22/02/2017 Look East (West)

Police said he preyed on a wealthy widow and lied to everyone,

and today Ian Stewart was found guilty of killing Royston

Good food production in the region be hampered by Brexit?

And Storm Doris is expected to bring strong winds across the region

tomorrow. Join me at the end of the programme for the details.

Police said he preyed on a wealthy widow and lied to everyone,

and today Ian Stewart was found guilty of killing Royston

During a six-week trial at St Albans Crown Court,

the jury heard how Mr Stewart reported his fiancee missing,

when in fact he had drugged her, smothered her and hidden her body

It took them just six hours to find him guilty of her murder.

The moment the police caught up with Ian Stewart.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence...

Arrested early in the morning in dressing gown, slumped

on the stairs in the home he shared with Helen Bailey.

My partner has been missing since Monday.

This the voice of a killer as he calmly reported Helen Bailey

I think Ian Stewart is a particularly wicked and cynical man.

He has lied to us, his own family and the family of Helen Bailey

throughout this enquiry and made it very challenging for us

All along Helen's body was here, beneath the garage

Sedated, suffocated, possibly still alive,

Ian Stewart drop her and Boris, her much-loved dog, down inside.

At their home officers questioned him about the day Helen disappeared.

After weeks of drugging her with his sleeping pills he killed her.

After weeks of drugging her with his sleeping pills he killed her.

Just hours after the murder, CCTV captured Ian Stewart

This is a man Helen Bailey called her gorgeous grey-haired widower,

she fell for him after her husband of 23 years, John Sinfield,

She first wrote a blog and then the book about her grief.

My name is Helen Bailey and I would like to introduce

you to my new book, which is called When Bad Things Happen

Subtitled, Life After Death And A Dog Called Boris.

In the summer of 2013 she moved to Royston

When she was reported missing, her neighbour frantic with worry...

Words can't convey what I feel about him.

You know, I look at her house and the garage where she was found

everyday and instead of seeing Helen that I used to see, knowing

when she finished writing and went to bed at night,

I'm now just have these awful memories of what

Police today confirmed they will be examining the death

of Stuart's late wife, Diane.

She died after having an epileptic seizure in the garden of their home.

There is no suggestion that she died of anything other

than natural causes, but of course it will be part

of our enquiries moving forward from this conviction.

After a six-week trial the jury took just six hours

to convict Ian Stewart of betraying his new partner's love

and trust in the most brutal way possible.

So what drives an outwardly loving fiance like Ian

Earlier I asked criminal psychologist, Dr Samantha Lundrigan,

if this kind of partner killing is particularly rare.

Cases unfortunately of female partners being killed by their male

I think in 2015 50% of women who were killed

were killed by partners or ex-partners.

a very premeditated and planned instrumental crime where in fact

the murder was kind of instrumental or incidental to the goal,

which it seems, to all intents and purposes, to have

Police described him a narcissistic and selfish.

Obviously being after someone's money is a selfish act,

but what more will they mean by that term narcissistic?

Well, right from the start it is clear there was only one

person that mattered in this, from the investigation starting,

There was no regard for his victim, his victim's family, his own family,

other people involved, right the way up until today

when the verdict came out, Stewart was claiming to be innocent

and giving us this elaborate story that it was somebody else's

fault and with no regard for anybody else's killings.

He put her body in a cesspit, a horrible thing, at the

It may be to the individual but more likely is that was

thought of in terms of not being discovered and he may well have

thought that environment may have helped destroy any forensic evidence

that might have been there that would have linked him to the crime.

What will he be thinking now he has been found out, found guilty?

I wonder if he may actually be thinking he is the victim.

The role he was playing in this, he has convinced himself in some

ways he may have been entitled to that money and even though

he created the story and ruse to get away with it,

actually, it is not fair he did not, and actually he is the victim.

I know in court today there was a bit of the shake

of the head when the verdict was read out.

Again, that does not strike me as someone filled with remorse

and regret for what they have done but, again, only Ian Stewart

Next tonight - a warning that the region's farmers

could struggle to produce enough food if Brexit leads

Today landowners and farmers have been to Westminster,

urging MPs to safeguard the supply of migrant labour.

A rainy day on this Cambridgeshire farm.

But even today Svetoslav is hard at work.

He is one of eight Eastern Europeans employed

permanently here, up to 20 others join them over the summer months.

The falling value of the pound is already making a difference.

I don't know how much exactly but I know

The same amount of work and you are going to take less money.

His crops, including potatoes and onions,

The industry is already struggling to recruit in this

country, so teams of seasonal migrant labourers

success, and he is already considering other options, just in

It does worry us and I believe, from the farming

perspective, we have got to invest in new

technology and particular in

We need to make use of more labour-saving and the use of

robotics in the field and our warehouses.

This afternoon the Government was asked for

confirmation about the status of both permanent and temporary foreign

The NFU, which represents farmers and rural

businesses, says they are critical to the industry's success and want

the Government to take note, given current recruitment problems.

Because we are already seeing and have evidence

through our surveys, we are seeing a shortfall in people

That was massively exacerbated after the

referendum, with the exchange rate and people feeling less welcome.

That ask has been in for some time now and we really do need an answer.

A Government spokesman told us supporting farmers will form an

important part of our exit from the EU and

the Prime Minister says she

wants to protect the status of EU national already living here.

We definitely do need the seasonal supply

of labour and access from

Europe and indeed also we need a seasonal agricultural workers

scheme, which is a scheme that used to exist

four years ago, which will give us global access to labour as well

Svetoslav remains positive and says he has a good life

The home of the Formula 1 British Grand Prix in Northampton

is no longer for sale, its owner has announced.

The British Racing Drivers Club said it has decided to

"shelve discussions about a sale" of Silverstone Circuit.

Potential investors including the Jaguar Land Rover group

and MotorSport Vision had previously shown interest.

The statement added the move is "not without risk".

And that's the late news from Look East.

I'll leave you with the weather from Alex.

Some fairly lively weather conditions over

At the moment, rather cloudy with further outbreaks

of rain through the night, with the wind picking up

from the south-west but remaining relatively mild with temperatures

only down to around Eight Celsius tonight.

Tomorrow, we start already quite windy.

Storm Doris moving in is expected to bring some damaging wind

gusts in the afternoon and we are in the amber

weather warning zone for the strength of winds,

with gusts of between 60-70 mph from about 3pm.

We start the day with some outbreaks of rain, some drier interludes

with the wind really picking up around the middle of the day coming

from the south-west initially but turning round to the north-west,

and this is when they will particularly be at their strongest.

So those are our average wind speeds, but gusts between 60-70

miles an hour are possible during the evening rush hour.

The national weather is coming up here is the outlook,

and much calmer conditions by the end of the week.

some sunshine around and light winds. For more on Doris and its

impact, here is the national weather.

Good evening, a rough patch weather on the way. Time to fasten your seat

belt. A high wind warning from the Met office, an amber one, so pretty

severe. Let's see where Storm Doris is right now, only just developing

to the west of the UK, in its early stages which is not good because it

will be at its peak when it crosses the UK. You can see this hook of

cloud which is where the twisting is starting to happen, which is where

the big mid-latitude cyclone is starting to develop and it will slam

into the centre of the UK during the morning and move across the country

through the morning and into the afternoon. Two rounds from this

storm, we will see some snow across southern and central parts of

Scotland first