Season 4 - Episode 33
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
4.6 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 4 - EPISODE 32’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE.
Benjamin Field and Martyn Smith were on trial, accused of murdering Peter Farquhar at his home and conspiring to murder Ann Moore-Martin before she died of natural causes. She had handed over more than £30,000 before she died. Peter Farquhar had been found dead. A coroner at first believed he had died of acute alcohol intoxication however the authorities now believed that he had been drugged and suffocated (Part 2 of 2).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season 4, Episode 33 of They Walk Among Us. A podcast dedicated to UK |
| 0:29.6 | True Crime. Please listen to season 4, Episode 32 for part 1 of this two-part case. |
| 0:46.1 | To gain exclusive access to season 1 and add free versions of our episodes a few days before |
| 1:00.6 | their general release, head to patreon.com forward slash they walk among us. |
| 1:18.0 | Listen a caution is advised as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some |
| 1:24.5 | listeners may find distressing. Benjamin Filden and Martin Smith were on trial accused |
| 1:44.1 | of murdering Peter Farcor at his home and conspiring to murder Anne-Marne Martin before she died of |
| 1:50.5 | natural causes. Filden had been romantically involved with both victims, lying to them in order to |
| 1:58.0 | gain their trust. It was also alleged by the prosecutor that Benjamin Filden's brother Tom Filden |
| 2:06.0 | had perpetrated fraud by pretending he was ill. Filden convinced Anne-Marne Martin that Tom had an illness |
| 2:13.5 | that required treatment with the dialysis machine. She had handed over more than £30,000 |
| 2:20.2 | before she died. Peter Farcor had been found dead. A coroner at first believed he had died of |
| 2:28.1 | acute alcohol intoxication. However, the authorities now believe that he had been drugged and suffocated. |
| 2:43.8 | The prosecutor told the jury that Benjamin Filden listed the help of Martin Smith to make the |
| 2:54.8 | planned accidental deaths of the two elderly victims more convincing. Dures were informed that during |
| 3:02.1 | January 2018 after the two men were first arrested and on their way to High Wicker Magistrates Court, |
| 3:10.0 | Benjamin Filden said to his co-defendant, |
| 3:13.4 | I think I will get away with most of it. The two major charges are not worried about even slightly, |
| 3:20.0 | they don't have any evidence. Telling the court that was not the language of someone who was innocent |
| 3:27.2 | or incredulous, one of a sacks BQC said it was instead the language of an arrogant guilty person. |
| 3:40.3 | As further evidence was presented at Oxford Crown Court, Benjamin Filden's own words were used |
| 3:46.7 | against him. While police noticed the questionable books at his property, they also seized his |
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