A would-be robber busts a car window and starts stabbing a shop owner. Shop-owner gets the robbers knife and kills the robber. So far, so good. Except this is England so the shop owner may be charged with murder.
A would-be robber busts a car window and starts stabbing a shop owner. Shop-owner gets the robbers knife and kills the robber. So far, so good. Except this is England so the shop owner may be charged with murder.
Naah. The perp was stabbed in the chest, so according to Tim Lambert, the shop keeper will get off. If he’d been stabbed in the back…
But then, I’m just a “gullible gunner.”
Cautionary tale, what happened in England could happen here. Even France is looking better than England.
What kind of world are we living in when a career criminal can’t even stab an innocent man to death and take his wallet without risking bodily injury?
Basically it looks like police booked him, and turned the facts and statements for the incident over to the Crown Prosecution Service, which will decide on whether to bring charges. If there’s a body involved, the same thing would happen in a lot of US cities. Now if the Crown decides to bring charges, then it’ll be outrage time.
I should note that I don’t agree with the reasonable force standard that Britain uses. It’s too subject to prosecutorial interpretation. I wouldn’t be shocked if they did decide to bring charges because, well, “Once you got the knife away from the yob, you didn’t really have any reason to stab him did you?”
Cautionary tale, what happened in England could happen here. Even France is looking better than England.