Fiona Beal: Primary school teacher admits murdering boyfriend who she buried in garden

• A primary school teacher has admitted murdering her partner, whose partly mummified remains were discovered four-and-a-half months after he was last seen. Fiona Beal, 50, was accused of stabbing her 42-year-old boyfriend Nicholas Billingham to death "in cold blood" before burying his body in their garden. At the beginning of her trial last week, jurors at the Old Bailey in central London heard Beal had pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter by reason of a loss of control - but denied she murdered Mr Billingham between 30 October and 10 November 2021.