This one boiled my p155

[bhinso]

Found this one last night, all my horrible right wing sites (e.g. Daily Mail) pointed me towards it:

"Teen jailed for stabbing intruder to death when he burst into his bedroom"

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/26/ireland-dean-kerrie-jailed-over-waterford-home-intruder-killing-17645858/

TLDR: Some pissed up bloke broke into this kid's house (believing he'd damaged his car). Used a rock through the window to break in. Enters the bedroom. The 17 year old (defending himself and his mother) stabbed him once and unfortunately killed him.

Gets a >3 year prison sentence. Reduced because he 'showed remorse' (not sure I would have). However, apparently length of sentence increased because intruder was unarmed (you're supposed to ask first???)

Intruder's family: "He was exceptionally hard working, role model, fli hi my angle, etc. etc"

Seems a 'bit' harsh to me.

[Nobby the Bastard]

He 'found the knife next to the bed in his room' despite it being his and then stabbed him. That implies he was already tooled up.
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[xX-Alex-Xx]

Doesn't say what kind of knife though? Could have been something as simple used for making airfix models in his bedroom ....
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[Ste]

Bit harsh?

"The 999 calls were recorded and in one of the recordings a male can be heard shouting: "You come into this house and I shall take your life". Mr Delaney said there will be evidence to establish that this was said after Mr Power had been stabbed and not beforehand."

[Rob Fzs]

[Easy-X]

I have a feeling there was an "established relationship" between the two And stabbing someone straight in the heart? How easy is that to do on the first attempt?
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[Lord Percy]

Sounds about right to me.

Judge can't exactly say "Well done for defending yourself, I'll go easy on you", you have to take it for what it is and charge for bog standard manslaughter. Most fights don't end in death.

[Easy-X]

Greetings, Lord Percy!

In America they have "stand your ground" laws but AFAIK we don't have the equivalent in the UK - "Killing is bad, m'kay." Tempting as it might be to have more rights to defend yourself the more err... urban areas of the US are a hellscape of shootings and deaths. For example:

Detroit, population ~700,000, murders in 2021 ~300
London, population ~10million, murders in 2021 ~120


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[mentalboy]

Just being in possession of those ears should be a criminal offence.
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[Bhud]

Irish case

[Easy-X]

[Ayrton]

[Lord Percy]

[Lord Percy]

[duhawkz]

If someone breaks into your home intent on causing harm. Then I'd fully support the use of force necessary to protect yourself even if that ends up being lethal.

Reasonable force and all that.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Oh, so would I. But this was beyond reasonable force.
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[Ayrton]

[duhawkz]

[MCN]

It's really easy to stab someone to death with one stab. There are many points in chest that don't fair well when punctured.
Heart injuries most likely causes spasm or loss of suction to fill heart ventricles.
And there's a couple of big blood pipes in there too.

So a stab to the middle of the chest is probably highly fatal.

Example of how easy it is to have a murder weapon to hand. If you're a Sikh you can carry a wee murder tool as part of your fanatical religious regalia.
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