A woman has been charged with murder after a body of a man was found buried in a back garden in Northampton.
Fiona Beal, 48, has been charged with murder following the discovery of a man’s body buried in a back garden.
Northamptonshire Police said officers were initially called to the address in Kingsley on Wednesday where they began a search of the entire property.
Forensic officers and specialist search teams, including a cadaver dog, discovered a body buried in the rear garden of the property yesterday afternoon.
Det Chief Inspector Adam Pendlebury, from the major crime team of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU), said: “We believe it to be that of a missing 42-year-old male, but formal identification has yet to take place.”
The remains are expected be taken to Leicester where they will be forensically examined by a Home Office pathologist.
Beal was arrested at a hotel in Cumbria shortly after midnight on Wednesday after Northamptonshire Police launched a homicide investigation days earlier.
Beal is due to appear at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning.
