UK - Helen Bailey, 51, Royston, 11 Apr 2016 #12

[MsMiniSleuth]

Judge Bright - who presided over Ian Stewart case - retiring:

Popular judge retires after more than 40 years in the courts

 

[chimpface]

Man jailed for murdering his fiancée Helen Bailey denies killing his wife six years earlier | Daily Mail Online

 

[neteditor]

Daily Mail says up to 4 week trial, so there must be plenty of evidence to put before the jury.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

Diane Stewart thread here

UK - Diane Stewart, 47, found dead, Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, 25 June 2010 *arrest in 2020*

 

[Alyce]

Remembering Helen today, on her birthday x

 

[SaintGertrude]

So now it is 2022 and the trial for killing his second wife Diane Stewart was set for March 14, 2022 at St Albans Crown.
Man, 59, who murdered his fiancée appears at Old Bailey accused of killing his first wife | Daily Mail Online
However another article says it has been moved forward.
New trial date for convicted murderer Ian Stewart
January 17, 2022, at Huntingdon Crown Court.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

Tonight - February 6 2022 - on Quest Red at 8pm.
FV 40, SKY 249, FREESAT 169, VIRGIN 170

Faking It: Tears of a Crime
Murder of Helen Bailey

 

[badgersmythe]

Helen Bailey's friends ask why Ian Stewart was free to kill her


Helen Bailey's friends ask why Ian Stewart was free to kill her six years after killing his wife | Daily Mail Online

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

• Double murderer Ian Stewart, 61, killed his first wife six years before he went on to murder his fiancée
• He has now successfully appealed against his whole-life order, which was today reduced to 35 years
• Stewart killed children's book author Helen Bailey, 51, in 2016, and dumped her body in cesspit at home
• He was found guilty of her murder in 2017, and police then probed 2010 death of first wife Diane Stewart
• In February, Stewart convicted of her murder too and given whole-life order, which has now been reduced

Double murderer Ian Stewart - who killed his first wife six years before he went on to murder his fiancée - has successfully appealed against his whole-life order, which was today reduced to 35 years in a shock ruling.

Stewart, 61 - who was sentenced to the whole-life term on February 9 - killed children's book author Helen Bailey, 51, in 2016, and dumped her body in the cesspit of the £1.5million home they shared in Royston, Hertfordshire.

A trial at St Albans Crown Court previously heard it was most likely that Mrs Bailey - who wrote the Electra Brown series of books - was suffocated while sedated by drugs. Stewart was found guilty of her murder in February 2017.

After this conviction, police investigated the June 2010 death of Stewart's first wife, 47-year-old Diane Stewart, of Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. The cause of her death was recorded at the time as Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) - but, in February, Stewart was found guilty of her murder at Huntingdon Crown Court.

Then in May, in an application to the Court of Appeal, Stewart's representative Amjad Malik QC argued that the whole-life order he was given for the murder of his first wife was not justified in the circumstances of the case.

And in a ruling this morning, Lord Burnett and the four other judges said Stewart was 'not one of the rare cases' where a whole life order should be imposed, reducing his sentence to life with a 35-year minimum term.

Double murderer Ian Stewart has whole-life sentence cut to 35 years

Ian Stewart - who was sentenced to the whole-life term on February 9 - killed Helen Bailey, 51, in 2016, and dumped her body in a cesspit at their home in Royston, Hertfordshire.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Sheila Terranova]

• Double murderer Ian Stewart, 61, killed his first wife six years before he went on to murder his fiancée
• He has now successfully appealed against his whole-life order, which was today reduced to 35 years
• Stewart killed children's book author Helen Bailey, 51, in 2016, and dumped her body in cesspit at home
• He was found guilty of her murder in 2017, and police then probed 2010 death of first wife Diane Stewart
• In February, Stewart convicted of her murder too and given whole-life order, which has now been reduced

Double murderer Ian Stewart - who killed his first wife six years before he went on to murder his fiancée - has successfully appealed against his whole-life order, which was today reduced to 35 years in a shock ruling.

Stewart, 61 - who was sentenced to the whole-life term on February 9 - killed children's book author Helen Bailey, 51, in 2016, and dumped her body in the cesspit of the £1.5million home they shared in Royston, Hertfordshire.

A trial at St Albans Crown Court previously heard it was most likely that Mrs Bailey - who wrote the Electra Brown series of books - was suffocated while sedated by drugs. Stewart was found guilty of her murder in February 2017.

After this conviction, police investigated the June 2010 death of Stewart's first wife, 47-year-old Diane Stewart, of Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. The cause of her death was recorded at the time as Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) - but, in February, Stewart was found guilty of her murder at Huntingdon Crown Court.

Then in May, in an application to the Court of Appeal, Stewart's representative Amjad Malik QC argued that the whole-life order he was given for the murder of his first wife was not justified in the circumstances of the case.

And in a ruling this morning, Lord Burnett and the four other judges said Stewart was 'not one of the rare cases' where a whole life order should be imposed, reducing his sentence to life with a 35-year minimum term.

Double murderer Ian Stewart has whole-life sentence cut to 35 years

Ian Stewart - who was sentenced to the whole-life term on February 9 - killed Helen Bailey, 51, in 2016, and dumped her body in a cesspit at their home in Royston, Hertfordshire.

www.dailymail.co.uk

This is only about the first wife murdered not Helen? Thanks. It’s one of the most disgusting murders I’ve read about.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

FOUR murder fiends given whole-life jail terms were handed more than £600,000 in legal aid.

The monsters, including killer cop Wayne Couzens, clocked up the huge total as they sought softer punishments.

Figures obtained by The Sun on Sunday show cesspit killer Ian Stewart, 61 ran up the highest taxpayer-funded bill of £271,014.

He was jailed in 2017 for murdering his girlfriend, kids’ author Helen Bailey, 51, whose body he dumped in the cesspit at their Hertfordshire home.

He was then convicted of murdering his first wife.

His jail term was reduced on appeal to a 35-year minimum.

[...]

Met cop Couzens, who raped and strangled Sarah Everard, got £33,694 — set to rise as he failed to have his whole-life tariff reduced.

The agency said the aid “ensured justice was served”.

Four murder fiends given life jail terms rack up £600,000 in legal aid

FOUR murder fiends given whole-life jail terms were handed more than £600,000 in legal aid. The monsters, including killer cop Wayne Couzens, clocked up the huge total as they sought softer punishm…

www.thesun.co.uk