A tycoon fights against burglars who threaten his daughters life. He started hitting back and took their gun away (which they shouldn’t have had because possession of a gun is illegal in England).
A millionaire yesterday told how he fought off three armed burglars who were holding a knife to his daughter’s throat, saying he “would rather die like a man than a dog”.
Bernard Dwyer, 51, was convinced he and his family were about to be killed so he chose to take on the men – hours after they had allegedly killed a restaurant owner, a court heard.
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Despite being threatened with a gun, stabbed three times in the head and beaten unconscious with a knuckle-duster, Mr Dwyer fought back as one of his attackers screamed “kill the b******”.
He managed to wrestle a gun from one of the masked raiders and chased them from his luxury home in Uxbridge, West London, in November 2006, the jury heard.
Seems the criminals weren’t used to their victim fighting back.
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posted January 24, 2008 at 11:07 am
This is the only way we will see a reduction in crime, either in England or in the US. The police are worthless. They are always there after the damage is done, the people are murdered, and they poke around looking oh so official, but no one is ever charged. If they were all to be murdered, he would be no more dead from fighting them than from being passively stabbed to death, and as it turned out, he was able to turn the tables and stop the crime from being completed. More people need to be prepared to do just this, frightening as the thought may be. The police will be of even less value in the future than they are now, if you can imagine that!
posted January 24, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I think we really have to over our passive response to crime. Though in England you can get in trouble for fighting back.
posted January 24, 2008 at 4:10 pm
The way things are in Britain I would not be surprised if he gets prosecuted for beating up on the criminals and violating their civil rights.