Businessman on trial for assaulting two thieves on his property...

Then you're a psychopath.

I value my property substantially more than a criminals life.
There maybe just as much violent crime as burglaries, but if burglaries were less violent, the there would be more burglaries than violent crime IMHO.

If you kill someone without a defence you will inevitably lose that when you have to declare bankrupt after getting sent down. If you let them nick it the insurers will replace it in a few weeks.

Use some logic, defending your family, fair play irreplaceable, property, insured and not worth getting 25 years, lifelong unemployability and sued for insolvency for.

OK, let's take this to extremes. I'm these guys, this is my business and private property. I decide I don't like people on that property over the tannoy, now everyone in there's trespassing and also in there with the intention of taking stuff, suddenly without my consent, I decide to shoot the place up. Fair game as they were on my premises without my consent with the intention of stealing my stuff?

One of the 2 men that where stealing from his business had a weapon with them, which the business owner took from him and used it to defend himself. he had a legitimate reason, if didn't do what he'd done then it could have been him that had 2 broken legs and an arm.

Your example has nothing to do with the the owners having to defend themselves.

My opinion was based on an emotional standpoint, not necessarily reality.

I still value my property more than a criminal who entered my property with intend to cause me physical/financial harm.
Whether or not the reality of the repercussions mean I will act in the way that I feel is a different matter.

But surely there is some scale to this? Your reaction could be seen to be justified for cars or jewellery, but would you really take someone's life for robbing your hosepipe?

I never said I would take someones life, I said I don't care about their life and seeing as my only interaction with them is them being bad to me, I don't see why I would.

Doesn't mean you have to be ambivalent to their death! Tje other side are often only bad to me and our client, doesn't mean I would be unconcerned if they died! Being a dick doesn't mean you deserve death, that'd put most people in danger at one point or another.

Where do they find the prosecutors for things like this?

Liberal logic, not even once.

Want to defend yourself = Psychopath.
Burgle = Need help and defenceless.

People like you will never learn until it happens to yourself.

I've had my property stolen before, it didn't change my opinion on the morality of murdering thieves. He said he would readily kill someone to protect his iPod, not himself. There's a very important difference between yourself and your property.

It's my property... I've bought it with my hard earned money. I'll do whatever it takes to stop some scumbag taking it..

Thankfully it's not within the power of nutters like you to write laws, so you would rightly go to prison if you actually did it.

Thankfully it's not within the power of nutters like you to write laws, so you would rightly go to prison if you actually did it.

When someone breaks into your business you should not have to be afraid of either retaliating and risk getting arrested, or not retaliating and risk having the life beat out of you.

Just shows what the 'justice' system really is in this country.

What the hell is wrong with this country...

I support both the CPS in bringing the prosecution, and the jury in finding him not guilty.

There was clear grounds to prosecute here: extensive and exceptional injuries and an admission by the accused that passion had got the better of him, resulting in a disproportionate outcome. However, equally, the jury clearly sympathised with a man in that position, and were willing to see this disproportionate force as reasonable in the circumstances.

All done and dusted, and the great cogs of British justice continue to turn.

Then you're a psychopath.

It's my property... I've bought it with my hard earned money. I'll do whatever it takes to stop some scumbag taking it..