Editing Brian Lunn Field (section)

==Biography==
===Murder of Roy Tutill===
On 23 April 1968, Field, driving drunk, picked up Roy Tutill in Chessington, London, while he was hitch-hiking home. According to Field's own testimony, he started touching Tutill's leg, then when he asked him to stop he pulled over into a lay-by and forced him to strip naked before raping him and strangling him to death. He then drove 1.5 miles to Mickleham, Surrey, and dumped the body outside a local Victorian mansion where it was found three days later.<ref name=Tutill>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q7IHxPfbl4 The Story of Roy Tutill], Crime & Investigation Network</ref>

Field was arrested in Scotland soon after for indecently assaulting a boy and was sentenced to two years in prison. As he was a sex offender who lived in the right area to be Tutill's killer, he was interviewed by Scotland Yard detectives but was not charged due to a lack of evidence. Once released from prison he forced two other boys into his car and tried to rape them; he was jailed for four years. After Field served that sentence detectives attempted to interview him again but could not locate him, as he had gone to ground in Birmingham.<ref name=Spencer>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/nov/11/ukcrime.rosiecowan Police talk to jailed child killer over missing boys], The Guardian</ref>

===Arrest===
The Roy Tutill case was re-opened in 1999 with new DNA technology. DNA samples were recovered from Roy Tutill's clothes and run through the National DNA Database. In 2000, Field's DNA, taken during his previous arrests, was found to be a match. It was also found that one of the samples had been taken during a drunk driving arrest in Birmingham after Field fell off the police's radar, allowing police to track him to Birmingham.<ref name=Tutill/>

Field was located and arrested on 21 February 2001. He initially denied murdering Tutill, although he admitted having a history of sexual offences against young boys. However, after three days in custody he admitted his guilt and gave a detailed confession. He was sentenced to life in prison on 15 November 2001.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1657754.stm Man jailed for 1968 schoolboy murder], BBC News</ref>

===Other potential crimes===
Two young boys named Patrick Warren and David Spencer vanished on 27 December 1996 while on the way to Patrick's brother's house in Solihull. Neither boy was ever seen again, alive or dead. Police consider Field the prime suspect because he lived near where the boys were last seen and had a very obvious reason to commit the crime.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37999316 Patrick Warren and David Spencer: The mystery of the Milk Carton Kids], BBC News</ref> Field was interviewed about the case multiple times since his 2001 conviction and has always denied killing Spencer and Warren; however, he has admitted that he was driving drunk round the area at the time, making police more suspicious because Field has previously stated that alcohol served as a trigger for his crimes.<ref name=Spencer/> Multiple investigators and the families of Spencer and Warren have stated their belief that Field raped and murdered the two of them.<ref>[https://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-footsteps-of-killers/on-demand/71234-001 In the Footsteps of Killers: The Milk Carton Kids], Channel 4</ref>

Field is also suspected of the 1988 disappearance of 15-year-old Lee Boxell, who disappeared in Solihull the year Field was released from prison.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=706d0-0CtmA Real Crime - Mr. Nice Guy], ITV</ref> He has been named as a person of interest in 25 cases, including the murder of 15-year-old Mark Billington, who was found hanged from a tree near Solihull in 1984. Field lived just over a mile from the Billingtons when Mark was abducted.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-61435861.amp Parents of Mark Billington found hanged in Solihull appeal to finally catch son's killer], Birmingham Mail</ref>