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Teacher stabbed partner to death after he begged for her forgiveness for affair

A primary school teacher stabbed her partner to death and buried his body in their garden after he declared his love “until the day I die”, a court has heard.

Fiona Beal, 50, has admitted the murder of 42-year-old Nicholas Billingham, whose partly mummified remains were discovered four and a half months after he was last seen on November 1 2021.

She pleaded guilty in April during a retrial at the , after her earlier trial at Crown Court collapsed

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