Martyn Hett's father said the unusual nature of the body art enabled identification, adding: 'Who else would have such a thing?'
In the video he was seen doing impressions of Deirdre Barlow and Audrey Roberts, characters from the soap opera.Advertisement
He said that his son"loved life with passion, courage and laughter", and encouraged others to"be more Martyn", the title of a play written about him. As a teenager he had"plucked up courage to tell us he was gay after stressing about it for a long time". As an adult he worked as a social media manager for a PR firm called Rumpus, and started to post his own videos"every single one starring Martyn".Martyn Hett even has fishing boat named after him in the Gambia, his father said.
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