Hidden away under a Jeep in the garage of her £1.5million home, this is the 15ft deep cesspit (left) where children's author Helen Bailey's body was found. The 51-year-old writer had been missing for three months when police officers opened the hatch to the cesspit (top right) and saw an arm protruding from the waste. Mrs Bailey's fiancé, Ian Stewart (together inset), 56, is accused of drugging and killing her, before dumping her body at the home the couple shared in Royston, Hertfordshire. Jurors visited the property today having been shown pictures of the cesspit in the garage (bottom right) at St Albans Crown Court earlier this week. The court has been told Mrs Bailey may still have been alive when her fiance dumped her in the well while trying to kill her for her £4million fortune. Stewart denies charges of murder, preventing a lawful burial, fraud and three counts of perverting the cause of justice.

Dramatic footage on board the Middle Eastern Airlines flight from Beirut shows two men squaring up before they launch in to a frantic brawl sparking chaos on board. The younger man can be seen repeatedly punching the older passenger amid violent scenes that reportedly forced pilots to make an unscheduled stop in Istanbul, Turkey. Passengers and staff piled in as they tried desperately to intervene and break up the fight in the aisle.

Flora Lormier (left), from Glenrothes, Scotland, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was 20 but her condition significantly worsened over the past two years. Left in constant pain, she had begged her husband, Tom, and daughter, Tracey Taylor (right), to help her die multiple times. The debilitating condition had blighted her body, causing her to be paralysed from the neck down. In hope of bringing about a change to the law on euthanasia, her family have released pictures (inset) of her in her final days. Showing her in a fragile state, she was left as just a pile of skin and bones before she eventually passed away naturally in December.

Issam Hourani (left) says he was mortified in June 2014 when 'protesters' turned up 'right outside the front door' of his family's £7.5m apartment in London bearing placards with a picture of his face and the word 'murderer' splashed across the top. Mr Hourani, who lives in Belgravia's exclusive Lowndes Square (inset), claims he is being wrongly linked with the death of a Russian TV star, Anastaysia Novikova (right), who fell from the window of an apartment in Beirut in 2004.

The 'showy' former British agent's reputation as the UK's top operative in Russia meant that he was even introduced as a real-life 007. Chris Steele, 52, right, who like Bond studied at Cambridge University, has packed up his bags and fled his £1.5million Surrey mansion 'fearing for his life' and Russian reprisals over his 'dirty' Donald Trump dossier. Intelligence expert Nigel West says his friend is like Ian Fleming's most famous character - and revealed he has a deep dislike of Putin and his Kremlin for ignoring accepted rules of espionage. He said: 'He's James Bond. I actually introduced him to my wife as James Bond'. He added: ‘'He also feels passionately about what you'd call the Kremlin kleptocracy. He doesn't believe there is a business deal in the past 10 years that has been legit'. Current MI6 boss Sir Alex Younger, left, is said to be livid that Steele agreed to take on the Trump work and has caused worldwide embarrassment to British secret services. A source said: 'It was always going to come out at some stage, as was his involvement with it, and that is deeply embarrassing to the service.'

An all-female gang led by a mother and daughter flew in brides from Lithuania to marry Indian and Pakistani men in a £315,000 sham marriage visa plot, a court heard. A total of 26 bogus marriages have been identified in which young Lithuanian women were booked on flights with Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air. The court was told that they were from to Luton Airport in Bedfordshire from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Lina Kezelyte, 32, was the 'ringleader' who recruited most of the brides, while her mother Valentina Kezeliene, 53, booked flights and helped launder the profits (centre). Beata Jarmolovic, 28, (bottom left) and Renata Semasko, 29, (top left) both of Guildford, Surrey, and Rita Sperskaite, 25, (right) of East Finchley, north London, are also on trial.

Liz Sheppard, from Mansfield, Notts., sought public donations to allow her to undergo immunotherapy treatment privately, and has already seen remarkable results. She was initially diagnosed in 2015 with Small Cell Stomach Cancer, and after an initially-successful bout of chemotherapy, she was eventually told that she would be dead within the year. 'I had a huge tumour on my neck that was like a golf ball sticking out, but I got up one morning and the tumour had just gone,' she said of the treatment (pictured left before and right after.

CCTV shows a man and a woman pull up outside a Farm in Derbyshire in a white BMW convertible before stealing an honesty box and using a bag of potatoes to block the camera. Farmers James and Victoria Burton were stunned to discover their takings had been pinched on Monday afternoon. Father-of-two Mr Burton, 38, said the cheapskate thieves clearly appear not to be strapped for cash judging by their vehicle, which retails for between £35,000 and £40,000.

This is the horrifying moment a teenager in Manchester was attacked by a group of men and savagely punched until he was unconscious. Eighteen-year-old James Toolan, sustained serious facial injuries and broke three bones in his cheek in the savage beating. Police have issued images and CCTV of the unprovoked attack in the hope witnesses of a violent attack might come forward.

A religious perimeter could be created around an area of North London to help Jews avoid restrictions on the Sabbath. Fishing wire would be suspended from tall poles to create the boundary for what would become a huge eruv, acting as an extension of the walls of a home. Hundreds have objected to the proposal, presented to Camden Council by a group of synagogues, claiming they could lead to 'ghettoisation' of the area. If the plans were given the green light, 51 telegraph poles up to 18ft tall would be erected in the north of the borough, including St John's Wood, Maida Vale and Regent's Park (shown left). Supporters say the symbolic boundary would enable Jews to carry out essential activities - such as the use of wheelchairs or carrying items- on the Sabbath. The eruv (pictured right, an exmaple in north London) would effectively extend the walls of the home, where Jews are allowed to carry out such tasks.

Astonished residents spotted the cot, wooden bed, chest of drawers and other furniture in the 18ft deep water at Walton Sluice, on the Somerset Levels. At first people thought it was amusing but anger is growing because the waterway at Compton Dundon is one of the controls to stop flooding on the Levels, scene of misery and devastation when entire villages were swamped three years ago. An Environment Agency spokesman condemned the 'irresponsible' flytipper, pointing out that throwing rubbish into the drainage channel 'could block Walton sluice, posing a flood risk to land upstream'.

The s-400 Triumph air defence system has been providing air cover for Russian forces in Syria since November, and is now being deployed on home soil around the city of Moscow. It is capable of hitting moving airborne targets including planes and incoming missiles and has a range of 400km and trucks (pictured) were seen carrying what appeared to the the protection mechanisms. The news has emerged the day the US sent more than 3,000 troops to Poland in response to Nato's concern the tactics of Vladimir Putin (bottom left) were becoming more aggressive.