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Mother of killer Fiona Beal's victim calls her 'pure evil'
Fiona Beal, 50, lured builder Nick Billingham, 42, into the bedroom with the promise of sex and before 'executing' him in the Northampton home they shared.
In terms of mitigation, he added that it was submitted that she had suffered from any 'mental disorder or mental disability which lowered your degree of culpability' and that she was provoked by prolonged stress.
He added that her accounts of amnesia has been challenged and that 'telling instrumental lies for a defined reason, for example, promote a false defense is a well documented phenomenon'.
But he acknowledged Andrew Wheeler, KC, defending's submissions and the reports of other experts.
The judge continued: 'The question is to balance the factors, particularly where the picture before the court is or may not be a complete one, because of the nature of what you say and the inability for the court to test those by any account from Nick.'
He added: 'I have no doubt what you now accept you did to Nick has been a shock to all those who thought they knew you.'