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The Independent UK
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Dave Higgens

Paranoid cannabis user recorded torture of 93-year-old man, jury told

Northampton Crown and County Courts building - (PA Archive)

A cannabis user recorded his attempts to get a 93-year-old man to confess to claims from his own paranoid conspiracies as he beat him during hours of torture, a jury has been told.

Prosecutors have told Northampton Crown Court that Martin Glynn was punched, kicked, stamped on and strangled in a “senseless attack” by Samuel Field at Field’s home in Desborough, Northamptonshire, in September 2024, and that Mr Glynn died three months later.

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