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Murder charge after body found buried in Northampton garden


Fiona Beal, 48, was charged with murder just after midnight after being arrested at a hotel in Cumbria on Wednesday.

The body is believed to be that of a 42-year-old missing man.

Ms Beal, of Moore Street, is due to appear at Northampton Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Northamptonshire police said they began searching the property after being called to the house on Wednesday.
 
A PRIMARY school teacher has appeared in court for the murder of her partner after his body was found buried in a back garden.

Nick Billingham is alleged to have been murdered by his partner Fiona Beal, 48, between October 30 and November 10.

[...]

Beal spoke today only to give her address, a house in Moore Street where the body was found.

She was remanded into custody to appear at Northampton Crown Court on Tuesday.


VIDEO OF GARDEN IN ARTICLE
Teacher, 48, in court for murder of partner after his body found in garden
 
Primary school teacher, 48, appears in court charged with murdering her partner | Daily Mail Online
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''Defending, Neil Clarke made no application for bail.
Beal's next court appearance will be at Northampton Crown Court at 9.30am tomorrow.
Neighbours living on the street where Mr Billingham's body was found today spoke of their shock following the grim discovery.
One resident, who did not want to be named, said: 'The guy who lived there helped me out about two years ago pushing the car in the ice.
'He was a smallish chap, very fit looking. I haven't seen him in this street since late July. It could even go back a bit later than October.
'He was such pleasant guy, ever so nice. We had some snow and ice and he helped pushed my car out for me.''
 
dotr said:
Primary school teacher, 48, appears in court charged with murdering her partner | Daily Mail Online
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''Defending, Neil Clarke made no application for bail.
Beal's next court appearance will be at Northampton Crown Court at 9.30am tomorrow.
Neighbours living on the street where Mr Billingham's body was found today spoke of their shock following the grim discovery.
One resident, who did not want to be named, said: 'The guy who lived there helped me out about two years ago pushing the car in the ice.
'He was a smallish chap, very fit looking. I haven't seen him in this street since late July. It could even go back a bit later than October.
'He was such pleasant guy, ever so nice. We had some snow and ice and he helped pushed my car out for me.''
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Picture of the rear garden in that article -

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It looks as if he was possibly buried at the side of the house where the green sheeting is obstructing view.
 
Primary school staff have spoken of their shock after one of their colleagues was charged with murdering a man found buried in a back garden.

Eastfield Academy in Northampton said the death of Nicholas Billingham is an “appalling tragedy that will shake our school community” after Fiona Beal was formally accused of his murder.

[...]

She [Beal] was arrested at a Cumbria hotel just after midnight on Wednesday – the same day Northamptonshire Police began their detailed search.

Forensic officers and specialist search teams, including a cadaver dog, were deployed before Saturday’s discovery.

Primary school’s shock as teacher is charged with murdering man found in garden
 
Oh my.

I wonder how long he'd actually been missing?

ETA: How old is their daughter? Did she wonder what mummy was doing in the back garden, all the digging? And no sign of dad?

Where was his work van?

I hadn't even heard he was missing, was it reported?

so many questions.
 
jiffajaffa31 said:
How the alleged was able to dig a hole large enough without neighbours seeing or hearing anything is mind boggling to me ( or perhaps they did and we haven't heard about it yet).
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The Daily Mail link posted above quotes a neighbour:

“The neighbour added: 'He [Mr Billingham] had struggled for work during the pandemic so I offered him some work.

'I can see his garden from my house. It's just piles of mud.'”

Perhaps it’s been that way for a while, maybe the garden was being worked on in some way and the ground was dug up and turned over for a while? Alternatively, this is what happened as a result of disinterring the body. Lots of details of this case are very surprising.
 
As the CPS have stated in Court today that NB was allegedly murdered between 30 Oct-10 Nov, it may be that he was missing since some time in October.

JMO based on the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service’s submissions in Court today. Which are on the Court transcript as an official submission from the prosecutor.
 
I'm struggling to think of a case previously where the female partner has killed and buried the male partner in the back garden!

Will be interesting to hear details as they emerge but, I just help but feel for their child who's lost parents now :(
 
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