Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Tony Martin, the UK farmer who went to prison for three years, after shooting burglars in his home, has more charges made against him, then dropped.
1 posted on 02/29/2016 4:53:59 AM PST by marktwain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: marktwain

Better to be tried by 12.....

Tony needs farm in the USA.


2 posted on 02/29/2016 5:08:08 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: marktwain

Coming soon to a Hillary-run country near you. VOTE, people!


3 posted on 02/29/2016 5:08:15 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: marktwain

I feel so sorry for this guy. He had been repeatedly robbed by the same men, because they knew, or thought that they knew, that they could do so with impunity, thanks to the UK government being on the side of the criminals (just like our own is, to some extent, which they’d like to further).


4 posted on 02/29/2016 5:16:02 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: the scotsman

Ping!!! Top of the afternoon to you. I’m sure there’s more than one side to this...


5 posted on 02/29/2016 5:19:39 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: marktwain

Sounds like someone could make a pretty penny in the UK by being a professional “cleaner”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaner_%28crime%29

That is, especially those who live in higher crime rural areas would pay a nebulous form of insurance, a small regular fee, so that when and if they kill a burglar or robber, the earthly remains and associated incriminating evidence are removed and repaired expeditiously.

Such things are to be expected when the law and authorities are bad or worthless.


10 posted on 02/29/2016 6:05:39 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: marktwain

Blushing ever so slightly at my fan club here, lol.

Any questions, fire away.
Pardon the pun.


14 posted on 02/29/2016 9:11:30 AM PST by the scotsman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: marktwain

The Martin case was not about the right to self-defence, which was never in question. The question before the court was whether the actions of Martin on that day, in particular his shooting in the back of an unarmed man who was running away from Martin’s property, could reasonably be seen as self-defence. The judge in his summing up made it clear that the case was finely balanced. The jury clearly found it so, since they only returned a narrow majority verdict after long deliberation. The Court of Appeal also found it so, when it subsequently overturned that verdict and substituted a guilty verdict on a lesser charge. Whatever the rights and wrongs, this was a complex and unusual case for a variety of reasons, not the crude caricature which subsequent mythologising has made it. And Martin himself, unfortunately, was a rather unconvincing martyr.


15 posted on 03/01/2016 8:46:29 AM PST by Winniesboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson