‘I would have shot them’: farmers angry at organised crime epidemic

Sheep farmer Dave Rutter, 74, had two quad bikes stolen from a locked barn in December – he claims that most of his neighbours were targeted this winter. He suspects that the perpetrator had surveilled his farm in advance.

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3 comments

  2. I’m sure if he’d gone near them with a pointy thing; the criminals would have been delighted to report the old boy to plod, and Plod would have turned up, bristling with attitude and promptly revoked any license for guns the old boy had.

  3. I am a East Londoner dying of cancer who shot a burglar , 4th time in 8 yrs someone broke in , with a paintball gun , chalk pellets . After the police arrested him they arrested me for possession of a firearm with Intent & GBH…. Waiting to see if they charge me…This is the England we live on.

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