As I have noted in previous posts concerning our wonderful Second Amendment, not only has Great Britain banned guns in the country, but they continue to prosecute those who actually defend themselves.
For example, Omari Roberts stopped by to visit his mother. When he entered her house, he found to teenage boys. He chased one away, but when he returned, a 17 year old was still there. They scuffled and the boy ended up with a stab wound to his chest.
Prosecutors have decided to charge Omari with murder for defending his mom’s house:
The Crown Prosecution Service said the decision to charge Roberts months after the incident in March had been taken after ‘careful consideration’.
Its lawyers believed he had used ‘excessive and gratuitous force’.
The case echoes that of Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, who became a cause celebre when he was jailed for life for murder in 2000 after shooting dead a teenage intruder at his dilapidated Norfolk home.
His conviction was reduced to manslaughter on appeal and he was released in 2003.
Yesterday the court heard that Roberts’s mother Jacqueline McKenzie-Johnson, 46, a senior official at Nottingham City Council, was not at home when her son arrived on the afternoon of March 13.
Lee Shepherd, prosecuting, said Roberts first discovered the 14-year-old, who was also stabbed during a confrontation.
Roberts chased him down the street before returning to the semi-detached house in Old Basford, Nottingham, to be confronted by Juett.
Applying for bail for Roberts, who is also charged with wounding the younger raider with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, Raj Chand, defending, said: ‘This must have been a dreadful situation for any law-abiding member of the public.
‘Someone said to me earlier that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I said that he was in the right place at the right time. An Englishman’s home is his castle.
‘He says he was in the right. He regrets what happened, but he was defending himself and his property.’
This is something I simply don’t understand. I would like to assume there are facts about this case that warrant this action, but based on prosecutions I have seen in the past in Great Britain, I doubt there are. This is more than likely a simple case of a person defending himself against a criminal and then having to defend himself against the state.
As I have always said when a youth ends up dead, it is sad and unnecessary. But understand this, it’s unnecessary because that youth did not have to choose to break into that woman’s house. He did not have to choose to stay in the house after Omari discovered them. And he most certainly did not have to choose to fight with him.
When I worked with adjudicated youth, I was trained to tell them, “To choose the act is to choose the consequences.” When he chose to break into that house, when he choose to stay and when he chose to fight, the youth chose to accept any consequences associated with those action.
None of this needed to happen, but it isn’t Omari Roberts’ fault that it did.
Hat Tip: Barking Moonbat Early Warning System
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