Is Ken Clarke for real?
First he’s all for letting criminals out of jail early, then for cutting their sentences in half, now he’s advocating bashing a burglar!
And not just bashing but using ‘whatever force is necessary’ including hitting them with a poker (hasn’t he heard, we don’t have pokers anymore – no open fires due to the Clean Air Act), or stabbing them with a kitchen knife!
He is reputed to have said, on the BBC, that if a householder does react in this way ‘he or she has not committed a criminal offence’ and that ‘nobody should prosecute and nobody should ever convict anybody who takes these steps’.
Well we’ll see how long it is before the police arrest another burgled householder and the Criminal Protection Society drag him or her before the courts while letting the burglar off with a caution.
Jail the burglar and commend the householder who bashed him?
I should live so long.
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