Samuel Field, 40, punched, kicked, stamped on and strangled Martin Glynn at his home in Desborough, Northamptonshire, in September 2024. A jury convicted him of murder after an 11-day trial
A paranoid cannabis user who subjected his 93-year-old friend to torture over a span of more than 24 hours has been convicted of his murder, according to Northamptonshire Police.
Martin Glynn was punched, kicked, stamped on and strangled by Samuel Field, 40, at Field’s residence in Desborough, Northamptonshire, in September 2024. Mr Glynn never regained the ability to walk following the assault, during which Field made several voice recordings about a conspiracy, and passed away three months later on Boxing Day.
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.”