Peter Farquhar, a novelist, teacher and university lecturer, sparked little cause for concern when he was discovered dead at home in the village of Maids Moreton in 2015. Once the connection between Moore-Martin, Peter Farquhar and Field had been established police took the unusual step of exhuming the corpse of Farquhar and re-examining his body. This may seem like damning evidence, but it’s just as possible Field planted his notebook for the police to find, just as he planted a fake, back-dated diary for Moore-Martin to discover in which he described how he’d barely survive following her death, and if he had to abandon her home, he’d kill himself, effectivity forcing her to bequeath to him her home, which she did.

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Farquhar, who was gay, had long struggled to reconcile his faith with his sexuality and, as a result, was longing for companionship, which Field seized upon. NANA AKUA: Royal tours to Commonwealth nations are now fraught with risk because of this misguided obsession. He gave his victim psychoactive drugs to alter his mood and behaviour and convinced Mr Farquhar to change his will so that he would inherit his home in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire. Peter Anthony Scott Farquhar (3 January 1946 – 26 October 2015) was a British teacher of English who taught at Manchester Grammar School and at Stowe School.

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Field, on the other hand, would film his drugged-out lover for his amusement, he got a kick watching Farquhar suffer and encouraged him to act upon suicidal thoughts that Fields had fabricated. Mr Justice Sweeney said Field was a “well-practised and able liar”, adding: “I have no doubt that you are a dangerous offender. In less than a year, September 2015, Farquhar changed his will once again effectively handing half his home to Field. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. The emotional cry of murdered Yousef Makki's sister: I kept my promise mum… It took four years but now.By December 2017 she’d changed her will, handing Field her entire estate, but things were about to unravel. Senior investigating officer Mark Glover, a retired detective chief inspector, said Field fitted the profile of a psychopath, 'Cruel, calculating, manipulative, deceitful. It was reported that Field had a list of 100 "clients" who he considered "useful" to him which included his own parents and grandparents. As with Farquhar, Field moved into her home, where he also subjected Moore-Martin to sustained gaslighting, which included writing messages on her mirrors addressed from God encouraging her to "pray for Ben" and give him money. He even underwent a “betrothal” ceremony with Peter, despite having a string of girlfriends and being in a sexual relationship with Anne Moore-Martin, who was 57 years his senior and deeply religious.

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Oxford Crown Court heard detectives describe Field as a psycopath who would have posed an “ongoing danger to society” had he not been discovered and stopped. Field had a relationship with Mr Farquhar, a published author and a former head of English at Stowe School, and moved in with him. It was published only after two Buckingham students, Ben Field (who later murdered Farquhar) and Martyn Smith, discovered the manuscript and persuaded Farquhar to submit it for publication.

Prosecutors later argued that Field had hoped that his extensive gaslighting campaign, which involved hiding Farquhar's possessions and deleting his phone contacts, all of which Field recorded in journals, poems and videos of Farquhar in his drug-addled states, would encourage him to take his own life.

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The convicted killer expressed no remorse, shamelessly telling the jury that ‘he did it for no other reason other than it was cruel, to upset and torment Peter - purely out of meanness,’ the BBC reported . Award-winning actor Timothy Spall will play Edinburgh-born Peter Farquhar, who was killed by Ben Field after a campaign of physical and mental torture.

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