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

[bobbymkii]

It’s listed for sentence today at 10am.
Why they have 2 days on this I’m puzzled.

The variation in the length of sentencing hearings in the UK does baffle me. The "sunshine and lollipops" money laundering conspiracy sentencing hearing took days. The "beastie house" satanic paedo ring in Glasgow sentencing phase still hasn't finished despite them being convicted months ago.

Yet for the longest and most complicated trial in E&W that I can remember, (I'm sure you know who I'm talking about!) the sentencing hearing lasted a few hours, mere days after conviction.

 

[Parker Knoll]

Any news ?

 

[bobbymkii]

Central Criminal Court​	5​	T20237268​	Fiona Beal​
Details: For Sentence - Case Started - 10:36 For Sentence - Case adjourned until 11:55 - 11:44 For Sentence - Resume - 11:59

 

[Parker Knoll]

Thanks Bobby - I simply CAN NOT log into the law pages. I have forgotten my password and it will never allow me to change it !

 

[Skigh]

Chilling diary entry by killer teacher is revealed as she is sentenced

Fiona Beal, 50, has admitted the murder of 42-year-old Nicholas Billingham, whose partly mummified remains were discovered in Northampton four-and-a-half months after he was last seen.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Alyce]

Thanks Bobby - I simply CAN NOT log into the law pages. I have forgotten my password and it will never allow me to change it !

Use another email ?

 

[Alyce]

I had almost forgotten about this sentencing.

Going to be great ( not ) if the Jury for C and M bring in a verdict while Judge Lucraft is dealing with this one.

 

[Parker Knoll]

I have tried !
It’s bizarre.

 

[Dotta]

"Mr Davies said Beal
'planned to execute' Mr Billingham
then 'delivered a false narrative'
so she could
'conceal her crime'.

All this was done while she continued

'to deliver high-quality teaching
to Year 6 pupils as if nothing had happened',

Mr Davies said."

Murder victim wrote of his love for killer teacher - BBC News

Nicholas Billingham's partly mummified remains were found in Northampton in March 2022.

www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Alyce]

Central Criminal Court​	5​	T20237268​	fiona beal​
Details: For Sentence - Resume - 11:36

www.thelawpages.com

 

[bobbymkii]

Dear god…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1796158371441041675

 

[Dotta]

Dear god…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1796158371441041675

As I wrote earlier
she seems to be
"disconnected from reality".

Is it true or untrue,
it is for professionals to decide.

JMO

 

[bobbymkii]

As I wrote earlier
she seems to be
"disconnected from reality".

Is it true or untrue,
it is for professionals to decide.

JMO

Only she truly knows if that is true or not.

My suspicion is that it is very much not, since she wrote the events down in detail in her diary afterwards.

 

[Dotta]

Only she truly knows if that is true or not.

My suspicion is that it is very much not, since she wrote the events down in detail in her diary afterwards.

But...

What normal person does that???
The diary was found at place to which she asked family to send Police to check on her.

Quote from link:

"The following month,
she rented a cabin in Cumbria
and sent messages to family members which gave them cause for concern over her wellbeing,
prompting them to call the police to check on her.

In the cabin,
police found Beal's journals containing a confession to the killing."

C'mon!!!
Who does that?

What exactly do psychiatric reports say about her?

Nothing was read during 2nd trial IIRC.

Well, that was just my impression of her from the very beginning.

But I'm just a poster,
not a psychiatrist.

I'm curious how her "traumatic amnesia" will be dealt with.

JMO

Murder victim wrote of his love for killer teacher - BBC News

Nicholas Billingham's partly mummified remains were found in Northampton in March 2022.

www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[Alyce]

Fiona Beal was today (Thursday, May 30) starting a life sentence for murdering her boyfriend, Nick Billingham.


Beal appeared for sentencing at a two-day hearing at the Old Bailey in London


Sentencing her to serve a minimum term of 20 years, The Recorder of London, His Honour Judge Mark Lucraft KC, described Beal’s lack of remorse as well as the “significant degree of planning and pre-meditation” she showed in murdering Nick.




more at the link.................

https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/in-court/2024/may/Fiona-Beal-sentenced-to-life-for-murder/

 

[Sarahlou]

Not long enough IMO.

 

[Alyce]

Not long enough IMO.

I was surprised. Expected much longer.

 

[Sarahlou]

I was surprised. Expected much longer.

I would have thought something like 28+ minimum years would be more appropriate.

 

[Rusty Braincells]

I am often disappointed with the minimum terms for murders of women whether by their partners or by strangers, I want to therefore say in this case of a murder of a man that that is a very short minimum term in the modern era for what was accepted at court to be an entirely premeditated murder that the defendant went to significant lengths to cover up, and only pleaded guilty to late in the day.

I will read the sentencing remarks but I expect an unduly lenient application to go in and that sentence to be made longer. There is nothing in the evidence that would explain any of the defendant’s actions, plenty of people have outside relationships and make that sort of human mistake, hardly a good reason to take someone’s life — if there ever is, but it doesn’t even explain the mindset at all.

Can it be the case that planning & killing someone close to you is less worthy of punishment than killing someone you don’t know? That seems to be what a lot of these cases (including men who kill their female partners) are saying.

 

[Parker Knoll]

Well well well.