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

[faybradshaw]

Thanks for this info, Alyce. Well, am sure he must have got conditional bail then.

 

[mrazda71]

I think, if I were in this position and innocent and I believed that it WAS possible that my partner had just 'disappeared' (as Helen had in fact discussed) I would go on the pre planned holiday as a bit of a stubborn stuff you if nothing else.
Until you've been in a particular situation you can not possibly anticipate how you'd react.
My missing cat has still not returned and even though I know he could be lay dead, hit by a car and crawled off into bushes, I have had and do have feelings of anger towards him, especially when there's been tears from my little boy - 'how could you do this Teddy!? Why would just not come home? And well 'FINE' you don't come home then... miniscule compared to a missing human being but my point is that WE can't really say that Ian shouldn't have gone to Spain (those who read the Becky Watts book will recall Darren and Anji having to stay in a hotel and getting drunk in the hotel bar, Paige Doherty's parents went on holiday soon after Paige's murder, I personally can't imagine doing that but ... )
He may have gone hoping that she'd turn up there, that she'd done a disappearing act but what if she turned up at the holiday destination?

It's all very very bizarre ... and heartbreaking and I really do wish that we could just rig people up to polygraphs and see what light that might shed ...

 

[Satchie]

I think, if I were in this position and innocent and I believed that it WAS possible that my partner had just 'disappeared' (as Helen had in fact discussed) I would go on the pre planned holiday as a bit of a stubborn stuff you if nothing else.
Until you've been in a particular situation you can not possibly anticipate how you'd react.
My missing cat has still not returned and even though I know he could be lay dead, hit by a car and crawled off into bushes, I have had and do have feelings of anger towards him, especially when there's been tears from my little boy - 'how could you do this Teddy!? Why would just not come home? And well 'FINE' you don't come home then... miniscule compared to a missing human being but my point is that WE can't really say that Ian shouldn't have gone to Spain (those who read the Becky Watts book will recall Darren and Anji having to stay in a hotel and getting drunk in the hotel bar, Paige Doherty's parents went on holiday soon after Paige's murder, I personally can't imagine doing that but ... )
He may have gone hoping that she'd turn up there, that she'd done a disappearing act but what if she turned up at the holiday destination?

It's all very very bizarre ... and heartbreaking and I really do wish that we could just rig people up to polygraphs and see what light that might shed ...

I'm sorry to hear about your missing pet, you're right, it is very upsetting and confusing, I hope it comes home.

 

[Alyce]

Nothing new, but a lovely tribute from a neighbour in Broadstairs. I meant to put this up a few days ago and , interestingly, I see it has now been edited.


A neighbour living in Serene Place said: "I knew Helen really well, we have been friends for more than 10 years and she lived directly opposite me.

"You would find her down here a lot because she practically lived down here.

"It wasn't as though this was a holiday home only frequented once every year, she would be here come rain or shine or blizzard.

"She was an absolutely lovely woman and very generous, she was charming, very smiley and witty.


http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/neighbour-pays-tribute-to-famous-childrens-author-98871/


ETA Mrazda I am so sorry to hear your update about Teddy, I do hope you do eventually find him. One of mine that went missing, I mentioned him before, he was gone almost a month , so dont give up hope x

 

[Tortoise]

Nothing new, but a lovely tribute from a neighbour in Broadstairs. I meant to put this up a few days ago and , interestingly, I see it has now been edited.


A neighbour living in Serene Place said: "I knew Helen really well, we have been friends for more than 10 years and she lived directly opposite me.

"You would find her down here a lot because she practically lived down here.

"It wasn't as though this was a holiday home only frequented once every year, she would be here come rain or shine or blizzard.

"She was an absolutely lovely woman and very generous, she was charming, very smiley and witty.


http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/neighbour-pays-tribute-to-famous-childrens-author-98871/


ETA Mrazda I am so sorry to hear your update about Teddy, I do hope you do eventually find him. One of mine that went missing, I mentioned him before, he was gone almost a month , so dont give up hope x

O/T just a quicky - yes a friend of mine's cat was found alive (in a very ill state but has now fully recovered) after a month, having been locked in someone's shed who had gone away on holiday. Someone passing by on the street side of the fence heard very faint mews and investigated.

 

[Belle4]

[video=twitter;753977442042277888]https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/753977442042277888[/video]

 

[mrazda71]

[video=twitter;753977442042277888]https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/753977442042277888[/video]

No!!!!! Oh my goodness!!!

 

[faybradshaw]

Nohhh,, news report just come in - they've found authors body close to her home

 

[LadyN]

http://news.sky.com/story/police-find-body-in-missing-author-search-10502761
So sad

 

[MelmothTheLost]

http://news.sky.com/story/police-find-body-in-missing-author-search-10502761
So sad

This is shocking. It's the second time in only a few months that a person missing for weeks has eventually been found buried in the grounds of their own propery, the other recent case being a soap actress. What on earth were the police thinking about not to have at least investigated the missing person's own property?

 

[MillyM]

Absolutely tragic. Not unexpected, no, but still terrible. As I said the other day, just like the case of the EastEnders actress.

 

[faybradshaw]

Unless they have only released this info now, but had already discovered her body earlier this week?

 

[MillyM]

Unless they have only released this info now, but had already discovered her body earlier this week?

Found yesterday:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ome-police-arrest-fianc-suspicion-murder.html

"Yesterday the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit said they had found what is believed to be a body."

 

[Tortoise]

Oh gosh, even though I knew it in my heart I'm still shocked and so sad. So, so sad. I'm shocked she would be there.

 

[neteditor]

RIP Helen and presumably also Boris. I feel so sad. I know my friend is going to be shattered to the core.

 

[DanceCard]

I just saw this on the news. Terrible news. I don't understand why this discovery has only just been made.
Will wait for some updates before commenting further.

 

[DanceCard]

RIP Helen and presumably also Boris. I feel so sad. I know my friend is going to be shattered to the core.

I'm so sorry for you and your friend.

 

[Tortoise]

[FONT=&quot]A 55-year-old local man arrested on Monday on suspicion of murder was re-arrested on Thursday and is being questioned in Stevenage.

[/FONT]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/helen-bailey-murder-body-found-man-arrested-police-investigating-childrens-author-disappearance-a7139281.html

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Three months she's been lying there, in her own bloody garden.

I'm not surprised but I am ANGRY!

RIP Helen

 

[Alyce]

As Cags has just said- I am also extremely angry....

What is it with these police searches. For goodness sake ( keeping it polite here ) they were in the house, doing a search, only a few days after IS reported her missing.
They could have at least gone through the garden and checked any recently displaced earth .......and they could have used the detectors to go over the patio etc.

Her poor family, going through three months of pain and worry.

There really does need to be an investigation of this police force !