Homeowners allowed to stab burglars

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has said a householder who knifes a burglar will not have committed a criminal offence under plans to clarify the law on self-defence in England.

He told the BBC people were entitled to use "whatever force necessary" to protect themselves and their homes.

Asked about what this would mean in practice, he said: "If an old lady finds she's got an 18 year old burgling her house and she picks up a kitchen knife and sticks it in him she has not committed a criminal offence and we will make that clear."

He added: "We will make it quite clear you can hit the burglar with the poker if he's in the house and you have a perfect defence when you do so."



So that should screw up the police case against the bloke arrested for stabbing a burglar last week but it might help if they clarify whether only old ladies can stab people and the rest of us can only hit them on the head with a poker - like who the fuck has a poker in the house, will a baseball bat be okay?

I have a poker.

should be allowed to kill the cnuts imo.

fuckin vultures.

Does Ken Clarke drink a bit? Shortened sentences for criminals who admit they kicked fuck out of Mabel and now, Mabel can twat him with a poker. At which point the burglar can claim self-defence.

You can't try the man on an incident no-one saw. The fucking last shower used to do things like that - "if you're brown I think you need an identity card. And maybe an ASBO or some sort of behavioural contract. Hold on, I'm flipping my home on the other line. And my husband is downloading some porn". And so on