A British appeals court has quashed the murder conviction of Benjamin Field, a former church warden who was sentenced to at least 36 years in prison in 2019 for the killing of university lecturer Peter Farquhar in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire (a village in central England). Field had been found guilty of manipulating the 69-year-old Farquhar — secretly administering tranquillisers and spiking his whisky to make him believe he was losing his mind — in order to inherit his home and money, with Farquhar's 2015 death staged to appear accidental. Three senior judges from the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction after the case was referred by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (a body that reviews potential miscarriages of justice), and have also granted the Crown Prosecution Service permission to seek guidance from the UK Supreme Court before any retrial proceeds.