Thread: A crims rights

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Obviously don't shoot intruders even if they have bashed s**t out of you and are about to do it again. Randwick police did nothing more than record the first incident, told him to call the police if the ex returned, but locked the poor bugger up when he defended himself. The only loser here was the bloke who defended himself.

Fair call from the cops I say, he armed himself with the intent to inflict harm. It would have been better to have stayed in a motel, instead of what he did, especially if the "hubby" said he would revisit.
If you read a lot of the previous posts, its all a case of options, and it appears this was a revenge attempted murder.
I reckon your mate should count himself lucky.

Originally Posted by 45tr0

At a party one night with my then girlfriend, her ex punched her in the face in front of me - she had left him a month or so earlier because of violence, etc.
At the time I only remember hitting him once, but when the police arrived apparently i was in the front yard with broken knuckles on both hands and washing blood off my doc martins.
The coppers let me sweat it at the station for about an hour before the senior constable took me into the interview room and said,
"You should know that the bloke you belted has a smashed eye socket, jaw and cheekbone, a collapsed lung and six broken ribs. He's been put in ICU, and you should be up for Assault occasioning Grievous Bodily Harm.
Now, we know this bloke though, and I don't think anyone is going to feel too sorry for him, so here's what happens - In a minute the Sargeant is going to come in and turn on that tape recorder. You're going to tell him that when this bloke hit your girl he tried to attack you too, and that at no point were you aware that he no longer posed a threat. You were just defending yourself and your girl, and having never been in this sort of situation before, you didn't ever think to stop. Got it? Good."
I was given a very firm warning.

This is a textbook discussion point!
I now know what you did, but I would like to know what the 'textbook' answer is. Not the law, I understand that, but what the legally, ethically, and socially correct response should have been.
Not having a go coz I reckon nearly everyone would do the same thing, me included, but apparently it's wrong! What would have been right?

Ralph