TONY MARTIN FARM NOW A TARGET FOR THIEVES & VANDALS

WEIRDOS have filmed themselves rifling through killer Tony Martin's possessions at his abandoned farmhouse weeks after his death.

- BY DAN WARBURTON

They posted footage on YouTube showing themselves combing through the dilapidated property where the recluse shot dead a teenage burglar.

A voiceover boasts it is the first time anyone has gone inside since Martin killed Fred Barras, 16, with a pump-action shotgun in 1999.

In a video seen 132,000 times since it was posted in March, two men brag about the 4am expedition, saying they were inside the "real murder house".

The stunt was criticised as "extremely disrespectful" by his friend Malcolm Starr, following the farmer's death aged 80 the previous month.

"When Martin was alive, people may have been deterred by the fear they may get shot," he said.

"Since his death, people seem to have gotten a bit braver."

Martin died from the effects of a stroke more than 25 years after shooting two intruders and becoming a hero to householders worried about burglars and rising crime.