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Burglary Victims Who Fight Back

Combining original insights into major news stories with topical investigations. Melanie Abbott asks how the law should deal with burglary victims who attack their intruders.

What happens when victims of burglary come face to face with an intruder in their home and fight back? How does the legal process work?

Reporter Melanie Abbott asks if they are treated as sympathetically as Justice Secretary, Christopher Grayling, thinks they should be? And what might result if the current law is strengthened?

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