A primary school teacher has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years for stabbing her partner to death before burying his body in the garden of their Northampton home.Fiona Beal, 50, admitted the murder of 42-year-old Nicholas Billingham, whose partly mummified remains were discovered four-and-a-half months after he was last seen on November 1, 2021.She pleaded guilty in April during a retrial at the Old Bailey, after her earlier trial at Northampton Crown Court collapsed on its 64t

A primary school teacher has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years for stabbing her partner to death before burying his body in the garden of their Northampton home.Fiona Beal, 50, admitted the murder of 42-year-old Nicholas Billingham, whose partly mummified remains were discovered four-and-a-half months after he was last seen on November 1, 2021.She pleaded guilty in April during a retrial at the Old Bailey, after her earlier trial at Northampton Crown Court collapsed on its 64th day.