Mother-of-four Marion Millican, who was shot in the chest with a shotgun in the Portstewart laundrette where she had worked for over a decade, knew she was facing death at the hands of her former lover Fred McClenaghan, a court heard yesterday.
The claim was made by a friend and workmate of Ms Millican (51) during a taped police interview played to McClenaghan’s Antrim Crown Court trial in Belfast where he admits killing her, but denies her murder.
In the hours following the shooting on March 11th, 2011, Pamela Henry told how she made a terrified dash for freedom leaving her friend with a “mad, mad, violent” McClenaghan, then aged 49.
McClenaghan, of Broad Street, Magherafelt, whose guilty plea to manslaughter has been rejected by the prosecution, later claimed he accidently shot his former lover during a botched suicide attempt.
Ms Henry said that as she made a run for the door she looked back to see “poor wee Marion, her face was so white . . . she knew, she knew”.
She also claimed Ms Millican had winked and nodded to her and agreed with police that it appeared as if her friend was telling her to get out.