Ben’s friend Martyn Smith was accused of being an accomplice. In 2015, the pair were accused of befriending and manipulating lonely pensioners, murder and conspiracy to murder in the sleepy ...

A church warden and a magician "spiked" a retired lecturer's food and drinks during a sustained plot to murder him, a court heard. Benjamin Field, 28, and Martyn Smith, 32, are accused of planning ...

Martyn Smith, 32, is accused of helping PhD student Benjamin Field, 28, in the murder of Peter Farquhar, 69, and conspiring to murder retired headmistress Ann Moore-Martin, 83. Mr Farquhar was ...

Oskars Rancevs was acquitted of the murder of Martyn Smith and of killing neighbour John Whyte due to severe mental illness. On Wednesday a judge ordered him to be detained indefinitely at the ...

A jury heard Mrs Moore-Martin acted if she was "hypnotised" by him. Mr Field, 28, and Martyn Smith, 32, deny murder and conspiracy to murder. Mr Farquhar, who died in October 2015 and Miss Moore ...

Oskars Rancevs, 32, appeared at Dumbarton Sheriff court on Tuesday in connection with the death of 73-year-old Martyn Smith. Mr Smith was taken to hospital after an incident in Columba Court at ...