Pensioner, 78, arrested on suspicion of murder after suspected burglar

[Penistone999]

" lying in wait for him" . Surely that would have been pre meditated murder ? yet he only served three years

 

He shouldnt have served three minutes , never mind three years . Tony should never have been charged in the first place. Another example of the law protecting the criminal , not the innocent victim.

 

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A 16-year-old kid, running away, shot in the back with an unlicensed firearm and left to bleed to death. Farmer later diagnosed with aspergers and a paranoid personality disorder and diminished responsibility so reduced to manslaughter

 

Not sure how that has relevance in this case

 

 

In the words of the Reverend Richard Harlow-Trigg at his funeral: "Everybody here knows that Fred should not have been where he was. Equally everybody know that he did not deserve to die like he did." The boy died in pain, crying for his mother.

 

He shouldnt have been our robbing innocent members of the public then .

[Mister M]

He shouldnt have served three minutes , never mind three years . Tony should never have been charged in the first place. Another example of the law protecting the criminal , not the innocent victim.

 

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He shouldnt have been our robbing innocent members of the public then .

 

Yes he should.

[Cyclone]

Well, clearly Penistone is all for having illegal firearms and shooting people in the back. Fortunately the law doesn't agree with him.

[Calahonda]

South Yorkshire Police will most probably issue warnings to known aggressive burglars, to take great care whilst breaking and entering the residences of pensioners,

[Obelix]

........like sympathizers are going to come on here with their concerns for the burglars!.....

 

Oh I dunno blake seems rather concerned about the poor burglar..

[despritdan]

I think Richard Littlejohn's nailed it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5583711/P19-RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-brave-pensioner-hero-not-Public-Enemy-No-1.html

[Halibut]

I think Richard Littlejohn's nailed it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5583711/P19-RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-brave-pensioner-hero-not-Public-Enemy-No-1.html

 

I think it's reactionary nonsense. The law as it stands allows me to defend myself proportionately to the threat. It doesn't need to change.

[iansheff]

An unnamed cousin told the BBC: “The Henry I know, he was such a loving person, and it’s probably something which just went wrong but he shouldn’t have died out of it.”

It went wrong when he and his accomplice decided to break in to a house armed with a screwdriver, if they hadn't broken in he would still be alive.

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/career-criminal-stabbed-death-botched-burglary-pensioners-house-didnt-deserve-die-070433225.html

[truman]

An unnamed cousin told the BBC: “The Henry I know, he was such a loving person, and it’s probably something which just went wrong but he shouldn’t have died out of it.”

It went wrong when he and his accomplice decided to break in to a house armed with a screwdriver, if they hadn't broken in he would still be alive.

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/career-criminal-stabbed-death-botched-burglary-pensioners-house-didnt-deserve-die-070433225.html

 

"Police have identified the suspected burglar, who died after being stabbed in a residential address in Hither Green, as 37-year-old Henry Vincent.

 

He was previously wanted by Kent Police who were investigating a separate distraction burglary at a home in Farningham in November 2017.

 

And he was on the force’s ‘most wanted’ list in 2013 after another burglary in Gravesend. "

 

From the Evening Standard

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/intruder-killed-during-burglary-in-pensioners-home-wanted-for-stealing-from-other-elderly-victim-a3806981.html

[mrcharlie]

I don't know what to make of this whole thing...well actually I do.

Both BBC News app and MSN have been pushing this story since it emerged, asking is right to kill an intruder.

 

What's making me chuckle is that the other news states how many Murders have been committed within the capital that are related to the McMafia gangs either by shooting or stabbings. That topic is simply getting passed over as each person interviewed states they realise the problem but don't know how best to tackle it.

 

Burglars should be regarded as vermin if found in or on your property, either let them scurry off or kill them and have the corpse dumped on the landfill sites for the rats to feast. Just a general point to observe, how many burglars will tell loved ones or friends which houses they intend to rob! They could all just disappear!!

 

As for the McMafia and drug cartel that's forming in the capital. I'm pretty certain that genetic engineering could develop a virus that would be able to wipe out this god forsaken problem that's caused so many needless deaths over the years. Surely scientists now have the power to pinpoint the structure of heroin and release a toxic that would wipe it out globally, I'm guessing the real reason that it has never happened is because those in power also profit from the drugs too.

 

The whole world sucks, the sooner this planet is hit by a massive asteroid the better.

 

Humans, specifically the dregs and the spineless people in power who care more for their secret brown envelopes than human spirit of fellow man or woman are as bad as each other, the only difference is some wear suits.