By Lucy Caulkett-
The Dangers of online dating is made so real by the gruesome murder of author, Helen Bailey.
Killed by Ian Stewart, whom she met on a Facebook bereavement page, just before her husband’s funeral. Stewart himself was a widowed father of two, after his wife, Diane died in 2010. Police are now to investigate him over Diane Stewart’s s death too.
The strangeness of two bereaved couples dating after an online encounter and one eventually murdered by the other is a chilling reminder of how dangerous and evil people can be. Stewart had met a successful businesswoman who was now a writer.
LUCKY
He should have counted himself very lucky, for he was not fit to be with a woman of her caliber. Bayley, with all her riches and success, was a deeply unlucky woman in the end. She lost her husband, John Sinfield when he drowned in Barbados right before her eyes in 2011.
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She was a helpless observer of her husband’s death. Empowering other women through her blog writings, she was not to know that an even far worse fate awaited her.
WORST
Meeting Stewart was the worst decision this creative and ambitious woman ever did. That’s clear in hindsight, precisely why they say hindsight is a beautiful thing. In saying that, it is a warning for women to be very careful who they meet online.
Theoretically, some people can meet the best person for their life online, but it is such a dangerous gamble. What happens when you meet a lying, dangerous murderer? Stewart was a perpetual liar, he tried everything he could to escape justice. Except that he wasn’t smart enough to fool well-trained prosecutors of police.
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In the midst of his desperately evil act of murder, Stewart was foolish as a mad man. The day after he reported her missing, he went to her holiday cottage in Broadstairs and connected to the wifi there, exposing in the process that he had the device in his possession.
DANGEROUS
Dangerous men are plentiful out there, it’s a very dark world. Women should always avoid men whose partners are dead, because they may be the killer who has not been caught. I am a big advocate of researching a man as thoroughly as possible before getting involved.
A computer software engineer, Stewart stood to gain a huge inheritance from both Ms Bayley and first wife, Dian Stewart when hey died. And he was alone with both at the time of their death.
Another lesson is that all married people who are rich should have a prenuptial agreement. Sounds like a dampener on the hit prospects of love, but don’t have anyone look forward to earning a fortune from your death.
No matter how much you think you love them. People are plenty really dangerous and two faced, only in very exception circumstances should one rich individual marry one not rich without a prenuptial agreement.
Our condolences go to the family of Ms Bayley.It must be a very difficult time.
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