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Aided by magician Martyn Smith, 32, Baptist minister’s son Benjamin Field, 28, plotted the deaths of churchgoers Peter Farquhar (pictured right), 69, and Ann Moore-Martin (pictured left), 83, jurors were told.
He had undergone a “betrothal” ceremony with gay Mr Farquhar while also having a string of girlfriends and was in a sexual relationship with spinster Miss Moore-Martin, who was 57 years his senior.
The pair “psychologically manipulated” the retired teachers, who lived three doors from each other in the picturesque village of Maids Moreton, in Buckinghamshire, making them believe they were losing their minds and left so desperate would kill themselves, the court heard.
Field also produced a list of local elderly “clients” whose homes he burgled and included a 101-year-old woman who he planned to deceive, jurors heard.
They have gone on trial at Oxford Crown Court accused of murder, conspiracy to murder and fraud, while Field’s younger brother Tom, 24, also faces an allegation of fraud.
Mr Farquhar, a former English teacher, author and part-time lecturer, died in October 2015 while retired teacher Miss Moore-Martin died in May 2017.
Oliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, told the jury Benjamin Field’s “project” was to befriend someone vulnerable, get them to change their…
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