I witnessed a crimeFreddy Woo writes, "A group of us once staggered home so insensible with drink that we failed to notice someone being killed and buried in a shallow grave not more than 50 yards away. A crime unsolved to this day."
Have you witnessed a crime and done bugger all about it? Or are you a have-a-go hero?
Whatever. Tell us about it...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 11:53)
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I don't understand this one - are you in England?Enzyme isn't quite right here - you have the right to use reasonable force to defend yourself and others, and "reasonable" is construed very widely with a presumption in the defendant's [i.e. your] favour. You can do almost anything short of deliberately killing them or using a weapon that it was illegal to have in the first place.
[Tony Martin went down because he killed the burglar while the burglar was running away, not because he killed the burglar. Had he killed the burglar while the burglar had been approaching, he'd only have gone down for the illegal gun]
So if the facts are as you outlined above, there is absolutely no way any court in England or Wales should have convicted you.
Was the problem that the court didn't believe your sequence of events? (might be the case if you had previous, the attackers didn't, and the victim was too pissed to speak for you in court). Or did you plead guilty because some a**ehole prosecutor gave you a "hassle and prison, or no hassle and no prison" talk?
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