Theft victim charged with murder after ramming thief off his motorcycle

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I suspect he will be found guilty of manslaughter as he did not set out to kill.
Tony Martin is an example of why the law of this land gets it wrong sometimes though.

Shooting someone who is facing you *could* be argued as self defence.

Shooting someone in the back from a distance who is running away from you and trying to get through a window (and then lying about it) is murder.

In any case, that's off topic for this discussion.
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Or could be considered instant justice. Either way, in that paticular case, they were convicted crims out to steal .

In the case of the bike thieves, I have no idea what their past was but suspect that they had some practice at stealing bikes haveing managed to do it relatively quickly. I am not condoning the way that the owner allegedly dealt with it. Maybe he did intend to do them some damage, maybe he just nudged the bike to knock them off. The fact the scumbags were not wearing helmets was their own fault IMHO.

I hope the surviving one gets some decent prison time and the owner pleads guilty to manslaughter with a minimum punishment.