I am so pleased this man has been freed

[Bobbisox]

Munir Hussain released today, he was protecting his home and family, while I don't agree with vigilante groups taking the law into their own hands, this guy was pushed to the limit, yes what he did was wrong but it wasn't premeditated either.
So many times have we heard of giving people the right to protect their homes but no politician puts his money where his mouth is. Now the perpetrator of the crime is also launching a campaign to be released, or his lawyers are because of brain damage he suffers from after being attacked by Mr Hussein, the law needs to be made clearer and help the victim more than it does.
Bobbi ♥

[Bobbisox]

exactly Zac, rare indeed

[ummmm]

Yeah but after tying up his family I'm sure can understand his anger.

[Bobbisox]

I am sorry anyone was hurt EDDIE, but faced with the same situation it would be hard just to go in and sit down? you would be fuming I would think

[Bobbisox]

If someone were to ask me how far would I go to protect mine, I wouldn't think twice about it !

[Sweep2k]

If you think he had the right to lose his temper, that's a matter of opinion.
If you think he had the right to teach the guy a lesson, that's an opinion you're entitled to as well.
If you think that he had the right to get a bit of payback to make himself feel better, that's up to you.

But please don't try the 'protecting his family' argument when he was halfway down the street panning the man's head into the pavement with a cricket bat. It makes you sound silly.

[joggerjayne]

But he was giving a message ...

If you violate my family ... you will pay ... and I will accept the consequences.

Deep down ... don't we all fell the same way.

I'll bet burglars don't tie up his family again !

[Old_Geezer]

They'll know to tie him first.

Emotionally I may sympathise, possibly could find myself in similar circumstances, but I don't think society can't condone taking your anger out on someone who has ceased to be a threat to the extent you give them brain damage. No one should have legal carte blanche to do whatever they want to someone.

[Ankou]

i like to think that i would do anything to protect my famiily, but i do not feel i could deliberatley pummel someone in the head until they had brain damage. i would like to think my violent streak ends at hair pulling, a scratch or two and then a half nelson until the police arrived.

if he can do this once, who says he cant do it to anyoine he thinks has wronged him ?

[Bobbisox]

I whole heartedly agree he did go too far pummelling this guys head in, but how far can we go in protecting our property and family?
as I said earlier, I am very sorry anyne was hurt, I am not a violent person but would like to see some law in place for the victim

[China Doll]

You go as far as you like... And then accept the punishment you're given if you use unnecessary force which I believe this man did. You don't get to have one law for one person and another for someone else, it just doesn't work that way.

[joggerjayne]

It must have been a pretty ropey cricket bat.

Didn't it break?

[Bobbisox]

I have said I deplore the violence and taking the law into your own hands too
but there should be clearer guidelines for you when you are confronted by an intruder in your home, only a couple of weeks ago did Myleen Klass receive a caution !!!

[Ankou]

well she didnt she mostly made it up.

you have the right to defend yourself, but use your imagination as to what constitutes excessive force. if you are being mugged by a man flicking an elastic band at your nose, then breaking his legs, caving his nose in and making sure he never has children again might be considered in your mind as areasonable repsonse, but would probably be legally considered as excessive.