Looks like the people have had enough.

[jackintheboxes]

http://www.dailymail....O=1708&referrer=yahoo


Right or wrong?

[R1Geezer]

The real mystery is why it even got to court, he should have got a medal and some Katana training to ch0p there sh1tbag heads off next time.

[benny3008]

Well said R1geezer, i like your thinking. :-)

[fredpuli47]

It was fit to go to the jury, as questions of fact, and they acquitted. Nothing new in that. 40 years ago I saw someone acquitted, by a jury, of s18 when he'd shot a mere intruder in his scrapyard. A few weeks ago a man was not, I think, even prosecuted when he fatally stabbed an intruder. A few years ago an employee in a gun shop shot dead one of two men who were threatening the proprietor. He wasn't charged .
The law hasn't changed,it's just there's an obsession in the popular press with such cases lately.

[Whickerman]

I know people will disagree, but as someone who's had their home invaded I congratulate this man and I hope this sets a precedent. I truly believe that if you are commiting a crime like those thugs you should legally leave your rights behind.

[jackintheboxes]

In other countries around the world thieves and burglars are usually given a beating by the victim as well as friends,family members in fact everyone in the viscinity as well as random passing bystanders before the police turn up and join in before catring off the screaming criminal to some good ole fashion torture and then to a hellhole prison.
I can guarantee that cockiness and general yobbiness are down to almost zero compared to us.
We maybe a modern society but maybe we could benefit from taking the way we deal with criminals back to the medieval times?

[R1Geezer]

Jack for PM!

[Sandy-Wroe]

Will the chap who almost lost the ear be able to claim for criminal injuries?

[jackintheboxes]

Lol,Cheers r1 Im just saying what we're all thinking.

[jackintheboxes]

Sandy hopefully no one wants to "Ear' his case.

[Whickerman]

The Law Reform Commission here in Ireland has proposed a law that would allow people defend their home and family with lethal force, removing the need to retreat first. Hope it comes to pass

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1214/justice.html

[R1Geezer]

Careful Jack All the yoghurt Knitters will be along in a minute, saying how speeding is worse than burglary and you should let lowlife scum burgle your house because it's society's fault they're poor. Yada yada yada. In my view you go out theiving you waive your rights to the law, end of!

[jackintheboxes]

R1, The more lenient you are with offenders the more liberties they'll take as they then think they're Invincible, we need to "Nip it in the bud" before we have to "Nip it in the kneecaps"

[VHG]

What gets me is that these low lifes did not get a long prison sentence.

What do you have to do to go to prison nowadays, refuse to pay your TV license, drop a piece of litter?

If what they did does not deserve a prison sentecne I dont know what does.

[jackintheboxes]

Prisontime here is often referred to as a "Holiday from the streets" Which just goes to show you what seven star establishments they are compared to third world jails

[ruthann58]

he should have cut his hands off the robbing barsterd wouldnt do it again i would defend my family without any doubt

[daffy654]

I was very amused by the man's name Birdie :-)
I was also very annoyed that the reporter chose to call the weapon used a "Samurai sword", there are many types of samurai sword and all of them have specific names, why can't the press use them?!

[B00]

Dunno about you Daffy, but I wouldn't know the name of the specific sword, and would it really matter? To me, a sword is a sword, is a sword...

Shocking that these two "people" and I do use the term lightly got such a lenient sentance, perhaps the judge will hang his head in shame when the pair of them really do kill someone on their next drugged up rampage?

[fredpuli47]

Whickerman, Ireland is behind the times! The 'duty to retreat' was abolished here in 1967