The fiance of best-selling kids' author Helen Bailey faces life behind bars after a jury today (weds) found him guilty of murdering her to get his hands on her £3.5m fortune. Ian Stewart, 56, suffocated the wealthy widow after secretly plying her with a sleeping drug and then callously dumped her body in a cesspit. Her body was found three months after Stewart - who met Ms Bailey on an online group for widows and widowers - had reported her missing from their £1.5m home in Royston, Herts. A court head how Stewart had tried to hide his crime by telling detectives Ms Bailey had gone away for space and time but later claimed two men called Nick and Joe kidnapped her.