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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In his journals, he had drawn up a list of ‘100 clients’, including his parents and grandparents, which prosecutors said was a tally of future targets although which Field claimed were people who ‘may be useful’ to him. On 19 October 2019, Field was sentenced to life imprisonment, [11] with a minimum term of 36 years. [12] Appeals [ edit ]

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From those nine seconds, a member of the Thames Valley squad painstakingly recreated the room as it would have been on the date of Mr Farquhar’s death. In October 2019, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 36 years. [11] Appeals [ edit ]His ploy appeared to have worked. At the time, Mr Farquhar’s death in October 2015 was put down to natural causes. 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 ]

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Mr Farquhar had a wide circle of friends, and had penned four novels after retiring from teaching at public school Stowe in 2004.Benjamin Luke Field is a British man who murdered retired teacher and author Peter Farquhar. [1] [2] [3] [4] Murder and conviction [ edit ] I think he got away with it pretty easily with Peter; he was never challenged. He would have got away with it, I think, with Ann had she died a couple of weeks earlier, before the police got involved. 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. Using a computer programme, they drew every piece of furniture, every picture on the wall. In short, they drew everything.