Author Helen Bailey 'plied with sedatives and suffocated'SUPPLIED Police found the body of Helen Bailey in an old well on her property. Successful British childrens' author Helen Bailey joked that an old well at her £1.5 million ($NZ2.5m) home was a "good place to hide a body" just three years before her body was dumped in it, a court has heard. Police found the body of Bailey, 51, in an old well which was being used as either a septic tank or cesspit last July, three months after she was reported missing. READ MORE: British teenager charged with killing 7-year-old childBailey's brother John Bailey, told St Albans Crown Court how Helen Bailey said the well would be a good place to hide a body "in banter". 'Plied with sedatives'Bailey was plied with sedatives and likely suffocated by her fiance in a financially motivated killing, prosecutors said on Thursday (New Zealand time).

Source: Stuff January 12, 2017 20:16 UTC