Convicted murderer accused of killing wife tells court he had ‘perfect’ marriage

Ian Stewart, jailed in 2016 for killing his fiancee, Helen Bailey, says he found wife collapsed in garden in 2010

A man convicted of murdering his fiancee, who is now accused of murdering his wife six years earlier, told a jury his marriage was perfect" and that he tried to resuscitate his spouse after finding her collapsed in their garden.

Ian Stewart, 61, who in 2016 was convicted of murdering Helen Bailey, author of the Electra Brown series of children's books, denies killing his wife, Diane Stewart, 47, at their home in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, in 2010.