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2 March 2011
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A jury has found Northern Ireland mother-of-two Hazel Stewart guilty of the double murder of her husband and her former lover's wife
Stewart, from Coleraine, is to serve a life sentence for the murders of Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell in May 1991.
Her ex-lover, former dentist Colin Howell, is serving 21 years after he pleaded guilty to the killings.
The jury at Coleraine Crown Court found Stewart guilty after a 15-day trial.
The bodies of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan were discovered in a fume-filled car in a house in Castlerock in May 1991.
At the time their deaths were seen as a double suicide prompted by the revelation that their spouses were having an affair.
The investigation was reopened when Colin Howell confessed to the murders in January 2009.
He was sentenced in November 2010 then gave evidence for the prosecution during Hazel Stewart's trial.
During the trial the court heard that Stewart played a part in the planning of the killings.
She also disposed of evidence including the hose pipe used to gas their spouses.
Stewart claimed she was "soft, weak vulnerable, and easy prey" painting her former lover as "obsessed, calculating, controlling and very manipulative".
She said the reason she didn't help her husband was because she was terrified Howell would kill her and her children.
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Stewart, from Coleraine, is to serve a life sentence for the murders of Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell in May 1991.
Her ex-lover, former dentist Colin Howell, is serving 21 years after he pleaded guilty to the killings.
The jury at Coleraine Crown Court found Stewart guilty after a 15-day trial.
The bodies of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan were discovered in a fume-filled car in a house in Castlerock in May 1991.
At the time their deaths were seen as a double suicide prompted by the revelation that their spouses were having an affair.
The investigation was reopened when Colin Howell confessed to the murders in January 2009.
He was sentenced in November 2010 then gave evidence for the prosecution during Hazel Stewart's trial.
During the trial the court heard that Stewart played a part in the planning of the killings.
She also disposed of evidence including the hose pipe used to gas their spouses.
Stewart claimed she was "soft, weak vulnerable, and easy prey" painting her former lover as "obsessed, calculating, controlling and very manipulative".
She said the reason she didn't help her husband was because she was terrified Howell would kill her and her children.
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