Church warden jailed for life for murder of lecturer has conviction quashed
Retrial ordered in case of Benjamin Field, found guilty in 2019 of murdering Peter Farquhar, 69, in Buckinghamshire
A former church warden who was jailed for life for the murder of a university lecturer has had his conviction quashed at the court of appeal.
Benjamin Field was jailed for at least 36 years in 2019 after being found guilty of murdering 69-year-old Peter Farquhar in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire.
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