 A former student of Ann Moore-Martin has said she has no desire to tune into The Sixth Commandment and is instead choosing to remember her former teacher as someone 'who did a lot of good in the world'. In the late 1970s, journalist Katherine O'Donnell, 58, was a student at St Thomas' Primary School in Canterbury, Kent. For two years she was a pupil of Moore-Martin, a person she singles out as having a lasting impact on her life. 'I remember her and she stands out in my memories,' she explained. 'Most of us have been lucky enough to have teachers in our lives who we remember, and we value and she was one of a handful in mine and I remember her as being exceptionally kind and empathetic and joyous in her teaching. 'As a child you can't make any kind of judgment about how good somebody is a teacher but as an adult, looking back over a 50-year perspective, I think it's very clear to me that she was exceptional.' Moore Martin died aged 83 in 2017 after being defrauded by Benjamin Field (Picture: PA) The final years of Moore-Martin feature in the recently released BBC series The Sixth Commandment, which explores her death in 2017, and that of her neighbour Peter Farquhar two years earlier. When 81-year-old Moore-Martin first met Benjamin Field in November 2014, she was completely unaware he had killed her neighbour just one month before. The pair began a romantic relationship, but it was all because Field had wanted to get his hands on her inheritance, a fraud he'd also undertaken with Farquhar, convincing the teacher and author to change his will to make him a benefactor. When Moore-Martin's death triggered a double murder investigation, it was eventually uncovered that Field had repeatedly drugged Farquhar to 'torment' him, for 'no other reason other than it was cruel'. While he was eventually sentenced to life in pri){kind=link}
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A former student of Ann Moore-Martin has said she has no desire to tune into The Sixth Commandment and is instead choosing to remember her former teacher as someone ‘who did a lot of good in the world’.
In the late 1970s, journalist Katherine O’Donnell, 58, was a student at St Thomas’ Primary School in Canterbury, Kent.
For two years she was a pupil of Moore-Martin, a person she singles out as having a lasting impact on her life.
‘I remember her and she stands out in my memories,’ she explained.