Benjamin Luke Field (born 27 October 1990) is a British man who murdered retired teacher and author Peter Farquhar.
[1][2][3][4] Field was unemployed and was a voluntary and unpaid churchwarden at Stowe Parish Church.
He was undergoing the discernment process preparatory to the Bishops Advisory Panel (BAP), hoping to undertake training to be a priest.
As part of the same trial Field had pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and burglary against the same two victims.
It was argued at the Court of Appeal that the trial judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, misdirected the jury over the 'chain of causation' involved in Mr Farquhar's death – specifically, whether the victim was 'tricked' by Field into drinking whisky, or had done so out of choice.