最初の／主要な school teacher Fiona Beal lost 負わせる and 'looked fabulous' weeks after she stabbed her cheating boyfriend to death and buried him in the garden, 法廷，裁判所 hears
- Fiona Beal, 48, 否定するs the 殺人 of her 42-year-old partner Nicholas Billingham
- Ex-同僚s said she looked 'fabulous' in the weeks after the 申し立てられた／疑わしい 殺人，大当り
- Mr Billingham's mummified remains were 暴露するd four months after his death?
A 最初の／主要な school teacher lost 負わせる and 'looked fabulous' weeks after stabbing her cheating boyfriend to death and burying his 団体／死体 in the garden, a 法廷，裁判所 has heard.
Fiona Beal is （刑事）被告 of 誘惑するing Nicholas Billingham, 42, to bed for sex before blindfolding him and knifing him in the neck?in November 2021.?
Mr Billingham's mummified remains were discovered at the 所有物／資産／財産 in Northampton four months later on March 17 with an 注目する，もくろむ mask on that read: 'This is my morning after 直面する'.?
Beal's ex-同僚s told 賠審員s at Northampton 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 that in the weeks after the 申し立てられた／疑わしい 殺人，大当り, the Year Six teacher had transformed 肉体的に.?
Natalie Gardiner, a teacher who had worked with Beal at Eastfield 最初の／主要な School in Northampton, spoke to her in February 2022 and said: 'She was very 上昇傾向 on the day and looked fabulous and had lost so much 負わせる.
Fiona Beal, 49, (left) has gone on 裁判，公判 for fatally stabbing her long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 partner Nicholas Billingham, 42, (権利) at their Northampton home after believing he was having an 事件／事情／状勢
'When she returned from a school trip on February 25, she was 罰金 and happy and had a 広大な／多数の／重要な day before.
'The children had a 広大な／多数の／重要な time and there were no changes in her personality.'
賠審員s heard Beal was desperate for her long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 partner Mr Billingham to leave her home の直前に his death in November 2021.?
Mr Billingham was 設立する in the couple's 支援する garden weeks later. He had been wrapped in 貯蔵所 捕らえる、獲得するs, carpet, a duvet and cable 関係.?
Police were 警報d after they 設立する Beal had plotted the 殺人 in a '冷気／寒がらせるing' diary which was discovered when she tried to take her own life, 賠審員s were told.??
Speaking in 法廷，裁判所, Mrs Gardiner said in the weeks before Mr Billingham's death, Beal had told her she was struggling financially.??
She 追加するd that the pair would discuss their personal lives 'やめる often', the teacher told the 法廷，裁判所, 追加するing that they '攻撃する，衝突する it off and いつかs felt like we could read each other's minds'.
But she 追加するd: 'There wasn't an awful lot said about the 事件／事情／状勢.
賠審員s were told she 'looked fabulous' in the months after her boyfriend's death. She is pictured in February 2022, about three months after his death
'She just said they had got 支援する together, and he had an 事件／事情／状勢 in the past.
'We were outside having a cigarette and I said I had no money and was skint and so I was rolling my own cigarette and she said to me "that might be me soon".
'And I asked her why and Fiona said Nick had left and gone off with another woman again.
'I told her if you need anything you know where I am, and I asked her about 財政／金融s.
'Fiona told me she had asked Nick to 調印する the house over to her but he wouldn't and might have to buy him out and didn't know how much that might cost her.
'A few days later Fiona told me that Nick 手配中の，お尋ね者 to keep the house in both their 指名するs.
Mr Billingham's remains were discovered buried in the garden of the couple's home in Northamptonshire on March 17, 2022.
Fiona Beal (pictured)?is standing 裁判，公判 for the 殺人 of her long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 partner Nicholas Billingham
'I got the impression from Fiona that the house was a 安全な 港／避難所 for him and it would be 安全な for him to come 支援する if the 事件／事情／状勢 didn't work.
'Fiona said that the 関係 was over, and she wouldn't let him come 支援する.
'She didn't want the house to be a place he could do what he liked and come 支援する. This was stressful for her.'
述べるing Beal as a teacher, Mrs Gardiner 追加するd she was 'amazing' and that the 'children loved her'.?
Another of Beal's former 同僚s' Claire Mills, former headteacher of Eastfield 学院 in Northampton, 述べるd her as 'one of the best'.
She 追加するd she was aware of Mr Billingham's 事件／事情／状勢 but 追加するd it was 'not something' she discussed with the 被告.
The 陪審／陪審員団 was shown a screenshot of a sickness 記録，記録的な／記録する showing Beal had had a 一連の absences from school.
It showed she was off work on November 1, 2021, November 7, February 2, 2022 and February 28.
法廷の officers at the scene in Moore Street, Kingsley, Northampton, after the 団体／死体 was discovered last year
The 法廷，裁判所 heard 以前 Beal killed Nicholas in their bedroom before 絵 and きれいにする the 罪，犯罪 scene and phoned in sick to work to cover her 跡をつけるs
Mrs Mills said: 'She said that they had both been 貧しく with Covid and Nick was worse because he hadn't been vaccinated.
'She told me Nick had gone and said that the Covid had come from a woman he had had an 事件／事情／状勢 with. That is what she thought.?
'Fiona didn't look 特に 井戸／弁護士席 so we spoke about the symptoms that she had but said she was keen to get 支援する to work.'
The 法廷，裁判所 then heard Beal had more time off に引き続いて a sickness bug on February 28, 2022.
Mrs Mills said she became 関心d when Beal stopped 答える／応じるing to her text messages so she 接触するd her mother Julia.
Mrs Mills said: 'Fiona's mum read out a message to me which was along the lines of "I am sorry I won't be 支援する; I need more time and space to think. Sorry for letting you 負かす／撃墜する".'
Nottingham?栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 was 以前 shown （映画の）フィート数 of Beal purchasing the compost that she 恐らく used to bury her boyfriend.
The （映画の）フィート数, which was played to 賠審員s at Northampton 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 last week, shows Beal visiting a B&Q 蓄える／店 on the afternoon of November 13 2021, 12 days after she is 申し立てられた／疑わしい to have stabbed Mr Billingham.?
Nottingham 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 was 以前 shown （映画の）フィート数 of Beal at B&Q 購入（する）ing the compost that she 恐らく used to bury her boyfriend
The trolleys 含む／封じ込めるd ten 50-litre 捕らえる、獲得するs of compost, 同様に as ten large 捕らえる、獲得するs of Cotswold 石／投石する. Beal also 購入（する）d a plastic 気圧の谷 on the shopping trip
Mr Billingham's remains were discovered after a diary the 起訴 says belonged to Beal was 設立する に引き続いて her botched 自殺 試みる／企てる.
The 法廷，裁判所 以前 heard how the notebook 詳細（に述べる）d how she was driven to 殺人，大当り an 無名の person and 非難するd her dark alter-ego Tulip22 - who was '無謀な, fearless and efficient.'
She also made a 言及／関連 to the 1991 film Thelma and Louise and wrote about struggling to move the 団体／死体 which was 'much more difficult than on TV'.
The 法廷，裁判所 heard Beal carried out the attack on November 1, 2021 before penning the '自白' after 恐れるing her partner of 17 years had been cheating on her again.
賠審員s also heard Mr Billingham begged Beal to take him 支援する after he had an 事件／事情／状勢. One of his friends, Greg Johnson told the 法廷，裁判所: 'He was やめる distraught about what he had done [the 事件／事情／状勢].
'He started crying... I was trying to give him advice about how to get 支援する with Fiona if this is what he 手配中の，お尋ね者.
法廷のs officers are pictured at the scene of the couple's Northampton home in March 2022 after Mr Billingham's 団体／死体 was discovered
The 罪，犯罪 was only 暴露するd when police, 答える／応じるing to a 自殺 試みる／企てる by Beal, 設立する a 定期刊行物 in which she penned a 自白, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing it was her dark alter-ego Tulip22 who planned and carried out the attack
'He began to 会合，会う up with her again and before 会合 up with her he would いつかs come to my house on 大勝する and ask for general advice.
'A few dates in, he asked if he should ask her [Fiona] for a kiss or ask to stay over and I told him to take it slow after what he had done.
'He said there were some 条件s Fiona had put to him before he was able to move 支援する in.
'She asked him to stop 存在 self-雇うd and get a 職業 so they could buy a 所有物／資産／財産 of their own and to move out of the village, so they were not 近づく the girlfriend [mistress] that was 妊娠している.
'He then told me that they were moving and where he was moving too and he told me to not be a stranger and I should pop in.
'I though Fiona was a 星／主役にする for taking him 支援する after the 事件／事情／状勢 and child and I thought they had no problems; they were 罰金 and finally happy.
Beal is standing 裁判，公判 at Northampton 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 (pictured)?
'When he moved 支援する in with Fiona, everything seemed to be going 権利 and he was a happier person.'
Mr Johnson said Mr Billingham 'had a heart of gold' and he had tried to 接触する him over Christmas 2021 but without success.
He said: 'I tried to text him again but still no answer.
'A couple of weeks into the new year about the January 12 I received a phone call from a friend asking if Nick had changed his number and said "I don't know I can't get 持つ／拘留する of him either".
'This got me thinking where is he?
'He was just a lovely bloke.'
Beal 収容する／認めるs unlawfully 殺人，大当り Nicholas but 否定するs 殺人 予定 to her 明言する／公表する of mind at the time.
The 裁判，公判 continues.
