Tony Martin, who became a nationally-known figure after fatally shooting a teenage burglar at his Norfolk farmhouse in 1999, has died aged 80.

Martin shot and killed 16-year-old Fred Barras during a break-in at his property, in a case that sparked intense debate across Britain.

He was jailed in 2000 for the boy's murder - and for injuring 29-year-old Brendan Fearon in the same incident - before he was released three years later after his murder conviction was reduced to manslaughter.

Martin had lived alone at his run-down farmhouse in Emneth Hungate, near the Norfolk-Cambridgeshire border, at the time of the break-in.

On the night of August 20, 1999, the pair entered his home, having travelled from Newark in Nottinghamshire that evening to raid the property.

The farmer heard the duo, descended from an upstairs bedroom and opened fire with a pump-action shotgun.

Three days later, he was charged with Barras's murder of Barras, the attempted murder of Fearon, "wounding with intent to cause injury" to Fearon and "possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life".

At the time, English law only allowed the killing of a person in self-defence if the person defending themself used no more than "reasonable force" to do so.

But a jury found Martin guilty by 10 to 2 - and he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of nine years.