Watch live: Police statement after teacher is sentenced for murdering her boyfriend

A primary school teacher who murdered her boyfriend before burying him in their garden has been jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years.

Fiona Beal, 50, from Northampton, stabbed Nicholas Billingham, 42, to death sometime between October and November 2021.

After previously pleading guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter, Beal last month pleaded guilty to murdering Mr Billingham.

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