Hiya's,
Yo Dowding, I know the break-in aint that big an offence in the eyes of the courts, The thing is how many times on our tv do we see where the breakin turns into a murder of the owner/occupier after a struggle or sometimes just to try to cover the tracks and then it's a hunt for the criminal
I did see 2 interviews with a woman and a man from the village nearest to him, The man spoke about some occurancies on martins land and property and the woman was on about much the same, Gist of it was he had been previously i dunno what's the word/s but "stole from, intruded" stuff like that, So there did seem to be a local opinion that enough was enough as he had been put in similar circumstances before
And also look at the intruders records they weren't no angels themselves in the past
Have Fun
Def