Primary school teacher, 50, pretended she had COVID after killing cheating boyfriend during sex game – and used 10 day isolation from ‘illness’ to bury him in the backyard, court hears

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1. I’d imagine a lot of people were still at home isolating during this time. How do you not notice your neighbour burying a body in the garden?

2. In all fairness, she accomplished more than I do when I pull a sicky.

3. > 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.

   Damn. That is seriously messed up.

   Not taking days or weeks, but *months*.

4. I reckon they will successfully push for diminished responsibility and she’ll be out in 8 years

5. Should have claimed rough sex, courts eat that up for an excuse.

6. Considering that she tied him up and wrote journals planning his murder, I really hope she doesn’t manage to get anyone to believe her on ‘loss of control’.

   You can’t pre-plan and then act like ‘oh it just happened in the moment!’.

7. > killing boyfriend during sex game

   > stabbed her boyfriend in the neck

   Is this the first time in history the mail chooses a headline less sensational than the article itself?

8. “hey big boy, get naked and bring that knife over here 😘” – edit: I wrote that before I actually read the article, and it looks like that’s exactly what happened.

9. Backyard? Don’t we have gardens anymore? Why the Americanism?

10. >A primary school teacher stabbed her cheating boyfriend in the neck in a ‘chilling domestic execution’ then told her friends she had Covid to buy herself more time to bury him in their garden, a court today heard.

    Stabbing someone in the neck isn’t exactly “killing someone during a sex game”

    In fact, I think it’s more like “murdering someone in cold blood”

11. > Fiona Beal, 50, lured builder Nick Billingham into the bedroom for sex then knifed him in the neck when he was tied to the bed on November 1, 2021, the Old Bailey was told.

    How is “tie me up and knife me” a “sex game”?

12. Anyone know if there’s a way to stay on r/unitedkingdom but not see the Daily Mail articles?

13. I didn’t realise this was back in court. No mention in the Chron!

14. I bet they’ll be a Netflix adaptation in the works soon.

15. Where’s all the women to talk about toxic feminity in these cases or is it just a one way street ? 

16. Where was this teacher located because I swear I recognise her?

17. This is why Rishi wants to stop self certification sick notes 🤣
    (Sorry. Couldn’t help it)