The woman at the heart of the BBC’s drama The Sixth Commandment worked at a Kent primary school and was born in the county.

Ann Moore-Martin was the headmistress at Our Lady of Hartley Catholic Primary School, in Stack Lane, Hartley when the school first opened in 1976.

She was also born in Herne Bay and after retiring from education, which including teaching at St Thomas Primary School in Canterbury, Ann moved to Buckinghamshire to enjoy her last years in peace, Mrs Moore-Martin fell victim to the charms of sadistic murderer Benjamin Field.

The BBC drama, starring Anne Reid and Timothy Spall, tells the true story of the killer’s manipulation of the pensioner who he gaslighted and alienated from her family, before convincing her to hand over more than £30,000 under the guise that they were lovers.

Field, a PhD student, had already murdered Ann’s neighbour Peter Farquahar just one month earlier when he met the spinster in November 2015.

He began a relationship with the single 81-year-old, praying on her lonliness and isolation.

She even made him a beneficiary of her will.

Shortly before her death, in a care home two years later, Ann was made aware of his manipulation and removed his name.

Her death was put down to natural causes but her relationship with Field led police to look into the death of her neighbour and he was jailed for life for his murder in 2019.

The prosecuting lawyer at the time was Oliver Saxby who is now a judge at Maidstone Crown Court.

Oliver played cricket for Band of Brothers and Tenterden and regularly attends games at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground.

Among his many cases, Oliver prosecuted 12 defendants in the Aylesbury grooming case, Wind In The Willows killer Michael Danaher and mother Louise Porton who killed her two children within 15 days of each other.

He has also defended some of the Post Office staff wrongly convicted for fraud and his last appearance at Maidstone Crown Court was defending murderer David Fuller who killed two women in Tunbridge Wells in the 1980s and abused scores of bodies in a hospital mortuary.