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49 Year old primaryschool teacher Fiona Beal is your typical everyday person, going to work, buying groceries, enjoying nights in watching TV. Her partner, 41 year old Nick Billingham who was a builder had been in a relationship with Fiona for 17 years. The two were committed to each other, at least that’s what Fiona thought until she would discover text messages on Nick’s phone eluding to an affair. The two would argue about it, but would eventually overcome this troubling time. But Fiona couldn’t quite let it go. She had to put a stop to it, for good. She devised a cunning plan, the details of which are utterly mind boggling. Come and watch one of the most bizarre and intriguing cases we have ever looked into.
This CCTV footage would show a women walking to apartment store looking for gardening supplies the person on camera would be identified as 49 fiona beal a primary school teacher.
she made a rather large purchase of compost and cwal storne requiring two trolleys just to to carry the items to her vechicle.was she planing a large gardening? project ?the actctuall truth of this case would stun investigators as we go through this case.
b 49 year old Fiona Beal was a six primary school teacher working at eastfield academy from all accounts she was a hardworking honest individual and good at teaching children .
42-year old nick billingham had captured the attention of the primary school teacher.
and they two would start a realtionship..nick was a builder and was very handy at fixing things around the house . Fiona mske the remak to her close friends.that he was the best thing that ever happened to her .
after a short while ,the two would decide to move ito a northampton home together . the two were in a commitedrelaqtionship for 17 years almost half of their liftemtime toghether amd everything .
appeared to haqve been going welll for the couple, that is… until fiona would dicscover tesxt messages on his phone on nicks phone that would allude to him having an affär.
nick would admit to his unfaitfhfulness ur claim it was only one time and that it would never happen again.
fiona would keep a journal, she would document her day -to- day. and would note that in a heated argument about the afäre nick had called her old anf fat , which he felt belittled by.
the argument would end with the couple making up and desciding they cold move past this. this issue.
Nick would later write this letter to fiona.
it’s not uncommon for couples to hhave issuses with their relationship. and fiona and nick appear to have gone past the worst.
fiona would be sen in this video posted on Twitter daning and joying herself while teaching at astfield academy.not long afte her and nick had experienced issuses
sometimes howevcer thngs are not always as they seen.
the previous situation was eating away at fiona and she devised a plan that would solved the siutation for good.
November 1st 201 the world was under pandemic conditions and fiona thought she use this to her advantage.
nick had headed out for the day to to continue working on a house renocation that he bad been close to compliting for his job.
as the day would come to an end h would finish up and return home.
fiona would have a bath before luring nick with a promises of intercourse up to the bedroom .
she would later this addition to her journal . it would read ;” i enouraged the bath with the incentive of sex afterwards . while he was in the bath , i kept the knife in my dressing gown pocket and then hid it in the drawer next to the bed.i bought a chisel bin bag and calbe ties up too.i got him to waer the eye mask.
nuck would asked to wear the mask with fiona claimingshe had a suprise for him .she would the pull out the knife and hit nick in the neck with it. causing it sever his jugular vein .fiona would later recount the suprised look on nicks face as he he simple ask” why”
as the confused man would lie on the bed with his life slowly slipping away , fiona would simply stare at him,offereing no hel or explanation
she would later add to her journa, entry with the following” it was harder than i thought it would be, hiding a body was bad,moving a body is much more diffucult than it looks on TV.
fiona had carried out hpase one of ther plans and would continue to phase two. agw qouls contact her employer, stating that she had tested positive for Covid. which at the time would mean a mandatory 10 days- isolation period.this would give her 10 days of uninterrupted time to carry out the next plan steps.
she would secure nicks credit card and begin purschasing things from the internet.
purchasing new bloodstain ones an adlt sex toy and an herb grinded to grind up a marijuana. the spending with nick’s money was far from over however.
however fionawould also place an order of an incinerator which which would be delivered to her home.
paint would also be purchased and she would repaint the bedroom where the crime took place to cover the blood.
she would then place a click and collect order from a local B6Q. department strore . later that day she is seen CCTV coming to to collect the order of a 50 L bags of compost 10 large bags of cotswald stone and plastic trough.
fiona struggles to pulll the foosa on a trolley purchased with a dead man’s credit card.
she would later return home and begin the process of creating a makeshift grave on the side of her property in wchich to disposel of the body.
after having completed the gastly deed, she would later set up her newly purchased incinerator. any and all items that belonged to nick was then incinerated she would later set up her newly purchased incinerator.
and all items that belonged to nick was then incinerated as any evidence of his existence was reduced to ash
having completed phase two of her plan , she would now move on to the third and final phase.
she wouls bow continue on with life as per usual,returning to work teacxhing children.
she would even take them on a school trip to london,carrying on her life as if nothing ever happened.
after a short while .nicks family who hasty seen him in some time would ask the owner where he was. she would claimed they btoth split up ,as he he has runawayrith hisother women while.
the family thought that was rather odd t,they would send nick text messages. which he respond to. he would claim everything was okay and he was doing well.
weeks would continue to pass by until christmas would come around
fiona would by nick mom’ around for a christmas drink conversing
with be not knowing that her son’s dead body lay buried in the garden…
only a few feeet away….
throughiyt the christmas period qand inti early 2022,family and frends would continue to message nick to check in with him.
they would always receive a reply back , stating that he was fine and everything was good with him.
little thery know that nick was already dead and iy esd in fact fiona that was sending messages to his family. assuring them that he was fine.in february of 2022 ,fiona Bea would take leave from work setting anxiety stress, depression and low mood as the reason why.
this time the text messages from nick would begin to get unanswered.this was because fona had rented a cambin in cumbria several hours away in northwest england
while at the cabin she had sent messages to familt members which gave them cos of concern.the cryptic messages hinted at her possible doing something to herself.
fiona’s family would contact police asking for a welfare scheck. authorities would arrive at the cabin and find fiona with a journal sitting on the table for anybody to read.
as one officer quickly gazed over the journal ,he would com to realization that this was in fact an mission of murder
a police would visit fionas residents in march of 2022 to take a look around
initially they would find nothng out of the ordinary and leave the house found nothing
that is until they return the following day to have a second look in the basement. they would locate a matress with a large blood stain on it.
this would give the police an insight into horrofic act that took place here.
as they would search the property futher, they would question what look to have been a ecently renovated section of the garden.
they would excavate the area which would in turn reveal the mummified remains of nick billingham.he had been wrapped in blankets and was in an advanced state of decompisiton.
fiona beal was imediatelly arrested.
when the news came out publicly the community was absolutely shocked.
the well respected woman that had taught many of their kids had led a secret double life of a murderer.
she would eventually be sent to trial where her defens attorney andrew wheeler would caling her actions brave andpraise her for pleading guilty and courageous, he would add the comments ;” she has had the courage to enter a plea of murder,which as the court knows happens extremely rarely.”
mr wheeler would go on to tell the court that beal cannot remember any of the details of the killing or the period after due to traumatic amnesia fiona beal had planned on taking her own life at the cabin in cumbria.living a journal as evidence.but didn’t got to go throug with it.
as details would come out throughout the trial,she would claim that she was mentally abused by nick which led her to carry out the horrific act . personality disortder were also brought to light. allthough no concrete evidence could ever substantial her claim.
she would initially plead guilty of manslaughter but would eventually change it to plead guilty to charge of murder.
judge mark lacraft would have some daming comments as he describe the crime that took place.
” having done what yhou do, you pretended to the outside world that nick had left you and was having an affär. you lied to his mother, family and close firends. to your own family and to those you worked with about what you had done.
those lies continued for monts, a detailed schedule of events spanning the period from the 27th of october 2021 thro8gh to march 2022, shows your planning , how you acted to fulfill that plan.
and it sets out the detals of the deception you engaged in after the killing.you show no regret in your actions and instead went online using nick’s money to purchase cleaning .
replacement items to cover up that you had killed him . you brought everything you used to bury him with his own money.
-judge.
which judge find diabolic and disgusting.
” the pathologist states that the cause of death was a single stab wound to the right hand side of the neck ,transecting the right jugular vain and in sizing the esophagus and trachea .
it would have required niderate firce but severa force cannoot be exluded, the wound was 6 cm deep the entry was 3 .7 cm ,the pathaloghist also states that the neck wound would not be expected to be immediately incapacitating and this ties in with the entry in your joutnsl as to him asking ” why ” when you were in process of carrying out your planned attack”
– judge.
“there are number of trips to B and Q to acquire the materials that you used, some awuired using his bank card or account to make the burial of the body complete. there are texts to those who nick worked for,his friends the use of accounts in his name aquire other items includding domestic bedding and a vibrator as well as fabricated messages from his phone yours to support the narrative that youe were giving to others including X.
you purshased many discretionary items for the home and yourself over that protracted period and continues to use nicks phone to access pornography on numerous occassions.you use cannabis extensively in this period often purchased for you by X.”
– judge
“i do not wish there to be any misunderstanding as the sentence passed, as with the passing of any life sentence it is that a life sentence in your case life in prisonment . in determining the minimum term the court is not saying that you will be released at that date.
the sentence is one of life imprisonment.the minimum term is the term is you must serve before the parole board can consider your case and consider whether you are someone where it is safe for you then to be released on license or not .”
-judge
Fiona beal would have the chance to be paroled at 69 years of age , allthough she has the chance of parole , there’ s no guarantee that she will be granted it.
this cases is disturbing for many for many reasons
fiona beal from an outside persepctive was an notmsl ptimary school teacher, she was highly regarded as a teacher and had no ptrbious convictions.
there was nothing to suggest through her professional life at school or her personal life ,that she was capable of such a terrible crime.
this really puts into persspective that uyou never really know what people are like behind closed doors. and what skeletons they might have hiding in the closet.
for nick bingham’s family this finally brought some closure for what was a terrible and traumatic time in their lives…….