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September 04, 2004

Some Common Sense in UK

Nope, you're not reading it wrong! Via Fark comes a link to the story of a Brit who shoots a burglar:

A 72-year-old farmer who shot a suspected burglar will not face criminal charges.

Kenneth Faulkner was arrested after shooting in the leg a 22-year-old man he thought was breaking into a garage at his remote farm near Ockbrook, Derbyshire, in the early hours of Aug 6.

He had been burgled twice in the three weeks before the incident and fired his shotgun as the intruder was fleeing.

Mr Faulkner and James Rae, the suspected burglar, were arrested but yesterday Mr Faulkner, who was released on bail, was told the Crown Prosecution Service had decided there was insufficient evidence to take him to court.

Rae, from Stanton-by-Dale, has been charged with burglary and theft of a vehicle and is due before magistrates again next week.

The shooting mirrored the case of Tony Martin, the farmer who shot 16-year-old burglar Fred Barras as he fled his Bleak House Farm in Emneth, Norfolk. Eight years ago, a homeowner killed an intruder in the same Derbyshire village near where last month's incident happened.

I'd like to think that this is the start of a new trend in England where homeowners are actually allowed to defend themselves and their property from mutants but I doubt it. Perhaps the local prosecutor's office is still smarting from the uproar over the Tony Martin case of several years ago -- it's the same jurisdiction. Amazing that he even had a gun to shoot the thug!

Posted by Jeff Soyer at September 4, 2004 01:57 PM

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