US Politics | Double murderer who killed his wife and his fiancée has whole-life sentence reduced
A DOUBLE murderer who killed his wife, and six years later his fiancée, has had his whole-life sentence reduced. Ian Stewart, 61, was in jail for murdering Helen Bailey, 51, when police looked into the death of his wife Diane in 2010. 
Double murderer Ian Stewart, who killed his wife, and six years later his fiancée, has had his whole-life sentence reducedPA 
Ian Stewart murdered his partner Helen Bailey 
PADiane was found collapsed in the garden in 2010 '/ ' Appeal Court judges ruled that the full-life order imposed on him for 47-year-old Diane's death was not justified. In a judgment, they stated: "Grave though the first murder was, it could not — viewed in isolation from the later second murder — be regarded as an offence of exceptionally high seriousness. ...There is no suggestion that at the time when he committed the first murder, Stewart was already planning that it would be the first in a series.... Sentence on dad Stewart, of Royston, Herts, was reduced to life with at least 35 years in jail. READ MORE ON JAIL 
PAY SLIPS DON'T LIE Shakira faces 8yrs' jail after she's accused of evading millions in tax Stewart dumped children's author Ms Bailey's body in a cesspit. He had claimed his wife died after suffering an epileptic fit.
Double murderer Ian Stewart, who killed his wife, and six years later his fiancée, has had his whole-life sentence reducedPA Ian Stewart murdered his partner Helen Bailey PADiane was found collapsed in the garden in 2010 '/ ' Appeal Court judges ruled that the full-life order imposed on him for 47-year-old Diane's death was not justified. In a judgment, they stated: "Grave though the first murder was, it could not — viewed in isolation from the later second murder — be regarded as an offence of exceptionally high seriousness. ...There is no suggestion that at the time when he committed the first murder, Stewart was already planning that it would be the first in a series.... Sentence on dad Stewart, of Royston, Herts, was reduced to life with at least 35 years in jail. READ MORE ON JAIL PAY SLIPS DON'T LIE Shakira faces 8yrs' jail after she's accused of evading millions in tax Stewart dumped children's author Ms Bailey's body in a cesspit. He had claimed his wife died after suffering an epileptic fit.
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