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The Secret Netflix: This is what Hazel Stewart will look like when she's released from prison

This is what convicted double-killer Hazel Stewart could look like when she is released from prison.

Stewart conspired with Colin Howell to murder their respective spouses, Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell, in 1991.

Their crimes have been watched by millions on Netflix's The Secret.

Experts have produced this image using age-progression technology to show what they expert Stewart to look like on her release from jail.

There were dramatic scenes in court on March 2, 2011 – the day she was convicted.

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During sentencing a fortnight later, Justice Hart said Stewart:

  • knew what Howell proposed to do but she did nothing beforehand to prevent the murders from being carried out;
  • knew she had to ensure her husband was sedated and admitted that she encouraged him to take a tablet that night when he said that he had difficulty in sleeping;
  • knew that she had to open the garage door to let Howell in and she did so;
  • let him into her house and did virtually nothing to dissuade him from murdering her husband;
  • knew as he went into the bedroom that he had already murdered his wife and was now going to murder her husband, yet she did nothing to prevent him;
  • provided Howell with clothes so that he could dress her husband’s body;
  • cut up and burnt the hose which Howell used to kill her husband and washed the bedclothes in order to destroy evidence; and,
  • concealed what had happened from the police and provided them with a false account given to her by Howell designed to mislead the police and cover up the crimes.

From affair to conviction: Colin Howell and Hazel Stewart timeline

The judge concluded that the minimum term that Hazel Stewart should serve before she could be considered for release was 18 years.

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Which means she is due for release in 2029.

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