Serial killer-obsessed Shaye Groves has been found guilty at Winchester Crown Court of the murder of on-off boyfriend Frankie Fitzgerald.
The mother-of-one previously told the court she mistakenly ‘hit him in the neck’ with the dagger, having meant to grab a money box beside her bed.
A tearful Groves, 27, had told jurors he had grabbed her by the throat during a heated row and that she ‘couldn’t breathe or scream’.
Winchester Crown Court heard that after hitting him in the neck with the dagger he fell back and ‘slid slowly to the floor’, clutching at his throat.
In an attempt to silence him, she claimed she then stabbed him through the heart after he stopped moving.
The trial heard she rang a friend ‘giggling’ after killing her lover before making a ‘false alibi’ for herself, inspired by tips from true crime documentaries.
Such was her interest in murderers, Groves had framed portraits of notorious serial killers including Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer on her bedroom wall alongside ‘decorative’ daggers and a coffin-shaped book shelf.
Groves denies murdering the young father by stabbing him 22 times in a ‘crime of passion’ at her home in Havant, Hants, on July 17 last year.
Giving evidence at Winchester Crown Court in Hampshire, the 27-year-old said that on the night of the attack they had been arguing after Mr Fitzgerald suspected her of rekindling an old romance.
But she was today found guilty of murder.
This is a breaking news story and is being updated.
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