What do you have to do to get convicted of murder these days?

Pub07 wrote: »

As I said, it was gone beyond speculation when he beat the crap out of him. Go ask someone in the guards who has experience dealing with criminals of Wards calibre, someone living in the real world, what they think he wouldve done if Nally hadn't shot him.

I can answer this in theory only.

He would have come back and robbed him, tied him up and educated one of his 14 kids on how to do things properly.

As I said in an earlier post Nallys mistake was picking him up and throwing him over the wall.

Direct quote from Nally



Although Mr Nally said the experience has left him nervous and broken, he said he has received worldwide messages of support from people who understood his predicament.



"I got cards from every part of the world and I have met people since I have come out who have supported me. It was unreal like what has happened, they couldn't understand why I was jailed for protecting my property and for protecting my home."


But, he says, although he feels he had no choice but to defend himself, he regrets killing Mr Ward.


"Looking back on it, I suppose I wouldn't have done what I did, but, then again, I was put to what I did at the time. When a man attacks you, you have to protect yourself, you have no choice. And I was attacked. The man had every intention of fighting it out," he said in an interview with Damien O'Reilly on RTE radio's Farm Week.


"You have to [realise that] there were four bench warrants out for his arrest and the authorities should have done their job a bit better, and you have to have sympathy for the man who lost his life as well. You have to think that what you did was wrong under all circumstances but, at the same time, he went overboard in what he was doing.


"He attacked me in my own home, at my own back door. I didn't go looking for him to fight with me; he came to me to fight. So I had no choice. I had to do what I did. I couldn't back away from it, if I did, I was gone, and there was no more about me."


- NIAMH HORAN

I was nearly in hot water recently. I was having a house party, and two guys who I didn't know turned up, heavily inebriated. I didn't want to spend my evening watching them, so I confronted them at the door. They got pretty boisterous, so I went back inside, grabbed a screw driver and reemerged brandishing it, informing them that if they didn't promptly remove themselves from my property I would stab them. They refused, so I stabbed one of them in the chest. He recoiled and they both stepped back. He then unzipped his shirt and dropped a bag of cans on the ground, one of which was spurting beer from a neat screwdriver shaped hole. They both ran. I regretted it subsequently as I knew that I had let my anger get the better of me and that I could have been locked up had it gone only slightly differently.