Re: Self defense injustice in the UK

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

2025-05-29 1:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Woman accepts ride home from man she recently began dating. However,
he's drunk, drives in the opposite direction, stops the vehicle, and
begins sexually assaulting her. She pulls out a knife she carries for
self defense and kills him with one thrust.

She turns herself into police.

This is the UK. Do I even have to tell you what happens to her next?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYoStIDRJE

That was truly obscene. Both sets of lawyers agreed that it was
unquestionably self-defence yet she got 17 years in the slammer.

I don't even think this is recent law. She committed a crime by using
the knife she had brought with her anticipating she might need to defend
herself. She'd been sexually assaulted previously.

With UK's prohibition of being able to act in self defense using a
weapon, suppose you use your own body to defeat your attacker. In the
ultimate illogic, did you violate the law as you used what you brought
with you as a weapon?

The
contrast with the sentences for the people convicted in the rape gang
scandal were extremely disproportionate by comparison.

Maybe Reform can preside over a major rewrite of the laws in the UK so
that they make sense again. (Reform is substantially ahead of both the
Conservatives and Reform in polling on a national basis but the next
election is still a few years away so anything could happen between now
and then.)

I have no idea as UK voters do not seem to be inclined to punish their
politicians for illiberal laws.