Murdered Wife Case Re-Opened After Husband Was Convicted Of Killing Fiancée

Ian Stewart denied killing Diane Stewart who died at their family home in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire in 2010, but the case was reopened after he was convicted for killing his fiancee six years later.

A sixty-one year-old man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of murdering his wife in 2010, six years before he went on to kill his fiancee at their home in Hertfordshire.

Ian Stewart denied killing Diane Stewart who died at their family home in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, on 25 June 2010. 

The forty-seven-year-old’s cause of death was recorded at the time as Sudden Death in Epilepsy (Sudep).  Stewart will die behind bars after he was sentenced to a whole-life order on Wednesday.

 He told his trial at Huntingdon Crown Court that he found his wife collapsed in the garden when he returned from the supermarket. 

He said he tried to revive her, attempted to contact neighbours who were a doctor and nurse, tried again to revive his wife, and then called 999.

Her death was not treated as suspicious at the time and although a post-mortem was carried out, it was not a forensic post-mortem.