Serial killer fan Shaye Groves jailed for murdering boyfriend

A serial killer-obsessed pistillate who stabbed her on-off fellow to decease with a dagger has been jailed for life.

Shaye Groves slit Frankie Fitzgerald's pharynx earlier plunging the leaf into his thorax 17 times astatine her location successful Havant, Hampshire, successful July 2022.

The 27-year-old, who was recovered blameworthy of execution aft a trial, utilized accusation from existent transgression documentaries to program her alibi.

She was jailed for a minimum of 23 years astatine Winchester Crown Court.

During her proceedings it was heard the brace shared a communal involvement successful BDSM and a camera was acceptable up successful Groves' chamber to grounds them having sex.

Police recovered framed pictures of notorious killers specified arsenic Myra Hindley and Peter Sutcliffe connected her walls and books astir criminals, including the notorious captive Charles Bronson.

She had knives, Viking axes and kept a Celtic dagger, utilized to termination Mr Fitzgerald, nether her pillow oregon adjacent to her bed.

Mr Fitzgerald, 25, who had 2 children, died astatine Groves' location successful the aboriginal hours of 17July 2022.

Prosecutors said she acted retired of jealousy and stabbed Mr Fitzgerald arsenic helium slept aft she discovered helium had been messaging who she mistakenly thought was a 13-year-old miss connected societal media.

The idiosyncratic turned retired to beryllium 17, and had been blocked by Mr Fitzgerald.

Steven Perian KC, prosecuting, said Groves utilized cognition gained from documentaries to represent herself to a person arsenic a unfortunate of intersexual violence.

She sent a person videos of the brace having sex, edited to look arsenic rape - but the prosecution said the archetypal footage showed it was really consensual.

Mr Perian added: "The Crown accidental that the suspect - by speechmaking astir and watching execution documentaries - she was acquainted with transgression scenes, however to make a mendacious communicative and however to acceptable up a mendacious alibi."

In a unfortunate interaction connection work successful court, Mr Fitzgerald's parent Rosanne described him arsenic "the shining airy - a benignant a beauteous person".

His begetter Barry's connection spoke of the household being "broken" by his killing.

"He had his beingness successful beforehand of him - this was snatched away. I'm not definite we'll ever get implicit this."

Passing sentence, justice The Hon Mr Justice Kerr said Groves was a "manipulative, possessive and jealous woman".

He said she and Mr Fitzgerald's narration had a "dangerous dynamic" and was "marked by unsmooth sex, cocaine and alcohol".

"You mislaid your temper and acted upon impulse. You loved the antheral you killed and killed the antheral you loved," helium added.

Following the sentencing, Det Ch Insp Nicola Burton said Mr Fitzgerald had died successful a "shocking and sustained attack".

"As always, our thoughts archetypal and foremost stay with Frankie's family, friends and loved ones.

"I would similar to praise their courageousness and anticipation that this condemnation helps them to statesman to determination forward, contempt knowing that thing tin capable the void near successful their household by the nonaccomplishment of Frankie."