A UK dentist who poisoned his wife and ex-lover of spouse and then covered it as a double suicide should be at least 21 years in prison.
Killer Colin Howell, 51, of Castlerock, County Londonderry, hid the truth of his family, friends and neighbors for 19 years.
He poisoned his wife Lesley, 31, and Trevor Buchanan, 32, by pumps car fumes in each of their homes through a hosepipe in 1991.
Mrs Howell had slept on the couch in her living room, Mr Buchanan in his own bed.
Belfast Crown Court heard that both was tired in their last moments.
Mrs Howell cried for her son Matthew and Mr Buchanan struggled in vain to escape something injure his attacker.
Mr Howell then drove to the House of his recently deceased father with his victims ' bodies in the car trunk.
He is the organizer of the double suicide by setting them in the vehicle, a pipe connected to the exhaust and starting the engine.
Neighbour Am Corr said: ' a car was found in the garage, a lady in the back seat, apparently pictures of her children and a gentleman at the front clamped. '
Mr Howell had the perfect crime committed. He would have taken the secret to his tomb had his conscience not gotten the better of him.
In 2009, he contacted the elders of his Church and confessed the double murder some 18 years earlier.
David Rankin, editor of the Times Coleraine, said: "he claimed to be a Christian man, so I'm sure he found it difficult to perform his life with this albatross around his neck."
Howell was a successful cosmetic dentist. He boasted Jordanian royals among his patients.
His fall from grace has gripped Northern Ireland. Mr Buchanan's friends were stunned when his apparent suicide was a murder investigation.
Derek Ewing said: "definitely, the revelation surprised me. With the value of hindsight, we can all look back and say, there was this, that or the other thing, but nobody ever thought (murder) to the revelation '
Howell of former lover and co-accused Hazel Stewart-she has remarried-denies the double murder charges.
Its process is now expected early in the new year will take place.
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