Homeowner fights off knife-wielding burglars, gets 30 months; burglar spared jail

Biohazard said:
My father was murdered in 1995, and I still want to string up a pedo more. I left his killer, and went after a guy who abused my brother (aged 4).
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Yet you still have your brother whereas some utter scum sucking filth took your father away for ever.

We'll need to agree to disagree here as I dont want to get into a big debate about something so obviously personal to you. I respect your opinion but I feel murder is worse :)
 
[TW]Fox;15570148 said:
Yet you still have your brother whereas some utter scum sucking filth took your father away for ever.

We'll need to agree to disagree here as I dont want to get into a big debate about something so obviously personal to you. I respect your opinion but I feel murder is worse :)
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No my brothers instance was very 'light' shall we say, at the smallest end of the spectrum. That in itself is quite some story (the history of our ex-neighbour).

I have come to terms with what happened to my father (anniversary was the 17th of Dec actually, love christmas!! lol). I struggle to come to terms with what jim next door was up too with my brother, what my grandparents did to my mum for her to be taken into care as a baby (she still couldn't walk talk eat properly aged 5), an ex partner who still has flashbacks from her sexually abusive father (these actually started quite late on in life).

I've heard and seen a lot worse than what I've went through personally in my life, and I know the feelings I've had over my father pale in insignificance over how others I know feel over the way they have been abused in life.

How long is a piece of string though?

Gone he may be, but I'll still see him on the other side. :)
 
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dirtydog said:
30 months isn't extremely light in my or others' eyes, when it was his first offence and there were MASSIVE mitigating circumstances. The sentence should have been suspended.
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As has been said, if it weren't for the mitigating circumstances it would have been a lot longer.
 
Yeah. Coming back to this thread after a few days, I've forgotten what was said before and I fear we are going round in circles somewhat.
 
Shauncer, I'm really pleased for you, but I had the best revival post since I posted not just a link. :p

You even just edited text to your post. :mad:
 
He was chased down the street at which point he was no longer a threat.

he was struck with a cricket bat so hard that it broke into three pieces.
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He now has permanent brain damage?


Holy cow. Lock the homeowner up he's a psycho. If you spill his pint he's goiong to smash his glass and shove it in your face ..
 
Still confirmed as a violent criminal then... IMO that is more relevant than the sentence in the wider scheme of things, this is not in any way approval of his actions.
 
There is no mention of the size of the cricket bat or whether or not is was slightly broken already.

If you hit someone in the head with a proper cricket bat until it broke I really don't think they'd have much of a head left.
 
Very pleased for Mr Hussein and his family. Obviously his criminal record still stands and his brother is still in prison though :( I think that the "extreme provocation" that freed Mr Hussein should have also meant that the jury returned a Not Guilty verdict.
 
Spawn said:
As for vigilante justice??...fair enough im not saying the guy shouldnt be punished but the fact that hes got a heavy sentence while the criminal who did the actual crime got away with it...thats what narks me off about this pathetic country of ours.
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Doesn't he have brain damage now? I would hardly say he got away with it.
 
scorza said:
Very pleased for Mr Hussein and his family. Obviously his criminal record still stands and his brother is still in prison though :( I think that the "extreme provocation" that freed Mr Hussein should have also meant that the jury returned a Not Guilty verdict.
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Provocation is only a defence in UK murder cases, for everything else, it's a sentence mitigator, not a charge mitigator or changer, and even then it is not a statutory defence...
 
silane said:
There is no mention of the size of the cricket bat or whether or not is was slightly broken already.

If you hit someone in the head with a proper cricket bat until it broke I really don't think they'd have much of a head left.
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I think the permanent brain damage speaks for itself.

If you ask me it's pretty close to him actually murdering the guy (never forget at this point the intruder was NOT a threat). It's only fluke that the intruder didn't end up dead, the homeowner wouldn't have thought 'I'll just permanently brain damage him I won't kill him' - He'd have been hitting him as hard as he humanly could in the head many, many times, while the guy was on the floor.
 
^TANK^ said:
Doesn't he have brain damage now? I would hardly say he got away with it.
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Well if he does have brain damage it hasnt taught him anything because from what i have read, soon as he was out of hospital he was out committing fraud etc...in fact im sure the original article said he was due in court on other charges.

Goes to show that some people even if they are severely beaten still dont learn.
 
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