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    Fiona Beal jailed for life for killing partner and burying body in garden

    by Ellie Ng May 30, 2024 4 minutes

    A primary school teacher has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years for stabbing her partner to death before burying his body in the garden of their Northampton home.

    Fiona Beal, 50, 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 Old Bailey, after her earlier trial at Northampton Crown Court collapsed on its 64th day.

    At the end of a two-day hearing on Thursday, Judge Mark Lucraft KC handed Beal a life sentence

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