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Well it's an easy way from the World Series with the rest of the sport this morning here's Man's for the Wales had coach Warren Gatland says he can't understand why people have written his side off ahead of their rugby World Cup semifinal against South Africa later he added that his players have used it as motivation for the game well as have lost both their World Cup meetings with South Africa or the total margin of defeat in those matches adds up to just 5 points the winners will play England in the final in 6 days time Frank Lampard has warned against putting too high expectations on his young Chelsea side despite an impressive 40 win over Byrne the earlier consolidating their place in the top 4 Scotland's Josh Taylor has unified the w b a n i b f world super lightweight belts after points victory over the American Regis program is or stop David Price in the 4th round in the or British heavyweight encounter and Lewis Hamilton has moved up to 3rd on the grid for the Mexican grown pray after match for stop and who had qualified quickest was given a 3 place grid penalty for failing to slow under yellow flags how to need to finish 14 points ahead of. Sadie's teammate. To wrap up a 6 jobs championship in. The police. Next. Live Now you may remember this one of the case of Ben field the student job for life from a During his university professor in the feature Ask a village of major backing him then field pretended to be in love with pizza who was 44 years he's seen it it's I mean you secretly drugging him in plotting to kill him and then moved into having a relationship with his old Lee neighbor an 83 year old woman cool and. He didn't kill anybody he did defraud her farm of Joe Black has made a special documentary about the case called Killer in the congregation and we can hear enough. Good afternoon to assert saying you know out there with me to. Log on to your butt. Is incredibly clever well educated pulls of all intelligent charming and he broke a few hearts. With curly. Haired American everyone that was almost was put on the planet just to be used by him at I want to thank you the sec he certainly got his day and on going because. This focus. On what is your name my name is Ben field what he did was just pure evil. I've been a b.b.c. Reporter for 12 years the 1st time I saw Banfield he was smartly dressed his hair was longer than I'd seen in photographs and it was slightly Karalee he seemed self-assured and had so much about him and just looking at him in the flesh I just wondered is this guy really done these things. Welcome to maids Moten this is a tiny village just bolted on to the town of a he and it's what you'd call a chocolate box spillage I see on the fleet church there. And a nice country pub. Touch cottage its sort of place where people put each other's bins out or they have a natter over the fence. And this is the right this is where most of this happened and all the neighbors around here they all know about a story and residents like Andrew create more still can't believe that this happened on his doorstep. Really Lori from what a.d.h. To know what's going on beyond them doors you don't I was going on and I think a lot of people around me and wish I had done something. By many Some might not really. Benefield grew up in Buckinghamshire the son of a Baptist minister and a Lib Dems counselor of head he was popular but I want to know more now I am sitting in a pub car park other arranged to meet someone who knows Benfield really well it's an old friend of his She's made it clear that if she does the interview with me that we don't use her name. I case of for the purpose of this interview and if I'm going to call you Lucy Yeah yeah Ok so you just want to tell me about and filled he was a friend of yours is always a bit odd but lovable odd the stories you tell me after he was very good at observing people is just a funny person here is here with code good jokes he had just lots of laughs at school he was an 8th grade student who booked off lessons to go to the library and we dictionaries Lisi says band loved writing and even boasted about writing a romantic novel I think. And a Mills and Boon novel just to get around I don't know if that was true but I certainly told way. But the where aspects of Ben's character that Lucy didn't like for one thing he was obsessed about money he was always kind of scared of poverty and he never wanted to. They. Are dependent on a credit card that he was always he's always wanting to have. He had an ego he did like to prove. And I would never like. $100.00 times but he would go out with girls who were not as intelligent as him to be I'm smarter. The smartest person in the Banfield had a string of girlfriends but sometimes he also met men in secret for one night stands. In 2011 Benfield was studying English literature at the University of booking and then he met. Who'd previously been the head of English at the prestigious school the love of literature and instantly hit it off. Because everyone. Went over to Piers ones for. Quite. A romance developed but it was an unusual 1. 64 years old 44 years older than Banfield. I'm Robert I was a friend of Peter Farka I met him in the summer of 90. In Cambridge I'd question that internally myself but I didn't think it was my power to question that with Peter you never brought up with Peter I did not. I don't recall. Ever sort of suggesting he should be tall shoes or wary of Ben Peter was a formidable character with a brilliant mind he studied at Cambridge before embarking on a teaching career all Theron journalist Michael Crick was taught by him at Manchester Grammar School in the 1970 s. And afterwards they remained good friends the strongest memory I have of Peter is as a lot of. Very smartly dressed in a Tory jacket. I. Was very straight and had this very no use or voice. So it quickly became a subject of imitation although it was straight people once they got to know him and once they were a bit older they have they appreciated he was a very good teacher. But he says that since his but the retired from teaching to concentrate on his writing he had felt isolated writing books is a lot different from teaching kids one of them is your own urine and the other is absolutely with lots of kids to encourage and help and then all of that stopped when you saw in the. At the end of 2013 Benfield started looking at peace his house in the peach rescue religion of maids moved in when Ben told me he was going to labor Peter's house I thought it was a little odd but then he explained it was a kind of financial and if it. Was helping him right and everything so it was a bit odd but he kind of explained away and that made sense and he also got a job in the village wedding as a care assistant in a nursing home. Made schools in Peter fall can bend fields relationship flourished but they made a pact to keep the relationship secret however Peta Dick confide in his friend Robert Wilson just tell me what I can get this is the Peter sent him a on the 19th of October 2030 in the set of exclaiming have banned the person you've already met but how the relationship I knew exactly who Ben was I'd met him before more than once rabbit meets me the email we spent 5 days together in North Somerset on the friendship developed in a depth and direction which I had not anticipated in which has exceeded any expectations which I could possibly have had even if they had crossed my mind which they hadn't. He's very clear that he had no idea that this was what Ben was going to suggest this is given me a happiness which I've long since never expected to enjoy it is early days to define the terms of the relationship but it is more much more than just a good friendship things were said and done with an intimacy beyond such to. A short time later Banfield suggested that they make the relationship official. Peter told me that it was after they had been to colleges cottage and that sort of important because it was their shared understanding of literature and enjoyment of literature and they went up on the downs nearby and that's where. As I recall Peter telling me that's where Ben suggested that they become part of this you know a proposed to him in fact. In March 2014 at a betrayed the ceremony Peter and band became officially engaged. And entry. Pieces Janno. Which I'm just looking at here reads a bless a day God is so good to me far more than I deserve. The blessing that we're talking about a my Russian thinking at any the 2 of them. That nobody else had no witnesses and it was something that he wanted you to keep confidential is something for you to keep secret as it were but no and no one else really knew about it. I think. Did you wonder at the time when Ben failed came on the scene why someone that young would want to hang around with someone much older yes of course. I'm not the only person to have wondered that the priest to bless them he questioned Benfield a lot about whether he thought about the future and the huge difference in their ages and what this might mean as Peter got older the couple she had to bet but Peter insisted the relationship wasn't sexual it was pains to tell me that there are they should ship was platonic but it was intimate hugging was important I know to Peter. In that relationship Peter's brother also had some concerns and confronted Benfield he was stunned by his response I asked him why are you 24 year old. Is this my my brother is 6 he really was then he says something and it was all the love of. Harry he just felt he was. Having difficult times and he's be supported. Does that mean you have to share a bed with him. If it helps something like that and all you. Miss Right turned around the corner for you or a young fellow what we should. Be sure you don't mean by contrast Peter Falk was besotted If open field was it was a soulmate in terms of their common interest in literature and the English language . In Christianity. When Benfield moved to live with Peter he joined peaches church in neighboring state the couple were active members of the congregation and then became an assistant church warden and a member of the church council the archdeacon of Buckingham is guy. These words the young man who presented himself as face and friendly and helpful after telling the congregation he wanted to be ordained he started the process of becoming a priest Robert Wilson remembers him going to an open day at a theological college he had conversations with people in the church all about it and knew the procedure was a selection procedure. Fields decision to join the clergy. The reason. He wasn't religious they were just being like. Why he don't think even God. Told him he was doing it simply because he found it interesting I didn't know it wasn't because he was. Because he for it because he found it interesting he liked to study right talking to people being involved to people so it seemed like. On the 17th of May 2014 this was 2 months after Ben Fields and Peter Gage went and bumped into pieces friend Robert Wilson Robert tells me what happened that day still troubles him he was talking about his experience working in the old people's home. And I just remarked that it was all good experience for pastoral experience for someone who wanted to be a priest in the church and. Really surprised me at the time and it will help me deal with Peter's dementia. As if it was inevitable and since he had been absolutely as far as I could see no indications of dementia I was just very surprised. At this strange assumption and he didn't say anything to him at the time stopped saying anything good moments I suppose. 6 months later Peter began to feel unwell. I feel. It's strange. Started suffering spells Jaring which he became confused and disorientated on this occasion here Benfield filmed his partner lying in bed struggling to complete his sentences. Used. Of course of course. Benfield watched as his partner's condition worsened Peter's suffered nightmares and feared he was losing his mind he wasn't on top of things. Doing quite simple things seemed the problem doctors were baffled they couldn't make a diagnosis it seemed like a mystery illness but Benfield told friends including Lisi he knew what was wrong when Tommy had to match up his home that he was going l. And that he became part of years care and my opinion was it was too much for Ben to take on because he was working full time he was getting as Masters he was caring for Peter so I was actually quite worried about that point. And I said someone my Peter. Injured himself the Benfield is always there to come to the rescue on hold because. Mr focus for one stroke of the small. Screen 2 centimeters long everything but it is only and how he's managed to fall that their feet are blackout before the fall or what exactly happened. Coordination is something that's. Probably a dimension of the Benfield told friends that he suspected something else was contributing to Peaches illness his home he was an alcoholic the house because of it. And he directly find him kind of passed out with a bottle of whisky it was. But Robert Wilson wasn't convinced his friend had a drink problem. But not heavily. Say Peter send. That he was seeing frightening things in. Here. He says here. That he woke in the night feeling wretchedly ill and saw a mass of black insects on the carpet and climbing the radiator. And he goes on to say while it was happening I felt that I wanted to die the experience was so bearable and on top of that besides like this he kept losing items around his home like his phone and his keys Robert Wilson again there was a day. Peter was so bothered about having lost his wallet I think it was that he rang. Work he said oh I saw it near the telephone please a lot couldn't say and proceed couldn't see it at all later and then when Ben came home he pointed to it and it had been there all the time in August 2015 Peter launched his latest book a wide wide sea it's called I got a copy of him. And if you look on the 1st page it's dedicated amongst others to Ben field says he was encouraged and was invaluable and without him this book would not exist the book launch was held at Stowe School where Peter used to work and. I'm looking at a photograph here of Peter at that event he's sitting at a table his new books are sort of fanned out in front of him but he's bright red in the face he looks really ill his sister in law see Falcon is sitting beside him I sat next to me could hardly hold a pen name he kept saying to people I mean the story been so ill feel well and then one next minute then took him off and took him outside for some fresh air and they came back and pull it just wasn't Peter couldn't give a speech which he normally does as it was just very very sad and then he went back to his house and he started hallucinating then he saying oh you see this thing is coming into my eyes can't you see them and of course. We couldn't so he didn't want anything to a deal that hungry which again isn't Peter so Ben took him upstairs took him to bed as we said goodbye to him and after and then we left. And yeah not a good day prayers were said in church after Benfield told the congregation that Peter was ill Peter's brother worried it was getting too much for Ben to Cait with I started getting messages from other people in the church. That Peter wasn't the real it was one occasion where a laugh you know and he said he thought maybe it was too much maybe I should come up and have a movie so I do with and I said to ban you know it's probably too much for you maybe we should just stay here oh no. It's not a problem to me again the single thing in this is really you know his way to be helpful. To give Ben some rest by Peter stayed here at the Red House for a couple of weeks it's the same care home where Ben What And during his stay here his health improved. Played rather. Like a car after he left the nursing him he rang his case been what Wilson to say how relieved he was that he was feeling better I think of that every card. Or. By. 2 days later Peter Falk is cleaner walked into his living room and found the academic body lying slumped in a chair. Whiskey decided. It was Monday morning I think when a friend of his writing me to me he'd been trying to show Turbo. Ruled the cause of death as acute alcohol intoxication Peter's friends and family was stunned among them Michael Crichton I never thought of Peter's having a drink problem I mean he liked a glass of wine with the lunch or dinner and a glass of whisky at night but there were aspects of the story as presented at the time of a few well that just didn't add together. The funeral took place at study parish church Benfield read a poem and a 1000 mourners attended the wake lots of students came schoolboys as well who who remembered him from being a teacher and then people tree came along because they wanted to respect it was a fitting ceremony you know we really felt it was it's fitting Peter being remembered like that and all the conversation of course was about Peter and what a great teacher he. Then came the matter of pieces will for his brother and his wife Sue its contents were a shock when was the 1st time that you learned that the house was going to go to bed. Was that the sister's office after Peter died yes right there I had no idea that was going to get far enough Peter but. You know something about the 20 grand he got it was a bit of a surprise Benfield received a life interest that meant he could live in the house for the rest of his life. 18 months after Peter's death his brother got a phone call. Natalie found out. From him is really serious crimes or. Rather recently. This is pieces old house it's detached and back then it had 3 bedrooms It's the property of course that bed feels inherited but. Just a few doors down. There's also. This house which Ben feels was also a set to inherit not from Peter Farka but from one of his neighbors and more Martin had all say full in the Banfield. Owner's clothes or can remember to be honest Ryan was one about his neighbors trigger words out tending to a garden very helpful in educating us from different sorts of flowers plants you know to tell you about it just a bubbly. Which is very lovely elderly woman. Anne was a retired head teacher and a devout Catholic she was married and she had no children she lived just 3 doors down from Peter Farka And Bethia just 2 months after Peter's death bed began writing and love letters the following extract is read by an actor I have not said has perhaps I should but I desire you and desire to woo you but my earnest hope is that you would see me as I see you I see you as a beautiful lovely insightful woman of faith and grace. They grew closer and their relationship became sexual aged 82 she was 57 years his senior the following words from one of em's letters spoken by an actor laugh his thumb asked beautiful thing in half I will try to put your needs before mine to be selfless and unselfish and rejoice in the delight of your love and the time you gave me my dearest precious one how I so wish we had many years more to share together in life and delight with each other it's clear from one of