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Michael Wolkind: I defended the BNP

Michael Wolkind QC says he ‘likes getting close to people with extreme views’

February 11, 2010 14:17
A casualty of the 1999 Soho nail bombing. Wolkind acted for the attacker in court

BySimon Rocker, Simon Rocker

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This week’s Torah portion is clear: if a thief breaks into your house at night, you are entitled to take his life — though not in daylight.

How much force householders can use against intruders is once again under debate in Britain, following the case of Munir Hussain, the Buckinghamshire businessman jailed, then freed on appeal last month, after clubbing a burglar.

Despite calls for change, Michael Wolkind QC, the barrister who represented him, believes that the law should stand as it is.

He is “emphatically against” the Conservative suggestion to raise the bar and prosecute householders only if they used “grossly disproportionate” rather than “reasonable” force, as now.