A Plot to Kill: The notorious killing of Peter Farquhar, a story of deception and betrayal that shocked a quiet English town

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You were now free to kill him whenever you chose to do so,” judge Mr Justice Sweeney would tell the murderer in 2019. Maids Moreton: Benjamin Field in second bid to overturn murder conviction". 28 January 2022 – via www.bbc.co.uk.

What happened to Ben Field and Martyn Smith? How Peter

Smith, David James; Bellotti, Alex (21 July 2021). " 'Killer church warden was no ordinary psychopath - as his chilling diaries show' ". mirror. Where is Ben Field – of new true crime series The Sixth Commandment – now?". Cosmopolitan. 17 January 2023. He began secretly drugging and gaslighting Mr Farquhar, with a judge at Oxford Crown Court later concluding that the killer had ‘enjoyed the cruelty of it’. https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/who-s-who-in-gripping-truecrime-series-the-sixth-commandment-b1099186.html It was only when you overlaid all the different pieces of evidence that you could put together a full picture of what was happening.In April this year, six years after the initial report, Thames Valley Police’s chief constable Jason Hogg awarded official commendations to 16 officers and civilian investigators involved in bringing Field to justice. Mr Earl said: “It wasn’t really until we delved into what material we’d already secured that we started seeing how big it was going to be.” verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Poison suspected after retired teachers die in village of Maids Moreton. Katie Gibbons and Fiona Hamilton, The Times, 18 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018. (subscription required)

A Plot to Kill: The notorious killing of Peter Farquhar, a

Field fed his older partner a psychoactive drug, BK2CB, at an event to launch one of Mr Farquhar’s own books at Stowe School.Miss Moore-Martin, a retired Bicester headteacher with whom Field was in a romantic relationship within a month of Peter's death, lived at one end of the road. Mr Farquhar was at the other. At his trial, Field would tell the jury that Mr Farquhar could have died from drinking whisky and taking his usual dose of insomnia drug flurazepam.

Maids Moreton: How murderer Ben Field fooled a church - BBC

On 9 August 2019, Field was convicted of Farquhar's murder. [10] He was acquitted of the attempted murder of Ann Moore-Martin, who died of natural causes on 12 May 2017. [5] Smith was acquitted of all charges. [5] What happened to Ben Field, the killer at the centre of The Sixth Commandment?". The Independent. 18 July 2023.a b c d " 'Evil' churchwarden guilty of murdering author". BBC News. 9 August 2019 . Retrieved 14 January 2020.