How 殺し屋 最初の／主要な school teacher Fiona Beal tried to cover her 跡をつけるs: 殺害者 sent string of text messages from her partner's phone and （人命などを）奪う，主張するd they were 孤立するing with Covid after stabbing him to death and burying his 団体／死体 in 支援する garden

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A 最初の／主要な school teacher who 殺人d her 'cheating' partner?sent a string of text messages from his phone and （人命などを）奪う，主張するd they were 孤立するing with Covid after stabbing him to death.?

Fiona Beal, 50, 誘惑するd?42-year-old 建設業者 Nick Billingham to their room for sex before tying him to the bed with cable 関係, stabbing him in the neck and burying his 団体／死体 in their garden at their home in Northampton on November 1, 2021.

Mr Billingham was 設立する by police すぐに after officers discovered a notebook with a '冷気／寒がらせるing' 自白 inside に引き続いて a 自殺 試みる／企てる in March 2022.

On the day of the 殺人，大当り, Beal told her teacher 同僚s that her and her partner had both 実験（する）d 肯定的な for Covid, 確実にするing she would not be 乱すd while she buried him in the garden and painted over the 血 on the 塀で囲むs.

In another 冷気／寒がらせるing 行為／法令／行動する to cover her 跡をつけるs, the '高度に 有能な' teacher texted Mr Billingham's mother?Yvonne?Valentine on December 30, 2021, pretending to be her 死んだ son.

Beal fooled Yvonne into thinking Mr Billingham had moved to Essex and started a new life with a fictitious woman called 妖精／密着させる, 約束ing to 接触する her again 'once things had 静めるd 負かす／撃墜する'.?

Fiona Beal, 50, has 認める to 殺人ing her 42-year-old boyfriend Nicholas Billingham. She's seen in a mugshot 解放（する）d today?

Nick Billingham, pictured in a Man 部隊d football shirt, was 設立する by police すぐに after officers discovered a notebook with a '冷気／寒がらせるing' 自白 inside に引き続いて a 自殺 試みる／企てる in March 2022

To cover her 跡をつけるs after Mr Billingham's 殺人, Beal sent this text to his mother Yvonne Valentine on December 30, 2021, pretending to be her 死んだ son

Speaking after the 有罪の 嘆願, Mr Billingham's mother Yvonne also 明らかにする／漏らすd that just before Christmas, months after her son was 殺人d, Beal had 申し込む／申し出d a drink and chatted with her, all while knowing he was dead in a 一時しのぎの物，策 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な metres away.

She said: 'Nick was my firstborn and he was very loving little boy, cheeky, mischievous, things that boys are like. He had friends, he loved his football.

'How you could hate someone that much to do what she did I can't believe it, and 明らかに his last word was 'why' when she stabbed him in the neck.'

Recounting an occasion after her son's death, she 追加するd: 'I walked into the house and in the living room and the first thing I thought was, "ooh you've turned all your furniture 一連の会議、交渉／完成する".

'Fiona 申し込む／申し出d me a Christmas drink, and I said thank you, so I sat there with this drink, but then it always gets to me because Nick was buried in the garden just a few feet away and I didn't know he was there.

'I try not to think about it too much but I do, it's horrible.'

Mr Billingham's 団体／死体 went undiscovered for four months before police 設立する Beal's 定期刊行物, in which she wrote how her lover asked 'why?' when she knifed him.

In it, she had written about her 'dark 味方する' which she 述べるd as '無謀な' and 'ruthless' - before 述べるing how moving a 団体／死体 is 'harder than it looks on TV.'

They then dug up the garden and 暴露するd his mummified remains wrapped in sheeting in a 一時しのぎの物，策 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な filled with compost and ten 22.5kg 捕らえる、獲得するs of Cotswold 石／投石する that she bought from B&Q 特に for the 目的.

Mr Billingham's mother Yvonne, who visited Beal after she 殺人d her son and?chatted with her, all while his 殺し屋 knew he was dead in a 一時しのぎの物，策 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な metres away

Beal pictured with her buried boyfriend who she buried in a 一時しのぎの物，策 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な filled with compost and ten 22.5kg 捕らえる、獲得するs of Cotswold 石／投石する that she bought from B&Q

Mr Billingham's 団体／死体 went undiscovered in the garden of their Northampton home (pictured) for four months

Beal had 最初 pleaded 有罪の to the lesser offence of 過失致死 by 推論する／理由 of of a loss of 支配（する）／統制する, but 否定するd 殺人ing Mr Billingham between October 30 and November 10 2021.

Her defence team argued at the first 裁判，公判: 'Fiona Beal is unable to 解任する many of the 詳細（に述べる）s of the actual 行為／法令／行動する itself. The 公式文書，認めるs, the scribblings, are （疑いを）晴らす 証拠 of a 乱すd mind.'

But a 陪審／陪審員団 at the Old Bailey heard today that she had changed her 嘆願.

It can now be 明らかにする／漏らすd that a notebook 設立する by police 明らかにする／漏らすd how Beal, 令状ing as Tulip22, 述べるd hiding a knife in a 病人の枕元 drawer and getting Mr Billingham to wear an 注目する，もくろむ mask before his pre-planned 殺人.

It was also said the notebook 含む／封じ込めるd a （人命などを）奪う，主張する that Beal had been spat on and 脅すd during sex and 支配するd to cruel and belittling 治療.

Beal's 罪，犯罪s were unravelled when she was 設立する at a 宿泊する 近づく Kendal in Cumbria in March 2022 after 苦しむing superficial 負傷させるs and 令状ing 'what read like a 自殺 公式文書，認める'. She was then taken to the 地元の hospital and 拘留するd under the Mental Health 行為／法令／行動する.

によれば the 初期の 裁判，公判, police officers 回復するd a notebook from the place where she had been renting that 詳細（に述べる）d a 冷気／寒がらせるing account of how she had planned and killed someone, but it did not 含む／封じ込める the 指名する of the person she had killed.

The 裁判，公判 heard that Northamptonshire Police were then 接触するd and visited Beal's home to find a bloodstained mattress in the 地階 and an 明らかな 血 stain on the bed でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる in the master bedroom.

裁判官 示す Lucraft told Beal on Friday: 'You have this morning pleaded 有罪の to 殺人, which as you have no 疑問 been told, carries a 宣告，判決 of life 監禁，拘置.'

As the 陪審／陪審員団 left the courtroom, a tearful Beal wiped her 注目する，もくろむs with a tissue.

Beal was 逮捕（する）d leaving B&Q in Northampton, where she 購入（する）d ten 50 litre 捕らえる、獲得するs of compost, ten 22.5kg 捕らえる、獲得するs of Cotswold 石／投石する and a grey plastic 気圧の谷

Beal leaving the 金物類／武器類 蓄える／店 with her 購入（する）s on November 13, 2021?

The 殺害者 will remain in 保護／拘留 and be 宣告，判決d on May 29 and 30?

After 殺人ing her partner, Beal sent messages to friends （人命などを）奪う，主張するing they were both ill with Covid and had to 孤立する.

Beal 殺人d Mr Billingham in their bedroom late on November 1.

An 抽出する from her diary 供給するd a 詳細（に述べる）d account from Tulip22 of the events 主要な up to the 殺人.

It read: 'Everything changed last year. There's a 引用する from 'Thelma and Louise' that feels appropriate, "Thelma: 'You be 甘い to them, 特に your wife. My husband wasn't 甘い to me."

'I suppose I せねばならない explain what happened to get me to this point. My mental health had been 悪化するing. Whenever he was cheating he would up the 賭け金 on belittling, moaning and criticising.'

'I have to 自白する. Ok here goes. October 2021. He spat on me and 脅すd me during sex. I thought about leaving but the things he said and did fuelled my dark 味方する - I call her Tulip22, she's 無謀な, fearless and efficient. Ruthless.

'I started plotting as Tulip22 after he'd gone to bed. I could no longer sleep in the bed 予定 to my breathing 存在 too loud or I moved too much or I was snoring or etc etc.'

The 法廷，裁判所 heard the notebook 入ること／参加（者）, which referred to 17 years of 'him' 存在 argumentative, mean, cruel and belittling, continued: 'I knew I couldn't let him get away with it. Halloween 調印（する）d it. He was vile.

'That night I planned. Covid 支配するs meant I had a 保証（人）d 10-day 孤立／分離 period from 肯定的な symptoms.

'I called (Beal's headteacher) on the Monday and said we'd 実験（する）d 肯定的な and had symptoms. He went to work. Tulip22 smoked and planned. I'd planned it mentally so many times before.

'I had a bath. I left the water in. I encouraged 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 brought a chisel, 貯蔵所 捕らえる、獲得する and cable 関係 up too.

'I got him to wear an 注目する，もくろむ mask. It was harder than I thought it would be. Hiding a 団体／死体 was bad. Moving a 団体／死体 is much more difficult than it looks on TV.'

The '高度に 有能な' teacher told friends the pair had 実験（する）d 肯定的な for Covid so that she would not be 乱すd while she buried Mr Billingham's 団体／死体?

Mr Billingham had 事件／事情／状勢s before and moved out of the home, but the couple had reconciled

検察官，検事 Hugh Davies, KC, told the Old Bailey: 'Central to the 計画（する） was knowing that after stabbing him, if she （人命などを）奪う，主張するd she had Covid, she would have 10 days to bury him and cover up her 罪，犯罪.

'And that's 正確に／まさに what happened. She was thinking about what time was best to do it, whether he would be snoring, but she knew or visualised it would be by stabbing him ''left to 権利, 負かす／撃墜する slight 権利''. And that's what she did - she stabbed him in his jugular vein in his neck.'

Mr Davies continued: The clean-up started as 早期に as 01.07am on 2 November. Using her dead partner's account, and then hers on アマゾン, she bought 多重の きれいにする 製品s, 含むing for Venetian blinds, a new mop and bucket, ultra 激しい 義務 貯蔵所 捕らえる、獲得するs, a new mattress, bedding, 着せる／賦与するing, 塀で囲む art and mirrors.

'This is considered, controlled, 行為／行う that is on the one 手渡す intrinsically practical, and on the other indulgent. On 1 November she 製造（する）d a 肯定的な Covid 実験（する） result-all you had to do was 完全にする the NHS questionnaire online app self-報告（する）／憶測 a 肯定的な 実験（する）.

'There is no 証拠 she ever did a PCR 実験（する）. Her 活動／戦闘s in the next 10 days are wholly inconsistent with having the exhausting 影響s of Covid which she was （人命などを）奪う，主張するing to be experiencing.'

Beal also sent messages to her sisters 説 they had 分裂（する） up, with one message 説 he left because he had had an 事件／事情／状勢 with another woman.

The 起訴 said the narrative that Mr Billingham had run off with another woman was '完全に 誤った'. But 賠審員s heard that Mr Billingham appeared to have cheated on Beal 以前.

She returned to work 'fully 発射する／解雇するing her かなりの 責任／義務s as a teacher to Year 6 pupils' and receiving a '同情的な 返答' from people who had heard about her break-up.

Her mental health started to 悪化する in late February 2022, the 法廷，裁判所 was told.

The に引き続いて month, she rented a cabin in Cumbria a nd sent messages to family members which gave them 原因（となる） for 関心 over her wellbeing, 誘発するing them to call police to check on her, the 検察官，検事 said.

In the cabin, police 設立する 定期刊行物s 'written in her 手渡す' that showed 'a wholly different 味方する to her personality'.

Beal had written in her 定期刊行物 that Mr Billingham asked 'why?' after she stabbed him.

Mr Davies said: 'They certainly do 含む／封じ込める some unambiguously （疑いを）晴らす 宣言s 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 冷淡な 血. She had 購入（する）d a (1)偽造する／(2)徐々に進むd 扱うd 公共事業（料金）／有用性 knife in the days before. She had a chisel and cable 関係.

'約束ing sex after a bath, she stabbed him in the neck when he was wearing a sleep mask and was probably cabled-tied on their bed.'

After the 殺人，大当り, friends and 同僚s of Beal said she appeared to 肉体的に transform.

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 told the first 裁判，公判: 'She was very 上昇傾向 on the day and looked fabulous and had lost so much 負わせる.

'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 法廷，裁判所 以前 heard that this was the second time a 裁判，公判 had started in the 事例／患者, with a different 陪審／陪審員団 - for a 裁判，公判 that took place in Northampton last year - 発射する／解雇するd before the end of the 証拠 for 合法的な 推論する／理由s.

に引き続いて Beal's 有罪の 嘆願 today, 探偵，刑事 長，指導者 視察官 Adam Pendlebury, from Northamptonshire Police, said: 'We are pleased Fiona Beal has now taken the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 収容する／認める she did indeed 殺人 Nick Bi llingham and hope that it brings the start of some 終結 to his family who have 直面するd a torrid time for more than two years, 含むing sitting through the 初めの 裁判，公判 in Northampton in 2023.

'Today's news will have come as a 広大な／多数の／重要な 救済 as they を待つ her 宣告，判決ing next month.'

Beal will remain in 保護／拘留 and be 宣告，判決d on May 29 and 30.