Howell: Murdered wife was a bad mother

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.

The double murderer, who poisoned wife Lesley and his lover’s husband Trevor Buchanan, said his marital home was always messy and that she would “fire the kids” at him when he came back from work.

Taking the witness stand at Coleraine Crown Court for the third day in the trial of his former mistress Hazel Stewart, the one-time Christian preacher was asked to describe the state of his marriage prior to the murders.