TONY MARTIN ARRESTED (remember the fellow who was jailed for shooting the burglar?)

Sky News ^ | 2/13/04

[mylife]

TONY MARTIN ARRESTED

Farmer Tony Martin has been arrested on suspicion of stealing number plates.

Martin - jailed for shooting dead a teenage burglar at his remote farmhouse - was released on police bail following the arrest.

Cambridgeshire Police said a 59-year-old man from the Wisbech area had been arrested for suspected theft of number plates.

Martin's friend Malcolm Starr told the Daily Mirror: "Tony is in good spirits considering the circumstances. But not surprisingly he's rather unhappy about all this.

"He wouldn't have minded if they'd charged him as he knows he's done absolutely nothing wrong.

"Anyone who knows Tony is aware he'd have nothing to do with stealing or with anything stolen."

Martin was arrested after the number plates were allegedly found in the back of his car, according to the Mirror. He has reportedly told police he found them.

Martin was released from prison last July after serving more than three years of a life sentence for shooting dead burglar Fred Barras and injuring Brendon Fearon during a bungled robbery at his home.

[mylife]

Martin

[nuconvert]

Hmm.......he found them.......what were the police doing when they noticed the plates in the back of his car? Had he been pulled over for speeding or something? Missing a license plate? LOL!

To be Continued.............


Btw - I like the PJ O'Rourke quote on your web page.

[mylife]

I like the PJ O'Rourke quote on your web page.

Thanks, I'm rather partial to it myself!

[mylife]

It just seems highly unlikely that Martin would be involved in anything suspicious after what he has been through but, who knows?

[longtermmemmory]

plates? as in dishes?

this is news?

[mylife]

What is news is that tony martin is in another brush up with the law

[longtermmemmory]

and this is about dishes.

the reporters must really hate this man.

[SauronOfMordor]

The burglers he shot were Gypsies. He has the whole Gypsy community in Britain wanting his scalp. I do not forsee nice things happening

[Devil_Anse]

"allegedly found in the back of his car"

Sounds like a set-up to me. Such things are indeed done.

And gypsies are very clever people.

[highimpact]

for shooting dead burglar Fred Barras

Why did he shoot a dead burglar?

[Prodigal Son]

Martin is a nutter. That's something too many people like to forget because he is their poster child for gun/homeowner rights. He's not the most stable character though.

[King Prout]

"Martin is a nutter."

oh, really?
And of what has he been clinically diagnosed, and by whom?

[Prodigal Son]

You would trust a clinical diagnosis?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Probably if he was in Idaho they'd be calling his farm a "compound".

[King Prout]

more than I would that of an armchair psychologist, yes.

[Prodigal Son]

OK.

[Prodigal Son]

This is by his own defence:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/25/nmar25.xml

[King Prout]

legal trickery, not a clinical diagnosis.
where is there clinical evidence of brain trauma or malformation, of chemical imbalance, of psychosis?

[di_canio_volley]

Not dishes, in the UK "number plates" are licence plates.

It would be very unusual to have several of them in your car....