Fiona Beal gets life sentence with a minimum of 20 years

A primary school teacher who stabbed her boyfriend and buried him in the garden was ‘coercively controlled’ by her partner, a court heard. Fiona Beal, 50, lured builder Nick Billingham, 42, into the bedroom with the promise of sex and before ‘executing’ him in the Northampton home they shared. The Year 6 teacher told friends they had tested positive for Covid so she would not be disturbed while she built a makeshift grave and repainted her home to hide the…