Votesaxon07

Stephen McCullagh, better known online as Votesaxon07, is a British YouTuber known for his videos mostly covering various topics related to the science-fiction series Doctor Who and merchandise related to other franchises.
In 2023, McCullagh became the source of controversy for the murder of Natalie McNally. He was subsequently arrested and faced court for 24 February, 2023.
==History==
McCullagh began his YouTube activity on his original channel on 5 April, 2010, reviewing the then-new Doctor Who Eleventh Doctor Sonic Screwdriver toy. It would set a precedent for his content in several ways: the subject matter of reviewing Doctor Who content (alongside his YouTube username, referencing a Doctor Who meme) would create a longstanding association of his work with the series, as well as a niche for reviewing toys, collectibles and merchandise in general. His critiques would lead to his second video being dedicated to modifying the screwdriver toy to be more screen-accurate, setting a precedent for future videos of doing such practices with other items (later coined "Modification Madness" episodes) Conflicts with YouTube regarding copyright and fair use would ultimately lead McCullagh to create his 2nd, newer channel to start over with monetization, with the original channel maintained as an archive of the bulk of his older content. 
Every video, McCullagh would open it with “hello viewers and random [insert franchise here] fans”. He would introduce the toy or collectible, then go into great detail of the pros and cons of the product. McCullagh was known for having a perfectionism towards toys, often insisting that they should closely resemble the prop on either a TV show or movie. One of his many gripes was the constant releases and re-releases of the Character Options sonic screwdriver toys, particularly the fact that the Tenth Doctor’s version was released numerous times and didn’t resemble what was on screen. He particularly hated if there were obvious battery compartments or “legal guff” was visible on toys. Action figures with high detail and articulation often impressed him. From 2013 to 2021 he made a Top 10 video at the end of the year, giving a countdown of his top 10 favorite toys or replicas, as well as his worst 5, often destroying them in amusing ways.
Alongside the content outside of Doctor Who, McCullagh often discussed and reviewed merch from the genre of robot battle shows, particularly the UK program Robot Wars. His enthusiasm and promotion efforts would end up allowing his direct involvement with the program during its ninth and tenth series with the robot operation Team S. Tek; in the ninth series he served as "media relations" and reviewed the team's robot, Push to Exit, on his channel, an involvement promoted to participation in the show proper in the tenth series as an operator of the robot alongside the team captain and his friend and fellow fan Anthony Murney.
In 2018, following disatisfaction with his channel performance being correlated with Doctor Who content, McCullagh returned from a hiatus with a new approach to making said content, collaborating with Anthony on most future merchandise reviews as well as all Spoilerific Reviews of episodes of the series. This activity was matched on Anthony's channel TwoPennyMilk as McCullagh helped produce their own robot-fighting series Antweight Anarchy with small-scale fighting robots, which ran for 3 tournaments (the TwoPennyMilk channel and its contents have since been deactivated following McCullagh's arrest).
==Personal Life and Arrest==
Stephen lost both of his parents in a relatively short timeframe in the 2010s; his mother Heather McCullagh passing in 2014, and his father John McCullagh the following year. He released tribute videos for both of them on his original channel.
===Murder of Natalie McNally===
In February 2023, McCullagh was arrested and charged with the murder of Natalie McNally. McNally, 32, was 15 weeks pregnant and found stabbed to death on December 18th, 2022 in her home in Silverwood Green. McCullagh was McNally's boyfriend and father of her child.
On the night of her murder, McCullagh had broadcasted 6 hours of pre-recorded footage of him playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The live stream was named “Violent Night Christmas Live Gaming Stream”. During the stream, there were numerous clues and hints that not all was what it seemed. McCullagh constantly reiterated that he could not interact with his viewers, in case it would crash his computer. He would make word plays based on his alleged victims name. One such example was when flipping his car, he comments how it would not behave like that in real life, saying “abso-fucking-notly”. He then says “abso-fucking-Natalie” while smirking at the camera. McCullagh commented on the lack of police in Ireland. He then says in a mock London accent “that’s why I like sticking to committing crimes in video games... because I'm a bit of a sadistic bastard I suppose...” During a mission, he can be heard saying “I need to kill this bitch. I need to take her down” During the halfway mark, when McCullagh was having a break, a poster for the James Bond movie No Time To Die appears on screen near the exact time the murder would have been taking place. He laughs it off as an accident. He brags of having a great Christmas, then later adds that he wants to get back into gaming, but won’t have much free time next year.
He's been in jail since February 2023 but the case has yet to come to trial.
==References==
Category:British YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2015