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Letter: Warning to Myleene was daft
Monday 18th January 2010, 7:38AM GMT.
Letter: Myleene Klass was warned by police for pointing a knife at her window. She could be done for having an offensive weapon in her house.
Does that mean we are all at risk of arrest every time we point the potato peeler at our respective partners, or if we pass the wine bottle over, is that threatening behaviour?
When we’re in bed? Or is that bodily assault? Good job the bathroom window’s frosty!
P B Rollinson
Shrewsbury
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P B Rollinson clearly does not understand the “Threatening Behaviour” laws of this country. His attempts to trivialise this abhorrent act by Ms Klass is, frankly, pathetic.
If Ms Klass was concerned about intruders in her garden, the appropriate course of action was to telephone the police and then wait several hours for them to arrive and then be admonished for wasting police time.
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Do we still have a Police Service?
Nothing seen in the North Shropshire! except the usual speed trap man in his Civvies, generating more stealth tax!
Evening All!!
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Lock her up and throw away the key! That’s what I say.
Anything to get her smug “I know it all I do” face of the telly. Bring back Cilla!
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naughty ms klass lock her in my bedroom throw away the key
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The Police have done their selves no favours in this cock up talk about shooting yourselves in the foot, Why hasn’t the chief constable taken action against the officers concerned?
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If this situation was me, you’re damn right I’d grab a knife. if some idiot thinks he could burgle my house i’d show him otherwise. we have a right to defend the property we own and live in, we have a right to defend ourselves. we have had this right for the past 2 million years when we just come down from swinging in the trees. whoes right is it to that the right to defend ourselves off us? who are they to say we can’t do this? I never chose to be born in this country, yet I have to adopt the laws? sure I understand, no one has a right to take another persons life, but you have a right to use reasonable force to prevent yourself from getting injured, and if you injure them or even kill them in the process, provided it was reasonable action you should not be punished for it at all
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If you read the following leaflet put out by the CPS & ACPO, you actually have the right to kill an intruder “if you acted in reasonable self-defence”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/01_02_05_intruder.pdf
So why are the actual police ignorant of the facts, or am I being naive!
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If they saw me peeling the spuds they’d have the place surrounded at that basis!
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Well said Steve. I have always said, if someone breaks into my property and I catch them, one of us is going to be seriously hurt and if I have hold of one or can get hold of a knife or any other implement, the last thing that I will think about is some stupid copper telling me that I am committing an offence. I keep an ex army “pace stick” as a “souvenier”, within inches of my bed, it was never meant to bend but I swear that I could make it bend double if an intruder put his head in the way.
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Its about time the law was on the side of the victim. Mylene only did what any householder would do in her situation. The officer who cautioned her should have had more sense.
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Steve I agree with you.Unfortunately the law is on the side of the wrong doer, I know all too well after some thug tried to rob my family at knife point. I introduced him to a right hook to defend myself and the family, the thug complained to the police and despite him admitting his offence, I got done he walked free.
people defending their home against a burglar have been jailed, some have ended up paying compensation to a burglar.
The law needs to be changed. In this instance with mylene, the offender had 54 previous and then went on to commit another offence after this.
Unfortunately, as in this case, they are considered complex, so its easier to do the innocent person. It shows well on statistics, saves the force time, but gives innocent people a criminal record.
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