MARTIN, TONY: Real Crime [with Mark Austin] TV - News report - Guardian news - Tony Martin - The Interrogation TV -
The shots reverberated far wider provoking a heated national debate that still runs today: how do you define reasonable force when it comes to defending your home? Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s8e6: A Shot in the Dark, ITV 2009
The appropriately named Bleak House. ibid.
The prosecution provoked instant public disquiet. ibid.
The man who had led the burglary on the night of the fateful burglary decided to sue. ibid.
In the 2008 Criminal Justice Act the government redefined the laws on self-defence to give greater legal protection to property owners defending their property. ibid.
A Norfolk farmer was today charged with murder after the shooting of two suspected burglars. News report cited ibid.
A year inside then back to Bleak House with a bounty on his head? Tony Martin faces a peculiar freedom, with his champions clamouring for his story and vigilantes out for revenge. The Guardian article cited ibid.
I picked up the gun and the rest is history. Tony Martin
There is all the difference in the world between a career criminal who sets out deliberately to burgle a house and a terrified homeowner who acts to protect himself and his home. The Interrogation, William Hague, Netflix 2018
21 August 1999: I’ve had a horrendous experience. ibid. Martin to rozzers
I’ve never been so frightened in all my life. ibid. Martin to rozzers
MARTINEZ, MIGUEL ANGEL & MIGUEL VENEGAS: I Am a Killer TV -
In 1991 Miguel Angel Martinez was sentenced to death for his part in an horrific crime. The motives behind it have never been fully understood. I am a Killer s1e4: Sympathy for the Devil: Miguel Martinez, CI 2018
The victims were identified as 20-year-old Ruben Martinez, and 14-year-old Daniel Duenez, both from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and James Smiley, 33, a restaurant manager and Baptist minister from Laredo, Texas. ibid.
At 16, Miguel Venegas was too young to face the death penalty. Instead, he eventually accepted a plea deal for 41 years in prison. As a result, he never had to testify in court and has never spoken publicly about the murders. ibid.
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MASAKI, YU: Signs of a Psychopath TV -
I saw a young lady get shot. There was two individuals. A man and a lady. Oh, they’re still shooting, sir! Please, so send somebody fast! Signs of a Psychopath s3e1: I Am Strange, 911 call
She was on the ground. Her legs and arms was like if you kill a cockroach … So I would say this time I got even. ibid. Masaki to rozzer
This life sucks. ibid.
He does a lot of things that resemble his dad. ibid. mother
MASLIN, ASHER: Stalked: Murder in Slow Motion TV -
Asher Maslin is a good looking, energetic 21-year-old. A charmer with the gift of the gab. He seemed like he might be good boyfriend material when 20-year-old Hollie Gazzard fell for him. Neither she nor her family knew of his past. Stalked: Murder in Slow Motion s1e2: Hollie Gazzard, Channel 4 2019
‘He’d been arrested 23 times with escalating violence, domestic abuse, grievous bodily harm; he was a serial perpetrator.’ ibid. Hollie’s father
Maslin won’t give her any space. He’s jealous of her spending time with anyone else. He even turns up at her work … His messages become increasingly threatening. ibid.
He’s carrying a twelve-inch kitchen knife … Maslin has brutally stabbed Hollie fourteen times. ibid.
MASON, MATTHEW: The Murder of Alex Rodda: Social Media Murders TV -
‘The teenager’s body was found here on Ashley Mill Lane in the village of Ashley, Friday morning at 8 o’clock.’ The Murder of Alex Rodda: Social Media Murders, ITV 2021
‘He just kinda said I’ve been speaking to this boy [Matt Mason] and he’s asked to meet me.’ ibid. friend
‘Matt Mason lied. He had a girlfriend for two years.’ ibid. mum
‘He’s took him into the forest, he’s got this spanner behind his back … and he’s gone and hit my brother repeatedly over the head.’ ibid. brother
MASSINO, BIG JOEY: Mobsters: Big Joey Massino TV - New York Daily News online -
May 5th 1981: a quiet night on the streets of south Brooklyn, New York. Inside a vacant social club a Bonanno crime family captain watched and waited. He’d invited three couples for a meeting. Word on the street was the three were planning a revolt. They wanted to overthrow the family’s new boss, Phil Rastelli. Massino had told the three: come to the club ... Four men jumped out of a supply cupboard with guns blazing. Mobsters: Big Joey Massino
As his numbers and loan-sharking operations flourished, he expanded into a new mob racket: lorry hijackings. ibid.
He would take on a new job – murder for hire. ibid.
That July Sonny found out that one of his closest Mob associates, Donnie Brasco, was actually an undercover FBI agent named Joe Pistone. ibid.
Joe Massino was determined to restore the family name. ibid.
Joe Massino not only won the battle of the bug, he was defeating the FBI at its own game. ibid.
In 1992 after six years behind bars Massino was released. He returned home to a Bonanno family in total disarray. Massino got to work rebuilding the organisation. ibid.
By the mid-90s Joe Massino was something of a rarity in New York; all the other major Dons ... were behind bars. Big Joey Massino was the last boss standing. ibid.
Facing murder charges Vitale turned on his brother-in-law Big Joey and agreed to cooperate. It was nothing short of devastating. ibid.
Facing a possible execution Massino became the thing he always said he despised the most: he became a rat. ibid.
Now he’s on his way to being a fat, free fella.
Ailing ex-Bonanno crime boss Joseph Massino, the highest-ranking American Mafioso to turn rat, received his reward Wednesday for cooperating – two life sentences reduced to time served.
The pear-shaped Massino will walk out of a secret federal prison in 60 days – having served 10½ years for eight gangland murders – and into the witness protection program, where he will be relocated and given a new identity, according to lawyer Edward McDonald. New York Daily News online article 11th July 2013