You think about the case in the shower in the morning, you think about the case when you’re driving home,” he said. Turner, Secrets and Lies, Hatton Garden) as retired university lecturer Peter Farquhar, Ann Reid as Ann Moore-Martin and Éanna Hardwicke as killer Ben Field, the series tells the real-life story of how Field preyed upon the pair in a bid to get them to change their will, before poisoning Mr Farquhar. The report sparked a series of revelations that led towards Field’s murder conviction and in October 2019, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum period of 36 years. Farquhar is depicted by Timothy Spall in the 2023 BBC One drama The Sixth Commandment written by Sarah Phelps about the gaslighting of Farquhar and Moore-Martin by Field and Farquhar's murder by Field. He had also drugged Mr Field and wrote messages on Miss Moore-Martin’s mirror, pretending to be from God as she was deeply religious, as a form of manipulation.

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A Diary From the Grave", a documentary about the murders, aired in January 2020 on Channel 4 as part of the Catching a Killer series. A new true-crime drama about the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire in 2015 and 2017 is coming to the BBC. The Channel 4 documentary series Catching a Killer recounted the acts of Field in the fifth instalment of the first series. The BBC One series studies the gaslighting and abuse of two lonely neighbours by murderer Ben Field.He had undergone a “betrothal” ceremony with Farquhar and was in a sexual relationship with Moore-Martin.

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During the trial, he admitted to duping Mr Field and Miss Moore-Martin into relationships as part of a plot to get their wills changed in his favour. Farquhar, a retired university lecturer, was duped into a fake relationship with village churchwarden Ben Field and changed his will in Field’s favour.Detectives had looked ‘very carefully’ at Field’s past but found no evidence he was responsible for other murders. And I think that is the real deep tragedy of it: that this man who had given up hope for love, finds it. At one point in the drama, he tells his brother, “You cannot imagine my life before [meeting Ben] and I need you to imagine it. An author was murdered in a Buckinghamshire village in 2015 by a churchwarden who went on to defraud the victim's elderly neighbour.

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He would have got away with it, I think, with Ann had she died a couple of weeks earlier, before the police got involved.Mr Earl said: “It’s really hard to stress how big this investigation was and how much work went into it. 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. His victims were similar to each other in that they were single, deeply religious and did not have children. Over the course of several years, he drugged him with hallucinogens and encouraged him to drink alcohol.