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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Scumbag 0 Tony Singh 1
Widely covered in the blogosphere, but not many of my contemperaries have The Scum version of the story and I wanted to mention it - so no apologies for running it here.
A HERO shopkeeper who struggled with a robber was nicked on suspicion of murder after the thug was killed with his own knife.
Brave Tony Singh fought back when hooded Liam Kilroe, 25, ambushed him as he was about to drive home after a 13-hour day.
The career-villain pulled a knife on his petrified victim – but was impaled on it as he grappled with the terrified convenience store boss.
Kilroe, who has a history of violent armed robberies on shops, tried to flee the raid but collapsed and died in a pool of blood.
Police called to the scene in Skelmersdale, Lancs, found shocked Mr Singh, 34, nursing knife wounds to his back and neck.
But despite his injuries officers arrested the shaken have-a-go-hero and quizzed him on suspicion of murder.
After being freed on bail until February 29, he said: “I feel lucky to be alive. All I was doing was trying to stop myself getting hurt. If one of the wounds had gone an inch either way it could have been fatal.”
Lancashire Police have sent a file to Crown Prosecution Service lawyers who will decide whether murder or manslaughter charges should be brought.
Locals rallied around Mr Singh yesterday.
So should the Lancashire Police have investigated Mr Singh? Sure, got to be sure of the facts. However they should never lose sight of the fact that Mr Singh is the victim, Mr Singh never asked this scum to attack him with a knife. Thankfully Mr Singh was able to get the better of this career criminal, it could easily have been a different story.
As for this bollocks about the CPS making a decision about charges? Why? The only decision should be “Is charging Mr Singh in the public interest?”. The answer is clearly no. Even if Mr Singh had deliberately killed this bastard then the response was both measured and appropriate. One dead hoody bastard, you won’t get any tears from me.