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00:07Hazel Stewart is back in court, launching a fresh appeal against her conviction.
00:12Claiming new evidence has emerged.
00:16Hazel Stewart was convicted alongside her former lover, Colin Hoyle.
00:21Both are now serving life sentences for their crimes.
00:25More than three decades after a notorious double murder that stunned Northern Ireland,
00:31Hazel Stewart is back in the headlines.
00:35There are always one or two cases that you remember.
00:38Even though you're dealing with dozens and dozens of murders,
00:42this certainly is one of them.
00:46This businessman, Colin Hoyle, had come forward to admit his part in a double murder.
00:53We got Colin Hoyle to put his confessions on tape.
01:01It was like having a secret with somebody, but it was a very deep secret, a deep dark secret.
01:09This case absolutely has a notoriety like no other.
01:13Some might describe him as a celebrity dentist.
01:16He was a pillar of the community.
01:18The story that I was hearing was that Colin and Hazel were having an affair.
01:22He believed that he could kill his wife and kill Trevor Buchanan,
01:26and that somehow he and Hazel would live happily ever after.
01:31Anybody who has an affair will always think they'd be better off without their partner.
01:36At what point do you suggest to your lover, maybe we could kill them?
01:42For 18 years, I believed that my mum died in a suicide pact.
01:48It turned out that my dad and Hazel had actually killed her.
01:53When we heard the details, we were horrified at what had happened.
01:56We have never spoken about the loss and the impact on us as children until now.
02:05This is a shocking account of what I did.
02:08to you.
02:34Oh dear, what are we doing today?
02:36when you think of it he's so big really when you look that's the first time i've heard her voice
02:41yeah actually like and i don't think i've ever seen a video of her so yeah uh he was all
02:48inside
02:51i still don't know as much as i wish i did about my mum two weeks old today why
03:00how do you feel watching that like quite precious like she didn't have a chance to give me a lot
03:05because of the time but she she gave me a lot
03:10i just grew up knowing that mum committed suicide
03:28it was sunday may 19 1991 when i got the phone call from corey and police station to tell me
03:37that
03:37two bodies had been found in castle rock when i attend the scene
03:44just before i left the house i got another phone call it was one of the constables saying uh
03:48just giving you a heads up that it's trevor mcannon
03:54trevor was a cool worker he was constable in the place he's always a nice person
04:02and i don't think there's anyone who would have a bad word to say about trevor
04:06i just felt sick i never had to process a scene where i knew the person
04:14so i drove over to the scene in castle rock
04:20i walked through the back of the the premises and went out there was like a laneway at the back
04:25the guard was detached from the house and went over to the garage
04:32and opened the garage door
04:36there was carbon monoxide smell and could see the car and the car was facing outwards as if it had
04:43been reversed into the garage and then as i walked over then i could see trevor lying in the driver's
04:50seat and they said there were two bodies then i got to the rear of the vehicle and i could
04:56see
04:57leslie lying in the back of the vehicle i was in total shock and um i didn't want to be
05:07there
05:07and i remember asking the superintendent if you could get somebody else to come and examine the scene
05:14i mean the whole thing was horrific and it haunted me
05:22in 1991 i was a reporter in the local newspaper leslie and trevor's deaths were very sad and tragic
05:31trevor was a very good doting father leslie was the mother of four young children under the age of six
05:39what i would say the deaths around that time was there was probably a lot of mystery surrounding it
05:45but it was a backstory that really nobody knew
05:53leslie was a strikingly beautiful girl with lovely dark curly hair brilliant smile and just
05:58such a warm open nature that we all warmed to immediately she just was a very caring person and
06:07i suppose really a lot of what connected us was really our faith as well
06:14she was a christian and i think people had this idea that christians know the fun but we
06:19enjoyed ourselves and great laughs together
06:29leslie was lying in a peaceful position in the back of the vehicle
06:33with photographs around her and headphones on that she'd been listening to a tape
06:41i could also see then that the there was a hose pipe attached to the exhaust
06:48and then put through the car so that the carbon dioxide would have been going through the car
07:01netflix up together and they were married in eighties i was a bridesmaid after they got married collin got a
07:12position as a junior dentist up in Coleraine my father Colin Howell and my
07:22brother Leslie had four children the eldest was my brother Matthew and my
07:31sister Lauren is two years older than me and then my brother Johnny is a year
07:37a three-month younger than me Daniel James my mom was as a mother just so
07:44devoted was that sort of real gentle kind of approach to parenting but at the
07:50same time she made it fun she made it worthwhile even in the smallest things
07:55yep my father with little kids like in many ways he was great he would sing
08:01songs with us games together we'd go to camping trips together the church was
08:15so central in our lives and the Buchanan family went to our church they were part
08:22of the church family
08:29I saw Trevor lying in the driver's seat his right leg was lying out of the
08:35vehicle and the car door was open and it was also the window was also down slightly
08:41and I thought this is very strange has somebody opened the door
08:51well Trevor he met he is what I believe in a small shop I say Derry and he began to
08:57date and they two married moved to Corian and they had two children we worked in
09:04the same branch within police so we became friends through work they was the
09:09sort of people that you would like to be your friend and he was the sort of man
09:13that you would aspire to be hazel it was never very warm my opinion she would
09:19never invite you in and certainly wouldn't give the impression that she was
09:23glad to see maybe the opposite
09:31we were treating the scene as a suicide we got the bodies moved and the car moved
09:37it's all done very very quickly they didn't want residents to see what was
09:41going on as well people knew the families involved and knew the children and were
09:47concerned about the children and and how they were going to accept it as well
10:01the 19th of May was the day after my brother Daniel's birthday he had just turned two it was a
10:08beautiful sunny day my brother Daniel had got a blue slide for his birthday
10:15and we were all playing on it and I remember asking where my mom was she was out of the
10:21house and that wasn't a very common thing it was three or four men from the church
10:28sitting on the patio talking with my dad and I got a sense that it was a bit
10:33serious and at one point Matthew and I were called into the dining room and told that our mum had
10:48gone to heaven
10:51and that she wouldn't be coming back and and I don't know if I really grasped that I
11:02don't know if you can as a four-year-old but even though I probably didn't I felt lost
11:12I mean I didn't know what what it meant but I also knew it wasn't good
11:23Colin rang me up and he told me Leslie had died and then he said it looks like suicide
11:31he was very factual he was very clear but he was very cold and I thought this is shell shock
11:39this is a guy with four young kids and he's wondering what to do he's just not coping
11:52I remember people coming to the house and then the whole process of faking the surprise to people
12:00to the church people to family and receiving sympathy and support when I was the perpetrator
12:09it just gets more shocking all the time
12:14it was a Sunday evening got a phone call did you hear about Trevor I was just gobsmacked could not
12:23believe it like a sledgehammer just shocking the facts that Trevor had died in tragic circumstances
12:33and then the fact those Leslie a woman there as well which we knew nothing about I saw her on
12:40the
12:40Tuesday before she died you kind of begin to doubt yourself and think time this something that I should
12:47have picked up on there was something that never quite made sense I was questioning things from the
12:54very beginning the whole scene didn't look right to me I just didn't know but I just had this feeling
12:59that he was not committing suicide wasn't as if everybody accepted this version that Leslie and Trevor
13:07had died and this bizarre suicide pact there were misgivings something not right here
13:26I asked my father if suicide is a sin and that's the last thing you do before you go on
13:33to heaven or hell
13:35I remember being very worried that she had gone to hell
13:41the reality that I always grew up with was that my mom had killed herself on the night of my
13:47second
13:47birthday because she was feeling sad I was always told that she had died from car fumes my whole
13:56childhood I was terrified when I would walk behind a car I thought that that you could just accidentally
14:01breathe in a little bit of car fumes and potentially die Leslie and Trevor these two people have been
14:10fighting tragically and Leslie's father's garage and Castle Rock and that looked as if they had come
14:17together on a committed suicide Northern Ireland was a very very dark and dangerous place to live back
14:23then so every day there were bombings and shootings and people dying it was mayhem and that
14:31really consumed the diet of the headlines at the time Leslie and Trevor's desk they kind of flew under
14:39the radar and they were looked at as a domestic tragedy there certainly was shock a major shock in
14:46the community and of course whenever you've got a vacuum of information people start to kind of
14:51gossip and speculate as to what happened
14:57the story that I was hearing was that Colin and Hazel were having an affair the affair began in the
15:04autumn of 1990 they wouldn't sleep together in Hazel's house when Trevor was at work they would meet in parks
15:11and
15:11beaches and forests I think she was enamored by his confidence by a success you know this was somebody who
15:21who not only was successful professionally but was seen as somebody who was hugely respected in the
15:26church the fact that he was claiming in over the fence at night and calling at the house when Trevor
15:34was
15:34away and really stuff for this sorted Trevor had invested a lot and he is loved her very much and
15:45his case
15:45he must have been humiliated beyond belief so Leslie at that time confirmed that Colin was having an ongoing
15:55affair with Hazel she says it's like a knife that's goes into your stomach the pain never goes away she
16:03had
16:03taken an overdose of paracetamol and it said that was a foolish step and she was not going to repeat
16:09it again
16:14it was more of a cry for help than a real genuine suicide attempt at that point in my heart
16:21I realized
16:22that if she had died things for me might be better and the concept of murder was was planted in
16:29my in my
16:30mind I would suggest that anybody who has an affair will always think they'd be better off without their
16:37partner I do believe the thoughts of murder are immediately connected to that the elders in the
16:47Baptist Church had tried to cancel the four of them really exploring separation might have been a more
16:54realistic option I don't think the behavior of a Coleraine Baptist Church was good it seemed to be
17:01that they were finishing the affair but it became obvious that that was not the case
17:11Trevor was getting depressed and Leslie was depressed and that's what led to a suicide pact and that was
17:19for the story that everybody was really talking about in Corain it was a scarcely believable story but
17:25it's still believable at the same time that the two innocent parties have been so heartbroken that they
17:31just didn't want to live any longer
17:41that morning I showed up at the inquest it was completely packed
17:49those who were sitting in the inquest that day they were really privy to you know the dirty laundry
17:55being aired in public Colin and Hazel sitting in like the witness box both of them admitted to having an
18:03affair
18:08Colin found a note a suspicious note that looked like a suicide note
18:15dear Colin I'm just trying to go to sleep now for how long for I don't know
18:22and this is why he was so concerned why Leslie was missing if I wake up in the morning just
18:28let this be our secret Leslie
18:32at the end of the inquest the coroner ruled that the two couples have been completely inconsolable
18:41so the clear implication was that they had come together and some kind of bizarre suicide pact
18:47the note was put out as a suicide note but what the note actually was was it was more more
18:56of a depressive sort of note
18:58I came across it accidentally amongst her stuff
19:03this affair and everything else and how that I thought would have made him feel
19:09humiliation would have been my word and I was willing and did accept that it was suicide
19:15if she didn't commit suicide what's the alternative and basically my mind just refused to go there
19:27I was very angry the affair had led to the death of my sister
19:32the official line that Colin was pushing was that the affair was over
19:43Colin was trying to rebuild his life with the children the only thing I did offer was just a meal
19:48for them now and again but other than that I'd really had no contact really with them at all
19:56well I think I assumed that the affair was continuing on and Hazel was now we take on the mother
20:01role
20:03I adored Hazel and so I remember I would like go in with like flowers or a bowl of fruit
20:12and like sing a wedding song as like Colin and Hazel were lying on the couch together
20:16being like when are you going to get married when are you going to be my mummy
20:21a frequent prayer that we would all pray for was that we would get a new mum
20:27I remember that
20:29we would do girly things with her that I wasn't able to do you know with my dad and brothers
20:35and so I sort of gravitated towards that and really just really loved that time
20:45and then I just remember one Sunday Hazel and Colin broke up in around 96
20:52and I was so very upset my dad explicitly told me that we wouldn't be seeing Hazel anymore
20:58I remember being devastated because I wanted a mum I felt like so much closeness to her and then like
21:08I lost her
21:08I missed her and I used to think when I'm older I'm going to reach out to Hazel and she'll
21:12be so happy to see me
21:22Colin Howell became a very successful dentist
21:26he had used the money of my mother's inheritance to fix his financial problems in his dental practice
21:30and then had a booming dental practice
21:33some might describe him as a celebrity dentist
21:36he had some high profile clients his dental career was in the ascendancy
21:41and he would have been seen as pillar of the community
21:45Colin Howell he remarried
21:48and he had moved house with Kyle, his wife
21:52Kyle came to be my step mum
21:54she had two children from a previous relationship
21:57and then they went on to have five children together
22:02when we were like growing up together in this new family that the Lord had given us
22:06our mum was not a topic of conversation
22:09it was just like a dirty word
22:11on the few rare occasions that we would talk about my mum
22:15she was referred to as Leslie
22:17there was no pictures of her
22:19quite quickly my mum was almost forgotten
22:24religion was an enormous part of growing up
22:31but this was not a household of love
22:35the principal idea was that their role as parents is to implement discipline
22:42you're good if you're with us
22:44because God speaks to us and then we'll tell you what's right
22:47that was a very effective way of making me want to be compliant
22:52and be a good Christian and a good son
22:57control was a big part of it
23:00the physical discipline was physical abuse
23:04I saw true violence in my father
23:08what I now understand to be true child abuse
23:12he really had this good image in the community
23:15I saw like how he interacted with like those in the church
23:19and then I saw how he was in the home
23:22age of 10 onwards
23:23I always saw my father as a fraud
23:26what came next was completely unimaginable
23:37in January 2009
23:39Hoyle was going through an existential crisis
23:41his life was in total meltdown
23:46he basically felt that death and misfortune followed him everywhere
23:51the thing that triggered that most was when Matthew fell from a stairwell in Russia
23:57my brother Matthew had gone to study abroad in Russia
24:03and one morning I got a call from home
24:05to let me know that Matthew had died
24:09very tragically and very suddenly
24:12at the age of 22
24:16Matt's death was for sure the most traumatic thing
24:21that I had experienced in my life
24:26Colin Hoyle claimed himself for that
24:29he once said to me he brought death into the family
24:32and therefore God had punished him by killing my brother
24:36in December of 2008
24:38my father had just come back from a trip to the Philippines
24:43he told us that he had been investing all of his money
24:46or a lot of it in this scheme
24:49where they were trying to get gold
24:51he had invested over 353,000 pounds
24:55and trying to find gold
24:56he had been scammed
24:58and he was just throwing like everything he had into it
25:01bankrupting everything
25:02crazy decision making
25:05over the Christmas break
25:08my dad took Daniel and I out to a Chinese restaurant
25:12in Corain
25:13he proceeded to tell us that he had this realization
25:17that he needed to come clean
25:18and he said it's happened again
25:20like I've fallen short of the Lord
25:22and I've cheated on Kyle
25:24how could you do that again
25:26the last time you did that
25:28it led to our mum killing herself
25:35Kyle had banished him to live in a caravan park
25:37just didn't respect him anymore
25:40a lot of his life was crumbling
25:43and the only thing that he thought he could do
25:46you know to escape eternal damnation
25:48he had to make peace with God
25:51by owning up and divesting his soul
25:54of all the sins that he had committed down the years
26:0929th of January 2009
26:11well look that's a day I'll never forget
26:14you know I got a call shortly after lunchtime
26:17from a very good police contact
26:20and his first words to me were
26:22Davey are you sitting down
26:25and I said yeah what is it
26:26and he said well look
26:27Colin Howell has just walked in
26:29to Corian police station
26:31and confessed to murdering his wife
26:32Leslie and Trevor Buchanan
26:36so when we got the call
26:38about Colin Howell
26:40confessing to a double murder
26:42we took our team to Corian
26:46here we had the uniqueness of a case
26:49where we have a suspect in the station
26:52confessing to a murder some 20 years ago
26:56it was more unusual with the fact
26:58that he was confessing to a murder
26:59that the police had investigated
27:01and it was put down as a double suicide
27:07there was a lot of talk in the station about it
27:10we had to ensure that Colin Howell
27:14was being truthful
27:14in respect of what he was telling us
27:17we had to probe that account
27:22Colin Howell's interviews with the police
27:24were one long monologue
27:26he set out in very clear terms
27:29that he had killed his wife and Trevor
27:33when we heard the details
27:34we were horrified at what had happened
27:38we got Colin Howell
27:40to put his confessions on tape
27:49it was like having a secret
27:53with somebody
27:54but it was a very deep secret
27:57a deep dark secret
28:00like a fantasy world
28:02where I could do anything
28:03and so I probably believed
28:05I could do anything
28:12that Saturday was
28:13the birthday of his two-year-old son
28:15Daniel
28:16and while they were preparing
28:17birthday celebrations
28:19Colin was planning to kill
28:21the mother of his children
28:23that night she had been drinking wine
28:26when he got Leslie
28:28in a state on the sofa
28:30and Colin seen the opportunity
28:32to kill her
28:35I started to cure
28:37and I brought the pipe in
28:39and put it up against
28:40Leslie's face
28:42while she slept deeply
28:45I saw her begin to stir
28:48and when she aroused
28:50she called out
28:51Matthew
28:52my son's name
28:56I ran in
28:58and covered her head
28:59with the duvet
29:00I sat on top of her
29:02and held her there
29:03while she took
29:04two or three breaths
29:07until she died
29:10there was a struggle
29:11where Leslie woke up
29:12and Colin had to hold her down
29:15to make sure
29:16that he actually killed her
29:19I physically carried her
29:21to the car
29:23I ran down
29:24to the children's bedrooms
29:26and checked that everything
29:28was quiet
29:28and everyone was asleep
29:30he made a phone call
29:32to Hazel
29:33in her home
29:34I told Hazel
29:35I'm finished with Leslie
29:36I'll be round
29:37is the car
29:38out of the garage
29:39and she said yes
29:41I said
29:42is Trevor
29:43sleeping
29:44and she said yes
29:45he drove his car up
29:47landed
29:48at Hazel's
29:49Hazel had already
29:50opened the garage
29:51in her own house
29:53at her house
29:54took
29:55the hose pipe out
29:57Trevor was asleep
29:59in his bedroom
30:00I put the pipe up
30:01beside him
30:02while he slept
30:04he awakened
30:05even though he was
30:06sedated
30:07I jumped across
30:10onto him
30:10with an attempt
30:11to trap his arms
30:12but he rolled off
30:14the bed
30:15with the right hand
30:17I had the hose pipe
30:19right up
30:19and placed it
30:20between his teeth
30:21and then
30:22with my
30:23other hand
30:24I was able to
30:25pull the quilt
30:26over his head
30:27and trap his arms
30:28I was able to
30:30control him
30:31and kept the hose pipe
30:33under the quilt
30:33Colin actually relates
30:35that Trevor's eyes
30:37were open
30:37and stared at him
30:38and to think
30:40that Trevor actually
30:41saw his killer
30:42killing him
30:43in his own bedroom
30:46Colin used
30:47extreme violence
30:48to hold Trevor down
30:50to make sure
30:51that the fumes
30:51killed him
30:53and within a minute
30:54or so
30:54Trevor was dead
30:58Hazel was in
30:59another bedroom
31:00and waited
31:01for Trevor to die
31:03so Howell then
31:04put Trevor
31:05into the car
31:06with Leslie
31:06and on the way
31:08out to
31:09Leslie's father's house
31:10we went then
31:11onto Castle Rock
31:12to the garage
31:13at the back
31:14of Leslie's father's house
31:15where he set
31:16this death scene
31:18I lifted Trevor's body
31:20from the boot
31:21into the driver's seat
31:22and set it there
31:24I couldn't
31:25get him
31:26right in
31:27his leg
31:28was partly
31:28out the door
31:29that's just
31:30the way he fell
31:31and he was
31:32kind of
31:33stuck there
31:34for Leslie
31:36I put earphones on
31:37she had a
31:38Sony Walkman
31:39and switched it on
31:41to make it appear
31:42she died
31:43listening to music
31:45there'd been
31:46an old broken
31:46hoover in the car
31:47I again
31:49just hooked that up
31:51to look like
31:51it'd been piped in
31:52I then
31:54started the engine
31:58left the garage
32:01ran down the beach
32:02and jogged
32:04along the beach
32:04got my bike
32:06and cycled home
32:15the day that I found out
32:17a lot of the elders
32:18from our church
32:19were there
32:20and they said
32:21he had murdered
32:23my mum
32:23and
32:25Trevor Buchanan
32:29I physically
32:30fell on the floor
32:32cold
32:33blood ran
32:34through my body
32:35and I was so angry
32:40yeah
32:41I need a tissue
32:42and maybe a wee break
32:44it just felt
32:46like
32:47chaos
32:48inside
32:50I just
32:51didn't
32:51and will never
32:52understand
32:53I can barely
32:55put it into words
32:56you know
32:57it's kind of like
33:00it kind of felt like
33:01my whole
33:02life was
33:03deconstructed
33:05I remember
33:06sort of a shock
33:06I actually remember
33:08thinking
33:09god you know
33:10that makes
33:10that makes sense
33:14it's the children
33:16and it's the deception
33:17that he put them through
33:18for 19 years
33:20is just
33:22almost unforgivable
33:33it's that room
33:37it's that room
33:37that's the room
33:40like how can he stand there
33:47actually it would have been
33:48one of those
33:54that's the room
33:55where
33:56he had murdered
33:57her
34:00it was kind of surreal
34:02to see that
34:04to see us in the space
34:06to see us in the space
34:06of such
34:08an evil
34:08and cruel act
34:09and
34:09in a space
34:11that
34:11has
34:12had such an impact
34:13on my life
34:14going forward
34:20my feelings
34:21towards Colin
34:22are
34:24I despise him
34:25I absolutely
34:26despise him
34:29and I wish him
34:30harm
34:30I met with Hazel
34:32I told her
34:33the plan
34:34she did
34:35obviously cooperate
34:36that
34:37can't be denied
34:38when he
34:40implicated
34:40Hazel
34:41I
34:41I couldn't believe it
34:42I was flabbergasted
34:45I just
34:46couldn't believe
34:47that she could do
34:48something like that
34:49and we quickly
34:51made a decision
34:52that Hazel Stewart
34:53needed to be
34:54arrested
34:55as soon as possible
34:57there was this fear
34:59that if she was not
35:00arrested
35:01quickly
35:01and she had heard
35:03that Colin Hoyle
35:04had confessed
35:05to police
35:05about her involvement
35:06I was the mastermind
35:08behind the plot
35:09and the plan
35:09it could not have happened
35:11without her
35:12cooperation
35:12she didn't say no
35:14there was no
35:15objection
35:16to being there
35:17we were fearful
35:19that she could
35:21do your honor
35:29well after
35:30Hoyle was arrested
35:31and had made the
35:32confession that morning
35:33and implicated
35:34Hazel
35:35in this double murder
35:36police went out
35:37to her house
35:39and ironically
35:40she wasn't in the
35:41house
35:42she was at the
35:42dentist
35:43but when she
35:44arrived back
35:45they said
35:46we were arresting
35:46the suspicion
35:47of the two murders
35:50this was her
35:51worst nightmare
35:53Hazel had kept
35:54this deep dark
35:55secret for 18 years
36:00I was tasked
36:02with the role
36:02of interviewing
36:04Hazel Buchanan
36:06she seemed
36:07to be a happily
36:08married woman
36:0946 years of age
36:10dressed well
36:12and enjoying life
36:13and was mixing
36:15well within
36:15the community
36:17she had
36:19remarried
36:19to a Mr. Stewart
36:21a retired police officer
36:22going into the
36:24first interview
36:24and seeing Hazel
36:26looking really shocked
36:28she was pale
36:29she was in disbelief
36:31as to what was
36:32happening
36:34she said
36:35she had no idea
36:36why Colin
36:37was coming up
36:37to her house
36:38that night
36:40she said
36:41she was terrified
36:41she didn't know
36:42what was happening
36:43she stated
36:44she didn't take
36:44any part in it
36:45she didn't want
36:46any part in it
36:47and this was all
36:48Colin's fault
36:49he did this
36:50you know
36:51he's twisted
36:52he is
36:53he's calculating
36:54it was a vague
36:56account
36:56there was key
36:57parts of her
36:58account missing
36:59that we knew
37:00we had to obtain
37:02and what Colin
37:03was telling us
37:04appeared to be
37:05truthful
37:09Hazel portrayed
37:10herself as being
37:10soft and vulnerable
37:12and weak
37:13Kyle was clearly
37:15manipulative
37:15and he had full control
37:19throughout the interviews
37:21she remained
37:22very quiet
37:22very sad looking
37:25and she was very careful
37:26in what she was telling us
37:41we could see
37:42clearly that Hazel
37:44began to give in
37:46and she began
37:48to tell the truth
37:49bit by bit
37:50he said to me
37:52the only way
37:54that we could ever
37:55be together
37:56I said
37:57we're fine
37:58the third day
37:59of interviews
38:00so she actually
38:01changed her account
38:02in respect
38:03of her participation
38:05she just talked
38:07freely then
38:08and told us
38:09exactly
38:09what had happened
38:14she agreed
38:15to the plan
38:16that was discussed
38:16by Colin
38:22she agreed
38:23that it was going
38:24to be that
38:25Saturday night
38:27she made Colin
38:29aware
38:29that Trevor
38:30was at home
38:32she made Colin
38:33aware
38:34that he had
38:35taken a tablet
38:42she had left
38:44Trevor's car
38:44out in the driveway
38:45so that Colin
38:46could drive
38:47into the garage
38:48to allow him
38:49to proceed
38:49with the hosepipe
38:52and as soon as
38:53that struggle
38:54finished
38:54and Trevor
38:55was confirmed
38:56as dead
38:57got his clothes
38:58and allowed Colin
38:59to dress him
39:00and drag him
39:00down the hallway
39:01into the boot
39:02of his car
39:03along with his wife
39:04Leslie
39:10the type of
39:11got her to admit
39:12that she had
39:12burnt the hose
39:15she had opened
39:16the windows
39:16the bedroom
39:17and she had
39:17washed the sheets
39:22Colin Howell
39:23could not have
39:24done this
39:24on his own
39:25and you could
39:25not have done
39:26it on your own
39:27Hazel
39:27this had to be
39:28this had to be a joint
39:29enterprise
39:30between the two of you
39:32the two of you
39:33had to work together
39:34to make this plan
39:36come to fruition
39:38do you accept that
39:40sorry
39:40yes
39:41yes
39:42yes
39:42okay
39:48she let the murder
39:49weapon into the house
39:52howell was the murder
39:53weapon
39:54I could have
39:55stopped it
39:55I could have
39:57stopped it
39:58Hazel showed no remorse
40:00at all
40:00in relation to
40:01what she was there
40:02for
40:03it was all about
40:04poor me
40:05my life has now
40:06come to an end
40:08I felt that Trevor
40:10was always in the
40:10background
40:11waiting for us to
40:12find the truth
40:13and that he could
40:15now rest in peace
40:16because now we know
40:17what really did
40:17happen to him
40:18Trevor
40:18didn't abandon his
40:20family
40:20didn't abandon his
40:21children
40:23at what point
40:24do you
40:25suggest
40:26to your
40:27lover
40:27maybe we could
40:29kill them
40:29I just
40:31and that's an answer
40:33I'll never
40:33get
40:41after my
40:42dad confessed
40:43he was
40:44sentenced
40:45to
40:4521 years
40:47in prison
40:48attended
40:50Colin's
40:50sentencing
40:51in the
40:52dock
40:52he was
40:53very diminished
40:54and nasty
40:55enough to
40:55think that
40:55was good
40:57Hazel pleading
40:58not guilty
40:58she would face
41:00the full glare
41:01of a
41:01brown court
41:02trial
41:04there was
41:04a huge
41:05public
41:06interest
41:06in this
41:06trial
41:08Hazel
41:09was on
41:09bail
41:10every day
41:11she would
41:11drive to
41:12the court
41:12and she
41:12would come
41:12in on
41:13her
41:13husband's
41:14arm
41:15Hoyle
41:16was the
41:16star witness
41:17for the
41:18prosecution
41:19but
41:19Hoyle
41:20insisted
41:20Hazel
41:21was the
41:21perfect
41:21accomplice
41:22and that
41:23by the
41:23end of
41:23that
41:23meeting
41:24she
41:24wasn't
41:25confused
41:25about what
41:26the outcome
41:27would be
41:27and what
41:28she should
41:28do
41:29Hoyle
41:30will continue
41:30giving evidence
41:31tomorrow
41:32and he
41:33likened it
41:34to the
41:34two of them
41:35waltzing
41:35together
41:36and he
41:36says
41:36yeah
41:37okay
41:37I was
41:37the lead
41:38partner
41:38he says
41:40but believe
41:40you me
41:40Hazel
41:42danced
41:43along
41:43beside me
41:44in perfect
41:45harmony
41:46unwillingly
41:48at the
41:49end
41:49at the end
41:49of 15
41:50days
41:51the jury
41:52of nine
41:52men
41:52and three
41:53women
41:53found her
41:54guilty
41:56Hazel
41:57Stewart
41:57was sent
41:58to prison
41:58in 2011
41:59for a minimum
42:00of 18
42:00years
42:04Hazel to me
42:05is a cold
42:06calculating
42:07self-centered
42:10bitch
42:11the fact
42:12that she
42:13committed
42:13the murder
42:14in the
42:14first place
42:15is
42:16reprehensible
42:18and she
42:19does
42:20come across
42:21as being
42:21in her own
42:22mind
42:23a victim
42:23and in so
42:24doing
42:25the real
42:25victims
42:26are totally
42:26and utterly
42:27shunned
42:27on one
42:27side
42:30the motive
42:31behind
42:32their
42:33decision
42:34to murder
42:36is
42:37unfathomable
42:39rather than
42:40have his own
42:41reputation
42:42tarnished by
42:43leaving his
42:44wife for
42:44another woman
42:46he would
42:47rather
42:47violently
42:48murder two
42:49people
42:50and hide
42:51it in
42:51a twisted
42:52world
42:57I tend to
42:58refer to him
42:58as Colin
42:58I don't know
43:00what it means
43:01to forgive him
43:03when he
43:05chose to
43:05murder my
43:06mother
43:06he
43:06in my view
43:08he abdicated
43:09from his
43:09role
43:10as a
43:10father
43:13I don't
43:14consider him
43:14my father
43:16I never
43:16should have
43:17been raised
43:17by him
43:19I should
43:19have been
43:20raised
43:20by my
43:20mother
43:22my whole
43:22identity
43:23kind of
43:23got caught
43:24up being
43:25the killer
43:25son
43:26I was
43:27working as
43:27a local
43:28doctor
43:28in London
43:30and I
43:31called
43:31my name
43:31and heard
43:32my accent
43:32and was
43:33like
43:33oh my
43:34god
43:34you're
43:36Colin
43:36Huyleson
43:37the crazy
43:37dentist
43:38killer
43:38and
43:39it's
43:39always
43:39too
43:39much
43:40and
43:40I
43:40felt
43:40like
43:40I
43:41want
43:41to
43:41be
43:42my
43:42own
43:42person
43:42I
43:43want
43:43to
43:43have
43:43my
43:43own
43:43identity
43:45really
43:46like
43:46the
43:46main
43:46driver
43:47why
43:47I
43:47decided
43:47to
43:48move
43:48over
43:49to
43:49New York
43:50we're
43:51we're
43:51realising
43:51this horrible
43:52truth
43:52the years
43:53and decades
43:54actually
43:55of lies
43:55that were
43:56told
43:56knowing
43:57how that
43:57had actually
43:58impacted
43:58me
44:07Hazel
44:08Stewart
44:08is serving
44:09a minimum
44:10of 18
44:10years
44:11for killing
44:11her husband
44:12and Leslie
44:13Howell
44:14last month
44:15she sought
44:16to mount
44:16a fresh
44:17bid for
44:17an earlier
44:18release
44:18from jail
44:19with her
44:20barrister
44:20saying new
44:21evidence
44:21had come
44:22to light
44:22Hazel
44:23Stewart
44:23has appealed
44:24three times
44:25her most
44:26recent
44:26attempt at
44:27an appeal
44:27happened
44:28in 2025
44:36I've just
44:37arrived
44:37in Belfast
44:38I've come
44:39home
44:39to attend
44:40yet another
44:41appeal
44:42orchestrated
44:43by Hazel
44:43Stewart
44:44I feel
44:45full of
44:46dread
44:46and fear
44:47and anticipation
44:52I think
44:53it's just
44:53disappointing
44:54it's not
44:55taking
44:55accountability
44:56and it's
44:57not honouring
44:58the life
44:58of my mum
44:59and Trevor
45:01by failing
45:02to own
45:03up to
45:04your role
45:05the court
45:05found no
45:06merit
45:06in the
45:07appeal
45:07and Hazel
45:08Stewart's
45:09sentence
45:09remains
45:10unaltered
45:12at some
45:13point
45:14she just
45:14has to
45:15accept
45:15this
45:16and
45:16stop
45:17dragging
45:18us
45:18through
45:19this
45:19it's
45:19enough
45:21she will
45:22be eligible
45:22for parole
45:23soon
45:23she will
45:25get out
45:25I have
45:26a life
45:26sentence
45:27I will
45:27never
45:28get my mum
45:28back
45:28my mum
45:29will never
45:30walk through
45:31the door
45:38I changed
45:38my last name
45:39from Howell
45:40to Clark
45:41it was important
45:42for me to
45:44honour my mum
45:46I want to pass
45:47on her last name
45:49by all the
45:50kind she was
45:51an amazing woman
45:51and I'm so blessed
45:52to have had it
45:53for the two years
45:54that I did
45:56my mum
45:57is still
45:59so much part
45:59of my life
46:00the short years
46:01that we had
46:02together
46:02I feel like
46:02she taught me
46:03so much
46:04in terms of
46:05Lesley
46:06and the children
46:07she would be
46:08so proud
46:10to have done
46:11well in their
46:12careers
46:12with just being
46:14all around
46:14lovely people
46:15they really
46:16are fantastic
46:27music
46:29music
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