20 February 2017
Ian Stewart, the "callous" and "wicked" man who drugged and murdered his fiancee, Helen Bailey, before dumping her body in a cesspit to get his hands on her fortune, has been sentenced to at least 34 years in prison.
Stewart was found guilty of murdering the author on Wednesday. He drugged Bailey with his own sleeping medication before hiding her body, along with that of her pet dachshund, Boris, in a 100-year-old cesspit concealed beneath the garage of their £1.3m property in Royston, Hertfordshire.
