OMEN
02-11-2009, 11:19 PM
A man accused of a double murder 18 years ago has appeared in court charged with indecent assault.
Colin Howell, 50, a dentist, from Sea Road, Castlerock, is accused of the double murder of his wife Lesley and RUC officer Trevor Buchanan.
He now faces eight other charges - four of indecent assault and four of administering an overpowering drug with intent to commit indecent assault.
The offences are alleged to have occurred over a ten-year period.
It is claimed they took place between March 1998 and December 2008.
Mr Howell, who once ran a dental practice in Ballymoney, County Antrim, did not speak during a brief three-minute hearing at North Antrim Magistrates' Court in Coleraine, County Londonderry.
Mr Howell has been in custody charged with two murders in 1991.
The bodies of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan were found in a fume-filled car in Castlerock on 5 May that year.
At the time, a coroner's court ruled that both had committed suicide.
Mr Buchanan's former wife Hazel Stewart is also charged with the murders.
BBC
Colin Howell, 50, a dentist, from Sea Road, Castlerock, is accused of the double murder of his wife Lesley and RUC officer Trevor Buchanan.
He now faces eight other charges - four of indecent assault and four of administering an overpowering drug with intent to commit indecent assault.
The offences are alleged to have occurred over a ten-year period.
It is claimed they took place between March 1998 and December 2008.
Mr Howell, who once ran a dental practice in Ballymoney, County Antrim, did not speak during a brief three-minute hearing at North Antrim Magistrates' Court in Coleraine, County Londonderry.
Mr Howell has been in custody charged with two murders in 1991.
The bodies of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan were found in a fume-filled car in Castlerock on 5 May that year.
At the time, a coroner's court ruled that both had committed suicide.
Mr Buchanan's former wife Hazel Stewart is also charged with the murders.
BBC