A jilted school teacher named Fiona Beal is in trouble with the law for allegedly killing and burying her boyfriend Nicholas Billingham in their garden. What could have led to Fiona killing Nicholas and burying his body in their garden?
Mirror has the details;
A primary school teacher who allegedly stabbed her partner in the neck and buried his body in their garden had told her headteacher she had Covid-19 and needed to self-isolate, a court has heard.
Prosecutors allege Fiona Beal penned a “chilling” confession, in which she described her “dark side” as ruthless and explained how she hid a knife in a bedside drawer.
She allegedly made Nicholas Billingham wear an eye mask before the alleged pre-planned murder, and then buried his body in their property, which she described as being “harder than I thought it would be”.
Beal, 49, of Moore Street, Northampton, denies murdering 42-year-old Mr Billingham, whose partially mummified remains were discovered in March last year, four-and-a-half months after he was seen at a business meeting.
Opening the prosecution’s case at the town’s crown court on Monday, prosecutor Steven Perian KC said Beal had written in a notebook that she believed Mr Billingham was cheating on her, and “had decided to kill him” by October 2021.
Jurors were told the notebook contained a claim that Beal had been spat on and threatened during s*x and subjected to cruel and belittling treatment.
Alleging that Beal killed her long-term partner in their bedroom on November 1, Mr Perian told the court: “Nicholas Billingham whilst still in a relationship with the defendant had cheated on her with other women
“She (Beal) believed he was cheating on her again.”
But instead of leaving him, Mr Perian said, Beal formed a plan on how and when to kill him, where to conceal his body, how to cover up and explain his disappearance to others, and how to explain her own absence from work when she killed him.
The prosecutor added: “The prosecution suggests from the evidence gathered it is very likely, she killed Nicholas Billingham during the evening of the 1st of November 2021 in their bedroom.”
Having killed Mr Billingham, the Crown alleges, she tied up and wrapped his body, buried it in the garden, and painted and cleaned the bedroom where the killing had taken place.
A pathologist concluded that the cause of Mr Billingham’s death was a single stab wound to the right-hand side of his neck, which cut through the jugular vein.
Records showed Beal, who worked at Northampton’s Eastfield Academy as a Year 6 teacher, was absent from work between November 1 and November 12.
The jury was told Beal’s headteacher had been in regular contact with the defendant during her period of “Covid sickness” and that when she returned to work she said her partner had left her, but there were no concerns about her work.
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