The Sixth Commandment is a four-part British true crime television drama series, written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Saul Dibb.
The story explores the narcissistic manipulation and murder of Peter Farquhar and the death of his neighbour Ann Moore-Martin in the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton in 2015 and 2017, and the fall out from these events including the police investigation and 2019 criminal trial of Ben Field and Martyn Smith.
[1] The project was first announced in November 2020 by the BBC to “explore the death of Mr Farquhar and the gaslighting campaign of physical and mental abuse he was made to endure at the hands of church warden Benjamin Field”.
[5] In June 2022 Timothy Spall, Anne Reid, Éanna Hardwicke, Annabel Scholey and Sheila Hancock were announced as the lead cast.
[12] Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph gave it four out of five stars, also praising the performances and saying the drama 'never forgets Field’s victims were real and suffered horribly'.