Jailed businessman Munir Hussain freed by court

[dipsydoodle]

A businessman who was jailed for permanently injuring an intruder who attacked him and his family has been freed by the Court of Appeal.

Munir Hussain 53, was sentenced to 30 months for grievous bodily harm with intent after he hit Walid Salem with a cricket bat on 3 September 2008.

Hussain and his family had been tied up by three intruders at their home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

His jail sentence has been replaced with a two-year suspended term.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8469850.stm

Good.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. I'm not happy with it - it was an attempt at vigilante extreme physical punishment

It's one thing to chase them off the property with the cricket bat, and it might have been OK if he'd hit him while the other guy was still on his property. But they continued to chase him, and hit him so hard they gave him permanent brain damage.

[LeftishBrit]

2. Agree. Self-defence is one thing; vigilante punishment is another.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Maximum sentence for aggravated burglary is life

and yes I'd rather the burglar had that rather than brain damage although if he'd hit the burglar with the bat inside the house the burglar could've landed up with both.

[Nihil]

4. All I've read about it is the article in the OP ...

... but, from that, I think they were totally justified.

Having had ones family tied up in their own home by a group
of masked intruders, managing to escape and chase them out,
I would be surprised if the blows were struck in cold blood.

"Vigilante" action is deliberate, after the event, planned
and executed. "Hot pursuit" by the victim is completely
different and should be treated as such.

I also disagree with the judge's claim that "no one was in
any further danger from them". If they were still masked,
hence unidentified, then there was still a threat to the
safety & health of the family.

(As noted above though, if there were pertinent facts in
this case that are not in the OP link then I might reconsider.)

[Hopeless Romantic]

5. Agreed. The man was provoked in the extreme, and further

"no one was in any further danger from them"

Yeah, until they broke in somewhere else and tied up & beat some other innocent victim.