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I think we've more than reached the stage where law-abiding citizens need to use the few legal rights they do have to lobby the government to remedy the situation.
Tony Martin would be more within his legal rights to sue Fearon for the distress he has caused.
What I find interesting is that a 16 year old boy isn't home in bed at 3 o'clock in the morning and his parents don't seem bothered.
Worse still he is in the company of a known habitual criminal and is an accessory to a crime. What were his family doing about this?
Tony Martin was placed in this inenviable position simply because parents failed to carry out their responsibilities. And a known criminal should have known better than to take a juvenile on a crime with him anyway.
Maybe in future when we are burgled we will not interfere with the burglar but merely gather evidence in the form of photographs,videos, witnesses, dna samples etc and take the burglar to court.
However, when we get there we'll probably find that we have violated his/her human rights.
Bring back horse-whipping and let criminals live with the pain!!
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