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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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) As well as Field pretending to fall in love with Mr Farquhar and moving in with him, he also orchestrated it so Smith also moved into the retired man’s home as a lodger and, later, Ann Moore-Martin’s and other potential victim, Liz Zettl’s homes, while planning to defraud them of their estates.

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

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/who-s-who-in-gripping-truecrime-series-the-sixth-commandment-b1099186.html From the witness box, Field accepted drugging Mr Farquhar, claiming that it was because the older man woke him up by being active around the house at night. He had photographed himself with messages written in a bathroom mirror for Ann Moore-Martin to find - purporting to be from God, they included one that read ‘Ben loves you’. Scots academic at heart of murder and fraud investigation was originally thought to have died of alcohol poisoning. Stephen Naysmith, The Herald, 17 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23672697.sixth-commandment-killer-ben-field-launch-fresh-court-appeal/Field, who was given a mandatory life sentence in 2019, must serve at least 36 years in custody before he is eligible for release. In January 2022 Field appealed a second time against his conviction, but this was also rejected. [17] [18] You were now free to kill him whenever you chose to do so,” judge Mr Justice Sweeney would tell the murderer in 2019. Field fed his older partner a psychoactive drug, BK2CB, at an event to launch one of Mr Farquhar’s own books at Stowe School.

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

In July 2023, it was reported that Field had applied for the Criminal Cases Review Commission to investigate whether to refer his case to the Court of Appeal. [19] Restitution of funds [ edit ] Peter Farquhar and Ben Field at their betrothal ceremony Picture: TVP/PA Media (Image: Thames Valley Police/PA Media)The character of Dr Farquhar, played by Toby Stephens in the 2013 film Believe, directed by the former Manchester Grammar School pupil David Scheinmann, was partly based on Farquhar. [1] St Mary's Church in Stowe, where Farquhar worshipped and preached. But there were at least 100 police officers and staff members involved in the investigation, not to mention the lawyers who saw the case through the courts. Samples of his hair were sent to France for testing, with the officers using Field’s own journals and Mr Farquhar’s description of his symptoms to narrow down the drugs they wanted the forensic scientists to test for. That hospital patient was Ann Moore-Martin, who Field would later admit defrauding out of thousands of pounds. When the investigation came to the force’s major crime team a few weeks later, the sergeant asked his boss, Mark Glover, if he could be assigned to the probe.

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The Channel 4 documentary series Catching a Killer recounted the acts of Field in the fifth instalment of the first series. The 90-minute episode, titled 'A Diary from the Grave', aired on 12 January 2020. [18] Field photographed himself with the messages he was leaving for Miss Moore-Martin Picture: TVP/PA Media (Image: Thames Valley Police, PA Media) Television The Sixth Commandment is proof that true crime dramas don't have to exploit murder victims Read MorePeter Farquhar was born in Edinburgh on 3 January 1946, the son of a physician. He was educated at Latymer Upper School in London and then Churchill College, Cambridge, where he achieved a first-class degree in English. [1] Career [ edit ] Stowe School

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Text messages between the two men also revealed that Smith was aware of Ben Field’s mirror-writing campaign in which he wrote messages around Ms Moore-Martin’s house in a bid to convince the highly religious woman they were from God and to leave her house to Field. If there’s a stabbing in central Oxford and we have a body on the ground, our experts from headquarters can go there, they can scan the scene, they can film it with drones, they can photograph it and we can rebuild the picture.”

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He was such a fit man, he was such an active man, he had a very full social life. Then, suddenly, he started hallucinating and seeing insects crawling all over his bathroom.” Although there have been various documentaries, press releases and podcasts, I don’t think any of them could grasp the volume of material we had to look at.” Farquhar was an evangelical Christian who was a lay minister and once considered seeking ordination. He worshipped and preached at Stowe Parish Church for 20 years. [1] Murder [ edit ]