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we've recently, or so I was lead to believe, had a change in the law regarding using reasonable force, to apprehend or remove a person breaking into your home.
A few years ago there was quite a high profile case here, a guy named Tony Martin, a UK farmer who killed a burglar, by shooting him with a shotgun. He served time, but has since been released, and rightly so, since the shitheads who broke in shouldn't have been there robbing him, so deserved shooting.
going back to the topic, this law based on reasonable force, does not include killing, like said above, but withstraining or using force to remove someone, meaning the likelyhood of prosecution for the home owner is reduced, if the criminal is injured.
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