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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.
02:09.
02:34Oh, dear, what are we doing to you?
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
02:47he was all inside he's writing i still don't know as much as i wish i did about my mum
02:56two weeks old today why oh how do you feel watching that it's like quite precious like
03:03she didn't have a chance to give me a lot because of the time but she she gave me a
03:07lot
03:10i just grew up knowing that mum committed suicide
03:28it was sunday may 19 1991 when i got the phone call from corian police station to tell me that
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
03:48just giving you a heads up that it's trevor mcannon
03:54trevor was a cool worker
03:58he was constable and the place is always a nice person and i don't think there's anyone who would
04:03have a bad word to say about trevor i just felt sick i never had to process a scene where
04:11i knew the
04:11person so i drove over to the same castle rock
04:20i walked through the back of the premises and went out there was like a laneway at the back
04:25the garage 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
04:44reversed into the garage and then as i walked over then i could see trevor lying in the driver's seat
04:52and they said there were two bodies then i got to the rear of the vehicle and i could see
04:57leslie
04:58lying in the back of the vehicle
05:03i was in total shock and um i didn't want to be there and i remember asking the superintendent if
05:09you could get somebody else to come and examine the scene
05:11i 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
05:39i would say the deaths around that time was there was probably a lot of mystery surrounding it
05:45but it was a back story that really nobody knew
05:53leslie was a strikingly beautiful girl with lovely dark curly hair brilliant smile and just such a warm
05:59open nature that we all warmed to immediately she just was a very caring person and i suppose really a
06:09lot of
06:09what connected us was really our faith as well she was a christian and i think people had this idea
06:17that christians know the fun but we enjoyed ourselves in great laughs together
06:29leslie was lying in a peaceful position in the back of the vehicle the photographs around her
06:35and headphones on that should be 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
07:00so
07:01colin and let's let's connect together about 81 82
07:05they were married in 83 i was a bridesmaid after they got married colin got a position as a junior
07:13dentist up in Coleraine my father Colin Howell and my brother Leslie had four
07:23children the eldest was my brother Matthew and my sister Lauren is two
07:33years older than me and then my brother Johnny is a year and three months younger
07:37than me Daniel James my mom was as a mother just so devoted was that sort of
07:46real gentle kind of approach to parenting but at the same time she made it fun she
07:52made it worthwhile even in the smallest things yep my father with little kids
07:57like in many ways he was great he would sing songs with us we would play games
08:09together we'd go to camping trips together the church was so central in our lives and
08:18the Buchanan family went to our church they were part of the church family
08:29as I saw Trevor lying in the driver's seat his right leg was lying out of the vehicle and the
08:37car door was open and it was also the window was also down slightly and I thought this is
08:43very strange has somebody opened the door well Trevor he met here's what I believe in a small
08:55shop I say Derry and he began to date and they two married moved to Corian and they had two
09:01children
09:03we worked in the same branch within police so we became friends through work and he was the sort of
09:10people that you would like to be your friend and he was the sort of man that you would aspire
09:14to be
09:16Hazel it was never very warm my opinion she would never invite you in and certainly wouldn't give
09:22the impression that she was glad to see you maybe the opposite
09:31we were treating the scene as a suicide we got the bodies moved and the car moved it's all done
09:38very
09:38very quickly they didn't want residents to see what was going on as well people knew the families
09:45involved and knew the children and were concerned about the children and how they were going to accept
10:00it as well the 19th of May was the day after my brother Daniel's birthday he had just turned two
10:07it was a beautiful sunny day my brother Daniel had got a blue slide for his birthday and we were
10:15all playing on it
10:17and I remember asking where my mom was she was out of the house and that wasn't a very common
10:23thing
10:25there was three or four men from the church sitting on the patio talking with my dad and I got
10:32a sense that it was a bit serious
10:35and at one point Matthew and at one point Matthew and I were called into the dining room
10:44and told that our mum had gone to heaven
10:51and that she wouldn't be coming back
10:54and
10:57and
10:59I don't know if I really grasped that I don't know if you can as a four-year-old
11:05but even though I probably didn't I felt
11:09lost
11:12and I didn't know what it meant but I also knew it wasn't good
11:23Colin rang me up and he told me Leslie had died
11:26and 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
11:45he'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
12:03receiving sympathy and support when I was the perpetrator
12:09it just gets more shocking all the time
12:14it was a Sunday evening
12:16I got a phone call
12:18did you hear about Trevor
12:19I was just gobsmacked
12:22could not believe it
12:26like a sledgehammer
12:27just shocking
12:30the facts that Trevor had died in tragic circumstances
12:33and then the fact there was Leslie a woman there as well which we knew nothing about
12:39I saw her on the Tuesday before she died
12:42you kind of begin to doubt yourself and think did I miss something that I should have picked up on
12:48there was something that never quite made sense
12:52I was questioning things from the very beginning
12:54the whole scene didn't look right to me
12:57I just didn't know but I just had this feeling that
13:00he was not committing suicide
13:02it wasn't as if everybody accepted this version that Leslie and Trevor had died in this bizarre suicide pact
13:09there were misgivings
13:13something not right here
13:26I asked my father if suicide is a sin
13:30and that's the last thing you do before you go on to 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 mum had killed herself
13:46on the night of my second birthday because she was feeling sad
13:50I was always told that she had died from car fumes
13:55my whole childhood I was terrified when I would walk behind a car
13:59I thought that you could just accidentally breathe in a little bit of car fumes and potentially die
14:07Leslie and Trevor
14:08these two people have been found tragically in Leslie's father's garage
14:13in Castle Rock and that looked as if they had come together and committed suicide
14:20Northern Ireland was a very very dark and dangerous place to live back then
14:24so every day there were bombings and shootings and people dying
14:29it was mayhem and that really consumed the diet
14:33of the headlines at the time
14:36Leslie and Trevor's death they kind of flew under the radar
14:40and they were looked at as a domestic tragedy
14:43there certainly was shock
14:44a major shock in the community
14:47and of course whenever you've got a vacuum of information people start to kind of gossip
14:52and speculate as to what happened
14:57the story that I was hearing was that Colin and Hazel were having an affair
15:02the affair began in the autumn of 1990
15:05they would sleep together in Hazel's house when Trevor was at work
15:10he would meet in parks and beaches and forests
15:13I think she was enamored by his confidence
15:18by his success
15:19you know this was somebody who not only
15:22was successful professionally but was seen as somebody who was hugely respected in the church
15:29the fact that he was climbing in over the fence at night and
15:32calling it the house when Trevor was away and really stuff that was sordid
15:39Trevor had invested a lot in Hazel
15:42loved her very much
15:44in his case he must have been humiliated
15:48beyond belief
15:50so Leslie at that time confirmed that Colin was having an ongoing affair with Hazel
15:57she says it's like a knife that goes into your stomach
16:00the pain never goes away
16:03she had taken an overdose of paracetamol
16:06and had said that was a foolish step and she was not going to repeat it again
16:14it was more of a cry for help than a real genuine suicide attempt
16:20at that point in my heart I realized that if she had died things for me might be better
16:25and the concept of murder was planted in my in my mind
16:31I would suggest that anybody who has an affair will always think they'd be better off without
16:37their partner I do believe the thoughts of murder are immediately connected to that
16:45the elders in the baptist church had tried to counsel the four of them
16:50really exploring separation might have been a more realistic option
16:55I don't think the behavior of a Coleraine baptist church was good
17:00it seemed to be that 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
17:18and that was for the story that everybody was really talking about in Coleraine
17:22it was a scarcely believable story but still believable at the same time that the two innocent parties
17:29have been so heartbroken that they just 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
18:11a 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
18:25if I wake up in the morning just let 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
18:48the note was put out as a suicide note but what the note actually was was
18:54it was more more of a depressive sort of note I 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
19:44Colin's trying to rebuild his life with the children the only thing I did offer was just a meal for
19:49them now and again
19:49but 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 they 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
20:12sing a wedding song as like Colin and Hazel were lying on the couch together being like when are you
20:17going 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 I 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
20:35so I sort of gravitated towards that and really just really loved that um 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 uh I felt like so much closeness to her
21:05uh and then like I lost her I missed her and I used to think when I'm older I'm going
21:11to reach out
21:12to Hazel and she'll be so happy to see me
21:22Colin Howell became a very successful dentist he had used the money of my mother's inheritance to fix his
21:29financial problems as dental practice and then had a booming dental practice some might describe him as a
21:35celebrity dentist he had some high profile clients his dental career was in the ascendancy
21:41and he would have been seen as pillar of the community Colin Howell he remarried and he had
21:49moved house with Kyle his wife Kyle came to be my step-mom she had two children from a previous
21:56relationship and then they went on to have five children together when we were like growing up
22:03together in this new family that the lord had given us our mum was not a topic of conversation
22:09it was just like a dirty word on the few rare occasions that we would talk about my mum she
22:16was
22:16referred to as Leslie there was no pictures of her quite 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 because god speaks to us and then we'll we'll tell you what's right
22:47that was a very effective way of making me want to be compliant and be a good christian and a
22:55good son
22:57control was a big part of it the physical discipline was physical abuse
23:04i saw true violence in my father what i now understand to be true child abuse
23:12he really had this good image in the community very successful i saw like how he interacted with
23:18like those in the church and then i saw how he was in the home
23:22age of 10 onwards i always saw my father's a frog
23:26what came next was completely unimaginable
23:37in january 2009 hoyle was going through an existential crisis his 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
23:56my brother matthew had gone to study abroad in russia and one morning i got a call from home
24:06to let me know that matthew had died very tragically and very suddenly at the age of 22.
24:16matt's death was for sure the most traumatic thing and that i had experienced in my life
24:26colin he claimed himself for that he 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 my father had just come back from a trip to the philippines
24:43he told us that he had been investing all of his money or a lot of it in this
24:49scheme where they were trying to get gold he had invested over 353 000 pounds
24:55and trying to find gold he had been scammed and he's just throwing like everything he had into it
25:01bankrupting everything crazy decision making over the christmas break
25:08my dad took daniel and i out to a chinese restaurant in corain he proceeded to tell us that he
25:15had this
25:16realization that he needed to come clean and he said it's happened again like i've i've fallen short of
25:22lord and i've cheated on kyle how could you do that again the last time you did that it led
25:28to our mum killing herself
25:35kyle had banished him to live in a caravan park just didn't respect him anymore a lot of his life
25:42was crumbling and the only thing that he thought he could do you know to escape eternal damnation
25:48he had to make peace with god by owning up and divesting his soul of all the sins that he
25:56had committed down the years
26:0929th of january 2009 well look that's a day i'll never forget you know i got a call shortly after
26:16lunch time from a very good police contact and his first words to me were david are you sitting down
26:25well i says yeah what is it and he said well look colin howell has just walked in the corian
26:30police station and confessed to murdering his wife leslie and trevor becannon
26:36so when we got the call about colin howell confessing to a double murder we took our team to corian
26:46here we had the uniqueness of a case where we have a suspect in the station confessing to a murder
26:53some 20 years ago
26:56it was more unusual with the fact that he was confessing to a murder that the police had investigated
27:02and it was put down as a double suicide there was a lot of talk in the station about it
27:10we had to ensure that colin howell was being truthful
27:15in respect of what he was telling us we had to probe that account
27:22colin howell's interviews with the police were one long monologue
27:27he set out in very clear terms that he had killed his wife and trevor
27:33when we heard the details we were horrified at what had happened
27:38we got colin howell to put his confessions on tape
27:49it was like having a secret with somebody but it was a very deep secret a deep dark secret
28:00like a fantasy world where i could do anything and so i probably believed i could do anything
28:12that saturday was the birthday of his two-year-old son daniel and while they were preparing birthday
28:18celebrations colin was planning to kill the mother of his children that night she had been drinking wine
28:26when he got leslie in a state on the sofa and colin seen the opportunity to kill her
28:35i started to cure and i brought the pipe in and put it up against leslie's face while she slept
28:43deeply
28:45i saw her begin to stir and when she aroused she called out matthew my son's name
28:56i ran in and covered her head with the dv i sat on top of her and held her there
29:03while she took two or three breaths
29:07until she died there was a struggle where leslie woke up and colin had to hold her down to make
29:15sure that he actually killed her
29:19i physically carried her to the car i ran down to the children's bedrooms and checked that everything was
29:28quiet and everyone was asleep he made a phone call to hazel in her home i told hazel i'm finished
29:36with leslie
29:37i'll be around is the car out of the garage and she said yes i said is trevor sleeping and
29:44she said yes
29:45he drove his car up landed at hazel's hazel had already opened the garage in her own house
29:52at her house took the hose pipe out trevor was asleep in his bedroom i put the pipe up beside
30:01him
30:02while he slept he awakened even though he was uh sedated i jumped across on him with an attempt to
30:12trap
30:12his arms but he rolled off the bed with the right hand i had the hose pipe right up and
30:20placed it
30:20between his teeth and then with my other hand i was able to pull the quilt over his head and
30:27trap his arms
30:28i was able to control them and kept the hose pipe under the quilt colin actually relates that trevor's eyes
30:37were open and stared at him and to think that trevor actually saw his killer killing him in his own
30:44bedroom colin used extreme violence to hold trevor down to make sure that the fumes killed him and within
30:54a minute or so trevor was dead hazel was in another bedroom and waited for trevor to die
31:03so howell then put trevor into the car with leslie and on the way out to leslie's father's house we
31:10went then on to castle rod to the garage at the back of leslie's father's house where he set this
31:17death
31:17scene i lifted trevor's body from the boot into the driver's seat and set it there
31:24i couldn't get him right in his leg was partly out the door that's just the way he fell and
31:32and he was
31:32kind of stuck there for leslie i put earphones on she had a sony walkman and switched it on to
31:41make
31:41it appear she died listening to music there being an old broken hoover in the car i again just hooked
31:50up to look like it had been piped in i then started the engine
31:58left the garage
32:01ran down the beach and jogged along the beach i got my bike and cycled home
32:15the day that i found out a lot of the elders from our church were there
32:20and they said he had murdered my mum and uh trevor buchanan
32:29i physically fell on the floor cold blood ran through my body and i was so angry
32:40yeah i want i need a tissue and maybe a wee break
32:45i just felt like chaos inside i just didn't and will never understand i i i can barely put it
32:55into
32:56words you know it's kind of like it kind of felt like my whole life was deconstructed
33:04and i remember the shock i actually remember thinking god you know that makes that makes sense
33:14it's the children and the deception that he put them through for 19 years is just almost unforgivable
33:33it's that room
33:37that's the room
33:40like how can he stand there
33:47actually it would have been one of those circles
33:54that's the room where he had murdered her
34:00it's kind of surreal uh to see that uh to see us in the space of such uh
34:08an evil and cruel act and in a space that has had such an impact on my life going forward
34:19my feelings towards colin are
34:24i despise him i absolutely despise him um and i wish him harm
34:30i met with hazel i told her the plan she did obviously cooperate that can't be denied
34:39when he implicated hazel i i couldn't believe it i was flabbergasted
34:45i just couldn't believe that she could do something like that
34:49and we quickly made a decision that hazel stewart needed to be arrested as soon as possible
34:57there was this fear that if she was not arrested quickly and she had heard that colin howell had
35:04confessed to police about her involvement i was the mastermind behind the plot and the plan
35:10it could not have happened without her cooperation she didn't say no
35:14there was no objection to be being there we were fearful that she could do your honor
35:29well after howell was arrested and i made the confession that morning and implicated hazel
35:35in this double murder police went out to her house and ironically she wasn't in the house she was at
35:42the dentist but when she arrived back they said that we're arresting a suspicion of the two murders
35:50this was her worst nightmare hazel had kept this deep dark secret for 18 years
36:00i was tasked with the role of interviewing hazel buchanan she seemed to be a happily married woman 46
36:09years of age dressed well and enjoying life and was mixing well within the community
36:17she had remarried to a mr stewart a retired police officer
36:23going into the first interview and seeing hazel looking really shocked she was pale she was in
36:30disbelief as to what was happening she said she had no idea why colin was coming up to her house
36:38that
36:38night she said she was terrified she didn't know what was happening she stated she didn't take any part
36:45in it she didn't want any part in it and this was all colin's fault he did this you know
36:51he's twisted
36:52he is is calculating it was a vague account there were key parts of her account missing that we knew
37:00we
37:00had to obtain and what colin was telling us appeared to be truthful
37:08hazel portrayed herself as being soft and vulnerable and weak powell was clearly manipulative
37:15had i had to have full control throughout the interviews she remained very quiet very sad looking
37:25and she was very careful in what she was telling us
37:30no i'm telling you i was not in that plan i did not know what he was coming to do
37:41we could see clearly that hazel began to give in and she began to tell the truth bit by bit
37:51he said to me the only way that we could ever be together i said okay fine
37:58the third day of interviews so she actually changed her account in respect of her participation
38:05she just talked freely then and told us exactly what had happened
38:14she agreed to the plan that was discussed by colin
38:22she agreed that it was going to be that saturday night
38:27she made colin aware that trevor was at home she made colin aware that he had taken a tablet
38:42she had left trevor's car out in the driveway so that colin could drive into the garage to allow him
38:49to proceed with the horse pipe and as soon as that struggle finished and trevor was confirmed as dead
38:57got his clothes allowed colin to dress him and drag him down the hallway into the boot of his car
39:03along with his wife leslie
39:10the detectives got her to admit that she had burnt the hose
39:15she'd opened the windows of the bedroom and she had washed the sheets
39:22colin howell could not have done this on his own and you could not have done it on your own
39:27hazel
39:28this had to be a joint enterprise between the two of you
39:32the two of you had to work together to make this plan come to fruition
39:38do you accept that do you accept that sorry yes yes okay
39:48she let the murder weapon into the house
39:52colin was the murder weapon i could have stopped it i could have stopped
39:58hazel showed no remorse at all in relation to what she was there for
40:03it was all about poor me my life has now come to an end
40:08i felt that trevor was always in the background waiting for us to find the truth
40:13and that he could now rest in peace because now we know what really did happen to him
40:18trevor didn't abandon his family didn't abandon his children
40:23at what point do you suggest to your lover maybe we could kill them i just
40:31and that's an answer i'll never get
40:41after my dad confessed he was sentenced to 21 years in prison
40:49attended colin's sentencing in the dock he was very diminished and nasty enough to think that was good
40:57hazel pleading not guilty she would face the full glare of a brown court trial
41:04there was a huge public interest in this trial
41:08hazel was on bail every day she would drive to the court and she would come in on her husband's
41:14arm
41:15howell was the star witness for the prosecution
41:18but howell insisted hazel was the perfect accomplice and that by the end of that meeting she wasn't
41:25confused about what the outcome would be and what she should do howell will continue giving evidence
41:31tomorrow and he likened it to the two of them waltzing together he says yeah okay i was the lead
41:38partner he says but believe you me hazel danced along beside me in perfect harmony unwillingly
41:48at the end of 15 days the jury of nine men and three women find her guilty
41:56hazel stewart was sent to prison in 2011 for a minimum of 18 years
42:04hazel to me is a cold calculating self-centered
42:11the fact that she committed the murder in the first place is reprehensible
42:18and she does come across as being in her own mind a victim and in so doing the real victims
42:26are totally
42:26and utterly shunned to one side
42:30the motive behind their decision to murder is unfathomable
42:39rather than have his own reputation tarnished by leaving his wife for another woman
42:46he would rather violently murder two people and hide it in a twisted world
42:57i tend to refer to him as colin i don't know what it means to forgive him when he chose
43:05to murder my
43:06mother he in my view he abdicated from his from his role as a father
43:13i don't consider him my father
43:16i never should have been raised by him uh i should have been raised by my mother
43:22my whole identity kind of like got caught up being like the killer son
43:26i was working as like a local doctor in london and uh i called her so my name and heard
43:32my accent
43:32was like oh my god you're uh colin hoyle's son the crazy dentist killer and and so it was too
43:39much and
43:40i felt like like i want to be my own person i want to have my own identity really like
43:46the
43:46me and driver why i decided to like move over to new york we're realizing this horrible truth
43:52the years and decades actually of lies that were told knowing how that had actually impacted me
44:07hasil stewart is serving a minimum of 18 years for killing her husband and leslie howell last month
44:15she sought to mount a fresh bid for an earlier release from jail with her barrister saying new
44:21evidence had come to like hazel stewart has appealed three times her most recent attempt at an appeal
44:27happened in 2025
44:36i've just arrived in belfast i've come home to attend yet another appeal orchestrated by hazel
44:43stewart i feel full of dread and fear and anticipation
44:52i think it's just disappointing it's not taking accountability and it's not honoring the life of
44:59my mum and trevor uh by failing to own up to your role the court found no merit in the
45:07appeal and hazel
45:08stewart's sentence remains on altar at some point she just has to accept this and stop dragging us
45:18through this it's it's enough she will be eligible for parole soon and she will get out i have a
45:26life
45:26sentence i will never get my mum back my mum will never walk through the door
45:37i changed my last name from howell to clark it was important for me to honor my mum
45:46you know i want to pass on her last name
45:49by all the country was an amazing woman and i'm so blessed to have had it for the two years
45:54that i did
45:56my mum is still so much part of my life the short years that we had together i feel like
46:02she taught me
46:03so much in terms of leslie and the children she would be so proud they've done well in their careers
46:12with just being all around lovely people they they really are fantastic
46:21you
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