I tried to fool psychiatrists, says killer Howell

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.

The one time lay preacher, who went on to murder Stewart's policeman husband Trevor Buchanan, said he told police his decision to murder his wife Lesley was spontaneous in the hope of convincing medics to support a plea of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.