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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alexandra Topping

How brain tissue donation helped unravel Ian Stewart’s web of lies

A court artist’s sketch of Ian Stewart
A court artist’s sketch of Ian Stewart at Huntingdon crown court. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA

In the dock in both of his trials – both for murder, both of women he had professed to love – Ian Stewart cut an unimpressive figure. Shabby, hesitant, inexplicably dull – he seemed unremarkable in every way.

On Wednesday the 61-year-old was unmasked as a serial killer, found guilty of the murder of his wife Diane five years after being convicted of the 2016 murder of his fiancee Helen Bailey.

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