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78 pensioner arrested for fatally stabbing burglar in his own home

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SShaming · 04/04/2018 12:20

2 burglars break into a 78 year old man’s home armed with screwdriver.

Forces owner into the kitchen whilst one of them goes upstairs.

A fight ensues, leaving pensioner with injuries to his arm and burglary is fatally stabbed. Perhaps with his own screwdriver although this is TBC.

Police arrest pensioner.

On what planet is this right?

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BertrandRussell · 07/04/2018 08:21

He was a vile, vile human being. But calling his children vermin? Really?

Lizzie48 · 07/04/2018 08:49

Richard is not a hero or a vigilante. He’s a human being who did what he had to in the moment. I bet he’d rather it went some other way...killing a human being, no matter what the circumstances, has a devastating impact on any decent person.

This absolutely. Richard told the police he'd hurt the man, no doubt expecting that he would recover in hospital. Knowing he killed him will be distressing and could leave him with PTSD.

Stirner · 07/04/2018 09:03

I'm pleased that justice has finally triumphed. People defending their families from intruders should never be prosecuted.

I notice how all the bleeding heart, social justice warriors have suddenly shut up.

BertrandRussell · 07/04/2018 09:49

No, we haven’t! Grin

SaucyJane · 07/04/2018 09:53

Bertrand - I agree that’s disgusting.

But - how do we persuade the children of someone like this parasite on the hide of society not to follow in his footsteps? Showing them how much he was despised and scorned by most people for his choices is one way, I guess, even though it’s not the right way!!

WhalesOfYore · 07/04/2018 10:09

No, we haven’t!

It must be so hard for social justice warriors when real justice is served, as it was in this case for both victim and criminal Smile

Gottagetmoving · 07/04/2018 10:10

I notice how all the bleeding heart, social justice warriors have suddenly shut up

I haven't noticed any bleeding heart social justice warriors. I have noticed posters who are not of the mob 'hang 'em high mentality though.
Everything has gone through the usual official process until a decision was made to release Richard without charge. Those who wanted the police to ignore the fact that the burglar died and not follow that procedure were out of order.

Jobjobjob · 07/04/2018 10:10

@Stirner "bleeding heart social warriors" because we believed that the guy should be questioned?

Still stand by that he had to be questioned and that he should only have been freed if "reasonable force had been used". That's what appears to have happened and therefore that's fine. If it'd had been found that it was unreasonable force then I presume it would be another Tony Martin situation.

Aeroflotgirl · 07/04/2018 10:11

They are all nasty dispicable individuals, the vitriol they are giving this poor man, it just shows just how nasty and disgusting they are. I am afraid the children will follow later on. They are dragged up the lot of them, not brought up.

JacquesHammer · 07/04/2018 10:16

It must be so hard for social justice warriors when real justice is served, as it was in this case for both victim and criminal

Jesus wept 😭 yes damn those social justice warriors who wanted the law to be upheld as it has

Gottagetmoving · 07/04/2018 10:17

They are dragged up the lot of them, not brought up

It's sad that most of us ARE a product of our upbringing.

BertrandRussell · 07/04/2018 10:18

Not hard at all. There must have been good solid evidence that this was self defense-particularly as the decision has been made so quickly. (Evidence that nobody on here had yesterday)

I can still wish that the burglar had been brought to trial. Not least because I think that would have been a better outcome for Mr Osborne-Brooks. And I certainly wish that people were not calling his children “vermin”.

WhalesOfYore · 07/04/2018 10:18

See? They're crying already! Wink

Gottagetmoving · 07/04/2018 10:29

I can still wish that the burglar had been brought to trial. Not least because I think that would have been a better outcome for Mr Osborne-Brooks. And I certainly wish that people were not calling his children “vermin

Totally agree.

BertrandRussell · 07/04/2018 10:48

For “crying” please read “thinking”

Unfortunate typo, but no harm done.

ForalltheSaints · 07/04/2018 10:51

Very different from the instance of Tony Martin, who used a gun. If you do so you intend to kill or seriously injure. With a knife the intent could be argued to frighten someone off. There was no premeditation either.

Arresting for murder in the first place seemed wrong, manslaughter maybe.

Slarti · 07/04/2018 10:51

I'm pleased that justice has finally triumphed.

It must be so hard for social justice warriors when real justice is served

You appear to have a bit of a love-hate relationship with justice.

Gottagetmoving · 07/04/2018 10:56

Arresting for murder in the first place seemed wrong, manslaughter maybe

They arrest on suspicion of murder. They assume innocent until proven guilty.

BakedBeans47 · 07/04/2018 11:01

I notice how all the bleeding heart, social justice warriors have suddenly shut up.

Sadly those with the intellect and common sense of a boiled potato haven’t

Gottagetmoving · 07/04/2018 11:02

@Sadly those with the intellect and common sense of a boiled potato haven’t

Grin
WhalesOfYore · 07/04/2018 11:17

For “crying” please read “thinking”

Thinking up new ways to smear the victim as a murderer, maybe! Grin

WhalesOfYore · 07/04/2018 11:20

You appear to have a bit of a love-hate relationship with justice.

Nope - real justice is what happened, namely freedom for the victim and retribution for the criminal. Social justice warriors would have put away an innocent man for murder, and probably thrown a fat cheque towards the burglar's family for the breach of his human rights.

Aeroflotgirl · 07/04/2018 11:29

Yes Gotta, unfortunately, this family is a good example of that.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 07/04/2018 11:36

Whales
I’m your self satisfied bubble you still don’t get it do you.
The rule of law is not about persecuting the innocent or congratulating wrongdoers. It’s about (amongst other things) constraining the powers of the state. It’s about setting rules and checks on what state authorities, like the police can do. The police have to operate within a set of constraints to protect us all from abuses of power. So yes that meant an elderly man was arrested whilst the death was investigated but it also means that he could not just be locked up and forgotten about because the police decided he was at fault without investigating.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 07/04/2018 11:37

In not I’m