DENTIST ESCAPES 3RD DEATH QUIZ.

THE dentist accused of two murders will not be quizzed about the death of a woman in a caravan last November.

Colin Howell, 50, is charged with murdering his wife Lesley and RUC officer Trevor Buchanan in 1991.

Hazel Stewart, his then lover and Mr Buchanan's former wife, is also charged with the murders.

In March of this year, police confirmed that the death of Alexandra HickmanSmith, 27, was also being reexamined.

However, police said they would not be seeking to interview the jailed dentist in connection with her death.

Ms Hickman-Smith's father Norman McGookin said the family was relieved there was no foul play suspected.

He said: "We're all heartbroken and now hopefully we can get on with our lives."

Mr Howell had been living at the same caravan site in Castlerock, Co Derry, as Ms Hickman-Smith for a time last year.

At the time of the mother-of-two's death her family was told she had died from diabetes and that it was not being treated as suspicious.

The bodies of Mrs Howell and Mr Buchanan were found in a fume-filled car in Castlerock, Co Derry, in May 1991 and at the time, a coroner's court ruled that both had committed suicide.

Detectives are also re-examining the death of Lesley Howell's father Henry Clarke who died five days before his daughter's death - apparently from a heart attack or some form of seizure.

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JAILED Colin Howell