GUILTY UK - Helen Bailey, 51, Royston, 11 April 2016 #5

[Really?]

Thanks JJ. I do have the remember me box ticked, I don't have to log back in. It's just like the page freezes and refreshes, I must be doing something wrong somewhere! Lol
(it's just happened again as I was typing this)

I'm on an iPad.....dunno if that is it..........mine "refreshes" a lot as well.

 

[icemaiden65]

How does he know it has a bitter taste?


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He's been looking on here I strongly suspect. OR, nipping round to Dolly's for a cup of tea?

 

[MillyM]

12:49
'Police suggested I put Helen's car away'

“My car was often in the garage, but if we’d been shopping I was often a bit lazy and would park it there [in the driveway].

“Helen’s Jeep wasn’t parked in the garage on April 15 when police arrived.

“I don’t think it had been in the garage at all.

“One of the policemen said they suggested I put Helen’s car away so the press couldn’t see it.”

 

[Alyce]

12:45
"Helen had lots of accounts"

Stewart: “Helen was also effectively going to be funding the conservatory. Helen had lots of accounts and we kept it separate.”

Stewart is now asked about cars in the Royston house.

“Helen had the Jeep and the Fiat, Jamie had a car, Oliver got a car.

“The MG was mine which I bought not long after Diane died.

Yep,less than 2 months later

 

[cottonweaver]

Link to the financials if anyone needs it, Hurley, will , estate, his cash etc

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/helen-bailey-murder-trial-week-12531416

 

[MillyM]

12:50
“When had you first learnt there was a cess pit?"

Stewart is now asked about the cesspit in the garage.

Defence barrister Simon Russell Flint: “When had you first learnt there was a cess pit?

Stewart answers: “We had more than one viewing before we bought the house, and the owner explained what the system was and how cheap it was”.

 

[Alyce]

12:42
"She liked working on my desk because it was clutter free."

Stewart is asked if Helen ever used his computer, which used Windows 10.

“Helen was a Mac user, but she was going to start a new blog entirely, called ‘And Beyond’, talking about good things rather than bad.

“I was helping put that together for her.

“She liked my computer because it had a big screen.

“I’m always a Windows [software] user, I have been for years.”

“She liked working on my desk because it was clutter free.

“My laptop was an Acer laptop. The laptop wasn’t used as a laptop, it was connected to a monitor.”

BIB of course she did - and having to run back to her desk every 5 minutes to find her notes and files - just what a busy working person would do.

And I dont know how big his screen is, but Helen's monitor looked to be a decent size in the pics of her, sitting in her office.

 

[neteditor]

I thought he contributed to the purchase of Royston but paid less than 50%?

You have probably by now seen that he said he paid his share later after his house sold. Helen fronted the purchase at the time.

 

[pinklilies]

12:45
"Helen had lots of accounts"

Stewart: “Helen was also effectively going to be funding the conservatory. Helen had lots of accounts and we kept it separate.”

Stewart is now asked about cars in the Royston house.

“Helen had the Jeep and the Fiat, Jamie had a car, Oliver got a car.

“The MG was mine which I bought not long after Diane died.

Didn't he say the other day he bought the MG before the boys were born?


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[MillyM]

12:53
"Helen had a phobia of sewage"

“It was £120 a year to get rid of your sewage.

“We had it emptied every year. Helen had a major sewage problem in her house in Highgate.

“There ended up being sewage right outside her back door. Helen had a phobia of sewage.”

 

[neteditor]

I thought he'd bought the MG before the kids?

He did but he sold it I think he said before Jamie was born. This one he bought 2 months after Diane died.

 

[ColourPurple]

12:49
'Police suggested I put Helen's car away'

“My car was often in the garage, but if we’d been shopping I was often a bit lazy and would park it there [in the driveway].

“Helen’s Jeep wasn’t parked in the garage on April 15 when police arrived.

“I don’t think it had been in the garage at all.

“One of the policemen said they suggested I put Helen’s car away so the press couldn’t see it.”

Well that would be easy to check up (I'm guessing he's forgotten which police officer said it though)...but how would the press know which car was Helen's anyway?

 

[MillyM]

12:54
"A good place to hide a body"

“I remember John Bailey being there [at the house] and showing him round the house, but I don’t remember Helen making the comment about the cess pit being a good place to hide a body.

“A similar comment was made to us about it from the previous owner, that the cess pit was a good place to hide a body, so it does make sense what John said in his evidence.”

 

[icemaiden65]

I have this image now of the cleaner, coming back into court, and having words with Mr Ian

Ha, a lovely new mop arrived here just now from Amazon (amazing what you can buy from them!) - she can have it to shove where the sun don't shine - with my love!

 

[Alyce]

Chloe Keedy ‏@ChloeKeedyITV 5m5 minutes ago

Russell Flint puts to Stewart that attempts to amend standing order appeared to have been done from his laptop. Stewart replies, 'Ok .

 

[ColourPurple]

He did but he sold it I think he said before Jamie was born. This one he bough 2 months after Diane died.

Ah thanks. I hadn't realised there were 2 MGs.

And splashing out on an MG 2 months after his wife died. Wow

 

[cottonweaver]

How does he know it has a bitter taste?


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it was in yesterday's statement from toxicol Dr

Precautions are given to individuals when they are prescribed it. “There is often a range of adverse effects listed in the use of zopiclone. “Adverse effects include a bitter taste, a dry mouth, difficulty rising in the morning, sleepiness, nausea. “Other references also detail a bitter or metallic taste in the mouth as a common adverse effect in Zopiclone. “The most common side effect is a ‘taste alteration/bitter taste’ which may affect 1/10 people. “

Ian's the world's greatest last-minute tailorer!

 

[neteditor]

BIB of course she did - and having to run back to her desk every 5 minutes to find her notes and files - just what a busy working person would do.

And I dont know how big his screen is, but Helen's monitor looked to be a decent size in the pics of her, sitting in her office.

Of course this is an awful generalisation, but my experience of Mac users is they look down on us poor Windows people, they'd never DREAM of going back to that terrible Microsoft rubbish and nothing beats their Apple crapple. I very much doubt she was doing as he says. If she wanted a bigger monitor she certainly could afford to buy one.

 

[MillyM]

12:57
'She could have repeated what the previous owner had said'

Stewart said it was possible that Helen could have repeated to John what the previous owner had told them about the cess pit.

 

[ColourPurple]

BIB of course she did - and having to run back to her desk every 5 minutes to find her notes and files - just what a busy working person would do.

And I dont know how big his screen is, but Helen's monitor looked to be a decent size in the pics of her, sitting in her office.

And why would you need a big screen to do a banking transaction anyway?