Quote: (06-17-2015 12:09 PM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:
You cannot defend your life in the UK if a violent perp breaks into your home and threatens your family without severe consequences.
What man here would stay calm and calculated with a weapon in his hands after seeing his family brutalised?
This is a shit test perpetrated not just by SJWs but by the law. I personally would lose it and end up with a longer sentence than the guy(s) would get. They would either be dead or seriously wounded at the least.
Tony Martin was jailed in UK for shooting and killing a burglar
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By Claire Duffin, and agencies
5:18PM BST 19 Aug 2014
Fifteen years after he shot and killed a 16 year-old burglar, farmer Tony Martin has yet to return home, choosing to stay with friends, in a hotel and sleep rough in his car
Tony Martin, the farmer jailed for shooting dead a teenage burglar, is yet to return home 15 years after the incident and has been sleeping rough in his car.
Mr Martin, now 69, said he did not want to go back to his Norfolk farmhouse – called Bleak House – in case he was burgled again. He said he would not hesitate to do the same again if he was and did not want to go back to prison.
"If I was in Bleak House again and someone came in there then I'm not going to just stand there and let him hurt me. I'm going to act,” he said.
“That's one of the reasons I don't want to go back there because it could happen again. I don't relish the idea of going back in there, getting arrested and going to prison again,” he added.
After the shooting, on August 20, 1999, the farmhouse – left to him by an uncle – was boarded up with sheet metal and has remained that way ever since.
Mr Martin said he said he doubted he would ever return. He refused to say where he was living but said he had been staying with friends, in a hotel and in his car.
His friends and supporters have urged him to sell the farm and its land, thought to be worth in the region of £3 million, and live a "more comfortable existence" but he has refused.
"The whole thing that happened to me in simple terms is preposterous. I don't think I'll ever go back and live at Bleak House,” he said.
"I wouldn't call this place a home anymore, it is just a place to visit. It is a time that place forgot.
"I looked at it last night and it is encased in steel and flooded with water. It looks like the Everglades.
"I just live anywhere, I sleep anywhere. If I go up north to a farm show then I will just stay in my car.
"I live a little bit like Bonnie Prince Charlie and go from place to place. I have very kind friends."
Mr Martin, a bachelor, was convicted of murder and jailed for life in April 2000 for killing 16 year-old Fred Barras and seriously injuring his accomplice, Brendon Fearon, then 28.
His sentence was later reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility after a psychiatrist said he had paranoid personality disorder, probably made worse by an earlier invasion of his property by burglars, and he was released from prison in 2003 having served three years.
The incident provoked a fierce debate over the right of homeowners to defend themselves and their property and led to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) releasing new guidelines stating that a householder could use "reasonable force" to protect themselves against crime.
But Mr Martin said he did not think the guidelines went far enough, and that guns should be legalised in the UK.
"I would definitely do something to legalise guns and give people the right to protect themselves,” said Mr Martin, who allegedly received death threats from people wanting to “seek revenge” after the shooting.
"You certainly need to be safe in your own house with impunity. If somebody breaks into your house has to be considered the extreme and if it is not then god help us.”
Speaking about the case of Paul Kohler, the businessman and academic who was set upon by a masked gang when he answered the door to his home in Wimbledon last week, Mr Martin said: “If they had something like a gun in that house they could have picked it up and things would have been different.
"I think it is just hypocrisy that a man can't go to any length to protect himself and his own ….”
Fearon and Barras - who was from the travellers’ community, both had a string of previous convictions. They had travelled from Newark in Nottinghamshire to the farmhouse in Emneth Hungate with the intention of stealing antiques.
Mr Martin, who was said to be living in fear after a burglary three months earlier, shot them with an unlicensed Winchester pump action shotgun.
During his murder trial, the court heard that Mr Martin was well known in the area for his outspoken views on criminals particularly travellers, and lived an unconventional life in his ramshackle farmhouse, which was lit with just two lights.
He told the court he fired in the darkness from halfway down the stairs into his breakfast room after a torch was shone into his eyes, insisting he was acting in self-defence.
The prosecution, however, persuaded the jury that Mr Martin had lain in wait for the burglars and shot them in cold blood.
Malcolm Starr, who who led protests to downgrade Mr Martin's murder conviction said: "We keep on at him to do so [sell his farm] because Tony is sat on 300 prime acres in the area, and he isn't getting any younger.
"Tony would benefit from living a cosier, more comfortable existence."
The UK is ridiculous, you can't do shit to defend yourself most of the time.
