Man jailed for 20 years for murder of pregnant mother-of-two Sarah Montgomery
The Irish Times · Fri Nov ·
Judge condemns ‘yet another femicide in a long line of femicides’ in Northern Ireland as Zak Hughes (29) is sentenced
A Belfast man who beat pregnant mother-of-two Sarah Montgomery to death in her flat in Donaghadee, Co Down, in June 2025, has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years for murder and child destruction at Belfast Crown Court.
Zak Hughes (29), from Ardglen Place in Belfast, pleaded guilty earlier this year to the murder of his on-off partner Montgomery (27).
He was the father of Sarah Montgomery’s two children and the unborn child who died in the attack.
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