Primary school teacher Abi Fisher was 29 years old and had given birth to a much-wanted ‘miracle’ daugher just six months earlier following a fertility battle. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. She was strangled and beaten by her husband Matthew, who posted on Facebook about his wife’s disappearance and helped look for her body to try to cover his tracks, before it was found in woodland at the side of a road close to the village of Brierley, Barnsley, the following day.
Advertisement Advertisement Fisher initially told police officers that he had last seen Abi on the evening of July 8 and had awoken to find her missing on the morning of July 9, which is when he raised the alarm. However, his web of lies began to unravel when CCTV footage captured him leaving Castleford and driving along the M62 towards the area where Abi's body was found during the time he claimed to have been in bed. His mobile phone was also found to have been on the move during that same period.
When Abi’s body was found, her husband’s fingerprints were discovered on gaffer tape at the scene. Advertisement Advertisement Checks of Abi’s phone revealed Google searches including "why does my husband hate me?" and "is marriage counselling available on the NHS?" in the days before she was murdered. Fisher killed his wife after telling a p.
