Had to google Martin
i had forgotten he was a bad urn. I remember his killing Jamie who was Sonja bf at the time
When Pauline announced that she was pregnant, this infuriated her mother, Lou Beale, as she felt that Arthur and Pauline already had enough children (Mark and Martin's older sister, Michelle) and since Arthur was constantly unemployed, how were they going to support another child?
The troublemaking Lou ordered Pauline to have an abortion, give the baby up for adoption, or the family would be evicted. The eviction threat was a often go-to tactic that Lou would throw at her daughter, in order for her to get her own way. However, this time, the defiant Pauline stood her ground and Martin was born.
Lou, despite her continual bluster and her token disapproval, was secretly pleased, because she saw the new baby as another Fowler she could boss around. What made it easier for her was she won over by a family trip to Clacton with Michelle, and she was then even MORE won over when they christened him, Martin Albert Fowler. The Albert comes from his maternal grandfather, Albert Beale.
At first Martin's life was like any other ordinary kid, except he was in the middle of rows between his folks, especially after his father was caught in an adulterous affair with alcoholic divorcee, Christine Hewitt.
As a result of said affair, Pauline banned Arthur from seeing Martin, (besides slamming him in the head with a frying pan!) but they would reconcile.
His life would take a terrible turn for the worse though, when his father died when he was ten, due to an injury he suffered while he was in prison. He would get hooked up with a gang from his school and he would become quite the tearaway.
He would commit vandalism, petty theft and burglaries, which led him to being arrested. He would later be put under the supervision of a social worker.
His life of crime would come to a screeching end after the death of Jamie Mitchell, whom he ran down with a car. He then had sex with Sonia Jackson and she would give birth to their daughter, Chloe, now known as Bex.