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7NewsApril 26-May 2, 2010United Kingdom Edition 3M_24C LCOS Webinar Advert_ART.pdf 19/4/10 13:47:17 A dentist and his ex-lover, who have been charged with murdering their partners nearly 19 years ago, have been sent to the crown court for trial. Colin Howell, 51, and Hazel Stewart, 47, appeared at North An- trim Magistrates’ Court in Cole- raine, Northern Ireland, and were told they will be tried for murder at Antrim Crown Court. The trial is expected to go ahead later in the year. Howell and Stewart, have been charged with murdering his wife Lesley, 31, and Stewart’s husband, 31, in May 1991. Their bodies were found in a car filled with exhaust fumes at a garage behind a row of houses in Castlerock, Co Londonderry. Howell, who once ran a dental implant clinic in Ballymoney, Co Antrim, has been in custody since his arrest and was sent back to Maghaberry Prison, near Lisburn. Stewart was granted continu- ing bail but she must report daily to police in Coleraine. She has al- ready handed over her passport. Howell was known as a top implant specialist. He did a lot of lecturing in the Middle East and was hired by King Abdullah II to teach his own team of dentists the latest techniques. DT A pensioner has been banned from a dental surgery for life, after he left a hoax bomb outside the surgery. Peter McShane, aged 84, put a ticking clock inside a box with wires showing and left it out- side Bush Street dental surg- ery in Pembroke Dock in Pembrokeshire. Police closed off the area and evacuated nearby residents from their homes. The box was destroyed in a control- led explosion. McShane, who lives very close to the surgery, was among those who were asked to leave their homes, yet he still did not tell the police that the bomb was in fact a hoax. He was caught on CCTV cam- era and he admitted to leavng the hoax bomb and vandalism when he was arrested. Swansea Crown Court heard that the hoax bomb was the latest in a string of attacks on the surgery, after being charged £187 for dental work in 2007. The money was later refunded to him by the surgery, but he still car- ried out the revenge attack. His barrister, Georgina Buck- ley, said he was ‘extremely re- morseful’ and added that he had not fully appreciated what he was doing and was shocked by his behaviour. McShane received a 34-week suspended jail sentence and a curfew order. Judge Keith Thomas called him a vindictive man ‘deter- mined to get his own back on people who had upset him’. The judge said the offences would normally attract a pris- on sentence, and it was only because of McShane’s age that he was agreeing to suspend the jail term. McShane was also placed under a 12-month supervision order, banned indefinitely from visiting the dental surgery, and also placed under a curfew be- tween 8pm and 8am for the next three months. DT Pensioner banned from dental surgery for life murder trial