Benjamin Field, 28, explained the “100 clients” file was not just a list of future targets but of people who could help him.
Field is on trial alongside Martyn Smith, 32, accused of murdering author and former teacher Peter Farquhar, 69, and conspiring to murder retired headmistress Ann Moore-Martin, 83.
The English literature graduate admits deceiving Mr Farquhar and Miss Moore-Martin into believing he was in a relationship with them both.
Field also admits “gaslighting” the pair, who were neighbours in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, in order to benefit financially from their wills.
Mr Farquhar died in October 2015, while Miss Moore-Martin passed away in May 2017.
Giving evidence for a seventh day at Oxford Crown Court, Field took the jury through his “100 clients” list.
He named his own parents, Ian and Beverley, paternal grandparents and two co-accused, Smith and younger brother Tom Field, 24.
Field also named a former long-term girlfriend, members of her family, ex-partners, one-night stands, and other friends and acquaintances, such as a recently widowed woman who owned her own home.
“People who maybe useful to me, either as targets of fraud or in other ways,” Field said.
He explained that his brother Tom’s inclusion on the list was as a “prop” for his fraud of Miss Moore-Martin.
“He was used and manipulated by me,” Field said.
The court heard that…
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