GUILTY UK - Helen Bailey, 51, Royston, 11 April 2016 #4

[snoopydog]

16:04
Steward says there was 'no way' he killed author

Defence barrister Simon Russell Flint, told Stewart: “It’s going to be suggested later when I sit down, that you killed her. “No way”, Stewart replied. That’s the end of today’s evidence.

Haha YES WAY


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[Alyce]

Thanks Milly - that was a marathon C & P today

And thanks Tortoise and Legally for the tweet info

 

[Moll]

I am so grateful for everyone's wonderfully sardonic comments. I hope Mr Trimmer is unChristianly merciless in his cross-examination.

 

[Joely 123]

Phew! Exhausted.

No wonder Milly - but thank you for all the postings today x

 

[snoopydog]

Perhaps it was on Kate Boydell's original 'Merry Widow' forum, which (I think) preceded the MW group on FB?

That's what I was thinking...


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[JudgeJudi]

Heavens, are you using matchsticks JJ?

No, I've just turned night into day. I slept in until 11.00. It's now like it was in the OP days. My husband wasn't surprised. He got used to it long ago. At least I'm not climbing up on the high point of the garage roof and swinging jeans to make them land the right way, running upstairs and downstairs with a stopwatch, re-arranging all the furniture in a room, blah, blah, blah. Those were the days. :floorlaugh:

 

[cottonweaver]

yes it was on merry widows but think we 'll perhaps have some new members from there who are currently lurking?

 

[MillyM]

Helen Bailey's fiance unaware of her death until body found, court hears

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-found-st-albans-crown-court?CMP=share_btn_tw

 

[Joely 123]

No doubt IS has been redrafting his statements from today with plenty of opportunity to condense and gain some eloquence for his big day.
I would hate to read his first draft ...

Now he's driven me to a glass of wine after we've all lost a day with his self-obsessive drivel.

 

[Legally Bland]

Not much new, but I think I may have missed the Windows 10 bit when trying to catch up.

A standing order was said to have been increased to £4,000 from a device using Windows 10 connected to the internet at her luxury property on April 11.

Stewart was the only person living at the address who used a laptop with Windows 10 installed, his trial heard.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sed-flooded-phone-messages.html#ixzz4Y17TJbEA

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[looroll]

Thanks everyone for the updates and comments

What a very dreary man he appears to be!
x

 

[Tortoise]

This is a masterclass in sociopathy.

I'm well looking forward to his X-exam. Then we will see the other side of him.

 

[JudgeJudi]

15:59
Helen Bailey made 'big' decision to visit Stewart

“After that we were phoning and chatting. We did go on more walks, I asked her if she wanted to come and see me and she said yes. “This was a big thing for Helen because it meant leaving Boris, it was also the first time she’d made any kind of journey outside London without John. “We went for a drive. We went for a pub lunch in Grantchester and I took her round Cambridge. “I walked her round the backs of the colleges, it was like I’d arranged it for her. “King’s College choir band was practising and so on. She had a lovely time.”

It sounds as if he's talking about walking a dog. "Walked her around ..." Who speaks like that!

 

[Tortoise]

Can just imagine his voice as he says all this :whine:

Yeah with his one working wobbly vocal cord

 

[Cherwell]

I wonder when we are going to get to his "defence" ?? All this rambling has little to do with the crime he stands accused of imo.

I want to hear his answers to the evidence we've heard. The cadaver dog alerts, the phone pings, attempts to access H's bank account, changing the standing order, traces of his (?) zopiclone in Helen's hair
etc. etc. FGS !!

There was never going to be any fireworks today. It's the cross-examination that's going to put him through the mill.
And let us hope Mr Trimmer grinds him extremely small.

 

[JudgeJudi]

Yeah I'd have spent all night correcting him and that would have been the end of that. (I'm Aunt Josephine in A Series of Unexpected Events lol)

I'm a grammar Nazi. The standard of reporting, grammar-wise, in this case is really poor.

 

[DollyDiamond]

Just ask Dolly Diamond, she's our resident expert on 'Zopiclone tasting' :blushing:

True - I'm like Miss Marple in a push up bra, Lol! No surprises from old Cyclops then, though I feel it may be significant that he received a £7,000 compenation pay out as a young man for walking into a leisure centre door (a sizeable sum back then). His first, delicious taste of money for nothing?

I do not stand in judgement on Helen for being so daft as to invite a strange man into her home who she had never met before and who, more to the point had never been invited. I have done similar ill-advised things in my time and am thankfully still here to tell the tale. But I think it was a red flag that he would do that - and had she not been fundamentally wrong footed by her recent bereavement she may not have responded the same way.

 

[JudgeJudi]

Ha, bet it wasn't a joke to him - all perfectly planned

Only went because a friend had tickets - hhhmmm - and because Helen had no doubt already told him that she had season tickets and would be going

In Oz we'd call him a bludger (freeloader).

 

[BatFace]

For such a fragile flower, he doesn't appear to lack the energy for a bracing walk on the downs when there's a wealthy widow to be wooed. And he was positively sprightly on that fateful Monday- I doubt I run that many errands in a week.

 

[JudgeJudi]

16:02
Stewart says he 'never stopped loving her'

“I’’d fallen in love with her quite quickly, but she warned me once to never say the L word. “About a week later I was hugging her and she replied instantly, I love you too. “I said I wasn’t supposed to say that was I? She said no, but it’s true, and I do love you too. “I never stopped loving her.”

No, you never even started. uke: