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.

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

A dentist dropped an electrical cable into the water as his wife took a bath at the height of a crisis in their marriage, a court heard today.

A former play school assistant in the North conspired with her dentist lover to murder her husband and his wife for their own selfish ends, her trial heard today.

A jury was sworn in today at the start of a trial of a woman accused of murdering her policeman husband and her ex-lover’s wife in the North almost 20 years ago.

A DENTIST who murdered his wife and ex-lover’s policeman husband as they slept nearly 20 years ago and covered it up as a double suicide has been jailed for a minimum of 21 years.

A dentist who poisoned his wife and ex-lover’s policeman husband and then covered it up as a double suicide was jailed for a minimum of 21 years today.

A dentist in the North pleaded guilty today to the murders of his wife and the policeman husband of his ex-lover who were first thought to have died in a suicide pact almost 20 years ago.

The double murder trial of dentist Colin Howell and his ex-lover Hazel Stewart will go ahead as planned later this month, a judge said today.

A dentist accused of murdering his wife and his ex-lover's husband pleaded guilty today to indecently assaulting three women patients at his surgery.

The trial of a dentist and his ex-lover accused of murdering their partners in the North nearly 20 years ago has had to be delayed because of a hold-up in obtaining psychiatric reports.