self defence on your boat . legal issues

There is no legally clearly defined point, it depends on the individual case although Id say that if some little old lady looked at me a bit funny then that would be sufficient justification to butcher her in a frenzied bloodbath.

Gazza as usual nails it.

Reasonable force. If you do knife
someone to death. Make sure you plant that knife you saw on them before the police turn up.

It becomes a bit of a mess.


My friend witnessed this:-

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/murder-trial-draws-to-end-1-948609/amp

He had a body shop on the site, his words to me were if I had my time over again I wouldn't miss those pair being done for.

I can't get onto the chron website for some reason hence the Google link.

Jaime got rid of a pair of shits,a two person crime wave that the police were dragging their heels on investigating, pressure from the traveling community meant they had to take it seriously. Minimum 25 years in clink for a public service was the price paid.

For those interested, one of those involved - Nick Riviere took 13 years to bring to justice.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2773407.stm

medium.com/@cjh_Stories/70-years-in-prison-for-the-drug-gang-that-brought-misery-to-the-streets-of-northamptonshire-ec57b8ee4b60

He was in my year at school and was never destined to drag himself up to become CEO of ICI, a big fish in the festering pond of low lifes and scumbags in a crap Northamptonshire town.

I've not done the math but I suspect that dealing with two dead people is going to be a lot more than twice as difficult as dealing with one dead person.

Of course there is the "the other one will leg it" argument but that can't be relied on.

I reckon if you are confident in your abilities and depending on location you could kill a single intruder and deal with it and never have a problem but if there are more than one that's when the shit hits the fan.

Not really. Time is of the essence.

I've never got into this myself but if you are going to kill an intruder you need to do so quickly and dispose of the the evidence fast. Giving them (said intruder) an opportunity to make a phone call to their lawyer/police/mum is not going to be a priority.

It's as simple or as technical as you want to make it I suppose.

If it was the middle of the night and I was with my family I would be loath to open the door, if doing so was unavoidable I would I make sure had something wieldy to hand and be prepared and able to use it.

If you disable someone who is actively trying to break into your boat, family on board, dead of night and moored in the middle of nowhere, providing you don't actually kill them and you had given them the chance to fuck off I can't see a problem legally or otherwise.

If you moor in a town centre on a Friday night and go on a vigilante rampage with a baseball bat every time a bunch of half-pissed teenagers/students/Estate Agents interfere with your craft in an 'amusing' fashion you will end up Arrested and/or Sectioned in fairly short order.

There are two words that when conjoined form a short phrase that should be our Touchstone in all our dealings with others, good or bad;

Fair and Proportionate.