Fiona Beal: Teacher admits mid-trial to murdering boyfriend she buried in garden
Primary school teacher Fiona Beal accused of stabbing her partner to death “in cold blood” before burying his body in their garden has pleaded guilty to murder.
Fiona Beal, 50, admitted killing 42-year-old Nicholas Billingham, whose partly mummified remains were discovered in their garden in March 2022, four-and-a-half months after he was last seen.
Beal had initially pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter by reason of of a loss of
