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'''Brian Lunn Field''' (born 1937) is a British man responsible for the 1968 abduction, rape and murder of 14-year-old Roy Tutill, the oldest solved cold case in British history. He is also the prime suspect in the 1996 disappearance of Patrick Warren and David Spencer, although he has never confessed and the case remains unsolved.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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. Multiple investigators and the families of Spencer and Warren have stated their belief that Field raped and murdered the two of them.

In addition, Field is suspected of the murder of another young boy in the Solihull area, as he worked as a gardener for the victim's family.