, County Down, on New Year’s Eve in 2021.
He was reported as a missing person in July 2022 before his dismembered body was found in August 2022.
McCourt’s trial lasted three weeks.
It was the prosecution’s case that McCourt was not only involved in Mr Heagney’s murder but also in attempts to dispose of his body on an unknown date between 29 December 2021 and 7 January 2022.
The trial heard that on 10 August 2022, Mr Heagney’s dismembered remains were recovered in two packages from Cappagh Reservoir near Pomeroy, County Tyrone.
The prosecution said this was “an apparent attempt to dispose of the body”.
