Emotional footage shows Martin Glynn walking through Desborough to his death
Footage shown to a jury showed a 93-year-old murder victim moving slowly toward the flat where he would be kicked, punched and stamped on by his ‘friend’ Samuel Field.
Video shown to the jury during a two-and-a-half week murder trial has now been released by police.
The moving footage shows Martin Glynn, 93, at the end of a two-hour, six-minute bus journey from his Northampton home to Desborough.
In it, he walks through the town from the bus stop towards Gold Street, where he was brutally attacked by cannabis-fuelled Sam Field, 40.
Field was this afternoon (Wednesday, May 6) convicted of murdering Mr Glynn, the man he described in court as his ‘only friend’.
The footage released also includes video downloaded to Field’s mobile phone from a blink video camera that was initially placed in a communal hallway. It captured Mr Glynn’s arrival at his flat.
The camera was then moved by Field to the inside hallway where it showed Martin Glynn’s feet lying in the living room while Field began a clean-up operation. The camera has never been recovered.
It was this footage that helped convince the jury that while Field was on the phone to a probation worker, telling them that Martin was ‘getting out of the shower’, he was actually lying on the floor more than 24-hours after Field had begun torturing him.
A 999 call made by Field is also included. In it, Field confesses that Mr Glynn is injured in his flat and says he’s ‘ever so sorry’.
When asked what the level of injuries are, he says he was ‘lying for ten hours’ and he was ‘trying to get the truth out of him’.
He also told the operator that there were ‘people coming in and out of his flat’, which was a lie, and part of a conspiracy invented by Field.
The moment he is arrested is also shown in the footage. He calmly tells officers, standing at the end of his drive, that he knows what he has done.
Following today’s verdict, Deputy Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Sergeant Megan Scotney, of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit said: “Samuel Field described Mr Glynn as his best friend of almost two decades.
“However, instead of looking out for Mr Glynn, Field exploited their friendship and tortured the 93-year-old over 10-hours, inflicting the most horrific injuries on a vulnerable man, which ultimately cost him his life.
“Mr Glynn lived independently and through his loyalty to Field, travelled more than two hours from his home in Northampton to Desborough at least once, sometimes twice a week to visit him.
“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.
“Nothing can bring Mr Glynn back, but I very much hope this guilty verdict offers his loved ones some comfort. Our thoughts remain with them all in their grief.”
Field will be sentenced on May 29. He has been warned he faces a life sentence.
Read our previous reports from the murder trial here: