So he's got a history of burglaries at the business, but rather than call the cops when the alarm goes off he just goes down there himself? He couldn't take the 30 seconds to call 999 to give them the address of a burglary in progress? WTF?Mr Woodhouse was in bed with his wife Lisa at their detached home in the village of Govilon when his burglar alarm went off at about 12.30am. The alarm is fitted to his business premises on an industrial estate a mile from his six-bedroom £350,000 home.
He drove to the estate,
So the threat to his property (and never to his person) was over at this point and required no further action to avert loss. Yet he proceeded to engage the burglars and break one's legs and wrist. By that time, he was not "defending himself" or "fighting back," he was meting out punishment. Again, even in Wales, I'm pretty sure the penalty for theft of diesel fuel does not include fracturing bones.he saw two men trying to steal diesel from the engines of his fleet of vehicles. His wife, 42, said: ‘He shouted at them to stop and when they turned and ran he chased them.
Now he wants to call the police?????As Mr Woodhouse held Kevin Green, 52, the other alleged burglar, Timothy Cross, 31, is said to have returned with a third man, both carrying planks. Mrs Woodhouse had, by this time, also driven to the scene. She said: ‘When I got there Andrew was chasing one of the chaps. He saw me and shouted, “Get the police, get the police”.
I don't know why the Daily Fail (or whichever tab this is from) felt the need to put scare-quotes around "unreasonable," because unless you are an aggrieved caricature mobster from some gangster movie, there is nothing at all reasonable about breaking someone's leg and arm bones for theft of a few gallons of diesel.Police charged Mr Woodhouse with causing grievous bodily harm with intent because he used ‘unreasonable’ force.
Had you considered maybe, I dunno, calling the fucking police first????? It's pretty much their job.‘People may think he took the law into his own hands but what was he supposed to do, stand by and watch?’
Over how many years, exactly? And isn't this indicative of a long-standing security problem that should have been solved with preventive measures? And has he never heard of business insurance? And at any rate, whatever losses the business has suffered obviously haven't kept him from purchasing a "six-bedroom £350,000 home."The firm has lost £15,000 in recent years to thefts of diesel and tools.
I am not rooting for the burglars, here. But neither am I a fan of aggravated assault masquerading as vigilante "justice." People have to recognize that simply being wronged in some way doesn't give them carte blanche to indulge their revenge fantasies.
