UK - Benjamin Field's 2019 murder conviction quashed at COA, re. death of Peter Farquhar, 69, in Oct 2015, Maids Moreton, Bucks

[Tortoise]

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Field was jailed for at least 36 years in 2019.

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At the murder trial at Oxford Crown Court in 2019, prosecutors claimed Field had driven Mr Farquhar to believe he was losing his mind to inherit his house and money, lacing his food and whisky with tranquilliser drugs to confuse him in the hope that his eventual death would look like suicide or an accident.

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Before his murder trial, Field admitted two counts of burglary and three of fraud after fraudulently being in relationships with both Mr Farquhar and his neighbour, fellow pensioner Ann Moore-Martin, as part of a plan to get them to change their wills.

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In a ruling on Thursday, three senior judges quashed Field's conviction and ordered a retrial, saying the jurors at trial had "not been properly directed" and the directions given to them on how to reach a verdict were "defective".

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Field will remain in prison "for so long as the appeal [to the Supreme Court] is pending", Lord Justice Edis said.

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https://news.sky.com/story/church-warden-serving-life-for-murder-of-university-lecturer-has-conviction-quashed-13532458

 

[Parker Knoll]

Thanks for starting a thread on this @Tortoise

 

[Tortoise]

The Court of Appeal judgment handed down yesterday Benjamin Field -v- R - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary