Farmer Tony Martin visits grave of teenager he shot dead 25 years ago
dailyrecord.co.ukTony Martin has opened up on visiting his victim's grave 25 years after shooting him to death.The farmer said he felt 'absolutely no remorse' when he visited the teenage burglar's grave, maintaining his innocence two-and-a-half decades later.In 1999, Martin shot and killed Freder Barras, 16, after he and 29-year-old Brendon Fearon broke into his property.Fearon, then 29, was shot in the leg and survived.
He was later jailed for three years.Martin claimed he pulled the trigger as a 'warning', even adding that he has no regrets over his actions that night.The farmer added that he was “stitched up” by police, lawyers, prosecutors and judges at his trial, the Mirror reports.Now, he's keen to clear his name.
He told the Sun: “How can I feel for the criminals who brought all this on me? How can you be guilty lying asleep in your own bed?" “I ask people, ‘How do you know how you would react if someone came into your home, in the dark, in the night and you’re on your own?’ I still don’t understand how I could’ve been found guilty.“I tried to defend my home, my private space.
I was just a man, asleep, for goodness sake. Not some roaming vigilante.”Touching on the fateful night in Bleak House, Emneth Hungate, Norfolk.
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