Bestwood meat cleaver killing was 'justified', says coroner

This is Nottingham ^ | 27 March 2012 | unattributed

[smokingfrog]

A FATHER who killed a burglar by attacking him with a meat cleaver was "justified", a Notts coroner has ruled.

Steven Shaw and his brother Craig broke into a house in Morrell Bank on the Bestwood Estate on March 31 last year.

In a "harrowing and brutal" attack, which lasted between 10 and 15 minutes, they assaulted taxi driver Xiaopeng Wang and his wife, and also left the couple's baby injured.

The violence only stopped when Mr Wang found a meat clever and hit Mr Shaw with it, causing a "sharp force trauma" to his head.

At Mr Shaw's inquest yesterday, Notts Coroner Mairin Casey recorded a verdict of lawful killing and said: "The defensive action taken by Mr Wang was proportionate and justified.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"The violence only stopped when Mr Wang found a meat clever and hit Mr Shaw with it, causing a "sharp force trauma" to his head."

"Yep, that'll work"

This calls for some theme music.

[DH]

They ought to have a new show comprised of thugs called: Leave it to Cleaver.

[DemforBush]

“Mr Wang found a meat clever and hit Mr Shaw with it, causing a “sharp force trauma” to his head.”

Ooh, I bet Shaw had a splitting headache after that!

*rimshot*

[SpinnerWebb]

Moral of the story: Don’t beat Mr. Wang.

My daddy told me that all the time when I was young. I stopped just in time.

[tx_eggman]

you owe me a keyboard and a screen clean up