The killer of the children’s author Helen Bailey has been found guilty of murdering his first wife six years earlier.

Ian Stewart, 61, was jailed for life in 2017 for drugging and killing his fiancée and her dog in a plot to get his hands on her £4 million fortune.

He dumped her body in a cesspit below their home in Royston, Herts, in April 2016 and she lay undiscovered for three months as Stewart elaborately staged her disappearance.

The couple had met on a forum for the widowed, where Stewart had been hunting for women to target after the death of his wife, Diane, in the garden of the family home in 2010.

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