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Charming Churchwarden? Court Hears He Was ‘Gaslighter’, Fraudster, Torturer And Murderer
36 year sentence for this cruel and contemptuous killer
A younger person getting together with an older (and often, more affluent) person and wanting to get their hands on the older person’s money is nothing new. We have terms for it, like ‘gold-digger’. What makes this story rather more unusual is the sheer, contemptuous and unalloyed greed, coupled to the heartless contempt. It seems that Field’s victims meant nothing to him at all.
As my account here will attest, this criminal seems not to have any shame, any empathy or indeed any interest in anyone but himself: Everyone else on the planet appears merely to be there for him to exploit.
What happened?
Benjamin (Ben) Field entered into a relationship with an author, Peter Farquhar, whom he was to subsequently murder. Field was 29-years-old when he freely admitted this was in an attempt to inherit Mr Farquhar’s fortune: Field wasn’t finished there. After Mr Farquhar was dead, Field moved on to another potential victim — Ms Ann Moore-Martin, an unmarried older woman, who also lived in the sleepy Gloucestershire village of Maids Moreton in the English countryside west of London. Field did not kill Ms Moore-Martin, she died of…
