Let's Do The Usual Dance......

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43639183
I'll start, give the guy a medal, one less low life........

[dannyk13]

Spathi, you are wrong.I certain circumstances of self defence(which thi was) no offence is committed.

[Togo]

Perhaps if the burgled man had been a teenage, black, stabber, he would have been excused his actions. See London for references.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Burglars of any age should have no rights whatsoever. You give them up the moment to break into someone'e property. Come into my house and you would get what you deserve.

[Baldric]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9595589/David-Cameron-when-a-burglar-invades-your-home-they-give-up-their-rights.html

[jackthehat]

Spath - He's not a sociopath. He was a very frightened elderly chap who in the course of wrestling with his attacker inflicted a wound which proved to be fatal.

[Voltage]

if someone broke into my house whatever i could lay my hands on eg: a knife from the kitchen or a hammer they'd wish they had never broken in to my property!!

[Baldric]

///How can my opinion on him being a sociopath be wrong?///

Because he was attacked by a Burglar wielding a Screwdriver, and as allowed under British Law and defended himself robustly, inflicting a Single Wound to the Mans upper body.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

" Imagine putting a sharp metal object into someone.. potentially hurting yourself or covering yourself in their fluids knowing the type of damage and pain it will inflict... Grim." That's what the burglar was trying to do to him so would you honestly expect him to just stand there and let it happen. Going now as it is impossible to argue with a fool.

[jourdain2]

Spath - if I and Mr J2 (85 on Sat.) found ourselves in this situation with a young, armed man threateningly on our premises late at night, we would think first of our own lives. By entering someone else's property, armed and with evil intent, you put yourself at risk, presumably you accept the risk that you may be killed. It is most certainly not sociopathic to defend yourself and if, during that process, the intruder's weapon is turned on him then so be it.

I'm a very peaceable person, but I would defend myself and my husband to the death in this situation - him or us. Anyway, as the aop says, this is the usual dance.

[Voltage]

sociopath lol you've never met the old bloke so how do you know he is..he defended himself and well done him!

[vulcan42]

\ Think death by knife comes under grossly disproportionate force.../
Not if you're being attacked by somebody wielding a screwdriver who's trying to stab you.

[Togo]

Ditto Volts..... Including a water fight.....after boiling the kettle.

[aelmpvw]

perhaps in the ensuing struggle the elderly victim should have considered that stabbing the burglar in a vital organ might get him in serious trouble

[jackthehat]

Where does it mention a knife?
The burglar was stabbed with his own screwdriver.

[nailit]

Spath, I think that on this occasion you are been positively naïve.
They were armed with a screwdriver, how was he supposed to know whether or not they were intending on killing HIM?
If I was in his situation I wouldn't think twice about whether the force I was using to defend myself was reasonable or not, I would just make damned sure that they didn't get up again.