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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tom Batchelor

Ian Stewart: How ‘devious’ man murdered two partners six years apart claiming deaths were ‘coincidence’

Hertfordshire Police

Widower Ian Stewart has been found guilty of murdering his first wife six years before he went on to murder his fiancee, the children's book author Helen Bailey.

The 61-year-old denied murdering his 47-year-old wife Diane Stewart in 2010 but jurors at Huntingdon Crown Court rejected his account that he found her collapsed, having suffered an epileptic fit at their home in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire.

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