I do not think that we should have a competition, but I speak from direct experience. Another guy—an elderly gentleman—and I were rolling around in the middle of a carriageway holding a robber whom I had luckily knocked down. He was shouting and screaming for other people of a like mind to join in. I do not think that that was necessarily either a less good or a safer situation than some circumstances—although not all circumstances—in which someone apprehends a burglar. It depends entirely on the precise circumstances of the case. However, no one who has been in the situation that I have described would think that it is easy.
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Jack Straw
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 January 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill.
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