Convicted killer Tony Martin, who shot useless a teenage intruder in his house in 1999, has died on the age of 80, a household pal has stated.
The killing of 16-year-old Fred Barras at Martin’s Norfolk farmhouse was vastly controversial on the time, with the nation divided over whether or not his actions had been pre-meditated, or just a farmer defending himself and his property.
Martin was jailed in 2000 for the boy’s homicide, and for injuring one other man, 29-year-old Brendan Fearon in the identical incident, earlier than being launched three years later after the homicide conviction was decreased to manslaughter.
Martin lived on his personal at his sprawling, semi-derelict farmhouse in Emneth Hungate, close to Wisbech on the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border on the time of the incident.
On the evening of 20 August 1999, the pair entered his house, in an remoted a part of the village, with the intention of housebreaking.
That they had travelled from Newark in Nottinghamshire that night to raid the property, referred to as Bleak Home, the place Martin saved antiques.
The farmer heard them, got here down from an upstairs bed room and opened hearth with a pump-action shotgun.
