23 June 2011
Shailesh Vara, Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire, has welcomed the Prime Minister’s commitment to change the law to protect homeowners in defending their property from intruders.
Yesterday, at the Prime Minister’s weekly press conference, David Cameron said “the public have rightly been outraged by some prosecutions of home owners defending their property from criminals. So we’ll put beyond reasonable doubt that home owners and small shop keepers who use reasonable force to defend themselves or their properties will not be prosecuted.”
In 2007 Mr Vara, a long-standing advocate for change in the law to protect people defending their homes from intruders, introduced a Private Members’ Bill to the House of Commons to achieve the change. However, the previous Government did not allow the Bill to progress.
Mr Vara said:
“I am delighted at the Prime Minister’s announcement. Thousands of householders end up face-to-face with intruders in their home each year and many are attacked by the burglars. The law as it currently stands does not properly protect victims who act in self-defence and it is important that it does. An Englishman’s home is his castle and he should rely on the law to support this simple principle.”
Yesterday, at the Prime Minister’s weekly press conference, David Cameron said “the public have rightly been outraged by some prosecutions of home owners defending their property from criminals. So we’ll put beyond reasonable doubt that home owners and small shop keepers who use reasonable force to defend themselves or their properties will not be prosecuted.”
In 2007 Mr Vara, a long-standing advocate for change in the law to protect people defending their homes from intruders, introduced a Private Members’ Bill to the House of Commons to achieve the change. However, the previous Government did not allow the Bill to progress.
Mr Vara said:
“I am delighted at the Prime Minister’s announcement. Thousands of householders end up face-to-face with intruders in their home each year and many are attacked by the burglars. The law as it currently stands does not properly protect victims who act in self-defence and it is important that it does. An Englishman’s home is his castle and he should rely on the law to support this simple principle.”
