They applied to exhume the academic’s body. “We do it once a decade or so in the force. It’s very, very unusual to the point where hardly anyone serving knew what to do and the processes to go through,” Mr Earl said. Mr Farquhar was subjected to months of gas-lighting and coercive control, before Field steadily poisoned him, killing him on 26 October, 2015. Using a computer programme, they drew every piece of furniture, every picture on the wall. In short, they drew everything.

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If he hadn’t been caught I think he would have just carried on. I don’t think he would have stopped,” Mr Earl said. The show is said to highlight “the devastating effect of isolation and loneliness”. What happened to Ann Moore-Martin? In July 2023, it was reported that Field had applied for the Criminal Cases Review Commission to investigate whether to refer his case to the Court of Appeal. [16] Restitution of funds [ edit ] 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.Field then turned his attention to Mr Farquhar’s neighbour, Ann Moore-Martin (Ann Reid), a deeply religious 83-year-old former headteacher. So, we had an elevated level of alcohol in Peter’s system, we had evidence of sleeping tablets in his system.”

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Detectives had looked ‘very carefully’ at Field’s past but found no evidence he was responsible for other murders. Mr Field used to also write letters to Miss Moore-Martin and, while on holiday in France, Mr Smith delivered 10 of them to her for him. The letters were part of a ruse to seduce her and groom her to change her will. It was only when you overlaid all the different pieces of evidence that you could put together a full picture of what was happening.

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DS Earl said: “As we built the picture around Ben Field we became more concerned about his activity.