A 50-year-old primary school teacher stabbed her cheating boyfriend in the neck – the boyfriend had affairs before and moved out of the home but the couple had reconciled.

How it Happened

Court heard how Fiona Beal lured 42-year-old builder Nick Billingham into the bedroom for sex then knifed him in the neck when he was tied to the bed on November 1, 2021.

Beal had planned the murder purchasing a knife in advance then told her friends she had Covid to buy herself more time to bury him in their garden.

She Bought Herself Time

She told her friends the pair had tested positive for Covid-19 so that she could have all the time in the world to bury her crime at their Northampton home.

Police Found the Dead Body

His mummified body was found four months later wrapped in sheeting in a makeshift grave after Beal’s journals – where she plotted the killing as her alter ego ‘Tulip22’ – were found by police, it was said.

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She Had it All Planned

Beal then meticulously spent months using her partner’s phone to message his friends and relatives pretending he was still alive and had moved in with another woman, the court heard.

Beal admits manslaughter but denies murder claiming ‘loss of control’. Court found out Beal had written in her journal that her victim Billingham asked ‘why?’ after she stabbed him.

The trial, which is set to last six weeks, continues.