Beckham sentenced
In mid-2006, I remember a friend of my colleague Nigel Dunn had shot a guy who tried to rob him, defending himself and a staff member.
Greg Carvell, the gun shop owner whose life was being threatened by armed thief Ricky Beckham, was still charged by police for firearms’ offences.
Mr Carvell has had an outpouring of support nationally, and I have to agree. We have bloody good cops here for the most part, but the decision to charge him does seem to go against the ideas of self-defence under the Crimes Act.
The judge who sentenced Mr Beckham today said there was some ‘unfairness’ to Mr Carvell’s charging, so let’s hope the judiciary, and Mr Carvell’s lawyer, will do what is right. Apparently, the Carvell family’s life has been ‘ruined’ by the prosecution, says Greg’s father.
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