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Ben Field (murderer)
Benjamin Luke Field (born 27 October 1990) is a British man who murdered retired teacher and author Peter Farquhar. Murder and conviction Field was unemployed and was a voluntary and unpaid churchwarden at Stowe Parish Church. He was undergoing the discernment process preparatory to the Bishops Advisory Panel (BAP), hoping to undertake training to be a priest. Field was arrested in January 2018. Following his arrest, psychiatrists diagnosed Field as having either narcissistic personality disorder or psychopathic personality disorder. On 9 August 2019, Field was convicted of the 2015 murder of author Peter Farquhar, but acquitted of the attempted murder of Farquhar's neighbour Ann Moore-Martin, who died of natural causes on 12 May 2017. As part of the same trial Field had pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and burglary against the same two victims. In October 2019, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 36 years. Appeals Field first appealed against his ...
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Peter Farquhar
Peter Anthony Scott Farquhar (3 January 1946 – 26 October 2015) was a British teacher of English who taught at Manchester Grammar School and Stowe School. He later lectured at University of Buckingham, Buckingham University. He also wrote three novels. He was murdered on 26 October 2015 by his former student and lodger, Ben Field (murderer), Ben Field, with whom he was in a 'covenanted friendship'. Early life Peter Farquhar was born in Edinburgh on 3 January 1946, the son of a physician. He was educated at Latymer Upper School in London and then Churchill College, Cambridge, where he achieved a first-class degree in English.Peter Farquhar obituary.
Michael Crick, ''The Guardian'', 29 November 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2018.


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Anne Reid
Anne Reid (born 28 May 1935) is an English stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (1961–1971); Jean in the sitcom '' dinnerladies'' (1998–2000); and her role as Celia Dawson in '' Last Tango in Halifax'' (2012–2020) for which she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. A further nomination in the same category followed for playing Ann Moore-Martin in ''The Sixth Commandment'' (2023). For her performance in the film '' The Mother'' (2003), Reid won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Other notable film roles include the voice of Wendolene Ramsbottom in '' Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave'' (1995) and as Leslie Tiller in ''Hot Fuzz'' (2007). Early life Reid was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the daughter of Colin Norman Reid (1896–1970) and Annie ...
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History Of Mental Health In The United Kingdom
Mental health in the United Kingdom involves state, private and community sector intervention in mental health issues. One of the first countries to build Psychiatric hospital, asylums, the United Kingdom was also one of the first countries to turn away from them as the primary mode of treatment for the mentally ill. The 1960s onwards saw a shift towards Care in the Community, which is a form of deinstitutionalisation. The majority of mental health care is now provided by the National Health Service (NHS), assisted by the private and the voluntary sectors. Incidence of mental health problems Most mental health problems are not easily defined. The American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems are most generally used. A 2017 survey found that 65% of Britons have experienced a mental health problem, with 26% having had a panic attack and 42% saying they had suffered from depres ...
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People Acquitted Of Attempted Murder
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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Sheila Hancock
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