A man escaped prosecution for murdering his wife six years before he killed the children’s author Helen Bailey, a court was told yesterday.
Ian Stewart “fooled” medical professionals into believing that his wife, Diane, 47, died during an epileptic fit at their home in June 2010, Huntingdon crown court was told.
He then formed a relationship with Bailey, who wrote the Electra Brown series of books, through an internet forum for widowed people.
Ian Stewart said his wife died from an epileptic fit
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Stewart, 61, killed Bailey and her dog and dumped their bodies in a cesspit at their home in Royston, Hertfordshire, in 2016. He was convicted of his fiancée’s murder in 2017, leading police to re-examine his wife’s death.
Stewart, a former computer software manager, was alone with his wife on the day
