Speaking on Wednesday after Hazel Stewart's appeal was turned down, Lesley Howell's family, referring to their mother by her maiden name of Lesley Clarke, said they were relieved that this stage of ...

Hazel Stewart claimed she was under the coercive control of Colin Howell when their partners' deaths were plotted.

Hazel Stewart claimed she was under the coercive control of Colin Howell when their partners' deaths were plotted.

She is serving a minimum 18 years behind bars for the killing of Constable Trevor Buchanan, 32, and 31-year-old Lesley Howell, the wife of her former lover Colin Howell.

Double murderer Hazel Stewart has failed in a legal bid to secure a reduced jail sentence for murdering her policeman husband and the wife of her ex-lover. The 62-year-old mounted a fresh challenge ...

The Court of Appeal rejected attempt by 62-year-old Stewart to move forward with appeal on grounds she was under co-convicted Colin Howell's coercive control ...

The daughter of Lesley Howell said she has made "initial enquiries" about meeting her mum's killer Hazel Stewart.

Mr Buchanan, who was 32, and 31-year-old Mrs Howell, were found in a fume-filled garage in Castlerock, County Londonderry in May 1991. Almost two decades later, Colin Howell confessed to the killings.

Stewart is serving a minimum 18 years behind bars for the killings of Constable Trevor Buchanan, 32, and 31-year-old Lesley Howell.