True crime fan with serial killer images plastered on bedroom walls murdered on-off partner in 'crime of passion'

A serial-killer obsessed woman has been jailed for life after murdering her on-off boyfriend.

Shaye Groves, 27, has been jailed for life and will serve at least 23 years in prison after slitting Frankie Fitzgerald's throat and stabbing him 17 times in the chest in July last year. She was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Wednesday (February 22) after being convicted by a jury last week.

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.

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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.

In his sentencing remarks, Mr Justice Kerr told Groves: “You have robbed Frankie’s family and loved ones of their son and their brother, and his two children of their father.” He added that Groves had ended Mr Fitzgerald’s life in his mid-20s, and that she had “blighted” the lives of his family “for decades to come”.

However, he described the murder as a “crime of passion”, adding that Groves was not “a cold-blooded murderer”. He said: “This was a crime of passion. You loved the man you killed, and you killed the man you loved. You are not a