Retired teacher, 83, thought mirror messages were from God (Metro)

A deeply religious retired teacher believed messages written on mirrors in her home were from God, telling her to change her will and leave her home to her young lover, a court has heard.

Benjamin Field, 28, used a white marker pen to leave biblical messages for Ann Moore-Martin, 83, as part of a campaign of ‘gaslighting’.

Field – 57 years her junior – sent Miss Moore-Martin letters, postcards and poems speaking of his love and discussing marriage during a year-long seduction.

The church warden, who admits being in a fraudulent relationship with Miss Moore-Martin, also wrote messages urging her to give him £27,000 towards the cost of a dialysis machine, purportedly for his seriously ill brother Tom, 24. Read more