Helen Bailey missing: Children's author's partner pleads for her return one month after disappearance

Missing: Children's author Helen Bailey
Hertfordshire Police
Justin Davenport11 May 2016

The partner of missing children’s author Helen Bailey today issued a heartfelt plea for her return, a month after her disappearance.

Mrs Bailey, 51, vanished without trace last month from the £1.3 million home she shared with her partner, Ian Stewart, and his two sons from a previous marriage.

She is thought to have taken her dog Boris, a brown miniature dachshund, with her after telling family and friends that she needed “a little time to herself”.

However, despite extensive police searches in and around her home in Royston, Hertfordshire, and appeals for her to get in touch there has been no word from her.

Mrs Bailey vanished just weeks after the fifth anniversary of the death of her husband John Sinfield, 65, who drowned when he was caught in a riptide while on holiday in Barbados. She wrote about her grief in a blog which was turned into a best-selling book called When Bad Things Happen In Good Bikinis.

Today Mr Stewart, 55, issued a statement saying: “We miss you and Boris so much. We are shattered in so many ways... you bring so much to so many people in ways you don’t even realise. You not only mended my heart five years ago but made it bigger, stronger and kinder.

“Together we learnt to live with our grief and move forward with our lives but never forgetting. Now it feels like my heart doesn’t even exist. Our plans are nowhere near complete and without you there is no point.

“We promised each other 30 years — please keep that promise and come home. Whatever has happened, wherever you are I will come and get you and Boris and give you whatever you need.”

Chief Inspector Julie Wheatley, of Hertfordshire police, said: “Helen seems to have simply disappeared. We literally have no trace of her.”

She added: “Whilst this very much remains a missing person inquiry at this time, understandably as the days and weeks pass we and Helen’s family and friends are becoming increasingly concerned for her welfare.”

Anyone with information should call the police 101 line.

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