A 48-year-old woman has been charged with murder following the discovery of a man's body buried in a back garden in Northampton. Fiona Beal was arrested at a hotel in Cumbria on Wednesday night, more than 200 miles from the scene.
Northamptonshire police recovered the remains of a 42-year-old man who had been reported missing. Forensic officers and specialist search teams, including a cadaver dog, were called to an address in the Kingsley area of Northampton last weekend, where they located the body buried in the garden.
The body is expected to be taken to Leicester for a forensic examination by a Home Office pathologist. Formal identification has yet to take place, but police believe it to be the missing man.
DCI Adam Pendlebury of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit said: 'Regrettably, I can confirm that a body has been found in the rear garden of the address. We believe it to be that of a missing 42-year-old male, but formal identification has yet to take place.' He added that house-to-house inquiries have been conducted and appealed for anyone with information to contact police.
Beal is due to appear at Northampton Magistrates' Court on Monday morning.
