UK - Nicholas Billingham, 42, body found buried in garden, Northampton, Mar 2022 *arrest*

[Parker Knoll]

It all makes sense now !
So she’s cracked and pleaded.

 

[Skigh]

I just saw the breaking news!

Primary school teacher admits murdering boyfriend who she buried in garden

A primary school teacher has admitted murdering her partner, whose partly mummified remains were discovered four-and-a-half months after he was last seen.

news.sky.com

 

[Parker Knoll]

At LEAST she has done the decent thing after this rumbling on for so long.

 

[Alyce]

Ah, that explains why there's no listing on The Law Pages today

 

[Parker Knoll]

She clearly told her counsel yesterday her intentions.
Not sure how much will be reduced on sentence for this GP - if they apply the full wack or less. She’s run one trial already.
This sentence will be interesting.

 

[bobbymkii]

But a week into her retrial at the Old Bailey in London, she changed her plea. She will be sentenced on May 29 and 30.

BBM. They need two days to sentence her?

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2024-04-26/teacher-admits-murder-of-boyfriend-she-buried-in-her-back-garden

 

[Alyce]

She clearly told her counsel yesterday her intentions.
Not sure how much will be reduced on sentence for this GP - if they apply the full wack or less. She’s run one trial already.
This sentence will be interesting.

Yes, makes sense now why they only had a half day listing for her on Court Serve last night.

 

[Parker Knoll]

Exactly - we should have seen this coming !

 

[bobbymkii]

https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/in-court/2024/april/fiona-beal-changes-plea-to-guilty-admitting-murdering-her-former-partner-and-burying-his-body-in-her-garden/

 

[AcbMurders]

Had she pleaded guilty 14 months ago, so much heartache for NB’s family (and taxpayer money) would have been spared. Davies KC did well going in with all guns blazing.

 

[crespo29]

Fiona Beal: teacher admits murdering partner she buried in garden

Nicholas Billingham’s killer changes plea a week into her retrial

www.thetimes.co.uk

Beal changes plea!

 

[Dotta]

I still cannot wrap my head around that this person was teaching children.
I feel for students and their parents.
Unbelievable!

 

[bobbymkii]

Fiona Beal’s original trial halted by defence witness ‘mistake’​

MSN

 

[bobbymkii]

So let me get this straight (from the link I posted above), when this witness gave evidence:

Ms Drummond told the court she had not seen Beal [...] for around seven years, having previously visited her home.

When she had infact been working as a security officer at the court, carrying out welfare checks on her and literally escorting her to/from the prison transport during the trial?!

 

[Honeybirdette]

Whaaat? Why would a witness ever be allowed to do that?

Did they only realise mid way through she actually worked at the courts and had been working alongside her?

That’s wild

 

[imstilla.grandma]

But in a dramatic U-turn mid-trial, she has changed her plea to guilty, a jury at the Old Bailey was told on Friday.

Judge Mark Lucraft told Beal: “You have this morning pleaded guilty to murder, which as you have no doubt been told, carries a sentence of life imprisonment.”

He confirmed he will determine the minimum term at a two-day sentencing hearing starting on May 29.

Fiona Beal: Teacher admits mid-trial to murdering boyfriend she buried in garden

Nicholas Billingham’s remains were discovered in the couple’s garden more than four months after he was last seen

au.news.yahoo.com

 

[Skigh]

Inside diary confessions of killer primary school teacher Fiona Beal

Fiona Beal, 50, lured 42-year-old builder Nick Billingham to their room for sex before tying him to the bed with cable ties, stabbing him in the neck and burying his body in their garden.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Parker Knoll]

I have heard it all now !

 

[Cherwell]

So let me get this straight (from the link I posted above), when this witness gave evidence:

Ms Drummond told the court she had not seen Beal [...] for around seven years, having previously visited her home.

When she had infact been working as a security officer at the court, carrying out welfare checks on her and literally escorting her to/from the prison transport during the trial?!

Unless I've misunderstood, I assume that means that she hadn't seen FB for seven years before the trial.
If so, she can't have known first-hand of any abuse by NB. So again it was only hearsay based on what FB had told her.

 

[Nikynoo]

Unless I've misunderstood, I assume that means that she hadn't seen FB for seven years before the trial.
If so, she can't have known first-hand of any abuse by NB. So again it was only hearsay based on what FB had told her.

They (NB and the accused) had been in a long term relationship though?