GUILTY UK - Helen Bailey, 51, Royston, 11 April 2016 #1

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I just need to add to the Dachshund being - I know all dogs are devoted to their family, loved ones. But Dachshunds watch all the time .. they know when someone is arriving - know when you are unwell, and come closer to protect - and we often talk about they know instinctively how they know even when someone is leaving .. before even putting their coat on. Magical intelligence - and Boris would have been beside Helen when she was possibly drugged that morning - and would have only been taken away from her by a trusted 'alternative love' - to go to the kitchen for 'food'. If there were people such as Joe and Nick - Boris would have been heard by Neighbours .. barking endlessly in protection/alert. It would have to be a known person who could deceive him with 'trust'.
 
I have just run a test - where I created sounds of mild distress - and both Dachshunds leaped upon me with concern!!
 
TheRisenBishop said:
Hi Mr J! You're spot on there. I wonder if it is an even bigger error than we realise at this stage? If he was in the habit of going around with that phone on his person with the SIM and Battery intact, even if he had switched it off, it would be traceable at the various telecom masts scattered around.

If these "contacts" coincided with cctv of him in the exact vicinity it's further circumstantial evidence of his culpability and obstruction of justice.

I'm curious as to what evidence they actually have relating to this.

Where no known cause of death is known, the circumstantial evidence must be the only obvious explanation - as per Lord Justice Goddard's ruling:

Goddard said: "... it is equally clear that the fact of death, like any other fact, can be proved by circumstantial evidence, that is to say, evidence of facts which lead to one conclusion, provided that the jury are satisfied and are warned that it must lead to one conclusion only."

I have a feeling that the circumstantial evidence in this case if overwhelming and will indeed lead to one conclusion. Given Goddard's strict ruling I don't see how the CPS would have proceeded otherwise.

In 2014, a man named David Parker hid the body of his estranged wife under his bed despite being under a restraining order. He lied and told the police she had gone on a cruise. If I recall he only got one year in prison for preventing the lawful disposal of a corpse. The CPS failed to charge him with manslaughter as they could not prove he played any part in her death despite being deeply suspicious of his testimony.

Which is why I think they have all they need to get a conviction against Stewart.
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Be interesting to get the rest of the Crown case on this point!

As Helen turned out to be in the cesspit and unable to take the phone to the house, for him to have her phone (now essentially proven), that proves all his version to the police was nonsense.

The good news is that if he now tries to introduce an alternate explanation, it is likely adverse comment can be made by the Judge, as clearly such matters should have been disclosed in timely fashion to the police if the accused now wishes to rely upon them.

Thanks to Law Reform in the UK in recent years, it is now more difficult for the accused to invent a story for the purposes of the trial.
 
Joely 123 said:
I just need to add to the Dachshund being - I know all dogs are devoted to their family, loved ones. But Dachshunds watch all the time .. they know when someone is arriving - know when you are unwell, and come closer to protect - and we often talk about they know instinctively how they know even when someone is leaving .. before even putting their coat on. Magical intelligence - and Boris would have been beside Helen when she was possibly drugged that morning - and would have only been taken away from her by a trusted 'alternative love' - to go to the kitchen for 'food'. If there were people such as Joe and Nick - Boris would have been heard by Neighbours .. barking endlessly in protection/alert. It would have to be a known person who could deceive him with 'trust'.
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This makes me wonder how Boris acted around IS. Do they sense that something is wrong in people? I had a dog who was superalert to both dogs and humans and I always trusted her on that.
 
We are a bit slow off the mark are we not? I wonder what the hold up is? Guilty confession??

Court now filing in at 10.54.
 
Kate Bradbrook ‏@katebradbrook 1m1 minute ago

At St Albans Crown Court for week 2 of the #helenbailey murder case #Royston. Defendant's sons expected to give evidence
 
So presumably giving evidence for the Prosecution ?
 
Questions about the cesspit

The court hears jurors had three questions as a result of the site visit to the Royston house on Friday. The officer in the case Detective Sergeant David Sharp, is answering those questions.

He says the garage to the Royston house is locked by a key and is locked manually.

The cover to the cesspit did not have a key, in order to lift the cover it would need to be lifted manually.

The manhole cover was not very heavy, and weighed approximately 7.5kilos.

He said on April 11, 2016, after Stewart’s son Jamie Stewart left the house, Stewart and Helen were the only ones in the house.


http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/helen-bailey-murder-trial-week-12452783
 
Upbeat and normal'

The court will hear more detail about the timeline of events on April 11, 2016, the alleged date of Helen’s murder.

A statement from Stuart Kye, an IT analyst, will now be read to jurors.

He said he made the statement on May 6, 2016 about the disappearance of Helen. He originally met Helen at a ‘widowed and young group’ in Edinburgh 2013 where she was giving a talk to the group.

“My partner Suzanne hit it off with Helen. Since then they have maintained social media contact with each other.

“Suzanne and I are getting married and we worked out a guest list. Suzanne had asked me to sort out addresses for persons on the list he did not have the addresses for. Helen was one of those people.

“At 9.48am on April 11, 2016, I sent a friend request to Helen along with a message asking for her address as Suzanne and I were getting married.

“Helen and I were back and forth for 30 to 45 minutes talking about the wedding and my partner Suzanne getting better as she was in hospital.

“Our conversation was upbeat and normal, there was nothing to indicate to me there were any issues obvious about her at all.”

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/helen-bailey-murder-trial-week-12452783
 
Details from Stewart's surgery

There’s now another statement, from Sue Ridge-Reeves, an office manager.

In a statement on July 6, 2016, she said: “At the Ashwell surgery I am an office manager. I’ve been in that role for 10 years.

“The system reflects that Stewart was a patient here and was presenting at the surgery to have wound dressings changed, all in 2016. The system shows an appointment on March 21, 2016 for a wound dressing appointment. This was followed by another appointment on April 4, and a further one on April 7.

“The wound needed to be reviewed and redressed every three days - therefore the next appointment was April 11. This appointment was booked for 11.30am that day.”

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/helen-bailey-murder-trial-week-12452783
 
Stewart rearranged medical appointment on day of alleged murder

The Ashwell surgery also has a branch in Bassingbourn, where the wound dressings took place, the court was told.

“At 11.33am my log showed this appointment being revised. In the reason field, as my own typed entry, it was ‘rebooked from this AM due to car trouble’.

“3PM that same day was chosen as a revised time, and this was offered to Stewart and accepted.

“I do not recall an earlier or later time being asked for.

“The system reflects him as booking in and arriving at the surgery at 2.54pm.

“It shows the appointment took place at 2.58pm - and he was seen for eight minutes before recorded as ‘left’ at 3.07pm.”


http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/helen-bailey-murder-trial-week-12452783
 
So he is having wounds dressed immediately prior to H's murder (one assumes from his bowel surgery). Somehow I had logged it as quite a lot earlier in the year.
 
"Ian was very distant"

Lynn Hull, a nurse, is now being called to the witness stand.

Lynn was employed as a practice nurse by the Ashwell surgery last year.

She tells the court: “I had dealt with Stewart on five occasions. My first dealing with him was on April 4, 2016 at Bassingbourn surgery at 4.30pm.

“This was a scheduled appointment for dressing for a postoperative abdominal wound.

“I was able to see the wound was leaking and changed his dressing.”

The next appointment with Stewart was on April 11, 2016. There was a scheduled appointment at 11.30am but this was cancelled and was rearranged for 3pm the same day, the court was told.

“I then saw Stewart at 2.58pm. He came in, was very matter of fact. He proceeded to get onto the examination couch and I changed the dressing. There was no mention made of the cancellation at the beginning of the appointment.

“He later apologised for having cancelled that morning and said he had car trouble.

“When I was changing his dressing, Ian was very distant. Normally when patients come in you can engage with them, general chit chat. There was nothing of that nature. “He appeared distant and gazing out of the window, there was minimal eye contact.”

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/helen-bailey-murder-trial-week-12452783
 
Interested Bystander said:
So he is having wounds dressed immediately prior to H's murder (one assumes from his bowel surgery). Somehow I had logged it as quite a lot earlier in the year.
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We know he had had the all clear, so it must have been several weeks or more since he had had the Operation.
It doesnt sound as if he went privately, therefore I would think the all clear info would take a few weeks to come through.

The fact that he had an appointment on March 21 and then not for another two weeks ( April 7 ) suggests that by the time of April 11, it would be 6 weeks or more after the surgery.
 
"He didn't appear to want to engage with me at all"

Lynn said she could remember Stewart wearing a blue shirt.

She said: “It was a very simple dressing and a very small wound, located on his belly button.

“I said we needed to review the wound in three days time. The next appointment with Ian was on April 25, and was again to redress the wound dressing.

“By that time I was aware of his personal circumstances, a colleague had spoken to me about her appointment with him on April 21, 2016.

“She was concerned about Ian’s state when she saw him then. She told me that he became very emotional, shaking his head from side to side, making noises, sounding very upset about the disappearance of his partner.

“On April 25, he mentioned nothing to me about this at all. Again his behaviour with me was very matter of fact, quite distant, he just wanted to get the job done.”
Another appointment was made for 9.15am on April 29 to redress the wound again.

“In view of the circumstances and as part of my care giving I felt some obligation to at least ask Ian how he was.Things at that point had become public and he was very withdrawn.

“I remember putting my hand on his forearm and saying ‘more to the point Ian, how are you?’ Ian just shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. He didn’t appear to want to engage with me at all.”

He said he was going to Sheffield with his son that weekend to watch snooker. General conversation then followed, to try and facilitate the nurse patient relationship, jurors are told

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/helen-bailey-murder-trial-week-12452783
 
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