Man jailed over OAP's murder turned into hit TV series 'Sixth Commandment' has sentence overturned

Teona Gherasim

A former church warden who was jailed for life for the murder of a university lecturer has had his conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal. Benjamin Field was jailed for at least 36 years in 2019 after being found guilty of murdering 69-year-old Peter Farquhar in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire. The murder was dramatised in the BBC production “The Sixth Commandment” , starring Timothy Spall . Prosecutors told Field’s trial that he had driven Mr Farquhar to think he was losing his mind in order

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