Reply To: Thug faces prison after attacking 17-year-old apprentice over tyre problem

[Peter Miles]

I like the way his defence said “he is not a man of violence”. Yes, he obviously is! And don’t give me that stress made him do it rubbish. Do the rest of us never get stressed?
You ask if this sort of thing has happened to anybody else. Only twice in my case. Once I ran at the man and he ran off. The other time I did get pushed about a bit but no worse, mostly because a very large friend turned up at just the right time! I also had a hammer in my hand then (as I was using it when he burst in) and the Police told me that I was very lucky I hadn’t used it to defend myself.