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Justified Anger in UK

In the case that seems to never go away, the mutant who was shot by the farmer Tony Martin was paid big bucks by the BBC to give "his side of the story" and many in Britain are furious:

The BBC is under renewed fire over the decision to pay thousands of pounds to the burglar shot by Norfolk farmer Tony Martin.The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, condemned the decision as "disgusting", while a crime campaigner called for BBC bosses to pay the money back personally.Pc Norman Brennan, director of the Victims of Crime Trust, said licence fee payers would not want their money to go to a "career criminal".

Lord Falconer said it was awful for the victims of crime to see those responsible profiting from their actions.

He added: "I can recognise that there might be some very, very, very exceptional cases where it might be permissible, but the Fearon case is most certainly not one of them.

"What happened in relation to Mr Martin was investigated in a trial, there was an appeal. We didn't need the BBC to pay Mr Fearon to find out what happened.

"It might make good programming, but it is a disgusting warping of values, in my view."