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The apocalypse is here, in our homes
Dominic Lawson
(Filed: 05/12/2004)

Remember Robert Symonds? It is the name of the 45-year-old Putney
teacher who six weeks ago was stabbed to death in the hall of his home
by a burglar. His body was found by his wife while their two children
slept upstairs. It was as a result of that incident that this newspaper
launched our “right to fight back” campaign, which calls for the public
to be given an unqualified right to self defence against intruders in
their own homes. The point that struck me so forcibly at the time was
not just the horror of Mr Symonds’s death, but the fact that had Mr
Symonds picked up a kitchen knife before encountering the burglar, and
managed to get blows in first, then he would now, as the law stands, be
facing a murder trial.

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