If a man broke into my house and held my family hostage, I have every right to get a weapon, including a gun, and defend them. If I kill them in the process, so be it.
In Great Britain, you go to jail:
Munir Hussain, 53, and his family were tied up and told to lie on the floor by career criminal Waled Salem, who burst into his home with two other masked men.
Mr Hussain escaped and attacked Salem with a metal pole and a cricket bat. But yesterday it was the businessman who was starting a prison sentence for his ‘very violent revenge’.
Very violent? OK, maybe he went a bit over the top. What exactly did the court say he did that qualifies as “very violent?”
Mr Hussain’s nightmare began on September 3 last year when he, his wife, 18-year-old daughter and two sons aged 18 and 15 returned from their mosque during Ramadan to find three intruders in their home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
They were tied up and told to get on the floor if they did not want to be killed. One of Mr Hussain’s sons managed to escape and alerted Mr Hussain’s younger brother Tokeer, 35, who lived a few doors away.
Mr Hussain made a break for freedom by throwing a coffee table at his attackers. He and Tokeer chased the gang and brought Salem to the ground in a front garden.
Reading Crown Court heard how Mr Hussain and his brother then beat Salem while he lay on the ground, using a cricket bat, a pole and a hockey stick – leaving him with a fractured skull and brain damage following the ‘sustained’ attack.
Did they read how Salem threatened the man’s wife, daughters and sons with DEATH after tying them up in his own house? I mean, he didn’t kill the dirtbag. He beat him into submission. I don’t know that this is over the top.
Munir was sentenced to 30 months. His brother got 39, because “the judge said he had not faced as much provocation as his brother.”
Salem? No time in jail.
Another thing about this story I found difficult to believe was this:
During mitigation a number of letters from Daily Mail readers who had supported a campaign against the businessman’s conviction were read to the judge.
How are letters to the editor relevant to a legal matter? How does that fit into the judicial system in the once Great Britain? It seems to me that it bears very little merit to the whole process. Who cares what a bunch of readers think? What does the law say?
Thank God for the Castle Doctrine. I know what the law says and know what to expect if ever, God forbid, this happens to my family.
Hussain is a hero and not a villain. England is a sick country where the righteous are jailed and thieves walk free. Pathetic.
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Hussain is a hero and not a villain. England is a sick country where the righteous are jailed and thieves walk free. Pathetic.
.-= Alterity´s last blog ..Double One: Amed, Bali =-.
I have grown sad at the changes I see taking place in the UK. I lived there for almost three years and loved every minute of it. Somewhere along the way, idiocy, lunacy, and irrational thought crept into the parliament and government. I have been told by friends I would no longer recognize the England I once knew. Also, there is security cameras everywhere.
I think the UK is a red flag for America. It is time that we (and our leaders) wake up and take note of the transition that occurred in the UK. If it happened there, it can most definitely happen here.
The only difference is that many Americans are vigilant at the moment. I just hope that we “woke” up in time to push back the idiocy, lunacy and irrational thought creeping into our government and courts.
.-= Dominique´s last blog ..a change in DIRECTION… =-.
I have grown sad at the changes I see taking place in the UK. I lived there for almost three years and loved every minute of it. Somewhere along the way, idiocy, lunacy, and irrational thought crept into the parliament and government. I have been told by friends I would no longer recognize the England I once knew. Also, there is security cameras everywhere.
I think the UK is a red flag for America. It is time that we (and our leaders) wake up and take note of the transition that occurred in the UK. If it happened there, it can most definitely happen here.
The only difference is that many Americans are vigilant at the moment. I just hope that we “woke” up in time to push back the idiocy, lunacy and irrational thought creeping into our government and courts.
.-= Dominique´s last blog ..a change in DIRECTION… =-.