Stewart sentenced to minimum of 18 years in jail

A former Sunday school teacher who murdered her policeman husband and her ex-lover's wife and then covered it up as a double suicide was jailed for a minimum of 18 years today.

Hazel Stewart (aged 48) from Ballystrone Road, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, had already been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of plotting with dentist Colin Howell to poison his wife Lesley (aged 31), and her own husband, Pc Trevor Buchanan (aged 32), in 1991.