1 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,296 KEYS CLANG 2 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:42,640 Thank you very much. 3 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,040 CHORAL SINGING 4 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,040 KEYS CLANG 5 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:30,896 That's much better. Thank you. 6 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:32,640 PRISON OFFICER: You're welcome. 7 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,160 MUSIC OVER HEADPHONES 8 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,496 I do beg your pardon, David, I missed that. 9 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,136 He's had his trousers stolen. 10 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,576 They've pulled out a pair of joggers for him. 11 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,976 Look like they'd been chewed by dogs. 12 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,296 I mean, who steals half a suit? 13 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,976 You could say to your client that, as he's already 14 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,136 in the face of overwhelming evidence, 15 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,456 decided to plead guilty to drugging and will fraud, 16 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,576 he might as well cop to the murders, too. 17 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:34,976 Spare his sartorial blushes. 18 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,816 Pleading guilty to the lesser charges 19 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,080 does not make him guilty of murder and attempted murder. 20 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,760 Seems like we've been waiting for ever for this day. 21 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,856 It's, er... It's good that we're starting with him 22 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,776 saying he's guilty for some of it. 23 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,656 That's what I'm told. It's... It's good. 24 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,696 He doesn't think he's guilty. 25 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,480 He's trying to make himself look better. 26 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:12,536 He'll get done for the fraud and the drugging, 27 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,136 get off for the murders. 28 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:15,976 It's a game to him. 29 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,336 This isn't a trial as far as he's concerned. 30 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,000 It's the Ben show. 31 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,400 He'll be loving every moment. 32 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,336 KEYS CLANG 33 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,000 Out you come. Right. 34 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:32,320 This way? Straight through. 35 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:39,640 In you come. 36 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,336 Thank you. Could you stop there? 37 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,040 That's it. Stop there. 38 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,056 OK, we're about to start. 39 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,976 It could be a while before you get called. 40 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,416 Is he going to get away with this? 41 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,656 I keep thinking that he's going to get away with it. 42 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,656 We've done everything we can in terms of the evidence, 43 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,656 but I can't make promises, Ian. 44 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,040 You know that. 45 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:15,856 I-I need some fresh air. 46 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,736 I'm just going to... 47 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,496 ..get a walk. 48 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,800 I'll call if there's anything. 49 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:26,880 I'll get some coffees, yeah? 50 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:30,720 How are you doing? 51 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,760 He still hasn't pleaded guilty to drugging my aunt? 52 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,160 No, he hasn't. 53 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,336 I'm going to need a screen, Mark. 54 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,440 I can't have him watching me. 55 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,040 BELL CHIMES 56 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:12,800 Court rise. 57 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:23,600 Mr Saxby. 58 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,616 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. 59 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:32,976 Some quick introductions. 60 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,616 I'm Oliver Saxby, Queen's Counsel, and I represent the prosecution. 61 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,256 My learned friend, David Jeremy Queen's Counsel, 62 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:41,296 represents Ben Field. 63 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,976 My learned friend, Tim Moloney, Queen's Counsel, 64 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,776 represents Martyn Smith. 65 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,760 And we appear before The Honourable Mr Justice Sweeney. 66 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:55,616 This case concerns the murder of a 69-year-old man, 67 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,336 Peter Farquhar, 68 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,416 and the attempted murder of an 83-year-old woman, 69 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,536 Ann Moore-Martin. 70 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:06,256 The motive for Ben Field was financial gain 71 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:08,736 but the means were intricate, 72 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:13,536 laced with a profound fascination in controlling and manipulating 73 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,576 and humiliating and killing. 74 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,296 To carry out his grand design, 75 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:20,976 Ben Field needed help, 76 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,856 and in Martyn Smith he found it. 77 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,656 Smith got carried away in Field's world of plotting, 78 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,136 deceit and death, 79 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,736 and you may end up thinking he was in thrall to him. 80 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,296 Over the course of this trial, 81 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,496 you will hear evidence that comes directly 82 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,656 from Ben Field's own journals. 83 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,296 You will hear of covert, regular drugging, 84 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:44,976 alcohol poisoning, 85 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:51,856 the numerous ways to make murder look like accident or suicide. 86 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,576 You will hear evidence of extreme gaslighting 87 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,216 and psychological manipulation. 88 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,216 All to frighten, 89 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,136 to isolate, 90 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,880 to make a person terrified for their sanity. 91 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,616 KNOCK ON DOOR Mr Farquhar. 92 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,760 Yes? We're ready for you now. 93 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,256 Poor Sue and Ian. 94 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,296 Think about what they're going to have to listen to. 95 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:30,720 I can't bear it. 96 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,256 My brother and I made a promise to each other, 97 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,880 that neither of us would ever let drink rule our lives. 98 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,656 I found it hard to believe that he would go against his word. 99 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,000 Peter just wasn't that kind of man. 100 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:52,816 But at the time, we were persuaded that he had a serious problem. 101 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,240 So we did what Ben advised. 102 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,400 And what was that? 103 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:02,640 BOTTLES CLINK 104 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,376 IAN SIGHS 105 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,000 Peter was so ill... 106 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,136 ..that I wanted to do what was right for my brother. 107 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,096 When Peter came out of the care home, 108 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,776 was there any alcohol in the house? 109 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:30,040 No. How did a bottle of whisky come to be in the house? 110 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,080 It had been left there by Martyn Smith. 111 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,040 Please bring in the defendants. 112 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:33,480 KEYS CLANG 113 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,600 DOOR CREAKS 114 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,040 Thank you very much. 115 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:48,976 Do I just stay here? Yes, just stay there. 116 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,976 OK, thank you. You're welcome. 117 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,880 Is she there now? Yes. 118 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,736 What did your aunt tell you about Ben Field, 119 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,376 about their relationship? 120 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,976 She told me that he'd said he was in love with her. 121 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,200 And that he'd proposed to her. 122 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,496 At the time, 123 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,880 were you aware that there was an intimate... 124 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:20,536 ..element to their relationship? 125 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:24,656 That he'd taken explicit photographs of your aunt? 126 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:26,696 No. 127 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,336 We know now that Ben Field was writing messages 128 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,176 on the mirrors in her house, 129 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,320 messages that your aunt believed were coming from God. 130 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,736 Did you know about the mirror writing? 131 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,040 No. 132 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:44,960 And how was her health... 133 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,360 ..in this period where she was spending so much time with Field? 134 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:56,760 MONITORS BEEP 135 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:04,976 She told me that she had been having hallucinations 136 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:06,856 and nightmares. 137 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,336 I-I saw her having, er, 138 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,720 seizures and extreme hallucinations in the hospital. 139 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,216 And when she was in the care home? 140 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:18,736 They stopped. 141 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:20,640 She picked up. 142 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:31,040 But coming to terms with what had happened... 143 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,416 It was agony for her. 144 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,256 That she'd been seduced by him. 145 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,280 She was tortured by it. 146 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,016 BEN YAWNS 147 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,480 DISTANT SHOUTING 148 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,696 Did you enjoy having sex with her, Ben? 149 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:04,856 Ben? 150 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:06,800 Ben, did you have sex with Peter as well? 151 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,280 BANGING ON VAN 152 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,656 I'm not coming back. 153 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:25,976 People taking photos, cameras everywhere. 154 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,056 The kids at school don't need their teacher's face 155 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,216 all over the news. Our girls certainly don't need it. 156 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,976 Where is the bloody car, Simon? It's just over there. 157 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,456 You know, you were brilliant in there. 158 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,696 You were. I mean, you really held it together. 159 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:39,400 Just... SIMON SIGHS 160 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,336 You know, I'm not the one to blame for this! 161 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:45,976 No? 162 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,136 You were the one who said he was just helping her out. 163 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:49,856 "Don't be so suspicious, Ann-Marie. 164 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:51,816 "He's just being a decent human being." 165 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,816 If you hadn't said that, then maybe... Maybe what? 166 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,616 Go on. No, say it. Maybe what? 167 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,520 Maybe she'd still be alive. 168 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:02,216 Or she wouldn't have died the way she did - 169 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:03,536 so ashamed of herself. 170 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:05,856 Pulled apart in court like her life was nothing, 171 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,640 just somebody that terrible things were done to! 172 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,000 GULL SQUAWKS 173 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,040 When Martyn was living with you, did you get on? 174 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:45,840 Yes, I thought we did. 175 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:51,376 It's the prosecution's case that Martyn conspired to defraud you 176 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,976 because a copy of your will was found on his laptop 177 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,336 and he'd printed copies using the university printer. 178 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,136 That's right. 179 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,176 Do you remember asking Martyn to help you 180 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,000 make amendments to your will? 181 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:07,376 No. 182 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,816 Can I put a few things to you to try and jog your memory? 183 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,536 Oh, you can. I don't know that you'll manage it. 184 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:16,416 You had some handwritten notes 185 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,976 and you sat with Martyn as he made the amendments. 186 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,976 The printer at your home wasn't working, 187 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,376 and so Martyn printed off three copies 188 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,240 at the university for you. 189 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,456 No, I don't remember that. 190 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,536 T-That's not to say that it didn't happen, 191 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:35,736 it's just that I don't remember it. 192 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,040 My memory is not as good as it was. 193 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:45,816 Thank you, Mrs Zettl. 194 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,040 Thank you. 195 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,480 SHE SOBS Oh, God! 196 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,536 DOOR OPENS 197 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:13,040 Wait there. 198 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:16,576 Thank you. 199 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,040 Can you wait there? 200 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,680 Just take some deep breaths, Martyn. 201 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,120 Keep your head up. You've done nothing wrong. 202 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,736 Thank you. 203 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,536 How many bedrooms were there in Mr Farquhar's house? 204 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,376 Three. 205 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,136 There was the main room, which was Peter's. 206 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:41,576 I had the box room. 207 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,280 And there was the study. 208 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,720 Ben slept in there on a fold-up bed. 209 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,696 Were you aware of the intimate nature 210 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,256 of Ben and Peter's relationship? 211 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,496 No. 212 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:55,816 N-Not at the time. 213 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,256 Not till much later. 214 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,336 When you were living at Peter's, 215 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,296 did you have any psychological issues? 216 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:06,536 Yes, I had counselling for anxiety and depression. 217 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,976 Did you know that Ben Field was defrauding 218 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,416 and covertly drugging Peter Farquhar? 219 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:13,776 No. 220 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,936 When Peter was unwell, would you give him 221 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:17,976 his normal medications? 222 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,840 Yes, er... 223 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,920 B-Ben would tell me what to give him and at what times. 224 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,736 Were you surprised when the neurologist 225 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,896 Peter consulted gave a diagnosis of alcohol abuse? 226 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,416 Yes. I-I didn't think that was a problem for him. 227 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:35,320 But...I believed it. 228 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:38,840 Who told you the diagnosis? 229 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:41,320 Ben did. 230 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,776 When Peter Farquhar came out of the care home, 231 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:49,336 recovered from his symptoms, 232 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,680 you stayed at his house the night before he died. 233 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,920 PHONE PINGS 234 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,560 I-I'd left the bottle hidden in the bed. 235 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,416 I texted Ben in the morning to say I'd left it there 236 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,040 and that Peter wasn't happy he brought it. 237 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:26,480 What did you do the rest of that day and the night Peter Farquhar died? 238 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,216 I just went to the pub with friends. 239 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,040 MUSIC BLARES 240 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:34,520 Drank too much. 241 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,696 And when you discovered Peter Farquhar was dead, 242 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,456 having found the whisky and drunk it? 243 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,176 I was very upset. 244 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,056 Very... I, er... 245 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:49,880 I felt terrible. 246 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:05,216 How could you not know about the nature of the relationship 247 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:07,776 between Peter Farquhar and Ben Field? 248 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:08,976 I didn't know. 249 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,976 They were sleeping in the same bed, 250 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,696 next door to your room. 251 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:15,440 It was under your nose. 252 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:20,296 I-I was working. 253 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,360 I always had my earphones on. 254 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,336 Did you know about Ben Field's relationship 255 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:31,136 with Ann Moore-Martin? 256 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:32,840 That it was romantic? 257 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,376 Yes. I thought that was their business. 258 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,096 It's not for me to judge. 259 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,656 Did you know he was defrauding Ann Moore-Martin? 260 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,696 No. No, not till much later. No. 261 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,656 But you knew Ben was writing messages on Ann's mirrors, 262 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:48,976 apparently from God, 263 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,976 and those messages were part of his plot to inherit her house? 264 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,016 I didn't know about his plan. I didn't know. 265 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,136 Ann wanted to hear from angels. 266 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,616 I thought it was about, er, trying to make her happy 267 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,280 with something that she wanted. 268 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,856 Are you going to keep to this line? What line? 269 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,856 That you didn't know that Ben Field was defrauding 270 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,776 Ann Moore-Martin and Peter Farquhar, 271 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,976 that Ben Field was drugging Peter Farquhar, 272 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,376 that Ben Field was in an intimate relationship with Peter Farquhar. 273 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,000 I didn't know. 274 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,040 That's convenient, because if you did know... 275 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:29,856 ..that would put you right at the centre 276 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,256 of a murder plot, wouldn't it? 277 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,440 HE WHIMPERS 278 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,040 Oh, Jesus Christ. 279 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,616 Mr Blake? Mr Blake? Mr Blake, a question? 280 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,336 Simon? Gabrielle Aide, Daily Mail. 281 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,696 Just wanted to ask about your wife's aunt and Ben Field? 282 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,856 My family are in there. Pricks! I just want to talk... 283 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,296 Simon, this way! She'll be paid for an exclusive interview. 284 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,336 It'll be good to get her side of the story! 285 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:03,096 It's pretty shocking what her aunt got up to! 286 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:04,416 Fuck off. 287 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:05,616 Ann-Marie? 288 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,536 MUFFLED: Tell us more about your Auntie Ann... 289 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,560 DOOR BANGS ..and Ben Field! Ann-Marie? 290 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,616 How long have they been out there? Long enough. 291 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,960 Auntie Ann isn't supposed to be the one on trial. 292 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,376 Hey, don't worry about them, girls. 293 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:20,656 They'll be gone soon. 294 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,336 Yeah. 295 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:24,160 Let's finish the film, OK? 296 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:26,520 Ready? 297 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,040 The defence calls Benjamin Luke Field. 298 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,976 I do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare 299 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,696 and affirm that the testimony I will give shall be the truth, 300 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,816 the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 301 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,976 You admit that you defrauded, 302 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,616 drugged and gaslighted Mr Farquhar? 303 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,040 Yes, I did it vindictively. 304 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,456 You admit to a fraud perpetrated on Ann Moore-Martin 305 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,456 that relates to her will? Yes. 306 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,416 Now, in addition to what you've admitted 307 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,536 in relation to drugging, defrauding and gaslighting Mr Farquhar, 308 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,040 you are also charged with his murder. 309 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,856 Did you murder him? 310 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,336 I did not. 311 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:49,976 When you administered drugs to him and gaslighted him, 312 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,736 did you intend to kill him? 313 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:53,976 No. 314 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,336 Did you conspire to murder Ann Moore-Martin? 315 00:21:58,360 --> 00:21:59,976 I did not. 316 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,136 Did you attempt to murder her? I did not. 317 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,976 Did you give her drugs or try to poison her? 318 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,096 Never. 319 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:10,056 How do you think Ann Moore-Martin felt 320 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,040 as she pieced together the deceit that you had practised upon her? 321 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,816 Incredible hurt and anger at being betrayed by me, 322 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,040 and sadness at being my victim. 323 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,296 It's a miserable thing. 324 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,576 Are you just mouthing the sort of things 325 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,560 that you think you should be saying? 326 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,296 Or are you expressing true sentiments? 327 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,520 True sentiments. 328 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:40,216 But you have lied. 329 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,976 To Mr Farquhar and his family. 330 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,976 To Ann Moore-Martin and her family. 331 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,040 To Martyn Smith. To the Church. 332 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,336 To everybody. 333 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:53,040 I lived a very cruel and deceitful life, yes. 334 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,240 Why did you initially start drugging Mr Farquhar? 335 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,976 To get some sleep. 336 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,976 I was working long shifts at the care home. 337 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,720 I'd be exhausted and want to sleep, but... 338 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,656 ..Peter had an active fantasy life on the internet. 339 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,360 He... He'd stay awake, looking at particular websites. 340 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,136 Then he'd wake me up, lifting up the duvet to look at me, 341 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,416 touching my body, 342 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,296 taking photos of me while I was asleep, 343 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,856 which would wake me up... 344 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:25,976 Liar! 345 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,016 Liar, liar! 346 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,496 Damn you! 347 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,960 Damn you! Damn you to hell! 348 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,280 That's how it started. 349 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,256 Later, it was motivated by cruelty. 350 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:42,040 I gave him psychoactives to be cruel. 351 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,000 I wanted him to be... 352 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:48,800 ..publicly humiliated. DOOR CREAKS 353 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,256 He's trying to make the jury hate Peter because he was gay. 354 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,720 That's what he's trying to do. 355 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,240 Come on. Let's go, yeah? 356 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,976 The Crown's case is that you murdered Peter, 357 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,656 either by giving him alcohol and benzodiazepines 358 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,200 so that he suffered asphyxiation, or... 359 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,840 ..in the event of that not being enough... 360 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:41,096 ..you suffocated him. 361 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:42,296 No. 362 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,296 I... I went to see him that night, 363 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:46,976 we drank ginger beer, 364 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,656 watched some television. 365 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,736 Then I left to see friends for my birthday 366 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,696 and the last I saw of him was waving goodbye at the front door. 367 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,120 You didn't block his airway and cause his death? 368 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,496 No. 369 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,616 I was never physically violent to Peter. 370 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,416 I wrote violent things. 371 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,096 When I was angry and irritated with him, 372 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:11,736 I'd fantasise hitting him with a hammer. 373 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,456 But I didn't do it. 374 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,536 It helped to write it down. It drained the anger. 375 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:17,976 I've always used writing that way. 376 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,976 I... I write a thought and then it's done. 377 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,136 And I-I'm trying to be more interesting to myself 378 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,336 when I write so sometimes it's more extreme. 379 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:27,896 To be interesting. 380 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,616 The Crown's case is that you meticulously planned 381 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,736 Mr Farquhar's murder in your journals. 382 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,216 In the same books I write how I'm going to take over 383 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,976 Greenland and the Pitcairn Islands. 384 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,616 But I'm hardly going to do that, am I? 385 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,056 Invade Greenland? 386 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,336 They're just thoughts. 387 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:45,336 Not plans for action. 388 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:48,320 I'm... I'm thinking with a pen in my hand. 389 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,656 I've considered the issue of interiority 390 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,976 in relation to myself and the way I live. 391 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,936 Explain interiority? 392 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,216 Living inside your own head. 393 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:02,640 Being kind of an ironic spectator on your own life. 394 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,616 The Crown's case is that Martyn Smith 395 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,320 was your co-conspirator and aided and abetted you. 396 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,480 Martyn knew nothing. 397 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,736 I rigged Peter's daily medication so he would be taking them 398 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,776 when Martyn was there. 399 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,176 I abused his genuine nature. 400 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,040 I feel very ashamed of how I manipulated him. 401 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,360 How did you feel when Peter Farquhar died? 402 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,216 Very unhappy. 403 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:41,720 I... I treated him badly. 404 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,320 I grieved his loss. 405 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:47,480 I miss him. 406 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,536 Thank you. 407 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,336 Ten o'clock tomorrow morning for your cross-examination, Mr Saxby. 408 00:26:57,360 --> 00:26:59,320 Court rise. 409 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,616 ON TV: 28-year-old Benjamin Field and 32-year-old Martyn Smith 410 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,016 both deny the charges... 411 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,040 MOBILE PHONE RINGS 412 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,296 Hello? Oh, hi, Simon? 413 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,296 Er, it's Jeni here from the Daily... 414 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:29,760 PHONE CLATTERS 415 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,920 MOBILE PHONE RINGS 416 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,040 LANDLINE RINGS 417 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,256 RINGING STOPS 418 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,160 LANDLINE RINGS 419 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,096 What's wrong with you? 420 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:04,640 Look what he's done to us! 421 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,000 Everything is Ben. 422 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,816 Everything is fucking Ben! BANGING 423 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,256 Argh! Argh! 424 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,040 Oh, well done. Yeah, punch a wall - that makes sense. 425 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:18,456 Shit! 426 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,440 HE GASPS 427 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,496 OK, one last time. 428 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,240 Which exhibit proves murder? 429 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,576 Same drugs as found in Peter's hair. 430 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,976 Field and Smith's fingerprints on the sachets. 431 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,336 Field's journals. 432 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,976 He writes about endgames for Ann and Peter. 433 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,736 Filming Peter when he's hallucinating. 434 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,656 Taking photos of Ann to blackmail her. 435 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,256 He calculates the ratio of alcohol to sedative - 436 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:51,976 at what point would it be fatal? 437 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,720 Possible use of force-feeding... Possible, not proven. 438 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,000 Which exhibit will prove murder? 439 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,616 What's Field's defence? 440 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,976 That he wasn't there. Plain and simple. 441 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,696 "I wasn't there, M'lud. 442 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,656 "Prove that I was." 443 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,856 So which exhibit, which piece of evidence, 444 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,880 proves without a shadow of doubt that he was there? 445 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,096 There isn't a single one. 446 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,456 It's all of them. 447 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,040 All of the coincidences. 448 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,816 I loved her, too, you know? 449 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,280 I mean, I really loved her. 450 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:06,600 I know you did. 451 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,240 I know. 452 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:14,680 It's just... 453 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,576 ..while this is going on. 454 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,336 When he's convicted, 455 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,056 when he's in prison and there's justice for Auntie Ann, 456 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,776 and not what he's admitted to, 457 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,176 what he's lying about, 458 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,536 when he's found guilty of that, 459 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,040 it'll be over. 460 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,040 I promise. 461 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,536 And what if he doesn't get convicted for her? 462 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,216 That's not going to happen. 463 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,136 It does happen. 464 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,336 Guilty people get away with it. 465 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:43,640 It happens all the time. 466 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,040 KEYS CLANG 467 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,600 BELL CHIMES 468 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,000 CHIMING CONTINUES 469 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,920 Do you feel responsible for Peter Farquhar's death? 470 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,376 That he drank the whisky was something he did, by himself. 471 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,096 It killed him. 472 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,616 I had no involvement. 473 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,000 You like words, don't you? 474 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,376 Words. The written word is a reprieve from feelings. 475 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,496 You said as much to my learned friend. 476 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,856 If I said as much, then, yes. 477 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,976 You had thoughts of killing him? 478 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,656 Yes. 479 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:34,880 Thoughts. 480 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,080 You wrote... 481 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,720 "I moved in so he could die." 482 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,720 You did move in. He did die. 483 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:46,976 That speaks for itself. 484 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,976 It depends who's saying it. 485 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,696 Peter was frightened of dying alone. 486 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,536 When we first started sharing a bed, he said, "Now I can die happy." 487 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,736 I'd like to play the jury a rap that you composed. 488 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,400 Thank you, Sergeant Earl. 489 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,560 You're amounting to nothing 490 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,136 by which I'll allow you to suffer 491 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,176 the ground I'll put you under 492 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,696 that I'd likened to an Everest 493 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,256 never be the cleverest 494 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,616 495 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,496 and I'll find that he'll need help 496 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,496 is a hospital visit 497 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,576 come to support 498 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,320 needs to be thrown overboard 499 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,616 for a crimson tide 500 00:33:55,640 --> 00:34:01,336 I will reside on the throne 501 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:02,520 502 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,120 503 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,120 JURORS MURMUR 504 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,560 You were smiling. 505 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,696 It... It was funny, hearing it in this serious environment. 506 00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:36,336 Incongruous. 507 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,176 Are those words a reprieve from feeling? 508 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:40,656 They're battle bars. 509 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,856 They're composed in the combative style of that art form. 510 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,616 You're good at lying 511 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,056 and duping people? 512 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,736 I've admitted as much. 513 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,776 Peter was taken in. 514 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,360 He was in love with you. 515 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,376 Did you ever think there was a time 516 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,176 when he'd start to piece it together? 517 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,000 Before he rumbled you? 518 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,080 I can't recall if I thought that or not. 519 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,416 Let's look at the evening of Peter's death. 520 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,576 Your case, your account of it, is that Peter drank 521 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,416 half a bottle of very strong whisky. 522 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:17,560 That's your case. 523 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,656 Yes, but I... I wasn't present. 524 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,440 We drank ginger beer, I left. 525 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,496 Had you slipped him something? 526 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,536 No. You had in the past dosed him with eight times the normal amount 527 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,536 of the sleeping tablet he'd been prescribed. 528 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,680 Eight times the amount. 529 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,320 You have, in the past, dosed him with all manner of substance. 530 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,256 But not that night? No. You'd adulterated his drink before. 531 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,736 Port in red wine, vodka in whisky, 532 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,856 poteen, a notoriously strong Irish whiskey in his usual nightcap. 533 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:57,456 He had no idea what he was really drinking, did he? 534 00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,576 But not that night. 535 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,216 No. Just ginger beer and then you left. 536 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:05,376 OK, let's consider your version. 537 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,856 Let's imagine what that looks like. 538 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,440 DOG BARKS 539 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,656 Oh, lights, Martyn. 540 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,680 HE SIGHS 541 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:22,640 HE SIGHS WEARILY 542 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,256 TV: What term in zoology derives from the Latin for "to sit" 543 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,016 and means immobile? BELL ON TV 544 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,296 Southampton, Sadler. Sessile. 545 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,656 Sessile is correct. 546 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,600 APPLAUSE 547 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,056 CORK SQUEAKS 548 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,216 UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE CONTINUES 549 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,200 HE GULPS 550 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,816 TV OFF 551 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,016 CORK SQUEAKS 552 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,680 DRINK POURS 553 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,816 Did he often drink in the dark? Not that I'm aware. 554 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,960 I can't tell you what his reasons were for turning off the lights. 555 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,040 You were there when he died, weren't you? No. 556 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,296 "As we remark on Peter Farquhar 557 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,176 "Be reminded Peter died 558 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,616 "Repeated disorder 559 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,096 "Hoist his petard 560 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,800 "Went unpardoned and petrified." 561 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:35,880 "Petrified". Was he? 562 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,600 I don't know. I wasn't there. Why use that word? 563 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,856 In the sense that he's frozen in time. 564 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:48,376 Petrified means terrified. 565 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,816 Well, you do know words can have more than one meaning. 566 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,736 Let's not be silly. 567 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,696 You said Mr Farquhar was frightened of dying alone. 568 00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:00,456 Well, he didn't, did he? He did, because I wasn't there. 569 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,376 Petrified, was he? 570 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:03,976 I don't know, I wasn't there. 571 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,136 Hammer. Poteen. Strap. 572 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:07,816 The strap is suffocation? 573 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,816 Did you suffocate Mr Farquhar? 574 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,256 I wasn't there. 575 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,616 How was your fingerprint on the inside of the glass? 576 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,616 I don't know. Probably from when I'd moved it some other time. 577 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,776 Why was the glass on the floor? I don't know. I wasn't there. 578 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,256 Your defence case is that you did all these things - 579 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,496 the drugging, the gaslighting, the defrauding - 580 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,600 because you're a nasty person? 581 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,776 An unhappy person who enjoyed lying, 582 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,136 who was cruel and deceitful for the pleasure of it, 583 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:37,856 who was an, er... What was it? 584 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,136 "An ironic spectator of his own life, 585 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,656 "who wanted to be interesting to himself." 586 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:48,136 All your journals, your plans, the raps, the poems, the plots, 587 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:53,096 just thoughts, just words, thinking with a pen in your hand. 588 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,296 Not guilty of murder, just nasty. 589 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:59,496 All of this was nothing to do with killing Peter Farquhar 590 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,296 and attempting to kill Ann Moore-Martin. 591 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,576 BEN SCOFFS 592 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,040 That's a cartoon version of my case. 593 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:12,576 All right, 594 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,336 let's consider the Crown's version, 595 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,800 with the agreed facts in mind, with your words to guide us. 596 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,616 Let us contemplate Peter Farquhar's last night. 597 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,200 DOG BARKS 598 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:37,960 HE SIGHS 599 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,280 MICROWAVE HUMS 600 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:49,896 MICROWAVE PINGS 601 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,760 TV: University Challenge 602 00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:56,400 DOOR OPENS 603 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,216 Hey. 604 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:04,896 I wasn't expecting you tonight. 605 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,376 Thought I'd pop in, see how you're doing. 606 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:08,840 Did you? 607 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,176 You sulking? 608 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,816 I'm watching the television. 609 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,440 You're sulking. 610 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,256 I'm making tea. You want one? 611 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,360 Mm. 612 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,600 What's this bottle doing here? 613 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:38,120 Martyn left it. 614 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,016 Did you drink some? 615 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,496 I was pouring it down the sink. 616 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,520 But then I thought, "No, no, that's not fair. It's Martyn's. 617 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,680 "Ben can take it to him." 618 00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,120 What a strange thing to do. 619 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,896 Bringing alcohol into the house 620 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,856 when you'd arranged to have all my wine and spirits collected 621 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,936 by my brother and taken away because I can't control my drinking, 622 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,696 when I've been so desperately ill, 623 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:14,216 when I was so scared, when I thought I was dying, 624 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:16,336 when I told you I thought I was dying, 625 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,216 you bring whisky into my house. 626 00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:20,816 What a wicked, strange thing. 627 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,256 Calm down, it was a present. 628 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,320 Got left behind by mistake. No need to shit your pants over it. 629 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,376 CROCKERY CLINKS 630 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,400 HE SNIFFS 631 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,616 Nothing you ever do is by mistake, Ben. 632 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,496 SOFTLY: For fuck's sake. 633 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,656 You see, I've been thinking... Now that I can think. 634 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,296 Now that my head is clear. 635 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,536 I think you liked it when I was in a care home. 636 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,176 I think you wanted me to drink that whisky. 637 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,976 "Poor Peter. Poor sad, old, pathetic Peter, 638 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,376 "the dipsomaniac, closeted queen. 639 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,616 "He'd better go back into the care home." 640 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:11,256 And then you could carry on using my house as your own. 641 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:12,696 I think that was your plan. 642 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:14,216 Hmm... 643 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:17,296 I like to think I'm more ambitious than that. 644 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,920 How quickly I forgave you everything. 645 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,200 Every lie, every transgression. 646 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,040 Because you were beautiful. 647 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,960 Because I was so entirely in love with you. 648 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,320 I was the more deceived. 649 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,296 Here comes fucking Hamlet. 650 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,160 You never had any feelings for me at all. 651 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,536 No affection. 652 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:45,976 No respect. No love. 653 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,760 Peter... Did you? 654 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,600 I weally, weally woved you. 655 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,400 You are a cruel young man. 656 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,376 And then shall the eyes of the blind be opened 657 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,920 and the ears of the deaf be unstopped. 658 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,400 I see you now. 659 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,320 HE SNIFFLES 660 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,600 HE SLURPS 661 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,936 HE CALLS OUT 662 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,856 Help! 663 00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,736 HE MOANS 664 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,360 AGITATED MOANS 665 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:18,656 Help me, please, please. 666 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,320 Argh! CROCKERY CLATTERS 667 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,816 PETER MOANS 668 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,560 Shh, shh, shh, shh! 669 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:55,920 PETER GASPS 670 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,136 No... 671 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,720 Ben...please. 672 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,200 PETER GASPS 673 00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,960 Ben... BOTTLE IS UNCORKED 674 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,600 HE WHIMPERS 675 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,056 He didn't die alone, did he? 676 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,136 And he WAS terrified, wasn't he? 677 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:38,536 You know that 678 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:39,856 because you were there. 679 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,056 I deny that completely. 680 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,616 Words. 681 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,136 It all depends on who's saying them. 682 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,640 "Went unpardoned and petrified". 683 00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,696 You were present. 684 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:01,480 You were there. 685 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,920 Glorifying in his fear. 686 00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,560 I'll call you later. 687 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,440 BIRDSONG 688 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,680 HE SOBS 689 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:29,320 HE SNIFFLES 690 00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:40,800 BELL CHIMES 691 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:09,800 Court rise! 692 00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:21,800 Bring the jury in, please. 693 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,400 My Lord, the jury have been in deliberation for 19 days. 694 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,840 Would the defendants please stand? 695 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,016 Would the foreman of the jury please stand? 696 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,256 To my next question, please answer yes or no. 697 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,256 Have you reached verdicts upon which you are all agreed? 698 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,056 Yes. 699 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,416 On the count of conspiracy to murder Peter Anthony Scott Farquhar, 700 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,096 how do you find the defendant Martyn Smith, 701 00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:08,760 guilty or not guilty? 702 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,136 Not guilty. 703 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:14,416 MURMURING 704 00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:15,616 HE GASPS 705 00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,040 Not guilty. 706 00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,016 On the count of attempted murder of Ann Moore-Martin, 707 00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:30,376 how do you find the defendant Benjamin Luke Field? 708 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:31,816 Guilty or not guilty? 709 00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,280 Not guilty. 710 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,440 Not guilty. 711 00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,816 On the count of the murder of Peter Anthony Scott Farquhar, 712 00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:48,976 how do you find the defendant Benjamin Luke Field? 713 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,360 Guilty or not guilty? 714 00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:57,376 Guilty. 715 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,720 MURMURING 716 00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,080 Guilty. 717 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:18,576 I'd like to thank the jury 718 00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,376 for their hard work and dedication in this matter. 719 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:22,440 Thank you. 720 00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,096 Martyn Smith, you are free to go. HE WHIMPERS 721 00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:27,976 Benjamin Field, 722 00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,320 you will return to this court at a future date for sentencing. 723 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,440 MARTYN WHIMPERS AND SOBS 724 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:54,936 Just breathe, Martyn. 725 00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:56,416 It's over now. 726 00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,536 HE GASPS Thank you. 727 00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:00,320 Thank you. 728 00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,200 PHONE RINGS 729 00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:22,920 Hello? 730 00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,296 OK. 731 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:41,880 Thanks for telling me. 732 00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,656 I used to bring you here when you were little. 733 00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:50,080 Just the two of us. To feed the ducks. 734 00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,456 And then we'd have an ice cream for a treat. 735 00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:56,336 With raspberry sauce. 736 00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,176 CHUCKLING: Yes! 737 00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,016 And you'd get it everywhere. 738 00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:01,896 I still do - ask Simon. 739 00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:03,936 Face, hands, behind my ears... 740 00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:05,376 THEY CHUCKLE 741 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:06,656 Ooh! 742 00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,336 Oh. Is it kicking? 743 00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:10,976 Like a horse! 744 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,856 Here... 745 00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,056 Ah! 746 00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,616 It makes me so happy. Hmm. 747 00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:19,640 A new life. 748 00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:24,856 Aren't we lucky! 749 00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,400 SIREN WAILS 750 00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:59,616 Good afternoon. 751 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,960 GATE SLAMS 752 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:09,736 Today, Ben Field has been sentenced to life imprisonment 753 00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:14,920 and will serve a minimum of 36 years for his crimes. 754 00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,136 The extent of his planning, deception and cruelty 755 00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:23,256 towards his victims is frankly staggering, 756 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:28,496 and I do not believe he has shown an ounce of remorse or contrition. 757 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:30,376 If he is sorry for anything, 758 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,136 it is that he got caught 759 00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:36,736 and he is now facing the next 36 years in prison. 760 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:38,520 Thank you. 761 00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:45,776 Hmph! 762 00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,656 TV: According to prosecutors... Good. 763 00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,536 ..they were both lonely and vulnerable, 764 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:52,216 living three doors away from each other 765 00:54:52,240 --> 00:54:54,856 in the picturesque village of Maids Moreton... 766 00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:56,296 DOOR SLAMS 767 00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,480 KEY TURNS IN LOCK 768 00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,120 DOOR SLAMS SHUT 769 00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,200 They're here. 770 00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:31,616 Thanks. 771 00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:33,296 Thank you. 772 00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:34,800 Thank you. 773 00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,936 I wanted us all to meet. 774 00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,160 I've got something I want to say. 775 00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:54,536 I know you've been put through so much pain. 776 00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,056 Well, so have you. 777 00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,080 No, but you'd said goodbye to Peter. 778 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,056 You'd had two years believing a thing 779 00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,336 that you could live with, 780 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:06,880 that he'd died. 781 00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,816 You had your lives. 782 00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:16,080 And then I threw a rock and smashed everything. 783 00:56:18,240 --> 00:56:20,440 And you had to find out all these... 784 00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,840 ..these terrible things that had been done. 785 00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,760 You stopped him, Ann-Marie. 786 00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:33,120 You stopped him. 787 00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:58,856 Pale beneath the blaze 788 00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:00,920 Hung the transparent foliage 789 00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,776 And I watched some broad and sunny leaf 790 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,496 And loved to see the shadow 791 00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,776 Of the leaf and stem above 792 00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:13,296 Dappling its sunshine 793 00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,376 Whilst thou stood gazing or... 794 00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,896 ..When all was still 795 00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:19,616 Flew creaking o'er thy head 796 00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:21,336 And had a charm for thee 797 00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,576 My gentlehearted Charles 798 00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,056 To whom no sound is dissonant 799 00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:29,920 Which tells of life.