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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Those were his two initial thoughts.
But it became one of the biggest and most high profile murder investigations.
A huge squad, 65 detectives and other staff.
There were initial mistakes.
Door to door inquiries weren't done properly, had to be redone.
But, you know, after all that, there were no witnesses, nobody who saw the shooting.
It took them a year to arrest and charge Barry George.
I mean, there was something like 2,000 people.
or more names that have been put up to police as potential suspects.
But eventually they got round to Barry George.
He lived a few streets away.
He was described as the local oddball.
I mean, he was clearly a vulnerable figure in the sense that he suffered from epilepsy and a personality disorder.
He was also said to be obsessed with guns.
I mean, there was some evidence of that that the police uncovered later.
He was convicted, but seven years after that, the appeal court said that that conviction was unsafe.
In effect, the prosecution had relied too much on scientific evidence, dubious evidence, it said.
And this was specifically a tiny speck of gunshot residue that was found in Barry's coat pocket.
it emerged in expert evidence.
all over in the atmosphere.
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