Burglary prevented in Manchester

[munroman]

Luckily, the householder was in the house at the time.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-14...

[monkey gland]

Once the investigation has been completed, and if it was genuinely an burglar being offed and not a cover-up for something else, then I hope the chap is given a medal and all charges dropped.

[Uhura fighter]

Shocking.

Man home alone, burglary starts, his wife and son (12 year old) return home during the theft/struggle.

Hope he his home soon and can get on with his life.

RRS on his drive, might have been after that I guess.

[Jasandjules]

One down, plenty more to go (if it's a genuine burglary attempt).

[Roger Dodger]

Jasandjules said:

One down, plenty more to go (if it's a genuine burglary attempt).

+1

[CHIEF]

Bramhall is a lovely place, however it has the toilet of Adswood estate right next door - wouldn't surpise me if they (The burglars) were from there.

[Rollin]

Us Mancs are getting rather good at this. Obviously hope no innocents were harmed.

[AndrewW-G]

Also reported here

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/87718...

As the home owner looks to have a Maserati 3200, I hope it's nobody on here, who's currently locked up for defending his family and home

[Halb]

Good news.
I suppose the police have to hold him since someone did die? So long as they release him without charge it's all good.

[EDLT]

Haven't we had a few threads about similar things happening recently in Manchester, is it turning into the wild west up there?

[munroman]

EDLT said:

Haven't we had a few threads about similar things happening recently in Manchester, is it turning into the wild west up there?

Maybe how it should be, if you break into someone's house, you leave your 'uman rights' outside, and the householder can do anything to defend their property.

In the recent cases in Manchester, clearly these were not innocent little naughty school kids, but career criminals who would have gone on to cause misery and suffering to decent people for years.

Their loss enhances the world IMHO.


edited for speeling

Edited by munroman on Sunday 18th September 15:36

[freecar]

Rollin said:

Us Mancs are getting rather good at this. Obviously hope no innocents were harmed.

So far ir does seem that success in on the side of the householder.

Perhaps it isn't as difficult for a naive person to stab to death an intruder without having the knife taken away and used on them in retalliation as we've been led to believe?

[Rollin]

freecar said:

Rollin said:

Us Mancs are getting rather good at this. Obviously hope no innocents were harmed.

So far ir does seem that success in on the side of the householder.

Perhaps it isn't as difficult for a naive person to stab to death an intruder without having the knife taken away and used on them in retalliation as we've been led to believe?

I might start to keep my chainsaw in my bedroom so that it doesn't get knicked out of the cellar.
With its noise and capacity for killing, the chainsaw has got to be the best legal burglary defence item

[AJS-]

Yes, Manchester again. Have they elected Chuck Norris as Mayor or something?

[Gaspode]

Rollin said:

I might start to keep my chainsaw in my bedroom so that it doesn't get knicked out of the cellar.
With its noise and capacity for killing, the chainsaw has got to be the best legal burglary defence item

I hope you can start yours faster than I can start mine.

"Hang on, Mr Burglar, I need to set the choke just so and pull the starter cord twice, then knock it off to half choke and hold the throttle just open a crack before giving it a third pull"

[Rollin]

Floral tributes now appearing outside the burgled house.

[Happy82]

Gaspode said:

I hope you can start yours faster than I can start mine.

"Hang on, Mr Burglar, I need to set the choke just so and pull the starter cord twice, then knock it off to half choke and hold the throttle just open a crack before giving it a third pull"

Electric one on an extension lead

[Roger Dodger]

Rollin said:

Floral tributes now appearing outside the burgled house.

That's what they do for promising young footballers who have their honest lives cut short by a knife wielding thug (who was minding his business in his own house).

[dandarez]

Rollin said:

Floral tributes now appearing outside the burgled house.

I was a bit surprised then read the Telegraph online that the tributes were from the family of the deceased.

'Relatives of Mr Jacob laid flowers outside Mr Vincent's home.

One read: "To my baby boy who will always be my baby boy. I will miss you, but never stop loving you. Mum.”

Police are thought to be inquiring as to whether the intruders broke in to try to steal the keys to the Cookes' valuable cars parked on the forecourt, a grey Range Rover and a gold Masterati Granturismo, or if there was another motive altogether.

One neighbour, James Hutton, 81, said: "If a bloke is defending his home, that’s all right. I would have killed him stone dead. It’s just defending his home like a soldier defends his country."

Another, Dave Thompson, 43, who said he would often see Mrs Cooke walking the family's Labrador dogs, added: ". I’m sorry, but if these people were burglars, they deserved what they got. You break into someone’s house, you get what’s coming to you.”

The old guy, 81, has it spot on.

[AndrewW-G]

dandarez said:

gold Masterati Granturismo,

Quality reporting as it is clearly a 3200GT