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16/03/2011
'Suicide' Killer Gets 18 Years
Co Londonderry killer, Hazel Stewart has been sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in jail for the murders of her first husband and former lover's wife.
Mrs Stewart, 49, was convicted earlier this month of the murders of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan.
The Coleraine woman was sentenced to life in prison and the length of her term was given at Belfast Crown Court on Wednesday.
This came after her former lover, dentist Colin Howell pleaded guilty to the double murder last year and gave evidence against her while still serving a life sentence.
He told how Stewart knew about and even assisted in the murders that led to the bodies of Mr Buchanan and Mrs Howell being discovered in a fume-filled car in Castlerock in May 1991.
At the time it was thought to have been a double suicide with the truth only emerging when Howell confessed to their murder in January 2009.
Stewart even disposed of evidence including the hose pipe used to gas their spouses and the judge, Mr Justice Hart, said that by its verdict the jury had accepted that Stewart and Howell "were in it together".
See: Killer Dentist 'Used Gas To Sedate Lovers'
(BMcC)
Mrs Stewart, 49, was convicted earlier this month of the murders of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan.
The Coleraine woman was sentenced to life in prison and the length of her term was given at Belfast Crown Court on Wednesday.
This came after her former lover, dentist Colin Howell pleaded guilty to the double murder last year and gave evidence against her while still serving a life sentence.
He told how Stewart knew about and even assisted in the murders that led to the bodies of Mr Buchanan and Mrs Howell being discovered in a fume-filled car in Castlerock in May 1991.
At the time it was thought to have been a double suicide with the truth only emerging when Howell confessed to their murder in January 2009.
Stewart even disposed of evidence including the hose pipe used to gas their spouses and the judge, Mr Justice Hart, said that by its verdict the jury had accepted that Stewart and Howell "were in it together".
See: Killer Dentist 'Used Gas To Sedate Lovers'
(BMcC)
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A high profile murder trial in the North has heard that the accused, Hazel Stewart, feared her former lover - a dentist - gave her too much laughing gas before a sex session on his dentist's chair. Mrs Stewart, 47, is denying murdering her husband, Trevor Buchanan, 32, and her former lover Colin Howell's wife, Leslie, 31, in May 1991.
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Bizarre Double Murder Trial Continues
Defence counsel for a Co Londonderry woman accused of freely taking part in the plot to kill her own husband and her then lover's wife, have claimed that dentist Colin Howell was forcing the accused, Hazel Stewart against her will to be complicit in the deadly plot.
Bizarre Double Murder Trial Continues
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07 June 2011
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A second inquest has today found that two people in the North murdered by disgraced dentist, Colin Howell and his lover Hazel Stewart were the victims of "homicidal carbon monoxide poisoning". Trevor Buchanan, a 32-year-old policeman and Mrs Howell, 31, were found in a car in a fume-filled garage in the seaside town of Castlerock, Co Londonderry.
Inquest Verdict 'Carbon Monoxide Poisoning'
A second inquest has today found that two people in the North murdered by disgraced dentist, Colin Howell and his lover Hazel Stewart were the victims of "homicidal carbon monoxide poisoning". Trevor Buchanan, a 32-year-old policeman and Mrs Howell, 31, were found in a car in a fume-filled garage in the seaside town of Castlerock, Co Londonderry.
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The first phase of a new inquest into the deaths of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan is now underway in the North. It aims to set the record straight after their respective partners were jailed for their murders, with a coroner's court hearing in Belfast told today that a second hearing will take place before the end of next month.
Howell Inquest To 'Set Record Straight'
The first phase of a new inquest into the deaths of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan is now underway in the North. It aims to set the record straight after their respective partners were jailed for their murders, with a coroner's court hearing in Belfast told today that a second hearing will take place before the end of next month.
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RUC Double Suicide Murder Probe 'Failed'
Major failures in a high profile murder case 20 years ago have been criticised today. Despite evidence that one of the killers had made no less than three attempts to direct attention to the Co Londonderry garage where apparent 'suicide victims' were eventually found, police detectives in the North failed to ask why he had such prior knowledge.
RUC Double Suicide Murder Probe 'Failed'
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