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THE tipping point came in 1999 with the case of Tony Martin, a Norfolk farmer. He had suffered persistent trouble with intruders at his isolated farmhouse and when two men broke in again, he was waiting with a gun.
Martin shot and killed Fred Barras, one of the intruders, as the young man was running away. He was convicted of murder, but the charge was reduced to manslaughter on appeal. An outcry ensued. Many were outraged at Martin’s conviction, believing that it undermined a person’s right to defend their home and family.
In 2002 Barry Hastings, 25, was jailed for five years for stabbing a man when he returned home and found his front door had been forced open. Hastings grabbed a kitchen knife but tackled the burglar outside his house when, the judge concluded, the immediate danger was past. Hastings stabbed the burglar 12 times.
these are very extreme but excessive force is only allowed when life is threatened, if you thought your life may have een threatened you wouldn have gone in the first place