Primary teacher dramatically stops trial and admits murdering her boyfriend
A teacher who stabbed her boyfriend to death in ‘cold blood’ and buried his body in the garden has admitted murdering him.
Fiona Beal, 50, pleaded guilty in court today to the murder of her 42-year-old boyfriend Nicholas Billingham.
Mr Billingham’s partly mummified remains were discovered four-and-a-half months after he was last seen alive.
She previously pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter by reason of a loss of control, but denied murdering him between October 30 and November 10, 2021.