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Sixth Commandment, a BBC TV series about the murder of Peter Farquhar by Ben Field, began airing this week.

All four episodes are available on the iPlayer.

The murder was committed in sleepy Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton, but the trial took place at Oxford Crown Court last year. You can read some of the background here.

It’s well-worth watching the series, which gives an idea of the sheer quantity of police work that went into bringing Ben Field to justice.

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For court nerds like me, there are some irritating incongruities.

Judges don't sit with the figure of Lady Justice/Justitia behind them on the bench - it's always the Royal coat of arms.

Court ushers don't wear barristers' gowns - they've got gowns of their own.

It's really hard - nigh on impossible - to get any pictures at all of a defendant being loaded onto a prison van at Oxford Crown Court because of the layout of the building.

And they've written out the role of prosecution junior Michael Roques, now a judge (who, in a different case, wrote his whole closing speech around the lyrics to rapper Shaggy's song It Wasn't Me).

Killer Ben Field has already made one unsuccessful attempt to appeal his conviction.

And on Friday, we learnt that an application has been made to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to take up the case.

The Commission is responsible for investigating potential miscarriages of justice. Obviously, just because someone has applied to the CCRC to take on the case, it doesn’t necessarily mean they will.