Tursiops
Tuesday 12th June 2012 6:10pm
Welwyn Garden City
9,788 posts
Quote: DaButt @ June 12 2012, 6:50 PM BST
Unharmed except for emotional trauma, that is. And medical evidence can (and probably will) be in the form of DNA.
Seeing her Dad beat someone to death with his bare hands could equally be the cause of that trauma. And unless the attacker/victim (delta according to prejudice) shot his wad, which would actually be fairly conclusive in itself, DNA is not going to prove much more than that he was there, which his corpse has pretty much already established.
I am not advocating either the man's guilt or innocence, I am only wondering why someone would be so absolutely convinced the police had called it right based on a press report which raise more questions than answers.
I strongly believe in the right to use force to protect yourself, your loved ones, and indeed passing strangers. But it can be quite difficult to size up situations on the spur of the moment. The last time I intervened in a fracas it was to put someone in headlock who was also trying to break up the fracas.
Damn I really must stop looking in this thread.