Serial-killer obsessed murderer who giggled about stabbing man to death jailed for life

A murderer who is obsessed with serial killers and laughed about stabbing her boyfriend has been jailed.

Shaye Groves, 27, was today (February 22) sentenced at Winchester Crown court.

The judge handed her a life sentence with a minimum of 23 years for the stabbing of her on-off boyfriend Frankie Fitzgerald, 25, on July 17 2022.

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She plunged a knife into him 22 times and was found guilty in Winchester after having initially claiming she accidentally hit Fitzgerald in the neck with a knife as she tried to grab a money box.

It was heard by the jury that Groves kept framed pictures of serial killers at her home in Havant in Hampshire and was the owner of “decorative” daggers.

In the collection of images on the wall were Myra Hindley and Ted Bundy, as well as horror film villains such as Jigsaw and Chucky.

A camera used to record the killer, of Botley Drive Havant, and her victim having sex was also discovered at the house.

The pair are understood to have shared a mutual appreciation of BDSM.

The 22-stab wounds are said to have created a “large split” in the neck of Fitzgerald.

After she attacked him, Groves video-called her friend Vicky Baitup.

The two are understood to have made conversation with Groves “giggling away”.

Then, she revealed to her friend that she had a “really big secret” she wanted to tell her.

Mrs Baitup said of the video call: “That’s when she went upstairs, went into her room, pointed the camera at [Frankie] and said ‘I’ve done him’.

“I don’t think I had really grasped what happened earlier. The gash was so deep – it was enormous.”

In total, Fitzgerald was stabbed 17 times in the chest, three times in the neck and twice more elsewhere in the torso.

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