A serial killer-obsessed woman who stabbed her on-off boyfriend to death has been jailed for life and will serve at least 23 years in prison. Shaye Groves, 27, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Wednesday for slitting the throat of Frankie Fitzgerald, 25, before stabbing him 17 times in the chest in July last year.
The five-week trial heard that Groves tried to portray herself as his victim and that she used tips from true crime documentaries to plan her alibi. The jury were told the pair shared a mutual interest in BDSM and a camera was set up in the defendant’s bedroom at her home in Havant, Hampshire, to record them having sex.
Groves had framed pictures of serial killers on her walls, collected books about gangsters, including the notorious prisoner Charles Bronson, and watched true crime documentaries. She appeared in court on Wednesday wearing a jacket with a pentagram drawn on the back of it and remained expressionless in the dock as she received her sentence.
