Ah, so he was merely delivering a screwdriver for Mr Osborn-Brooks to work on his pluming with. Terrible miss-understanding. Maybe the coppers need to look again.
I'm pretty sure that Tony Martin had already used his gun on a person found scrumping in his orchard. Well, maybe not the person themselves but certainly their vehicle.
The Martin case is clearly different to this as you say.
I would say that I'm not totally agreeing the no sympathy thing with...
I guess that when two people force themselves into your house at night, in an area known for regular burglary, and one of them forces you into your kitchen and comes at you with a screwdriver they're not collecting for the Red Cross.
To clarify:
English law permits one person to kill another in self-defence only if the person defending him or herself uses no more than "reasonable force"; it is the responsibility of the jury to determine whether or not an unreasonable amount of force was used.
Michael T. W. Arnheim (2004)...
Kind of. Folk who use force to deal with burglars rarely get in ultimate trouble. But I'm not sure that a blank canvass should be offered to the homeowner.
Not sure what folk are fretting about.
Standard investigation.
The law in this country is pretty good in this area (despite what people like/are taught to think).
No-one has the full facts- but I'm confident that if it was merely self-defence it won't go any further.