Guess Who Is Out Of Jail Now

Hot on the heels of news that Kyle McKee had once again been jailed, we learned that another one of our favorite subjects had been released after serving his sentence:


Richard "Lurch" Martin, who plead guilty when the case went before the judge, was released a few days ago after serving 9 months for ethnic intimidation:

Judge jails ‘abhorrent’ racistsBarbara Brown, Thu Sep 16 2010 

An Ontario Court judge says there are not enough words to describe two men who spewed hateful racial slurs at a young black woman as she walked down the street with an 11-year-old girl. 

“Despicable, abhorrent and heinous are only a few that come to mind,” said Ontario Court Justice Richard Jennis of the July 16 incident.

Shane Gill, 38, a sheetmetal worker, and Richard Martin, 23, an unemployed labourer, pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal harassment after they taunted the woman and child with the words: “We hate niggers.” 

The judge sentenced Gill Thursday morning to six months in jail followed by three years on probation.

After pretrial custody, Gill has four months and 27 days remaining on his sentence.
Martin was handed a nine-month jail term, followed by the maximum three years on probation. After credit for pretrial custody, Martin has seven months and 20 days left to serve.

Assistant Crown attorney Michael Fox had called for the stiff jail terms, arguing that it was an aggravating factor on sentencing that the crimes were purely motivated by racial hatred and the colour of the victims’ skin. 

Fox had sought the higher sentence for Martin because his harassment had been ongoing for several weeks and had targeted the young woman when she was home with two young nieces.

“If there had been any actual physical violence, this sentence could have been measured in years and not in months,” Jennis told the convicted men. 

The woman who was target of the harassment said outside the courtroom that she was impressed by the way Hamilton police handled her complaint and by the judge’s reasons for sentence. 

“Yes, I’ve been really impressed with the police response and the sensitivity shown and the professionalism,” she said. 

“I think the judge’s sentence was fair. His consideration for the two men was fair and it does send a message that this is wrong,” she said. 

bbrown@thespec.com905-526-3494

Here are the links to the posts we made on the subject:

• Oh, Richard Martin, You Are A Special Kind of Stupid
• Oh, Richard Martin, You Are A Special Kind of Stupid: Part II
• Oh, Richard Martin, You Are A Special Kind of Stupid: Part III (The Sentencing)
• Richard Martin: Aryan Warrior /sarcasm

Now, after having spent a significant portion of 2010 and 2011 behind bars, we would like to believe that Martin might have taken the time to re-examine his life and perhaps decide that the path he was currently on was not one that would ultimately lead to self-actualization, happiness or success.

Of course, that would assume that Martin was capable of such introspection, which he isn't, so instead of taking responsibility for his behavior, he has opted to blame someone who he believes told on him:

Martin posted this on his buddy Andrew Benson's Facebook profile yesterday. He goes into more detail on his own profile (keep in mind when you read this, dear readers, that he did plead guilty and there were other witnesses... such as the family he was harassing):


Right. You're the victim Lurch. It's also evident from the first response to John Marleau that Martin didn't take any remedial reading comprehension courses while in jail.

Our dear readers need not be reminded that Martin sort of has a history of publicly bragging about his crimes. This probably isn't going to help:


Or, well, this:


You know, it often is really hard for us to decide which of the boneheads we cover on this blog is the most idiotic, but we have to say that Richard Martin really is the reigning and defending champion here.

And the kicker? He's already planning on moving to Calgary.

UPDATE: It looks like one of the individuals accused of having, "rated" on Martin (we presume it may be Hamelin's girlfriend) has a much different take on what resulted in Martin's stay behind bars:



However, as he felt that this didn't fit the narrative he was spinning, Martin seems to have decided to remove it. As a service to our dear readers, we managed to save the screenshots before we found our access to Martin's Facebook profile, well, we'll say became limited: