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UK Supreme Court to review church warden’s death case

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  • UK Supreme Court justices are reviewing whether church warden Benjamin Field could be responsible for Peter Farquhar’s death.
  • Appeal judges quashed Field’s 2019 murder conviction and ordered a retrial.
  • Field was sentenced to at least 36 years for murdering 69-year-old Peter Farquhar in Maids Moreton.
  • Field admitted burglary and fraud to influence the wills of Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin.
  • He received a concurrent 16-year term for those offences.