Prosecutors claim Fiona Beal wrote in a notebook about her ruthless"dark side" in a"chilling" confession as she explained how she hid a knife in a bedside drawer and got him to wear an eye mask before his pre-planned killing.A teacher, who believed her"unfaithful" partner was cheating on her again, fatally stabbed him in the neck in their bedroom before burying his body in the garden, a court has been told.
In a notebook, Beal penned that she thought 42-year-old Mr Billingham was cheating on her, and"had decided to kill him" by October 2021, Northampton Crown Court was told.Police at the scene in March 2022 after Nicholas Billingham's body was found in a back garden The court heard Beal told her headteacher she had COVID and needed to self-isolate, and she was off work between 1 November 2021 - the day of the murder - and 12 November.
An entry in the notebook referred to 17 years of"him" being argumentative, mean, cruel and belittling, the trial heard. It continued:"I knew I couldn't let him get away with it. Halloween sealed it. He was vile.
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