Inside the house of horrors where primary school teacher murdered cheating lover: Photos of couple's unassuming two-bed house show the bedroom where killer stabbed her partner to death in bloody rampage - then buried him under the patio
Photos reveal inside the house of horrors where a primary school teacher murdered her cheating lover.
Pictures of the couple's small two-bedroom house show the scene where the cold-hearted killed stabbed her partner to death in bloody rampage before burying him in the garden garden.
Fiona Beal, 50, lured Nick Billingham, 42, to their room for sex before tying him to the bed with cables ties and stabbing him in the neck.
Beal planned the brutal killing in her journal where she wrote under her alter ego 'Tulip22'.
The 'highly capable' primary school teacher lied to friends that the pair of them had tested positive for Covid so she would not be disturbed as she buried his body in the garden.
Fiona Beal, 50, lured Nick Billingham, 42, to their room for sex before tying him to the bed with cables ties and stabbing him in the neck in a brutal and calculated attack
The garden where Beal buried her lover after stabbing him in the neck. The garden is surrounded by pots of ivy and lavender and features a green metal table with a mosaic top
The bathroom where Beal set up a romantic evening, promising Mr Billingham sex after a bath. The compact bathroom features a free-standing white back and a pebble-dash feature wall
Pictures on Rightmove show a neat terraced home with a pale green front door on a seemingly quiet suburban street in Northampton.
Beal had promised Mr Billingham sex after her bath and photos on the website show the bathroom where the killer teacher had set the mood before brutally stabbing her lover in the chest.
Neat and compact, the bathroom with a floor to ceiling window and pebble-dash wall contains a free-standing bath, white porcelain washbasin, plants and expensive hand soap.
The estate agent website also shows a bedroom where the murderess could have tied her partner up using cable ties.
The calculating 50-year-old viciously stabbed Mr Billingham in the neck as he lay on their bed with a sleep mask.
The bedroom featured on the online viewing contains large wardrobes and a green velvet footstool.
The bed has a wooden frame and plain white bed sheets on as well as exposed wooden floorboards and a Persian rug.
Photos also show the flourishing garden where the teacher buried her victim.
A bedroom where Beal may have tied up her victim with cable ties before stabbing him in the neck as he lay relaxing on the bed with a sleeping mask on
The house where Beal carried out her twisted fantasy is a neat terrace in Northampton and features a light green front door and bush outside a bay window
A neat decking with a small, metal table and chairs is surrounded by brick walls and a brown fence and bots spilling over with ivy and lavender.
The teacher from Northampton was arrested in March 2022 after police discovered the body she had hidden in her garden.
After carrying out her brutal attack, the 'highly capable' teacher told friends the pair had tested positive for Covid-19 so that she would not be disturbed while she buried her victim in the garden at their Northampton home, jurors heard.
Beal then spent months using her partner's phone to message his friends and relatives pretending he was still alive and had moved in with another woman, the court heard.
His mummified body was found four months later wrapped in sheeting in a makeshift grave.
Police dug up the garden and uncovered his mummified remains wrapped in sheeting in a grave filled with compost and ten 22.5kg bags of Cotswold Stone that she bought from B&Q especially for the purpose.
Mr Billigham had had affairs before and moved out of the home, but the couple had reconciled, the court heard.
Mr Davies said: 'Central to the plan was knowing that after stabbing him, if she claimed she had Covid, she would have 10 days to bury him and cover up her crime.
'And that's exactly 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 right, down slight right''. And that's what she did - she stabbed him in his jugular vein in his neck.
