With no damn chance at all at self-defense? I'm old enough to qualify for AARP - damn if I intend to end up a victim to you idealist fools.
A burglar has been jailed for life after being convicted of strangling a Teesside woman in her bungalow then torching it to destroy the evidence.
Steven Hodgson, 33, of South Bank, Middlesbrough was convicted unanimously of murder and burglary after a six-day trial at Teesside Crown Court.
The body of Patricia Thompson was found in the burnt-out property in Hartburn, Stockton, last September.
Mr Justice Davis sentenced Hodgson to life with a minimum term of 34 years.
Hodgson had broken into the grandmother's home after researching the area on Google Maps, two days before her murder.
On sentencing, Judge Davis said Hodgson had tortured Mrs Thompson to make her tell him her bank Pin number.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/8689352.stmOr maybe this man.
STOUGHTON — Fighting to save his wife from a knife wielding assailant cost 78-year-old Georgios Kontsas his life.
Norfolk County District Attorney William Keating said Sunday that Kontsas’ actions gave his wife, Dorothea, 74, time to get out of their home at 8 Mara Circle and go to a neighbor’s house for help.
“Had he not fended off the attack, there would have been no escape for her,” Keating said.
Kontsas, a retired businessman, was dead at the scene from stab wounds. His wife, who had knife wounds on he neck, later had surgery at a Boston hospital.
http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/x1475171814/Keating-says-elderly-Stoughton-murder-victim-died-trying-to-save-his-wifeOr this victim - wait I thought it very difficult to own a handgun in Canada - guess not if you're the criminal.
Jean Springer became Toronto's first homicide victim of 2007, but friends and loved ones maintain she was the last person they ever expected to meet such a violent demise.
Springer, who was affectionately known as "Auntie Jean", because she treated everyone like family, was shot in the head on her doorstep 2:30pm Monday at her Malvern home on Snowball Cres.
Edson Thomas has known her for 30 years, from the time she was a young school teacher in Trinidad.
"She was an extremely patient, hardworking person, the sort of person that everyone would want to be a friend of," he said. "So it was quite a shock to hear what happened."
Police say the 60-year-old mother of two was cooking New Year's Day dinner for her family when someone knocked at the door. When she answered she was shot in the face and killed.
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/25445--elderly-murder-victim-known-to-friends-as-auntie-jeanGoogle Elderly murder victim.
An-81-year-old woman has died due to injuries she sustained after an apparent home-invasion robbery in east Bakersfield Wednesday.
It happened around 6:30 p.m. in the 1500 block of Camino Sierra.
Authorities say 81-year-old Dorothy Pauline Session was found by her grandson, bruised and beaten.
When deputies arrived, Session told them a man and a woman broke into her home.
She was taken to Kern Medical Center where she died around 10 p.m.
http://www.kget.com/mostpopular/story/Elderly-victim-IDd-in-East-Bakersfield-home/3sJWpseD3UGrq_D1A5vA_g.cspx