A court has heard how Samuel Field became ‘paranoid’ and accused Martin Glynn, 93, of an “imagined conspiracy”
A 40-year-old man who tortured an elderly pensioner over a period of 24 hours is facing jail time for his murder.
Samuel Field launched a harrowing attack on his so-called friend in September 2024. Martin Glynn, who was 93 years old when he was assaulted, was punched, kicked, stamped on and strangled in the vicious attack that lasted hours at Field’s Desborough home, Northamptonshire Police said.
Tragically, Mr Glynn never regained the ability to walk after the horrific assault and passed away three months after on Boxing Day.
A court also heard ‘paranoid’ cannabis user Field made several voice recordings about a conspiracy during the vicious assault, reports the Daily Star.
On Wednesday, police announced that a jury at Northampton Crown Court took less than four hours to find Field guilty of murdering the elderly man after an 11-day trial.
In the prosecution’s opening statement last month, Adrian Langdale KC informed the court how Mr Glynn was fit and healthy enough to undertake a journey of over two hours, utilising multiple buses, to the defendant’s home in Gold Street, from his own home in Northampton, on September 19.
Mr Langdale had told the jury that Field was “effectively torturing” his friend of nearly 20 years while experiencing paranoia induced by cannabis.
The prosecutor stated that by 4.22pm that afternoon, Mr Glynn was “sprawled helplessly on the living-room floor” and the attacks continued as Field interrogated Mr Glynn about an “imagined conspiracy”.
In recordings made by Field, the court heard him discuss a conspiracy that “everyone is in for him” and accused Mr Glynn of giving a key to his home to an Irish traveller.
Mr Langdale had stated that Field was “effectively torturing and interrogating” as he attempted to coerce Mr Glynn into confessing, only calling an ambulance approximately 28 hours after the assault commenced.
Field, previously of Gold Street, Desborough, is set to be sentenced on May 29.
Following the verdict, deputy senior investigating officer Detective Sergeant Megan Scotney, from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, said: “Samuel Field described Mr Glynn as his best friend of almost two decades.
“Only Field knows why he attacked Mr Glynn that day, but I am pleased the jury has seen him for what he truly is – a dangerous, violent man.”
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