Unjustice For Defending His Business!!!!!

[trt]

I just hope he gets off as he sounds like a good honest guy, and the two idiots only get a £75 fine, plus 2 broken legs and an arm :-)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544030/Businessman-attacks-two-burglars-catching-red-handed-arrested-defending-property.html

[jno]

sounds like the legitimisation of private vengeance to me, jake. Which means "justice" for the strong and more heavily armed.

[ludwig]

Having both legs in plaster will curtail that bloke's thieving activities for a while. It's difficult to scale a drainpipe in that condition. I know from experience.

[naomi24]

Jake, Their choice.

[jim360]

I think there is a difference between "having sympathy" for someone who gets their legs broken or their throat slashed or their body otherwise seriously damaged when, frankly, they shouldn't have been breaking the law in the first place, and preferring that people don't go too far. I have no sympathy for the burglars -- and think that the not guilty verdict in this case is quite right -- but I wouldn't celebrate their deaths either, if it had gone that far.


Besides which, someone who is capable of killing another human being after losing their temper in what could be, in the cold light of day, comparatively trivial circumstances, is capable of doing the same when there was no justification at all. I don't see that smashing someone's brains out is at all appropriate when they're trying to nick a TV/ radio/ computer -- and anyone who does think that it's perfectly appropriate is, I think, just as much a danger to society as the burglars are.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Got what they deserved IMO - too many businesses are being targeted by crims like these 2. My firm are constantly having vehicles robbed of their diesel, items of plant stolen and is costing us thousands in extra insurance premiums. I also hope the one photographed with the fish had a licence to fish

[hc4361]

He's been found not guilty - no injustice here

[viv38]

Good for him. Just had a giggle at that prat with the two broken legs, brill picture !

[trt]

## Good for him. Just had a giggle at that prat with the two broken legs, brill picture ! ##

I bet hes a laughing stock in his locality, but the cost to the NHS for his treatment, x-rays etc must have cost a few bob.
Pity they couldn't charge him for it!

[viv38]

Good point trt.

[Peter Pedant]

acquitted this afternoon - after about half and hour

Jury found as a fact therefore that his level of force was reasonable


by the way it is injustice and not unjustice
and the jury being unwilling to convict has been around for 200y.

[emmie]

defend your hearth and home, he got off, that is good news. Don't go out and burgle, rob, thieve, otherwise you could come off worse.

[Peter Pedant]

That is why you should go for jury trials the whole timeemmie

Juries will ignore the law....

Shooting someone is always fraught - shooting them in the bottom prevents you from pleading self - defence.

[emmie]

he didn't shoot anyone, he actually whacked the bloke with the piece of fence post that the burglar had been carrying.

[Orderlimit]

'actually whacked the bloke with the piece of fence post that the burglar had been carrying.'

Which makes the £75 fines these two villains received even more ridiculous.

[Eve]

Reading this reminded me of a recent local incident, I wondered what charges may follow and if there will be any charges against the alleged victim.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544698/Petty-criminal-drowned-canal-mugging-victims-pushed-trying-defend-themselves.html?ico=home%5Emostread