Olly & Craig’s charity duets
Unrepentant killer Tony Martin returns to farm where he shot raiders
PERFORMANCE Olly Murs OLLY Murs, Craig David and Little Mix have surprised project workers who are funded by BBC Children In Need with the chance to duet with them.
Sheridan Smith and Alfie Boe also took part in the charity’s Project Sing.
Olly said: “It feels so good to meet the people at the front line of what BBC Children in Need do.”
The surprise duets will be part of BBC Children In Need’s night on November 16 on BBC 1 at 7.30pm. Martin at his farm in 2003 KILLER Tony Martin has returned to the farm where he shot two raiders, one fatally – and insisted he still has no regrets, two decades on.
The farmer served three years for manslaughter after shooting dead 16-year-old Fred Barras and injuring Brendon Fearon, then 29, after finding them at his remote Bleak House in 1999.
Back at the scene for the first time in over a decade, he said: “With a burglar, what goes around comes around.”
Martin, now 74, was initially jailed for murder in 2000, but on appeal his conviction was reduced to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility.
But returning to Bleak House in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk, for Channel 4 drama The Interrogation, he said: “There was nothing diminished about me.”
Appearing at the end of the hour-long drama, in which he is played by League of Gentlemen star Steve Pemberton, Martin is asked if the burden of killing young Barras weighs heavily on him.
But the farmer says: “He wasn’t a boy, he was a young man.
“No, I don’t even think about it. I obviously Fred Barras Fearon sympathise with the mother saying she only had one boy and now he is dead. But it’s no good blaming me.
“When I was his age I lived with my grandparents. I didn’t go breaking into bloody houses 60 miles down the road.”
He adds: “I was in prison with a boy... and I found out he was a burglar. So I said to him, ‘Why do you break into people’s houses?’ and he said, ‘Well, that’s the way things are’.
“When he walked away I went ‘BANG’ like that, and he Where Martin shot raider pair
Steve Pemberton as farmer Martin
said, ‘What’s all this?’ And I said, ‘That’s how things are, boy’.”
On his release from jail in 2003 Martin was moved to a secret address and told the Mirror: “I am angry. I didn’t get justice. I got rough justice.”
Every word spoken in The Interrogation comes from Martin’s police interviews. It then ends in the present day with Martin at Bleak House. ■ The Interrogation is on Channel 4 on Sunday at 9pm.
RELEASE In 2003