Martin Brunt Profile Banner
Martin Brunt Profile
Martin Brunt

@skymartinbrunt

29,578
Followers
1,876
Following
464
Media
8,963
Statuses

Sky News Crime Correspondent on the hunt for news stories and a little levity on a grim beat. New book available:

UK
Joined November 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
1 year
#Coronation One of six Republic supporters arrested by police near Trafalgar Square.
504
784
1K
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
6 years
#Madeleine Home Office ministers have approved £150,000 continued funding for Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
90
65
140
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: PC Harper left with most awful injuries from which he died. Uniform stripped from his body. He died totally naked apart from socks and boots. A completely senseless killing of a young police officer in the line of duty.
38
45
145
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Judge: I reject argument you were living in prison conditions. Difficult to imagine more serious example of this offence. Sentence 50 weeks.
9
79
101
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
1 year
#Coronation Supporters of anti-monarchy group Republic apparently arrested on their way to designated protest site at Trafalgar Square.
Tweet media one
19
39
83
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
6 years
#Madeleine Home Office approves another six months of funding - around £150,000 - for Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The probe has cost more than £11m so far.
54
54
58
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
Tweet media one
8
15
62
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: Another motorist thought there was a bloodied deer attached to the car. PC Harper was barely alive when he became untangled but died soon after where he lay. Fellow officers tried desperately to save him.
14
21
60
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Def: His asylum was granted by Ecuador and UN said it was wrong of Sweden and UK not to recognise it.
2
23
48
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Def: He and his lawyers very much alive to risk of rendition from Sweden to US. Sweden had surrendered two suspects to Egypt, “a country well known to practise torture with the assistance of US.
1
31
46
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: Two officers responded to report of theft of a quad bike from private house. The three defendants admit conspiracy to steal the bike. Two officers had finished shift, but they responded because they thought they could help and were close by.
2
9
53
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
1 year
#EvertonFC Police have scrapped an investigation into child sex allegations against a former Everton footballer. The player was arrested by Greater Manchester Police two years ago. The club confirmed at the time it had suspended the player pending the outcome.
18
23
52
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 months
#PCYvonneFletcher #Justice 40 years on, supports remember the officer shot dead from within the Libyan embassy as she policed anti-Gaddafi protest. Campaigners say they are close to launching a private prosecution of a suspect, a former Libyan minister.
1
10
50
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
9 years
#diamondrobbery A sign of the anger among jewellers who were victims of the heist. http://t.co/26NtNSyZFI
Tweet media one
8
75
42
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Judge: you cost taxpayers £16m. Nobody is above the law.
9
28
38
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
At Old Bailey for trial in the alleged murder of PC Andrew Harper. Henry Long, 18, and two 17-year-old boys who can’t be named because of their age, deny murder. Long admits manslaughter. All admit stealing a quad bike on the night PC Harper died in Aug.
3
12
38
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
8 years
RIP Leonard Cohen. We bumped into him in a Manchester street. If I was ever going to lose my wife to a much older man, that was the moment.
1
7
39
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange A few supporters at court for the sentencing of Julian Assange for jumping bail in 2012 during Swedish extradition process.
Tweet media one
0
19
30
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
How police could have avoided dreadful invasion of Nicola Bulley's privacy
Tweet media one
34
20
39
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Def: He has stayed in Sweden initially to be interviewed by police and left only when he was told he could do so. He offered to return for more questioning.
0
16
31
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#CarlBeech Proctor: I have icy contempt for Carl Beech. The allegations he made were the worst that can be made, murder torture and sex abuse of children. I find it extraordinary that an institution I once held in high regard allowed itself to believe such false allegations
2
12
33
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#IOPC Home Sec on IOPC resignation: “I took immediate action upon being made aware that Mr Lockwood was the subject of a police investigation into an historic allegation, and instructed my officials to ask him to resign or face immediate suspension from his role.”
13
15
37
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: Three defendants arrested later that night at a travellers caravan site from where they had set off for their crime and returned to it. Long told police brazen lies. Two teenagers made no comment.
3
11
31
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
8 years
#Heathrow 300 staff at airline lounge services company Sodexo have airside security passes suspended over police investigation.
4
45
28
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Def says he apologises for those who think he has disrespected them in the way he has pursued his case. Letter handed to judge.
0
13
25
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#NicolaBulley A thoughtful touch: everything anyone needs to attach a message of hope for Nicola Bulley
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
4
4
29
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Def: He feared being kidnapped wherever he was in the world and taken to US, renditioned. There were calls for his execution and assassination.
1
13
26
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
Nicola Bulley: Family friend says it 'may be time to start looking down other avenues' as search for missing mum continues
Tweet media one
4
9
28
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 months
#YvonneFletcher #NoOrdinaryDay #JohnMurray #MattJohnson #TrueCrime The scandalous story of a police officer’s murder and 40 years of no justice was the big winner at the True Crime awards
Tweet media one
0
6
30
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Judge says it’s even bigger than an A1 category case.
3
22
24
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
7 years
#terror Off-duty Met cop stabbed and seriously wounded as he tackled terrorists in Borough Market. Two more also injured in confrontation
3
23
27
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
7 years
#southernrail Latest from our guard: “Don’t worry, I don’t want to see your tickets. Not the way this lot have performed tonight.”
0
13
28
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: You will have to hear about his absolutely catastrophic, unsurvivable injuries but you will be relieved to hear there is no need to see photographs.
1
6
26
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
8 years
#Prince RIP legend, mentor and friend Jimmy Nicholson, aka the Prince of Darkness, doyen of crime reporters.
Tweet media one
6
21
28
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: Driver Long knee full well that PC Harper was entangled in the strap. He drove along narrow country lane at average 42.5 mph speed, leaving behind snaking trail of apparent tyre marks, a radio and scuff marks, blood and body matter on road surface.
11
12
27
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
#PistoriusTrial Judge now has to announce if it's second-degree murder, culpable homicide (manslaughter) or acquittal, plus gun charges
6
127
26
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Def: He was always available to be questioned by Swedish authorities while in the embassy.
0
19
24
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
8 years
#adamjohnson 2 things the jury didn't hear: Johnson searched the Internet for teen sex sites - and had extreme porn involving animals.
10
106
26
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: you can see one defendant trying to get into the rear door. He’s wearing a hood or balaclava and then car moves off marooning him. Quadbike is rolling forward behind the car. PC Harper’s widow Lissie and his brother have left court.
7
2
25
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#NicolaBulley Police say they have found a body
9
17
26
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
8 years
#AdamJohnson Footballer runs into court with minders and fails to give our camera the slip. Awaiting jail sentence.
Tweet media one
11
20
25
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
7 years
#policing Struggling Met police ask ex-detectives to go back to work, citing "urgent skills in high demand."
Tweet media one
12
62
23
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
Nicola Bulley: Divers searching river and helicopter circling near where mum of two went missing
Tweet media one
7
11
27
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Def: In Nove 2014 Swedish Court of Appeal said Swedish prosecution was wrong over an impasse in the investigation. Later he was interviewed in Ecuadorian embassy and Swedish case was dropped shortly after that.
0
19
23
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#CarlBeech Outside court ahead of sentence Daniel Janner QC, son of late Lord Janner who was one of those Beech falsely accused, attacked Labour deputy leader Tom Watson who promoted Beech’s claims: “Watson should hang his head in shame, apologise and resign”.
2
17
26
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
7 years
#southernrail Guard announcement on my delayed train: “Sorry, very embarrassing, staff get told nothing, plse complain, put it on Twitter”
2
15
24
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Def: Sweden had record for extraditing suspects to countries that practised torture.
1
15
23
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#MadeleineMcCann Home Office has approved another year’s funding - £300,000 - for the Scotland Yard investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
139
28
22
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
. @LucyLovesMJ Questioning the McCanns doesn't make you a troll. Being abusive, malicious, threatening etc does #AskBrunt
28
32
24
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Defence: Threats rained on him from the US and dominated his thoughts, even before he was arrested in UK on Swedish extradition warrant.
0
9
22
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: If Long and his friends had no idea Andrew was entangled in the strap why was there a need to drive so recklessly? It’s ludicrous idea that teenager did not tell the other two that a policeman had got within feet of him before he jumped In the car.
1
3
24
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
6 months
#WayneCouzens #AngioliniReport #SarahEverard Family: “We no longer wait for her call; we no longer expect to see her. We know she won't be there at family gatherings. But the desperate longing to have her with us remains and the loss of Sarah pervades every part of our lives.”
0
6
24
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#NicolaBulley Lancashire Police press conference at 1730 pm today.
3
11
25
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#NicolaBulley Lancs Police: update: Nicola had suffered significant issues with alcohol brought on by ongoing struggles with menopause and struggles had resurfaced over recent months.
30
14
23
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#CarlBeech Daniel Janner’s voice breaks as he reads impact statement: reading Beech’s allegations made me physically sick. They are corrosive and lie on the Internet while ignorant people say there’s no smoke without fire. My father never harmed anyone in his life.
3
7
21
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: Police did huge work on investigation, including tracing witnesses and analysing vast amounts of phone data to see where defendants went. Vast amounts of cctv too. Jurors will see various clips.
1
4
23
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#CarlBeech Pros: Beech had debts, spending beyond his means. He intended to become a speaker around the world on subject of survivors. He began his memoirs. Speaking and writing would give him an audience and probably an income.
10
10
20
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
7 months
#AbdulEzedi #Clapham #ChemicalAttack It seems the Most Wanted man in Britain has walked undetected past Scotland Yard, MI6 and within sight of MI5.
3
7
23
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
8 years
#Pistorius Murdered Reeva's dad Barry Steenkamp is about to appear as the first prosecution witness.
Tweet media one
6
18
22
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
PistoriusTrial Judge says the fact the person behind the door was Reeva and not the intruder OP thought it was is irrelevant
7
63
23
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
#Pistorius Delivering some comfort for my colleague Alex Crawford #iknowmyplace . http://t.co/R6fqVTCvr6
Tweet media one
5
5
21
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#southernrailway The clock at my station is STILL an hour fast, causing brief, but unnecessary panic and angst for commuters. My ticket office pal is not allowed to climb a ladder to fix it because of health and safety rules. The maintenance man is on holiday for a fortnight.
11
2
23
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
#ecstasy Suffolk police issue pic of ecstasy-style drug seized in probe into three deaths. http://t.co/W6g6IbLE8s
Tweet media one
5
93
21
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Defence has finished its arguments of mitigation in a bid for mercy
1
11
16
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#Assange Def: Sweden had relationship with US that included rendition.
0
13
18
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#NicolaBulley Peter Faulding and Specialist Group International team joining river search for missing mum Nicola Bulley in Lancashire 11 days after she vanished while walking her dog.
1
3
21
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
# #NicolaBulley Family statement: our worst fears confirmed. We can’t comprehend what she went through in her last moments.
16
5
20
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Jurors watch police camera footage showing alleged meeting with defendants car on dark country lane. Car drives off with tow rope dangling. Driver PC Shaw swears and radios in that he’s lost his colleague.
1
4
18
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#timwestwood After women’s claims of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour against ex-Radio One hip hop DJ Tim Westwood, which he strongly denies, Scot Yard says it’s investigating four sex crime allegations against ‘a man’ going back to 1982.
1
6
21
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
#Askbrunt Put your question on the trial and I'll try to answer. For an hour from 2pm UK time. http://t.co/hnr0UiEn18
Tweet media one
19
10
18
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#CarlBeech Lord Bramall: 20 cops raided my home where my wife was bed-ridden and she died before I was cleared. Some of the cops had lunch in the local pub. It was soon known what was happening.
1
5
15
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: Long has pleaded guilty to the officer’s manslaughter but denies his murder, denies knowing he was dragging PC Harper behind the car. Denies an intention to kill the officer or cause him really serious injury.
3
5
18
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#CarlBeech Lady Brittan, widow of Lord Brittan, in statement quotes Rabbi Julia Neuberger on his dying days: he was robbed of a dignified death
0
8
17
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
Happy whatever birthday to my colleague @AlexCrawfordSky , cake delivered by camera/editor Garwin McLuckie. http://t.co/gy78dSDWMQ
Tweet media one
5
5
19
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
6 years
#Madeleine Scot Yard is to continue its investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Police asking Home Office for another six months’ funding to support joint operation with Portuguese police.
47
7
18
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#NicolaBulley Lancs Police: As result of those issues, a response car staffed by police and health professionals attended a report of concern for welfare at Nicola’s home address on January 10th. No one has been arrested in relation to this incident, but it is being investigated.
9
16
19
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
#CarlBeech Ex-MP Harvey Proctor condemns Beech and Met police for believing stories that should have been “torpedoed by elementary policing.”
0
3
16
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
9 years
#noelgallagher Noel on his style: I had a stylist once. She was called mum and when I got to about 11 she got the sack. Brilliant.
2
29
19
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#ConstanceMarten Met police say couple initially arrested for child neglect, now held on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. Police still searching for missing baby of Constance Marten and partner Mark Gordon. 200 cops searching near Brighton
2
4
18
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
11 years
#Pistorius Summer in South Africa. The sunny assignment the boss promised me. http://t.co/4H8ijEtY88
Tweet media one
13
12
17
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
#paristerror UK Cops concerned how UK would cope with similar attacks, with half police numbers of France and few armed. And more cuts!
7
44
17
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
8 years
#missing Police concerned about Amelia Ollis-Olds, 20, missing since last night from Highbury, N London.
Tweet media one
0
38
17
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
#paristerror Armed cops block route 400 yards from hostage scene at supermarket. http://t.co/AhKlnbeVKf
Tweet media one
4
51
17
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#IOPC Dir Gen of police watchdog IOPC Michael Lockwood resigns suddenly “for personal and domestic reasons, effective from today.”
9
7
18
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#Queen Thames Valley Police say 100,000 mourners watched the Queen’s final journey through Windsor today, with 2,000 officers on duty including colleagues from 28 other UK forces. Their operation is still going on.
1
2
18
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
9 years
#GE2015 Turnout of 75.5% in Paisley and Renfrewshire South where Lab's Douglas Alexander is fighting off SNP challenge.
2
15
17
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
7 years
#Madeleine Outside the church in Praia da Luz today, 10th anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance.
Tweet media one
21
11
15
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
6 months
Brilliant musician and great story teller. Fab live performer and regular at Kenney Jones’s Rock ‘n’ Horsepower festivals. Rock star Steve Harley dies after short battle with cancer one month after pausing tour - Mirror Online
3
4
18
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: PC Harper died on the road after becoming untangled from the strap, surrounded by colleagues who tried in vain to save him
1
3
16
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Jurors shown second police car footage showing PC Harper’s colleague driving after defendants car. Tyre marks appear to move from side to side on the road. Police car stops at flashing emergency light and police officer standing over a figure lying on the road.
3
3
15
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
#PistoriusTrial It looks like we will get final verdict on the shooting today. Judge has ruled out premed murder, and murder.
15
52
16
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
5 years
Pros: The stolen quad bike was tied behind the car with one of the teenage defendants riding it. It was a carefully planned crime. They wore gloves and masks and had disconnected all their rear and brake lights. So they could disappear into the night.
0
5
15
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
8 years
#Pistorius Supporters of Oscar Pistorius await his arrival for sentencing for murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
Tweet media one
17
24
14
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
7 years
#southernrail Farewell from our guard: “Have a gd nite. Have a brandy for me. I’m off for 2 days. I’m gonna get some sleep. Pleasant dreams”
1
6
17
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
10 years
#PistoriusTrial Judge to resume shortly and tell us if OP is guilty of culpable homicide or acquitted for shooting dead girlfriend Reeva.
6
42
15
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
2 years
#NicolaBulley Lancs Police: It is an unusual step for us to take to go into this level of detail about someone’s private life, but we felt it was important to clarify what we meant when we talked about vulnerabilities to avoid any further speculation or misinterpretation.
3
10
17
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
7 years
#mopedcrime Scot Yard: “Most moped crime done by two-on-a-bike.” So why not ban pillion passengers? Commissioner: “I hadn’t thought of that”
10
6
16
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
11 years
Today I have no story of men doing horrible things to children #phew
25
20
16
@skymartinbrunt
Martin Brunt
8 years
#hattongarden Woman tells police she lost £7million gold in 2015 safe deposit centre heist. Total now £21m.
6
10
15