Given the legal climate in the UK, I’m amazed he wasn’t jailed for fighting back.
Absolutely true. The English system is quite evil, when it comes to self defense.
They probably charged him with possessing a gun after he took it from the attacker.
That was my first thought too.
Especially since he used a firearm, albeit one he "liberated" from the attackers. That's got to be against the law there... except even in the UK there is such a thing as prosecutorial discretion, even if they exercise it even less often than New York City or Chicago prosecutors.
Remember, he's a millionaire receiving extremely favourable treatment by the press, and his assailants were apparantly not from a protected [muslum] group. Accordingly, he could not only have easily afforded to mount a well-qualified legal defence team that could have utilized legal precedent set from a time when British law was fair and reasonable, but the press would have crucified the prosecution for even the slightest mistake.
Better for them to let this one slide by...and interestingly, the same lack of fortitude that seems to have permeated British society may well have affected the public prosecutor and his staff and caused them to back away from the old gent who might have fought them as effectively as he did the other gang of bullies.
At this point, isn't he in illegal possession of a handgun by English law?