Burglary Victims Who Fight Back
Combining original insights into major news stories with topical investigations. Melanie Abbott asks how the law should deal with burglary victims who attack their intruders.
The Report is a current affairs series combining original insights into major news stories with topical investigations.
Today Melanie Abbott asks what happens when victims of burglary come face to face with an intruder in their home and fight back. How does the legal process work? Are they treated as sympathetically as Justice Secretary, Christopher Grayling, thinks they should be? And what might result if the current law is strengthened?
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