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A group of louts urinated on the front door of a Cambridgeshire apartment house, hurled eggs at windows, vandalised its gates and screamed and shouted at the occupants. Fed up with calling the police who rarely responded to the calls and who never arrested any of the 15-20 louts who were frequently causing a disturbance, one resident tried to scare them away by firing a catapult loaded with ball-bearings at them.
It was a mistake, for he later pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm after slightly injuring three of the youths. They then took him to court, claiming damages of £1,200 each for their injuries.
However a judge at Cambridge Crown Court, while criticising the resident for taking matters into his own hands, threw the case out. He said, ‘I think it wholly inappropriate that I should make a compensation order given that they brought this very much upon themselves.’
Commonsense prevails!
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A group of louts urinated on the front door of a Cambridgeshire apartment house, hurled eggs at windows, vandalised its gates and screamed and shouted at the occupants. Fed up with calling the police who rarely responded to the calls and who never arrested any of the 15-20 louts who were frequently causing a disturbance, one resident tried to scare them away by firing a catapult loaded with ball-bearings at them.
It was a mistake, for he later pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm after slightly injuring three of the youths. They then took him to court, claiming damages of £1,200 each for their injuries.
However a judge at Cambridge Crown Court, while criticising the resident for taking matters into his own hands, threw the case out. He said, ‘I think it wholly inappropriate that I should make a compensation order given that they brought this very much upon themselves.’
Commonsense prevails!
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