Benjamin Field ruthlessly targeted Peter Farquhar, who was found dead in 2015 after being drugged and plied with alcohol. Field is portrayed by Éanna Hardwicke in the Sixth Commandment.
Viewers were blown away by British actor Timothy Spall s performance as gay academic Peter Farquhar in the new BBC drama The Sixth Commandment last night.
Ben Field romantically pursued Peter and Ann before subjecting them to despicable acts of mental torture, gaslighting them and conning them out of their money and killing Peter in 2015
Timothy Spall, who is portraying Peter Farquhar in a new drama starring tonight, has told how Farquhar was outwardly vivacious but suffered from loneliness and a desire for affection .