In this case the homeowner could only have chased the burglar as far as the distance within his home. IE all over in a few seconds. Not hours or days.savvypaul wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 10:29 pm ...If the evidence suggests the homeowner chased after the burglar, perhaps out of revenge, and stabbed and killed him, then that is murder and the homeowner should face trial.
I am withholding my own judgement as I don't know the facts. Does anyone, here?
I have sympathy for the innocent children that the burglar has left behind, regardless of the above.
If the evidence showed that he had chased after the burglar and stabbed hin to death I'd give him a medal and not a conviction.
Because in the heat of the moment, in those circumstances, I wouldn't expect him to be thinking clearly and logically. His adrenalin would be right up. Irrational thoughts and feelings would have been going through him. He would have been acting instinctively and his instinct may well have been highly aggressive.
It's the burglars who through their illegal, immoral, selfish, sociopathic act of breaking into his home that have put the homeowner into that extremenly stressful, mind numbing situation. Not the homeowner.
What really grinded my gears was when the cousin on Radio 4 today was saying that the homeowner should have taken some other course of action like phoning the police. Well fuck off. So the burglars are just going to stand there politely whilst he dials 999? So you expect a vulnerable, physically weaker man to think as logically as Mr Spock, instead of his brain going into meltdown shock?
Fuck-off. Adrenalin = fight or flight. In this example it was fight.