Martin Brunt
speaker
183 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard today
Martin Brunt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She was shot as she was unlocking her front door.
I think she still had her keys in her hand when she was found.
And it was one shot in the back of her head and it killed her.
And one cop contact told me later that this was known as, in police circles, as an OBE, one behind the ear, a hallmark of a professional hitman in some ways.
But, you know, there were other things that suggested this wasn't the work of a professional.
I mean, the cartridge from the bullet had been left behind.
on the doorstep.
It was an amateur's gun.
It wasn't a professional hitman's gun.
And it happened in broad daylight in a residential area and ran all the risks of being witnessed.
Yes.
I mean, I suppose it was obvious to look at, you know, the fact that she had been helping to expose criminals in her work on Crimewatch.
And, you know, you can quite understand, I think, that somebody could have taken great offence.
But there's not much record of
of the messenger being attacked in that way.
Of course, in Ireland, you have Veronica Guerin, but that's a very, very rare example of somebody involved in the media exposing criminals being targeted in that way.
I mean, there were
Two initial theories.
It was either a criminal or a criminal gang or a stalker, somebody who'd become obsessed with her.
That's what Hamish Campbell, the senior investigating officer, told me very early on when I spoke to him.
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