| I would condone it myself but the point is, it was self-defence and protection of that child. |
| There can be no doubt that the magistrates were entitled to reject the argument of self-defence or defence of another. |
| The jury had clearly rejected self-defence and the judge therefore had to make some sense of it. |
| In such circumstances the wounding of V would not be unlawful as it would be justified by the defence of self-defence. |
| It was thrown to him to use in self-defence presumably and he did just that. |
| There are currently no grounds for a claim to use such force in self-defence. |
