Posted on 10/27/2009 7:25:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A man who stabbed a burglar to death after catching him in the act was charged with murder yesterday.
Omari Roberts, 23, was remanded in custody. Roberts had found two teenage burglars in his mother's house when he arrived to visit her.
After chasing one of the youths, aged 14, from the property, he returned to find 17-year-old Tyler Juett still there.
There was a struggle and Juett was fatally stabbed in the chest, Nottingham Magistrates Court was told.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the decision to charge Roberts months after the incident in March had been taken after 'careful consideration'.
Its lawyers believed he had used 'excessive and gratuitous force'.
The case echoes that of Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, who became a cause celebre when he was jailed for life for murder in 2000 after shooting dead a teenage intruder at his dilapidated Norfolk home.
His conviction was reduced to manslaughter on appeal and he was released in 2003.
Yesterday the court heard that Roberts's mother Jacqueline McKenzie-Johnson, 46, a senior official at Nottingham City Council, was not at home when her son arrived on the afternoon of March 13.
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It is illegal to interfere with a criminal doing his ‘duty’ in the UK.
My butt.
It is clear what the government is doing. They want all of their subjects to be completely dependent on them. Any sign of independence will be punished severely.
Of course this does not apply to criminals since many (most?) of them are minorities.
He didn't use artillery or an air-strike, so it isn't excessive or gratuitous in my book. You rob me or my family - I'm coming for you. You fight me, I'll put you down, period. Seriously, someone fights back, you have no way of knowing how far they are willing to take it. So you had better be ready to do whatever it takes to win. Where win is defined as you're still standing and they are not.
The people of the UK need to conduct a serious rebellion against their oppressive government and regain control. What a hell hole.
When the government refuses its duty to protect the public, or worse, takes the side of criminals against the public, vigilantism results. In England today, since in many cases burglars are no longer even being prosecuted, because of the refusal of the government to build more prisons, the alternative is the death penalty.
In a case like this, the burglars could have been run off after having been identified. Then the vigilante organization would locate them, and at a time of its choosing either give them a final warning, or execute them, while leaving notice of why they were executed.
There would be no connection between the execution and the burglary victim, and few criminals would have to be put down before the government would have no choice to act. Admittedly, it would want to act against the vigilantes *first*, before the criminals, but if it could not identify them, then it would be inclined to confront the criminals.
I am really glad that I do not live as a subject in England.
Truer words were never spoken.
Two scum have broken into your home and are robbing you, you chase them away and return to find one is still there plundering your home. Even though caught in the act and challenged by a young man he stays to take what he can. This is the sort of guy who doesn't care about anything or anyone, he just might fight you to the death, YOUR death. So as the fight ensues and he fights vigorously what have you left to do to protect yourself from possibly being killed? Seems they want you to let yourself get killed so you won't have to face murder charges later. Insanity. No wonder criminals are so bold today, the law is on their side.
Well, I just read on FR there's a father in Florida who is being held without bail for attempted murder. Seems the father discovered a family "friend" was molesting his three year old child, and the father beat him severely. So the child molester will probably get a few years and the father life if convicted. America is not much different than Britain. We're very close behind them in liberalism and political insanity, VERY close. Where they are now we will be in just a few years time.
I’d like to be on that jury. The father would walk.
Yeah, we are close behind them...we may even be well ahead of them considering the communist in the white house.
I also read that thread regarding that father. I would have done the same thing. I also would not convict him if I sat on his jury. To Hell with pedophiles, and to Hell with the judges and politicians that protect them.
Makes me glad my family left England for the good ole USA at the beginning of the last century.
Enjoy your upcoming Sharia law.
'I have looked very carefully at the public interest in this case, and I am satisfied that it requires a prosecution.
'I also discussed the case with the CPS principal legal adviser and have decided there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction.'
Interesting choice of words in this context, 'disturbed', as though the burglars were quietly going about their honorable business, with the full support of the Government, and Mr. Roberts was in the wrong place at the wrong time because the burglars had more of a right to be there.
If this is indeed found to be 'unreasonable' in court and he is convicted of murder or any serious crime, it will convince the people of the UK that there is nothing at all that they can do when they are faced with criminals in their own homes. It will have the effect of upending the law guaranteeing full legal support for 'reasonable force' in self defense.
Just atrocious....what a mess.
Remember when the farmer shot the robber in his home and the it is the farmer who goes to jail . While in jail the robber sues the farmer for his injuries.
That is how messed up the UK is now.
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