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Primary school teacher accused of murdering her boyfriend revealed ‘alter ego’ in journal entries, court told

Source: Northamptonshire Police/PA

A primary school teacher accused of stabbing her boyfriend and burying him in their garden wrote a journal entry saying moving a body is “much more difficult than it looks on TV”, a court heard.

Year 6 teacher Fiona Beal, 50, admits killing her 42-year-old boyfriend Nicholas Billingham, whose partly mummified remains were discovered four-and-a-half months after he was last seen.

A jury at the heard on Friday that Beal pleaded guilty to the

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