He deserved to stay in prison that long for what he did. “That should be 50 years and that is just what he deserved. One of my grandchildren heard it on the radio and she was very upset – and she never even met Karl. It doesn’t just affect me and my husband Colin either – the whole family are in shock about it. Speaking at the time, Karl's mother Audrey Fletcher said: "Of course, I always knew it would happen one day but I had presumed that we would be told about it and I could have been prepared for it. He would then be allowed to apply for parole in 2005. The pain for Karl Fletcher's family would not end there as Blastland would again enter their lives during multiple bids for freedom, first appealing against his conviction. Blastland was sentenced to two life sentences for murder and sexual assault with a minimum of 22 years which was later increased to 25. However, he denied killing the boy who was tragically found face down the next morning on wasteland off Thorndike Way.Ī post-mortem of Karl's body would find that the young boy had been brutally sexually assaulted before he was strangled to death with his own Nottingham Forest football scarf. Christopher Wallace), which later inspired a nickname for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg based on her initials: The Notorious R.B.G.During court proceedings, Blastland admitted meeting Karl not far from where he would later be found dead and alleged to have paid him for sexual acts. In popular culture, notorious is known for its use in the stage name of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. Among the people who know you, you can be notorious for something neutral or something that’s only slightly bad, like being notorious for pulling pranks or not washing your dishes. Still, the word isn’t always used in a completely negative way. That’s why the word is most closely associated with violent criminals whose crimes are widely known.
Often, the worse the thing is, the more notorious the person is.
Notorious people are known for something specific, and it’s usually not something good.
It comes from the Medieval Latin word nōtōrius, meaning “well-known” or “public,” from the Late Latin nōtōria, meaning “news” or “a notice,” and nōtōrium, “a criminal charge.” It’s ultimately rooted in the Latin verb nōscere, “to know.” The first records of the word notorious come from the mid-1500s.
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