Trevor Wilson
Can't find one specific to WA from a quick search, but not that long ago there was the case of a guy that f***ed up a young offender who kept breaking into his place and was charged for the buttault of said offender, and I'm sure more than me will remember that pathetic story. Although since you're keen on pretending reality doesn't exist we'll look further a-field, on an Oz-wide basis it seems other states have had the same problem and have also had to react, NSW for instance:
"Under this bill, persons convicted of a criminal offence will not be able to sue their victims for compensation as a consequence of actions taken by the victims to protect themselves or their property. This will ensure that we no longer encounter such ridiculous situations as that reported in the Daily Telegraph of 17 November 2000 where a man who broke into a house and attacked the home owner is now launching a civil action against his victim for compensation. Every individual has the right to use reasonable force to protect his or her property, themselves or another person when under attack. This was stated in the leading Victorian case of Zecevic v Director of Public Prosecutions (1987) 162 CLR at page 645, where the High Court said:
The defence of self-defence is embedded deeply in ordinary standards of what is fair and just. It sounds as readily in the voice of a schoolchild who protests that he or she was only defending himself or herself from the attack of another child as it does in that of the sovereign state which claims that it was but protecting its citizens or its territory against the aggression of another state."
Good enough cite for you?? Straight from the govt....
