Serial killer-obsessed mother who had framed pictures of Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer on her walls is jailed for life for stabbing her on-off boyfriend to death
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Serial killer-obsessed Shaye Groves has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years for stabbing her on-off boyfriend Frankie Fitzgerald to death.
Groves, 27, who had framed pictures of serial killers including Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer on her walls, smiled as she was convicted of murdering her boyfriend in a crazed knife attack last Friday.
She was sentenced to life in prison at Winchester Crown Court today for stabbing father-of-two Frankie Fitzgerald, 25, 22 times while he slept after seeing he had messaged a teenager.
The five-week trial heard that the pair shared a mutual interest in BDSM and a camera was set up in the killer’s bedroom at her home in Havant, Hampshire, to record them having sex.
On her walls Groves had framed pictures of serial killers crying blood including Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, Moors Murderer Myra Hindley and incestuous serial killer Rose West.
Serial killer-obsessed Shaye Groves (pictured), 27, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years for stabbing her on-off boyfriend Frankie Fitzgerald to death.
Shaye Groves’s bedroom wall (pictured above) showing serial killer pictures. The true crime fan had framed pictures of serial killers Myra Hindley, Rose West and Jeffrey Dahmer
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Shaye claimed during her trial that she stabbed Frankie Fitzgerald (pictured) in self-defence
Groves also collected books about gangsters, including the notorious prisoner Charles Bronson, and was a fan of true crime documentaries.
Jurors were told the 27-year-old, who rang a friend ‘giggling’ after killing Mr Fitzgerald – showing his body saying ‘I’ve done him’ – had previously threatened to make his life ‘a misery’ by leaking videos of alleged sexual abuse which were later proven to be bogus.
Groves then tried to cover her tracks with a ‘false alibi’ by calling her friend.
At Winchester Crown Court last week, a jury found Groves guilty of murder after deliberating for nearly 18 hours.
Wearing a denim jacket with a large pentagram emblazoned on the back, and with tattoos visible on her face, Groves smiled as she was taken down to the cells after the unanimous verdict.
Addressing the jury on Friday, the Honourable Mr Justice Tim Kerr said: ‘It just remains for me to thank you for the dedication and work you have done on the case.
‘This has been a long and difficult case in which you have heard, at times, distressing evidence.
‘I propose to exclude you from jury service for a period of eight years from today. I personally as a judge and institution am deeply grateful to you. My heartfelt and profound thanks.’
