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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