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| Drug dealer Fearon released from jail |
| 2003-07-25 |
| A convicted burglar and drug dealer who was shot by farmer Tony Martin has been released from jail in Nottinghamshire. Brendon Fearon, 33, was shot by Martin while raiding his home in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk in August 1999. He was later jailed for drug dealing and sent to prison in Ranby, Nottinghamshire. A Prison Service spokeswoman said he was released on Friday, after serving less than a third of his 18-month sentence for dealing heroin. He has been released early under the terms of the Home Detention Curfew scheme, which means he is electronically tagged and subject to a curfew for the next three-and-a-half months. After which he is free to resume his "career". Fearon’s accomplice 16-year-old Fred Barras from Newark, Nottinghamshire, died after being shot by Martin in the 1999 raid. Fearon is continuing efforts to gain around £15,000 compensation from Martin. Martin, 56, was jailed for life after being found guilty of murder, but the conviction was reduced to manslaughter and the sentence to five years by the Court of Appeal in October 2001. Martin is being released on Monday after serving his sentence, but has already been moved from prison to a safe house. Fearon has said he is suing Martin claiming he has been unable to work because of the gunshot wound to his leg. The limp makes to hard to climb through peoples windows. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #8 Home invader gets 18 months, not for the home invasion, but for dealing heroin (did he try to sell Tony Martin some H while BREAKING INTO HIS HOUSE?) and the good citizen gets 5 years for defending himself. Only in europe... |
| Posted by: jason 2003-7-25 6:44:54 PM |
| #7 Dang, Luigi, that was funny! Sounds like GB is trying to imitate the absurd justice they see in their former colonies. Maybe they should take Billy's advice about lawyers. Was that Henry III? The IV?! The V?!! |
| Posted by: Scott 2003-7-25 3:21:20 PM |
| #6 Luigi - Bravo!!! |
| Posted by: PD 2003-7-25 2:21:44 PM |
| #5 I assume you're familiar with the Darwin Awards, given to the dummy who kills himself in the stupidest way and thereby raises the collective IQ of the remaining gene pool by some measurable amount....? I propose the Martin Award be created for the same process in government. My nominations for this year are: 1) Great Britian - for their enlightened penal system which should bring their civilization to shuddering halt sometime in the near future. 2) North Korea - for playing with nuclear fire, which should bring their civilization(?) to a somewhat more spectacular halt somewhat sooner than GB. 3) IRAQ Baathist - no blurb necessary 4) IRAN - see #3 And my personal favorite...... 5) France - maybe you can't help being french, but, by all the gods, there's no excuse for acting french... |
| Posted by: Luigi 2003-7-25 1:39:08 PM |
| #4 Brittish pussies. Here in Texas they'd give you a medal for popping someone in your house while robbing you. |
| Posted by: Bill 2003-7-25 1:20:04 PM |
| #3 Weep O Brittania.... and let's damn well not let this sort of thing happen here! |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2003-7-25 11:53:01 AM |
| #2 Amazing, A highly qualified dodger forced into drug dealing by some gun toting Tory. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-7-25 11:38:21 AM |
| #1 Jeebus. I can feel my blood pressure rise every time I hear this story. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-7-25 9:25:58 AM |