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You're taking a bath, there's a knock at the front door, you answer to find an angry guy threatening your family. Another guy joins him pointing a gun at you. You rush him to defend yourself and wind-up in jail for "assault". That's the British way? From icseftonandwestlancs:

POLICE arrested a father who fought off two strangers and was threatened with a gun.

Stephen Christer had taken a bath and was watching football on TV when there was a knock on the door of his home in Blackgate Lane, Tarleton.

He answered it to find a young man asking to speak to his son.

Mr Christer said: "There was a knock at the door and there was an aggravated person looking for my son. He was telling me what he was going to do with myself, my household and my son.

"One thing led to another and we ended up fighting - bearing in mind I was in pyjamas and bare feet."

As the two of them struggled a middle-aged man got out of the car parked outside Mr Christer's house.

"My wife screamed," said Mr Christer, a civil engineer.

"The guy in the car had got out a hand gun. He pointed it at me and he threatened my wife and my 14-year-old daughter.

"I rushed the guy. You might say I was defending myself. The three of us ended up on the floor."
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They found Mr Christer standing on the pistol, which turned out to be an imitation weapon. All three men were arrested.

"I'm facing an assault charge now," said Mr Christer, after spending two-and-a-half hours in custody and being released on police bail.

"It's just so annoying that I was not only assaulted, but they came to the door, wouldn't leave, pointed a gun at me and then I'm arrested because they were complaining I had hit them.