House & Home Man dies after 'breaking into home' in Newcastle and being detained by homeowner

Or... he never broke in, he was there the whole time, they had a disagreement about the greens and negative gearing then a fight erupted. During the scuffle copious amounts of shroooms and ice was used resulting in a very heated battle.
Unfortunately the deceased is unable to comment

 

Apparently there are quite a few scumbags breaking into places and stealing cars around Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. Plenty of people well aware of it, and prepared to teach them a lesson if they catch them.
Can't say I would be happy to find one of them in my place.

 

The Newcastle PC meet was 2 weeks ago.

 

Gee that looks like the house one of my mates lived in 30 yrs ago. It was either Cleary St or the one running parallel. I lived near the racetrack not far from there.

 

The track's in Broadmeadow IIRC.

Wasn't this incident in Hamilton? (Admittedly very close by).

 

They're probably from Lake munmoron!

 

better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6

first words out your mouth should be
" I was in fear of my life "
" he said he was going to kill me "


PS.
I think there might be more to this than the police are letting on

 

Like he was recently released from gaol for break & enter or was it that he said he had $596m in the bank?

 

I heard he's also running for President in the US!

 

If it happened outside when tying to escape, that would change things.

 

Back when I lived in UK in a ground floor flat I woke up on hearing someone apparently tampering with my front door lock. I peeled back the edge of a curtain to see a shadowy figure, but on looking more carefully it was an elderly dementia-affected lady from a few doors away who had gone out for a walk (cold UK night in nothing but a nightgown) and had got completely confused as to where she lived. I couldn't help thinking that at least one of my US friends would have put a bullet through her.

 

Highly unlikely to get a bullet, probably a few shotgun blasts and an ak or ar15 mag into them, but only in certain places.

Wonder if you have been to the US and it's many states ? I was quite dissapointed that it was not unlike Australia except for certain spots (and we have certain spots too, like Bankstown).

 

I keep a balaclava and knife in my bedside drawer incase anyone decides to break in. I figure that if a naked dude with a balaclava and a knife comes running at you from the darkness of a home you are breaking into you either need to be REALLY committed to the crime or a pyscho in which case at least I'm ready to fight it out.

 

And herein lies the dilemma. Most folks would have no experience or training or neutralising. Or even successfully delivering a punch that hurts the opposition's face but not the deliverer's hand. So the dilemma is how does a person who has not trained and planned for such an incident "neutralise" someone when they are frightened and feeling threatened? How would a person neutralise someone in a controlled manner.... without neutralising with more force in one blow than necessary?

 

Yep. During my stay in the UK I came home several times to find my elderly neighbour outside her apartment trying to jam a coin into her doorlock, convinced this would gain her entry to her abode. The poor thing would go out wandering in her nightwear, trying to get to her friend's home for a visit and forget what she was trying to do along the way and have to be rescued by the police. I'd find her at 3am with her door wide open and TV volume blaring, waking everyone in the building, but the reason was that she saw people on the tv, wanted to wave to them and have a chat but her hearing was not great so she turned the tv up. Poor lady. Relatives lived ages away and eventually the building superintendent had to intervene and get her some assistance from social services.

 

Accused murderer has been refused bail

 

If you don't apply for bail you don't get it so it is automatically refused.

 

@geoffw - no app, just the website

 

Anyone else need help with finance?