The UK is having a little debate now over a farmer who shot dead a burgler.
The man in question according to some reports is slightly twitchy in the first place. However after being repeatly burgled and stating that he would blow one of these burglers away one day he finally did it. Since the police knew that he had threatened to do it and that he was being continually being burgled why didn't they do more about it.
One reason maybe once these thugs are caught the courts don't do anything about it.
The three Burglers in this case had racked up 114 offences between them only one seems to have spent anytime just 2 years. Another reason maybe lack of resources but perhaps just hiding one officer in the area may have caught these thugs before one of them got killed. A more positive response when Mr Martin reported crimes may have detered him from taking the law into his own hands. Speaking from personnel experiance when Burgled the policeman showed no interest and basically said we won't catch them. Thats despite the burglers working through the area during the month.
At the end of the day offenders need to punished just giving them a warning and saying don't do it again just gives them the green light to carry on. The police need to do there job and the courts need to back them up. If they don't they'll be more cases like this when the victimn loses his wrag and hits out.
To long in this country we have forgotten the victimn's and pampered the criminal. This leaves law abiding poeple feeling unprotected and defenseless. Unfortunatley people can only take so much and in many cases will hit
out. In this case there's two victimns Mr Martin and Barras. If things had been done properly Martin would be free and Barras alive and in jail.
However I feel any law changes that allow the home owner to protect his property will be undermined the European court of human rights.
The man in question according to some reports is slightly twitchy in the first place. However after being repeatly burgled and stating that he would blow one of these burglers away one day he finally did it. Since the police knew that he had threatened to do it and that he was being continually being burgled why didn't they do more about it.
One reason maybe once these thugs are caught the courts don't do anything about it.
The three Burglers in this case had racked up 114 offences between them only one seems to have spent anytime just 2 years. Another reason maybe lack of resources but perhaps just hiding one officer in the area may have caught these thugs before one of them got killed. A more positive response when Mr Martin reported crimes may have detered him from taking the law into his own hands. Speaking from personnel experiance when Burgled the policeman showed no interest and basically said we won't catch them. Thats despite the burglers working through the area during the month.
At the end of the day offenders need to punished just giving them a warning and saying don't do it again just gives them the green light to carry on. The police need to do there job and the courts need to back them up. If they don't they'll be more cases like this when the victimn loses his wrag and hits out.
To long in this country we have forgotten the victimn's and pampered the criminal. This leaves law abiding poeple feeling unprotected and defenseless. Unfortunatley people can only take so much and in many cases will hit
out. In this case there's two victimns Mr Martin and Barras. If things had been done properly Martin would be free and Barras alive and in jail.
However I feel any law changes that allow the home owner to protect his property will be undermined the European court of human rights.
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