Benjamin Field's defence relied upon admitting a string of reprehensible things. By doing so he hoped to get off with his most heinous crime - the murder of former Manchester Grammar School teacher Peter Farquhar.
The arrogant and cruel killer admitted as much himself. "I think I will get away with most of it," he boasted while sat in the back of a police van awaiting his fate.
Current BBC series The Sixth Commandment has dramatised the story of killer Benjamin Field, and the older people he targeted in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire.
It was a case that devastated those who knew him in this city - where Peter Farquar became loved as an inspirational teacher, mentor and friend.
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