Killer Dentist Describes Wife's Gas Death
Sky News Monday 14th February, 2011
"I was overwhelmed by my conscience from hiding those crimes for such a long time. "I believed there still were scars that needed to be put right and I wanted to tell the truth, but that was my only motive." In his first of two days as a Crown witness, Howell recounted how and why his affair with Stewart had developed in 1990. He claimed he and his wife Lesley had relationship problems before their marriage in 1982 and these got worse as the years passed. Howell described how his wife "generally got the upper hand" in arguments and that he began to feel insecure, seeking out someone who "approved" of him. He said he got to know Stewart when she worked as an assistant in the playgroup his children attended. "She approached me and said she was impressed with the way I was doing my fron...
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