Lovers 'conspired over murders', court hears

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.

Hazel Stewart, 47, knowingly entered into a plan with Colin Howell that would result in the deaths by poisoning of her policeman husband Trevor Buchanan and Howell’s wife Lesley almost 20 years ago, a Crown lawyer told Coleraine Court as he set out the case against her.