Overview
- Confessions of a Killer, a two-part BBC series, releases original audio from Howell’s January 2009 interviews at Coleraine PSNI Station.
- The recordings capture Howell detailing how he staged the 1991 deaths of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan to resemble a joint suicide.
- Police seized a computer during the 2009 inquiry and found images of children; Howell denied ever accessing such material and was not prosecuted over it.
- Howell pleaded guilty to the murders in 2010, Hazel Stewart was convicted in 2011, and both remain in prison serving life sentences.
- Howell was also convicted in 2011 of indecent assaults on five dental patients, while his daughter has criticized the BBC’s handling of the broadcast; the BBC says it acted with care and engaged family members.