Tony Martin is 'going to get it', warns cousin of the boy he shot -

The Sunday Telegraph - UK ^ | July 27, 2003 | Thair Shaikh and Daniel Foggo

[UnklGene]

Tony Martin is 'going to get it', warns cousin of the boy he shot By Thair Shaikh and Daniel Foggo (Filed: 27/07/2003)

Relatives of Fred Barras, the burglar shot dead by Tony Martin, last night warned that the Norfolk farmer will be murdered after his release tomorrow.

One cousin of Barras said Martin was "going to get it", while another said a hitman would be hired if the dead teenager's associates failed to carry out a retaliatory attack.

Fred Barras The death threats will add to fears about Martin's safety, which have already prompted police to set up a mobile station at his farm at Emneth Hungate, Norfolk.

The Telegraph can also reveal that Martin, who was moved to a safe house last week, made arrangements for a gun to be hidden at a friend's home. The weapon, which was concealed under a wardrobe in Martin's farmhouse prior to his conviction for murder in 2000, was smuggled out by his friend, Paul Cumby. Mr Cumby said last night that he still had Martin's gun, saying: "I've got that."

In a separate development, David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, has ordered the head of the Prison Service to explain the early release of Brendon Fearon, Barras's accomplice during the burglary of Martin's home in August 1999. Yesterday, Jamie Jones, a News of The World photographer, was assaulted by Fearon's brother in Newark, Notts.

Fearon, who was shot and wounded by Martin, was freed on Friday, despite serving less than a third of an 18-month sentence for heroin dealing, prompting an outcry from MPs and Martin's supporters.

Ishmael Steele, Barras's cousin, who lives on the same road in Newark where Barras grew up, said Martin would be killed. "He will get it. Something will happen to him, it's got to.

"We've got hundreds of relations who aren't happy with it. And to those who say it's just talk, I'd say wait and see. The detectives can't be with him all the time, can they?"

Another cousin of Barras, who gave his name as Georgi, said the travelling community had recently put a £60,000 bounty on Martin's head.

"He is a dead man. I don't know if it will be a traveller that will do it, but it will be a proper hitman, a professional job," he said.

Martin was jailed for life at Norwich Crown Court three years ago for killing Barras, 16. His life sentence and murder conviction were overturned on appeal and reduced to a five-year term for manslaughter. On Thursday, Martin, who was held at Highpoint Prison in Suffolk, was moved to a safe house. He is expected to remain in hiding in the days following his release, but has told friends that he then intends to return to his home.

The freeing of Fearon, 33, only three days before Martin's release, prompted an outcry yesterday with Henry Bellingham, the Norfolk farmer's MP, claiming that ministers and the prison service were pursuing a vendetta against his constituent. "This was either a coincidence, in which case it was grossly negligent and deeply insensitive, or someone, somewhere has acted out of spite." The Government responded by ordering Phil Wheatley, the head of the Prison Service, to a meeting with Mr Blunkett tomorrow to explain Fearon's release.

Dominic Grieve, the shadow prisons minister, accused Mr Blunkett of rank hypocrisy. "Fearon's release is a direct consequence of policies initiated by Mr Blunkett. The ordering of this report shows how the Home Secretary's actions are driven by a desire for the short-term media limelight. He is not in control."

[xm177e2]

We should give Tony Martin American citizenship.

[JOHANNES801]

They wont pull off this hit with a gun,nobody in the UK can own one.

[Politically Correct]

We need to bring this man to the US and then arm him properly.

[johniegrad]

How old is Tony Martin?

[dasboot]

My. It seems the UK Gypsies are getting back to the bad old days.

[river rat]

It's genetic!

Looks like Tony Martin needs to kill a few more of the thieving bastard's relatives....

To make these kinds of threats in public --- kinda of leads you to believe that in addition to being thieves, they are really quite stupid to boot..

Semper Fi

[fourdeuce82d]

We've got hundreds of relations who aren't happy with it

Traveler Scum. Here's how Vlad Tepes handled some other rats: "He [the Sultan] marched on for about five kilometers when he saw his men impaled; the Sultan's army came across a field with stakes, about three kilometers long and one kilometer wide. And there were large stakes on which they could see the impaled bodies of men, about twenty thousand of them, as they said; quite a spectacle for the Turks and the Sultan himself! The Sultan, in wonder, kept saying that he could not conquer the country of a man who could do such terrible and unnatural things. He also used to say that this man who did such things would be worthy of more. And the other Turks, seeing so many people impaled, were scared out of their wits." The Sultan withdrew.

Kill them all, let God sort them out.

[sharktrager]

A similar thing happened to a friend of mine.

He owns a Greyhound depot. They got robbed one night and he was able to distract the robber by sendig an assistant to the back for a bag to hold the money. When he turned his head my friend pulled out a .45 and fired 2 shots. The first went killed the robber, and the second was on the same path, except the robber wasn't there anymore.

My older brother happened to be the first cop on the scene, and also went to the hospital with the robber (where he was on taxpayer funded life support for over 2 weeks). At the hospital his friends and family were making threats against my friend. The police calmly took their names and let thm know that, if anything happened to my friend, they would arrest them all and then sort it out.

Nothing ever happened.

[sgtbono2002]

If I understand this correctly Tony Martin killed a burglar.
He was convicted of killing a burglar and got life? For protecting his property? Someone figured out life for protecting your property and killing a thief was a pretty stiff sentence so they changed it to manslaughter and cut the guy loose early, Now the other burglars want to kill him. Geez I sure am glad we threw out the British and formed a better country.

[M Kehoe]

Unfortunately, Mr. Martin is caught between a rock and hard place. Get a gun and go to jail. Don't get a gun, and die. Bummer.

5.56mm

[lawdude]

Oh, good. Brit version of Hatfields and McCoys. Haw can they "get" him? There are no weapons in the Isles.

[gcruse]

Vlad, Vlad, he's our man.
If he can't do it, Dracula can!

[sheik yerbouty]

Was Barras perhaps a jihadist?

[MonroeDNA]

This makes me sick.

[joesnuffy]

England is a barbaric nation

The royals and the elite are protected and can carry guns

The peasants are literaly "fed" to the criminal element

The criminal element is coddled by liberal social programs

A taxpayer is treated like a criminal...and is not allowed to defend his own life the lives of his wife & Children or his property...

The elite and leaders are cruel beyond belief and tear the hearts out of their subjects by rewarding evil and punishing good...

England is under the rule of satan imo...while Prince Charlie of Rifkin -soon to be king- parades around his palace fully protected by armed guards and in full mufti like Lawrence of friggin Arabia

While he utters not a word about his "subjects" being jailed and theives rewarded..

Thank the Lord we threw that yoke of British injustice & cruelty off...too bad we seem so anxious to put that same yoke back on and our leaders more than happy to oblige us

[tet68]

So Barras was a "traveller", figures.
Martin's neighbors ought to rise up and let it be known that if anything happes to him, traveller skum will fill the graveyards. They know who they are.

[AF68]

Sounds like incitement to murder. Jail the whole lot of them.

[Lancey Howard]

Maybe the "travellers" will trick Martin into eating a certain....pie. He will then become thinner.

[watchin]

From the story:

Ishmael Steele, Barras's cousin ...

Could be. It would explain the bloodlust.