Maids Moreton: Church warden pretended to be in love with his alleged victims

A 28-year-old church warden accused of murdering a pensioner to benefit from his will has said he lied about being in love with the victim.Benjamin Field denies murdering 69-year-old university lecturer Peter Farquhar in October 2015.Talking about Mr Farquhar, Field told Oxford Crown Court he had been pretending he loved the academic and novelist "to increase my standing in [his] life and thereby inherit".