A former Sunday school teacher broke down in the dock today as she listening to a tearful police recording of her admitting and saying sorry for plotting the murders of her policeman husband and lover's wife.

Hazel Stewart told police she wished she was dead when they questioned her about the murders of her husband and her ex-lover’s wife, a court heard today.

Dentist Colin Howell tried to trick psychiatrists into thinking he killed his wife on the spur of the moment in order to get a shorter sentence, he told the trial of his former lover Hazel Stewart.

KILLER dentist Colin Howell claimed the wife he murdered was a bad mother who he once found drunk and unconscious, lying in vomit, when she should have been looking after their four children.

Double killer Colin Howell said today that he hopes the victims of his crimes can forgive him for what he did.

Double murderer Colin Howell went for a game of squash in the days after he killed his wife and his lover’s husband – and his mistress showed no emotion when told their bodies had been found, a court in the North heard today.

A man who murdered a young woman by repeatedly beating her and gluing her lips together was today jailed for a minimum of 17 years.