Daily Journal
February 23rd, 2017
Helen Bailey, a famous author who wrote about teenager books, was found dead in a cesspit at her home. The culprit is her own fiance, Ian Stewart. He had denied murdering Helen Bailey at their home in Royston, Hertfordshire, in order to get his hands on her near-£4m fortune. He was convicted at St Albans Crown Court following a seven-week trial. Wanting to inherit Ms Bailey's fortune, he had been secretly giving the author of the Electra Brown series of books sleeping drug zopiclone for weeks before he eventually smothered her with a pillow. On the day of the murder, April 11th last year, Stewart tried to change a standing order from Ms Bailey's account to the couple's joint account from £600 to £4,000 a month. He later tried to use power if attorney in order to sell a flat she had in Gateshead. He even reported Ms Bailey missing on April 15th. After three months later her body was found, having been pulled out of a "hard crust" of excrement inside the cesspit underneath the garage of their house. Steward was found guilty of preventing a lawful burial, fraud and three counts of perverting the course of justice. He will be sentenced soon.
Source :
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39053015
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