could this be the start of common sense in our legal system.
At least this time around...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/8508980.stm
now thats more like it!
could this be the start of common sense in our legal system.
prosecution said...
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The sword is always going to out-trump the knuckleduster
At last a slight glimmer of hope! and no mention of violating the scumbags "Human Rights"
About time as well. All we need now is for all other trials to come up on the side of common sense and punish the criminals and leave the rest of us the hell alone!!
Shame he missed the juggular really would have been one less scumbag! Unfortunately i doubt that would have gone down as self defence.
Re the choice of weapon, what was he supposed to do, say "hang on there a sec, I'm just going to the shed for a not too sharp spade!"
Interesting that they say the sword is a 'battlefield weapon' - I seem to remember that the SAS, who can have pretty much whatever equipment
they want, recon a sharpened spade is the weapon of choice if you have to go into a trench crowded with 'opponents', so the bad guy was
probably better armed!
Hugh
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Originally posted by flak monkey
At least this time around...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/8508980.stm
On a lighter note, shame they stitched it back on, that criminal could have had a joke for life....
Do you fancy a pint?
No thanks, I've got one ear
When the verdict was given I wonder if anyone in the public gallery shouted
'EAR, 'EAR
I'll get my coat.
Paul G
Was he given a pardon?
When he was given the 6 month sentence he couldn't believe his ear
Time to stop yet?
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Originally posted by balidey
When he was given the 6 month sentence he couldn't believe his ear
Time to stop yet?
In the trenches in WWI the spade was the weapon most used for close combat. A friend of mine was charged for a similar thing about 30 years ago when a
man who suspected he was knocking his girlfriend off came to "visit" him. He sconed him with the flat of an ornamental broadsword which the
police confiscated and later returned to him. The scrote didn't have a lug to stand on
[Edited on 11/2/10 by Peteff]
Anyone who trepasses onto your property threatening your innocent wife and children with a Knuckleduster immeadiately loses any protection from the
law I say.
Well done to this man for protecting his family and I hope it sets a new president for other scummy t**ts....
[Edited on 11/2/10 by Toprivetguns]
[Edited on 11/2/10 by Toprivetguns]
What a refreshing change for common sense to make an appearance in court.
What interests me is how the court system usualy manages to convince the jury to come to a guilty verdict on householders defending their families.
We are probably a fairly representative bunch and think we would vote not guilty, yet time after time it goes the other way.
Most countries work on the basis of the raider loosing all rights the moment he breaks in and the householder is entitled by right to blow him away
just for being there!
Hooray for our side!
It is ALWAYS better to be tried by 12, than carried by 6.
Should have taken his head off.
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Crown barrister Chris Dunn told the jury: "It is a hell of a thing to hit someone with a razor-sharp sword. It is a battlefield weapon.
Crown barrister Chris Dunn told the jury: "It is a hell of a thing to hit someone with a razor-sharp sword. It is a battlefield weapon.
"The sword is always going to out-trump the knuckleduster.
"This was over the top. This was too far. We don't live in a land where you can hit someone in your front garden with a Samurai sword."
Well I shall see that barrister in Afghanistan then, I have 3 ornamental swords he can borrow!
Yeah we also don't live in a land where some smackhead comes round your house with a knuckleduster (was that ornamental?) to have his way with
your missus either. Do we?
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
Yeah we also don't live in a land where some smackhead comes round your house with a knuckleduster (was that ornamental?) to have his way with your missus either. Do we?
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Originally posted by MikeRJ
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
Yeah we also don't live in a land where some smackhead comes round your house with a knuckleduster (was that ornamental?) to have his way with your missus either. Do we?
I've always thought it must take a very "special" sort of person to be a defence lawyer for scum like this.
Exactly! Only having his ear chopped seems like thet guy was very restrained.
eveyone's entitled to representation in law, no matter how guilty. You just tell yourself that.