Primary school teacher Fiona Beal, 50, has pleaded guilty mid-trial at the Old Bailey to the murder of boyfriend Nicholas Billingham, 42, who she buried in their garden. Beal had previously admitted manslaughter after stabbing her partner to death “in cold blood” before burying his body in their garden.
The court heard her actions were revealed through journal entries discovered by police. Mr Davies told jurors that Beal, “a high-functioning professional”, messaged several people on November 1, 2021 – and in the days after – that she and Mr Billingham had contracted Covid-19 and needed to isolate. The prosecution said the narrative that Mr Billingham had run off with another woman was “completely false”. But jurors heard Mr Billingham appeared to have cheated on Beal previously.
Mr Davies said: “They certainly do contain some unambiguously clear declarations of what she had done. These parts were not just her truth, but the truth. What was this? The short answer is that she had planned to, and had, killed him in cold blood. She had purchased a forged handled utility knife in the days before. She had a chisel and cable ties.
“She introduces her insight into her own split personality, and an alter ego – i.e. her ‘second self’ – she calls Tulip 22, who is capable of wholly different and darker conduct than her public persona of committed teacher.”
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