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Maurice Fitzmaurice & Chris Kilpatrick

Killer dentist Colin Howell's £587k pension axed after convictions for groping patients

Killer dentist Colin Howell won’t receive a penny of his half-a-million-pound pension due to the sick sex acts he carried out on drugged patients, Belfast Live can reveal.

Howell - who is currently serving a life sentence for the double murder of his wife Lesley and his lover’s husband Trevor Buchanan - has been denied a total of £587,526.27.

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety forfeited Howell’s pension on the basis that his convictions for indecently assaulting drugged patients were “liable to lead to serious loss of confidence in the public service".

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