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Evening Standard
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Jonathan McCambridge

‘Fresh evidence’ double murderer Hazel Stewart had mental illness, court told

“Fresh evidence” suggests that double murderer Hazel Stewart was suffering from mental illness when she killed her policeman husband and the wife of her ex-lover, Colin Howell, a court has heard.

The Court of Appeal in Belfast also heard submissions that Stewart, 62, a former Sunday school teacher, was being coercively controlled by Howell at the time of the killings in 1991.

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