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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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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.” Craig, David. "Catching A Killer: Viewers react to 'truly frightening' C4 documentary on Peter Farquhar's murder". radiotimes.com. Radio Times . Retrieved 28 August 2023.

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Where is Ben Field – of new true crime series The Sixth Commandment – now?". Cosmopolitan. 17 January 2023. While he was found guilty, Mr Field denied any involvement in either Mr Field or Miss Moore-Martin’s deaths. But during his trial, he did admit to the fake relationships as being part of a plot to get their wills changed in his favour. His ploy appeared to have worked. At the time, Mr Farquhar’s death in October 2015 was put down to natural causes. The more they looked into his death in 2015, the stronger their suspicion became that he had been poisoned.Mr Farquhar had a wide circle of friends, and had penned four novels after retiring from teaching at public school Stowe in 2004. Maids Moreton: Benjamin Field in second bid to overturn murder conviction". 28 January 2022 – via www.bbc.co.uk. Mr Earl said: “It’s really hard to stress how big this investigation was and how much work went into it.

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Smith had been staying at pensioner Liz Zettl's house. Zettl was friends with both Moore-Martin and Farquhar. Smith and Field were also accused of possessing a copy of a Zettl’s will, with the intention of finding out how much the pensioner was ‘worth’, and it is believed that she was intended to be Field’s third victim. At the trial, Zettl became the oldest court witness in British history when she testified aged 101. [9] Field fed his older partner a psychoactive drug, BK2CB, at an event to launch one of Mr Farquhar’s own books at Stowe School. It was only when you overlaid all the different pieces of evidence that you could put together a full picture of what was happening. 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.

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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] You were now free to kill him whenever you chose to do so,” judge Mr Justice Sweeney would tell the murderer in 2019. 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. The complexity of the case was to interweave what Peter had written about his deteriorating health alongside what Ben Field was writing about his machinations at the time. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23672697.sixth-commandment-killer-ben-field-launch-fresh-court-appeal/

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