A church warden who murdered a gay university lecturer for his inheritance and had his crimes dramatised in a BBC drama has had his conviction sent for review.
Benjamin Field, 34, is serving life for killing Peter Farquhar, 69, after convincing the retired don he was losing his mind in order to steal his house and money.
Field secretly drugged him and spiked his whisky, hoping the death would look like suicide or an accident.
He was convicted at Oxford Crown Court in 2015 and has repeatedly tried to appeal. Field, the son of a Baptist minister, also swindled £160,000 from Mr Farquhar’s will.
In 2023, the shocking case was dramatised by the BBC in show 'The Sixth Commandment', with Timothy Spall OBE playing Mr Farquhar and Éanna Hardwicke playing Field.
