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This is the weirdest trial scheduling ever.

Trial not sitting on these dates -

May - Fri 12th, Tue 16th, Wed 17th, Mon 29th, Tue 30th, Wed 31st
June - Thu 1st, Fri 2nd, Thu 8th, Fri 9th

Jury can expect to start deliberating week beginning June 12th


www.northamptonchron.co.uk

Trial of murder accused Northampton teacher Fiona Beal extended by one month

The jury is expected to retire to consider their verdict in the week commencing June 12, the court heard
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The following Apple Note discovered on Beal’s iPhone was read aloud to the court: “Confession. Final farewell. I am beginning this book to you on Saturday 12th February 2022. Its been 3 months and 12 days. I’m not a total monster. I know what I did.”

Beal was asked who this was addressed to. She said, “I don’t know specifically.”
“I would say it was just thoughts in my head,” she added.

(In the rest of the article there’s more about Tulip22, a lot of “I don’t remember” and contradictions when cross examined)

www.northamptonchron.co.uk

Fiona Beal says she ‘can't remember’ writing book confessing to Nicholas Billingham’s murder

The cross examination of murder-accused Fiona Beal commenced today
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The court heard that, when the pair lived in Compton Way in Earls Barton, Beal did not like Mr Billingham working off the books.

Beal explained to the court that this was because she was claiming benefits but, as Mr Billingham was not registered to the property, she did not disclose his income on benefit application forms and she would, therefore, receive more money than she should.
The defendant claimed that Mr Billingham did not want anything registered in his name because debt collection companies were pursuing him and anything in his name would be seized as assets.
Mr Perian told the court this meant Beal had been dishonestly claiming benefits. Beal admitted that the information she put on the forms was inaccurate.

www.northamptonchron.co.uk

Fiona Beal Trial: Teacher accused of murder admits to dishonestly claiming benefits for a number of years

The teacher accused of murdering her partner, denied calling him “Nick Freak Nick” to her sister
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Such a strange case!

From the above article why would the step father and sister lie about the cleaning and nick name, they'd have nothing to gain from it

also wonder as a home owner and teacher I wonder what benefits she'd be claiming- this makes me think she is a mother
 
AcbMurders said:
Exactly. She’s contradicting her own defence witnesses and making the prosecution’s job easier imo.
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I wonder if it contradicts something she already said about him before trial, and if she agrees with them now it just stacks up the lies she's told. Like perhaps she'd said he was lazy and made her do all the cleaning.
 
Luwin said:
Such a strange case!

From the above article why would the step father and sister lie about the cleaning and nick name, they'd have nothing to gain from it

also wonder as a home owner and teacher I wonder what benefits she'd be claiming- this makes me think she is a mother
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It says that when they lived in their previous address she was claiming their benefits....when she lives in Earls Barton. But the address where this happened was Moore Street (Northampton). So how long ago did they live there?
Because I feel like she teacher trained in the past 10 years, not since leaving uni (if I remember correctly) - I am a teacher and remember thinking "Oh she went into teaching in her late 30s/early 40s then).
So possibly she was on benefits and renting before she trained as a teacher, got a job, and then bought a house. Guessing if she was unemployed before or on low income, she would qualify for Universal Credit of some sort?
 
Beal told the court that, after she initially found out about the affair in March 2018, Mr Billingham was debating moving in with the mistress. Mr Perian asked Beal how she felt about that.

Beal replied: “Um… it’s difficult to say. She invaded our lives and I actually thought it might be better if he did.”
The court heard that Mr Billingham moved in with the other woman in September 2018 where he remained for around three months before finding out about the pregnancy. He moved to his cousin’s house and then shared accommodation.
Beal told the court that, during this time, Mr Billingham would turn up to their Earls Barton address “crying a lot” and saying that he had made a “mistake.”

(…)

www.northamptonchron.co.uk

Fiona Beal: Teacher who killed partner says she was ‘disgusted’ at mistress for ‘invading’ their lives

The mistress posted a baby scan and letters to Beal’s home address and work
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Invited by Mr Perian to tell the jury what her cannabis consumption was before she had stabbed Mr Billingham, Beal said: “I was smoking quite a lot at that point.

“If I wasn’t working… maybe 10 joints a day. Around £50 a week.”




The Crown alleges that Beal had not tested positive for Covid, but killed her partner after telling her school that she had contracted the virus.
Questioned about messages she sent to her school, Beal answered: “I thought I had (tested positive) but now I am not so sure.

www.shropshirestar.com

Teacher smoked ‘maybe 10 joints a day’ when not working before partner’s killing

Fiona Beal denies the murder of Nicholas Billingham but admits she unlawfully killed him with a stab wound.
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AcbMurders said:
Invited by Mr Perian to tell the jury what her cannabis consumption was before she had stabbed Mr Billingham, Beal said: “I was smoking quite a lot at that point.

“If I wasn’t working… maybe 10 joints a day. Around £50 a week.”




The Crown alleges that Beal had not tested positive for Covid, but killed her partner after telling her school that she had contracted the virus.
Questioned about messages she sent to her school, Beal answered: “I thought I had (tested positive) but now I am not so sure.

www.shropshirestar.com

Teacher smoked ‘maybe 10 joints a day’ when not working before partner’s killing

Fiona Beal denies the murder of Nicholas Billingham but admits she unlawfully killed him with a stab wound.
www.shropshirestar.com www.shropshirestar.com
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10 joints a day!
 
When it was put to her that the killing had “nothing to do with cannabis use”, she replied: “I don’t know.”

She then rejected the suggestion she had killed Billingham because she suspected he was having an affair, saying: “No. There had been plenty of affairs over the years.”

Perian asked: “This was a revenge killing, wasn’t it?”

“No,” Beal replied.

theguardian.com

Northampton teacher who stabbed her partner denies killing was ‘revenge’

Fiona Beal, 49, denies charge of murdering Nicholas Billingham, 42, and burying his body in their garden
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The former Eastfield Academy teacher was asked if she had thought about killing Mr Billingham by October 2021. She said she had “fleeting” thoughts of thinking it would be better if he was not there.
“I suppose wishing he was dead sometimes,” she added.
(…)
The prosecution questioned Beal about purchases she made on Mr Billingham’s credit cards and Amazon account including heavy duty refuse bin bags, venetian blind cleaner and mattress protector for a double bed in the early hours of November 2, 2021 - the day after she killed Mr Billingham.
On later dates, Beal used her partner’s card to purchase sex toys and watched *advertiser censored* on his phone.

www.northamptonchron.co.uk

Prosecutor accuses Fiona Beal of being 'cruel' and carrying out ‘revenge killing’ of partner

Beal told the court that she smoked 10 joints of cannabis a day before killing her partner
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Giving evidence at Northampton Crown Court heard on Monday, Beal told jurors she could not remember using Mr Billingham's phone to change her council tax status from double to single occupancy, view online *advertiser censored*, move his van and order a galvanised wood burner after his death.

She also claimed she had no memory of using the 42-year-old’s credit card to renew her TV licence nine days after he is believed to have been killed.

 
AcbMurders said:
Giving evidence at Northampton Crown Court heard on Monday, Beal told jurors she could not remember using Mr Billingham's phone to change her council tax status from double to single occupancy, view online *advertiser censored*, move his van and order a galvanised wood burner after his death.

She also claimed she had no memory of using the 42-year-old’s credit card to renew her TV licence nine days after he is believed to have been killed.

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Well, it was Tulip22 doing these things it seems.

JMO
 
AcbMurders said:
Giving evidence at Northampton Crown Court heard on Monday, Beal told jurors she could not remember using Mr Billingham's phone to change her council tax status from double to single occupancy, view online *advertiser censored*, move his van and order a galvanised wood burner after his death.
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You can move a van with a phone? The world is starting to scare me.
 
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