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Next week, the Police Ombudsman will deliver a report on the police | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
investigation into the double murder of Lesley Howell and Trevor | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
Buchanan. The report is expected to be highly critical of the original | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
police investigation. Tonight, we examine the role of two A former | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
detectives, the key investigators were of Detective Inspector Jack | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Hodgkinson and his boss, retired superintendent Hamilton Histon, and | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
discovered evidence of a flawed and compromise investigation. We have | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
followed this case since Colin Howell convinced that he and his | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
lover, these are Buchanan, had murdered his wife and her husband | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
in 1991. Colin Howell would like people to believe he committed the | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
perfect crime, a double murder that filled the authorities and those | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
closest to him. But tonight, we turn the spotlight on the original | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
police investigators to unveil a shocking catalogue of failings at | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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Over the past two years, we have spoken to scores of people close to | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
this case, and we have amassed a large body of Pibroch work, and | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
what is now clear is that, from the very moment officers arrived at the | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
scene in Castlerock, they failed to carry out basic procedures that | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
would have alerted them to foul play. Tonight, we are the words of | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
a former policeman, who said he told police of his suspicions at | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
the time. I spoke to the investigators on more than one | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
occasion and expressed the fact that I was very suspicious. A bit, | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
area this year at Hazel Stewart's murder trial, Jack Richardson said | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
under oath, I have no recollection of any concerns. People felt bad | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
but nobody raised any concerns. And we hear from a leading expert on | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
crime scenes who exposed significant flaws in the original | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
investigation. There were so many loose ends and discrepancies that | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
deal only way to get to the bottom of this is to do a formal criminal | :02:36. | :02:46. | |
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investigation or have a public On the morning of the murders in | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
May 1991, the bodies of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan were | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
found in a garage behind a row of cottages at Castlerock. Those | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
called to the scene assumed it was suicide. Even the most basic | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
inquiries would have revealed to police that all was not as it | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
seemed. In spring 1991, Colin Howell was playing the role of the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
repentant sinner. He had been caught out, having an affair with | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
his will Buchanan, Trevor's wife. To have it was absolutely | :03:21. | :03:31. | |
devastated. He gave the impression to me of loving his will, and the | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
absolute devastation he felt was etched on his face. The couple | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
promise to end the relationship and the two couples, Trevor and his | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
will, Colin and Lesley, were receiving Christian counselling for | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
her pasta at call rain batters just. Unbeknown to the passing and their | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
spouses, : and Hazel were continuing their affair. Colin told | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
a continuous beam of lies from the beginning. Lesley told her best | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
friend, Beth Middleton, about the decline of her marriage, how her | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
husband Doctor replied so that he could stick -- slip out there to | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
see Hazel, for sex. He had been giving her extra tablets, so that | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
she could not wake up, so that he could sneak out at night. She was | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
very upset about that. She said I am not annoyed about him leaving at | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
night, but I was unconscious, I was slipping, and if there had been a | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
fire or anything, the children, they would have perished. Lesley | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
confided to a small group of friends about Colin hill's has | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
increasingly suspicious behaviour. -- Colin Howell. She said, a couple | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
of times, that Colin is not all that he seems. Look back night she | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
received a phone call from Wisley. She wanted to talk about an | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
incident that had frightened her. She told me that she had been in | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
the bath, and she was listening to a two recorder which was at the | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
side of the bath. : with the data recorder and a live cable DUP into | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
the bath, sending an electric pulse shooting up harmed. She said, how | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
could it have fallen into the bath, when he was coming away from the | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
baton? -- from the bathroom? She said I wanted to tell you in case | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
anything happens to me. Just six week later, Colin Howell rang to | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
say that the bodies have been discovered, and she said that her | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
first instinctive reaction was to lash out, assuming that he was | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
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somehow to blame. I heard that she was dead, and I shouted out, what | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
have you done, what have you done? And he said, no, it was suicide. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
The fact, Colin Howell had staged an apparent double suicide at the | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Castle Rock Cottage. He had Pashtun the love that plan to poison Lesley | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
and Trevor with gas, and with his or Buchanan, he put the plan into | :06:24. | :06:33. | |
action. -- Hazel Buchanan. Colin Howell directed into look at the | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
apostles cottages, the places where he had left the bodies. A I went | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
round the back of the house, went to the garage, and it was a | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
beautiful morning. I shaded my eyes, and I looked down. So you nothing | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
in the garage, he drove back to Colin Howell's house. Undeterred, | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Colin Howell sent Jim Flanagan, another judge member, to the | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
cottage. Then, Colin Howell showed him a supposed suicide note from | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Lesley. Colin Howell also explained a bruise on his head, saying he had | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
bought with Trevor, the previous evening. Two years later, Jim | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Flanagan was sitting in church, when a call came through from Colin | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
Howell, directing him to the Twelve Apostles cottages again. This time, | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
he took off-duty policeman, David green, with him. I think I froze. | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
The cost to see Trevor in the front seat, he had been dead for some | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
time. -- because two Celsius Gerber. I looked at the back of the car, | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
the boot, and Lesley was lying there. I will never forget what I | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
thought was a smile on her face. Adding, obviously, we decided we | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
had to go and contact the police. Which we did, from inside the house. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
Minutes later, a police car was dispatched to the scene. Spotlight | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
understands that the incident had been reported as a double suicide. | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
The fact that police had assumed they were dealing with suicide, | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Vincent they arrived at the scene is crucial to understanding why a | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
murder investigation was never launched. But the state pathologist | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
has worked on hundreds of homicide cases. She has looked at | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
photographs of the scene, and says there are many reasons, including | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
the position of the bodies, to have regarded the death as suspicious | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
from the outset. It is a suicide pact, and the intent to go together, | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
and that means being physically close. Usually the bodies are side | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
by side. The first thing I would have thought would have been | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
unusual. The female who is in the book of the car, how she is lying, | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
it would be difficult to know how she had got into that posture. That | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
would immediately concern me. I would be wondering if that could be | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
explained by her body being actually pulled into the position | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
in which she was found. He is sitting in the front driver's seat. | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
He doesn't particularly look as if he was sitting there in a relaxed, | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
seated position and was overcome by fumes. A former assistant head of | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
CID who has led over 20 murder inquiries, has studied our findings | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
at various stages. He says it is hard to believe, given the highly | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
unusual position of the bodies, that a pathologist was not called | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
to the scene. A I would want a pathologist at the scene. I would | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
want to do just taking every 15 minutes to get a cooling pattern, | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
and of the evidence comes out that they were killed at different times, | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
then the cooling pattern would be different for old, which would show | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
that the deaths did not happen at the same time. Trevor Buchanan was | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
the scenes of crime officer. He would have known exactly how to | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
kill himself, if that have been his intention. Yet the supposed suicide | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
was shoddy to stop Trevor's leg was sticking out of the door. There was | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
carrying fumes into the car was loose, and it had been partly | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
crushed by the lid of the Brit. Add the gap under the door of the | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
garage would have allowed the exhaust fumes to escape. You should | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
reconstruct it with the loose pipe, the carbon monoxide fumes, and then | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
test how long it takes for enough fumes to get into the garage, to | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
cause loss of life. In this case there was no be construction. The | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
car was not seeking a way for further examination. Police arrived | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
at the garage at 1:45pm. By late afternoon, the scene was clear. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
have got 24 hours, before you remove anything from the scene. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Once you move the scene, you can never reconstruct it in the same | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
way. Not only did the police clear the scene too quickly, it was not | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
properly investigated. Only one item was taken away to be | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
investigated. Colin Howell was allowed to return to the scene, | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
days later, to retrieve the car, and sell it. We have seen a | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
statement that the cream of St -- scene-of-crime officer told the | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
police that when the deaths were investigated as murder, in 2009. | :11:25. | :11:35. | |
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So, how could the police have got it so wrong? Why did they not carry | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
out basic tests at the scene? Did they really think that two people | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
not in a relationship would forge a bizarre suicide pact, or could it | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
be that they were wrongly assuming that Lesley and Trevor was like | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
having an affair? That is given support by former detective, David | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
Green. We have spoken to David green many times in the course of | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
this investigation and examined his nose in detail. He did not wish to | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
appear on camera, but we have reconstructed his interviews with | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
police in 2009 in which he explains his original notes. We had been | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
thinking that they were the people that had been having the affair. | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
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The scenes of crime officer If there was a belief that Trevor | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
and Lesley were having an affair, routine forensic tests could have | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
dismissed it. Why had the police not fingerprinted the wine glass? | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
If there had been no fingerprints on it then it was off, because they | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
were not wearing gloves. Derek Macaulay said he sat in on a police | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
interview. He said that Jack Richardson seemed to have made his | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
mind up about the cause of death. When I spoke to Jack Hutchison, he | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
seemed convinced it was suicide. I found it strange that Trevor was an | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
affront and Lesley was in the back. And I put that to Jack, and Jack | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
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Hutchings and said, he felt that the trigger change his mind. He | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
believed they got disorientated with the carbon monoxide poisoning. | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
Jack Hutchison's belief in the suicide theory was not shaking | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
evening he would believe it was Colin and his will who were having | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
a sexual affair, and not Lesley and Trevor. He said in his nose that | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
Lesley and Cheddar were definitely not in a relationship. Police | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
should now have been trying to ask difficult questions, but Colin | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
Powell and diesel Buchanan were never murder suspects, were never | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
fingerprinted and applauds and holds were not examine. The police | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
did not even check their Alawites for the night of the murder. Pass | :14:12. | :14:22. | |
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Had alarm bells been or bringing and detectives had searched for the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
homes of Lesley Ann Trevor, they would have found that the hosepipe | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
used in the murder had been burned. One of the detectives was uneasy | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
from the outset. He was not stationed in Coleraine, but he | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
would spend the next two years trying to crack the case in his | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
spare time. I had a strong gut feeling that there was something | :14:53. | :15:03. | |
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that was not right. I have to say, through the years, the thought that | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
this guy was involved never left me. Howell told the ombudsman that he | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
panicked that he would be caught out by forensics. As well as | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
concerns about DNA and forensics, he was particularly worried about | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
the bomb on his head he got during this final struggle with Trevor. He | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
said in the immediate period after the murders, I was in a state of | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
shock and considered myself to be vulnerable. As such, had I thought | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
of being given any indication police suspected me, I may have | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
admitted the murders then. He need not have worried. Colin and Hazel | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
were never interviewed under caution. The man who discovered the | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
bodies was not interviewed until along time afterwards. It was 4th | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
May 1992 when I was asked to go to the police station. A year later? | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
Yes, more or less. If the right questions were not been asked from | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
the start, concerns are also being raised about the autopsies carried | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
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out when the bodies were discovered. The autopsy of Trevett took place | :16:30. | :16:37. | |
at 815 -- the autopsy of Trevor took place at 8:15am. The one on | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
the woman followed shortly afterwards. They work quite short | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
autopsies. More disturbingly, there are | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
allegations that Trevor had injuries on his face that were not | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
recorded in the autopsy. His family say they remember seeing injuries | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
on his face and the Police Ombudsman has photographs showing | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
injuries around the mouth and nose. We asked the pathologist had such | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
injuries been present, would foul play had been success -- have been | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
suspected? It is always suggestible a potentially, there had been an | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
assault. And in the case of what we are assuming, a double suicide, | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
that would raise some concerns. pathologist in question insists | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
that had there been injuries to trap her's hair and face, he would | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
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have noted then in his report. -- Trevor's hair and face. But when he | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
saw the photographs, he did see an area of darkness to the right of | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Trevor's mouth. However, he said he did not see bruising and the | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
photograph was taken from a distance. But the apparent | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
discrepancies have been latched onto by the police. The senior | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
investigating officer on duty that weekend says he was not informed of | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
their injuries and lays the blame for any oversight firmly with the | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
pathologist. If the alleged injuries have been put to the | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
notice of the police on 19th May 1991, this would have added a new | :18:34. | :18:43. | |
dimension to the investigation. Jack Hutchison likewise puts the | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
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blame on the pathologist. So when explaining bet failure to | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
investigate the deaths properly, police criticised the pathologist, | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
but they reserve some of their greatest criticism for a man they | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
believe withheld a vital piece of evidence. A piece of evidence had | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
they known about it at the time they say would have changed the | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
course of the investigation. On 21st May 1991, Lesley Ann Trevor | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
were buried on the same day and from the same church. I remember | :19:20. | :19:28. | |
the ceremony. I remember watching Colin brink in the children. He | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
lifted Matthew up to kiss the coffin. It was heartbreaking. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
earlier that day, Colin Howell have written a long letter to Hazel | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
Buchanan and asked Derek McAuley to pass it to hedging the service. 20 | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
years later the letter has become one of the most controversial | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
pieces of evidence in this case. Police claimed it was deliberately | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
withheld from them by some members of Coleraine Baptist Church. Derek | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
McAuley steamed open the letter and kept a copy. He also passed a copy | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
to be passed up. -- to the pastor. In the last paragraph he appears to | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
confess. He says I have taken a mother from her children, but God | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
will provide for them. But at the time, it was interpreted that those | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
were the words of a man who had driven his wife took suicide. | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
just took it that he drove Les League Two committing suicide | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
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because of the way he treated her. -- he drove Lesley to committing | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
suicide. But why did he keep a copy? I don't know why I did. Maybe | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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I thought it was because I thought if the other copy was mislaid, | :21:14. | :21:23. | |
there would be another one. I put it away and it wasn't the same | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
place for 18 years. But John Hansford deny seen the letter and | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Scylla couple of years ago. A I was aware that the letter was passed | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
from Colin to Hazel at the funeral service. -- I was. At his own | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
wife's funeral. I was not aware of the content what the weather. | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
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sad that letter was not revealed at the time. -- what so were there. | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
put the letter in his hand. He sat in his front room and read it. | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
watched him read it? I sat beside him. 150 %. But Pastor John | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
Hansford says that Derek McAuley is mistaken. He says he was shown the | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
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So it is now a matter of dispute between John Hansford and Derek | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
McAuley over whether the past to read the letter at that time. But | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
why didn't Derek McAuley give the letter to the police? He says it is | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
because he gave it to the pastor and also he thought it referred to | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
suicide and not murder. If the police have done their job properly | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
and interviewed us 18 years ago, they would have got him. From what | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
we hear now, and there was enough evidence for them to be suspicious, | :23:06. | :23:16. | |
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they knew it was not suicide. But why would a letter whose | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
meaning at the time was less than clear have altered the course of | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
the investigation when in 1991 the police disregarded this series of | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
specific allegations that the deaths were suspicious. One of | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
those who told the police of her suspicions was one of Lesley's | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
friends. She has testified under oath that she told detectives, whom | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
she later named as Hutchison and Houston, about the Bath incident | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
and fears that Colin was drugging Lesley. He tried to put a cable | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
into the bath. If he got the letter, he would have investigated it as a | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
murder case. But he had a witness which is more important than a | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
letter. It is beyond belief. A what is clear is that a number of people | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
did a police at the time they were worried about the nature of the | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
deaths. We note that Pastor John Hansford relayed his concerns to | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
police at the time because his handwritten notes were found in | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
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Jack Hutchison's own paperwork. Consistencies will also been | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
outlined. There was fake Grieve, clearing out Lesley's effects. | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
Helping to push out the car in Castlerock when it was been | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
collected. I can't imagine I would want to do that if my wife had been | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
found dead. Also, how did you get the injury to his head? Did you | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
tell detectives Hutchison this? did. But the nose go further. They | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
actually detail times and dates of several meetings he had with | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
Hutchison and Houston. On 20th May he asked them to look again at an | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
injury on Colin Howell and the possibility that he was trucking | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
Lesley. Mr Houston has no recollection of this request. Green | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
also notes another meeting with senior detectives about the suicide | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
note and its contents. David Green's version of events seemed to | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
be supported by Jack Hutchison's and paperwork, which we have seen. | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
If we place the notes side-by-side with green's action plan, there are | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
obvious parallels. Green says, Lesley asked reverent if he thought | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
Colin was tried to kill her? Hutchison rights, do you think | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
Colin is tried to kill me? Green says, or phone call from Colin to | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
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Hazel before police a right. -- are rife -- arrive. Hamilton Houston | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
has told Spotlight that if David Green had genuine concerns, he | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
should have put them forward in writing to his superiors in 1991. | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
But the detectives investigating the deaths seem to have had their | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
own suspicions. We know they went back to Hazel Buchanan to ask it | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
Colin had been violent towards her. Colin claims that Jack Hutchison | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
came to his house, showed him the hosepipe and raised the prospect of | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
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murder St, Colin, you would need to be clever to get away with murder. | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
The alleged suicide note was sent for further tests in 1993, more | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
than a year after be inquest report to the deaths and suicides. So did | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
police have nagging doubts? Witnesses came to them with | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
alarming allegations about Colin how well and David Green says he | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
was alerting them to holes in the suicide story. It is possible that | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
any suspicions they may have had came too late after crucial | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
forensic evidence had been cleared from the scene. But if that was the | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
case, why did they not collect the evidence they had an take | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
statements from those people who suspected foul play? And ultimately, | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
why did Jack Hutchison say he had no recollection of people raising | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
concerns? Sometimes investigating officers get into an entrance | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
position where they have made a decision on a case and everything | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
else does not fit, so they ignore it. It is clever later on when they | :28:20. | :28:29. | |
are interviewed to say they have no recollection. For the families of | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
Trevor Buchanan and Lesley how well, these latest revelations mean they | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
have had to relive the grief and horror of their loved ones's deaths | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
for a second time. We knew Trevor was not the sort to take his own | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
life. He was absolutely besotted with his wife and his children and | :28:50. | :28:59. | |
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he was also a man of very deep faith. We never accepted that | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
Trevor took his own life, and certainly not with the other person | :29:05. | :29:14. | |
present. There was nowhere to go with it. We fully accepted what we | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
were told because we believed that a thorough investigation had been | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
made by the police. A police family themselves, it was the Buchanan's | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
who lodged the complaint with the ombudsman, prompting the inquiry. | :29:30. | :29:37. |