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10.02.2022 - 11:44 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Ian Stewart has been sentenced to a whole-life jail term for murdering his wife six years before he went on to kill his new fiancée.
The 61-year-old will die behind bars after a judge handed him the UK's most severe punishment for his heinous crimes.
In 2016, Stewart killed his fiancee, 51-year-old children’s book author Helen Bailey, before dumping her body in a cesspit at the £1.5 million home they shared in Royston in Hertfordshire.
Stewart was found guilty of her murder the following year, which prompted police to look into the unexpected death of his first wife.
Diane Stewart, 47, was believed to have died suddenly as a complication of her epilepsy in 2010.
However, Stewart was yesterday found guilty of murdering her by a jury at Huntingdon Crown Court after less than two days of deliberations.
The judge, Mr Justice Simon Bryan, said the two women’s deaths occurred in “chillingly similar circumstances”.
He said Stewart "successfully passed off a murder as an epileptic fit" and that his "elaborate, and indeed sophisticated, charade" would have succeeded if it wasn't for his second murder.
Stewart has claimed in court that had returned to the Cambridgeshire home he shared with Mrs Stewart after going to the supermarket to find her collapsed in the garden.
His wife had not had an epileptic fit for 18 years and took daily medication, jurors were told, with consultant neurologist Dr Christopher Derry estimating that her risk of having a fatal epileptic seizure was about one in 100,000.
The court heard how Stewart was instructed to perform CPR on his wife, but paramedic Spencer North, who attended the scene, said there “didn’t seem to be any effective CPR”.
After police began to investigate her death, following Stewart's
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Sky Studios Chief Content Officer Jane Millichip is departing the Comcast-owned pay-TV giant after nine years amid a wider restructure.
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A British trans woman, Naya Martinez, 21, and her gay friend, Valentino Kyriakou, 20, were told to leave a chicken shop in north-west London’s Wembley otherwise they would be stabbed. Trigger Warning: This story has details and visuals of a homophobic attack, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.The BBC reported the ordeal was recorded by onlookers and posted on TikTok where it went viral, and was shared via other social media platforms including , and Instagram where it has been viewed “hundreds of thousands of times.”Valentino Kyriakou, 20, and Naya Martinez, 21, were subjected to homophobic slurs by a group of young men in Wembley, #London.The video shows the friends being told that they would be "shanked" if they didn't leave.@metpoliceuk say they are trying to identify the perpetrators. pic.twitter.com/eU9BapFAos— Birmingham Against LGBTQI Hate (@BrumAgainstHate) February 1, 2022Police have yet to make any arrests as they try to identify the offenders captured on video.