Ian Stewart, 61, was convicted of murdering his wife after that of his partner. It emerged that the victim had suffered severe oxygen deficiency prior to death
LONDON. 61-year-old Ian Stewart is a sort of ‘widower killer’, already sentenced to life in prison for the 2016 murder of his partner, the author of children’s books Helen Bailey, and today found guilty by an English court also for the death of his first wife in 2010. Her name was Diane Stewart and she had passed away at their home in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire.
His death had been treated as related to epilepsy until Stewart was convicted of murdering his fiancée in 2017, after covertly drugging and suffocating her, complete with body concealment at their Hertfordshire home in order to inherit a £ 4 million fortune. This prompted investigators to reconsider his wife’s death, in light of a fundamental circumstance: the fact that they could use fragments of the woman’s brain that she had asked to donate to science after her death. Neuropathologist Safa Al-Sarraj was instructed to examine them and from there it emerged that the victim had suffered a severe lack of oxygen before death, linked to suffocation through a grip in the neck. So Stewart has no choice but to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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