Serial killer Ian Stewart could have gotten away with murder until brain tissue donated by one of his victims revealed her real cause of death, according to a story reported in The Guardian newspaper.
What to know:
An analysis of donated brain tissue helped convict a British man of murdering his wife, his second murder conviction in 5 years.
It was originally believed that Ian Stewart’s wife Diane died in 2010 of an epileptic seizure.
In 2017, Stewart was convicted of murdering his fiancée Helen Bailey.
Bailey had been drugged, suffocated, and her body dumped so Stewart could inherit her £4m fortune.
Diane had donated her brain for medical research and the conviction for Bailey’s murder prompted a reanalysis of her brain.
A neuropathologist determined Diane’s brain showed signs that “breathing had been restricted” for between 35 minutes and an hour before her death and that she, too, had been murdered.
This is a summary of the article “How brain tissue donation helped unravel Ian Stewart’s web of lies” published by The Guardian on February 9. The full article can be found on theguardian.com.
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