Batter a burglar.....

[Thatcherite]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/.../uk-politics-19879314
So will we be allowed to have, lets say a cricket bat, ready for the purpose of braining a burglar? Or will that, as now, be seen a premeditation under the new rules?

[ichkeria]

This I think has been discussed elsewhere. I can't really see in what way the law is going to change. It's hard not to see this as typical Party Conference bluster. Breams of battered burglars and Borisburgers for the faithful to take back with them to the shires...

[LazyGun]

I do not believe the law prevents you having a cricket bat as self defence now, Thatcherite - unless you chase a perpetrator down with your brother and a couple of others, then batter him with the bat inflicting a fractured skull - I would imagine that even under the newly proposed grayling legislation that might be seen as a gross over-reaction....

http://en.wikipedia.o...ders_and_imprisonment

[craft1948]

I think batting practice is allowed in your own home................

[naomi24]

Thwack!!! Burglars take their chances - and deserve all they get!

[dotty.]

a baseball bat is a better choice as it is lighter and swings better, especially for a female, and it's easier for short people to handle too btw craft

[Mick-Talbot]

Does it say whether you can go and batter a burglar from 20 years or so ago?

[craft1948]

lol dotty personally I favour a rounders bat.............

[ummmm]

I prefer a hurley stick.

[Mick-Talbot]

I thought you would be the proud owner of a shillelagh, ummmm

[emmie]

having been burgled would have liked to have taken a taser had they been around then to the lowlifes who struck just before Christmas a few years back. Police response was that many other families had been done as well in same locale, great

[weecalf]

So they are saying the intruder has no recourse to the law .Will the gooder than good complain the burgular has been denied his civil rights .Who will be the first to mention this ?