A primary school teacher who killed her partner says her only memory of burying him in their garden is of 'a dragging sensation', as she denies murder
A primary school teacher who killed her partner has claimed her only memories of burying the remains is "a dragging sensation" and "seeing what would have been the body wrapped in the dining room".Fiona Beal has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering Nicholas Billingham in November 2021.
The Year Six teacher answered: "I remember feeling a dragging sensation that I was dragging something. I remember seeing what would have been the body wrapped in the dining room.The jury have been told that plastic bags, rubble, mortar, polystyrene, laminate flooring, and sections of fabric and vinyl were also recovered from a "built structure" hiding the body of Mr Billingham.
Describing how she returned to work and took pupils on a school trip to the Royal Opera House in London in February 2022, Beal was asked if she herself could believe that Mr Billingham was dead. "It was the first trip that they had had since Covid. They had been really looking forward to it and I was the one organising it.
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