https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/...ar-cricket-bat
i think this is the case that really first got me interested in the topic. i am pro gun etc. and i think up until the severe beating resulting in brain damage these guys were in the right chasing the perps and a couple swings to immobilize him and waiting for the police would have been fine. i think if the beating happened in the house a few more swings with the bat would have been fine as well, but immediate threat to his family was over.
"Munir Hussain, 53, discovered three masked men in his house when his family returned from their local mosque during Ramadan in September last year.
The burglars tied up and threatened to kill Hussain and his family but a teenage son managed to escape and alert Hussain's brother, Tokeer.
The intruders fled when help arrived at the house in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, but the brothers chased and caught one, Walid Salem, a criminal with more than 50 previous convictions. He was then subjected to what Judge John Reddihough described as a "dreadful, violent attack" by the Hussain brothers.
Salem was left with a permanent brain injury after he was struck with a cricket bat so hard that it broke into three pieces. The revenge attack was self-defence that went too far, Reading crown court was told."
i think this is the case that really first got me interested in the topic. i am pro gun etc. and i think up until the severe beating resulting in brain damage these guys were in the right chasing the perps and a couple swings to immobilize him and waiting for the police would have been fine. i think if the beating happened in the house a few more swings with the bat would have been fine as well, but immediate threat to his family was over.
"Munir Hussain, 53, discovered three masked men in his house when his family returned from their local mosque during Ramadan in September last year.
The burglars tied up and threatened to kill Hussain and his family but a teenage son managed to escape and alert Hussain's brother, Tokeer.
The intruders fled when help arrived at the house in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, but the brothers chased and caught one, Walid Salem, a criminal with more than 50 previous convictions. He was then subjected to what Judge John Reddihough described as a "dreadful, violent attack" by the Hussain brothers.
Salem was left with a permanent brain injury after he was struck with a cricket bat so hard that it broke into three pieces. The revenge attack was self-defence that went too far, Reading crown court was told."
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