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Old October 23rd, 2011 #1
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Default Unarmed burglar shot dead after breaking into cannabis factory flat

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An unarmed burglar was shot in broad daylight by a man whose ground floor flat he had broken in to.

Raymond Andes, fired a single round which hit 21-year-old Isaiah Bovell in the head in the garden of his south London home, the Old Bailey heard.

Andes, 39, accepts firing the weapon, but denies murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life on the grounds that he acted 'in reasonable self defence trying to scare off someone he believed to be attempting to break-in'.

Mr Bovell had gone to Mr Andes flat in Clapham with two others who were waiting outside the front of the property, the court heard on Friday.

He was shot shortly before 11.15am on April 14, as he tried to force entry into the property via the ground floor bedroom window.

The burglar was pronounced dead at the scene.

Prosecuting, Zoe Johnson said: 'Isaiah Bovell was shot as he was trying to break in to the defendant's ground floor bedroom window.

'Isaiah Bovell was unarmed.

'It appears there were two other men with Mr Bovell, but they were at the front of the flat when the defendant shot Isaiah Bovell.'

She told the jury Mr Andes had turned one of the rooms inside the flat in to a 'sophisticated cannabis factory' which may suggest why Mr Bovell was trying to break-in.


'It may also explain why the defendant acted so violently when confronted by a younger unarmed man,' she said.

Andes has pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis.

Miss Johnson went on: 'The defendant accepts that he shot Isaiah Bovell but he says that he did it in reasonable self defence trying to scare off someone he believed to be attempting to break in to his flat.

'That in short will be the central issue for you (the jury) to decide, whether it was a deliberate targeted aim and shot or whether it was a shot designed to scare.'


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Gunned down: Isaiah Bovell was shot dead by Raymond Andes as he broke into his South London home
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052221/Home-owner-denies-murdering-burglar-tried-break-house.html

Now, I couldn't care less about the home owner or the deceased - burglars and dealers deserve all they get, but the bigger picture is disturbing. If - as they claim - you are now allowed to use reasonable force up to and inculding killing someone - to protect yourself, your family and your stuff, why have they prosecuted this bloke? Do you only get protection from prosecution for self/property defence if your behaviour is otherwise acceptable to the CPS? Is it because the burglar was black? Have they prosecuted because he was protecting cannabis? Is the immunity from the self-defence defence conditional? I'll be following this case with interest.
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Old October 23rd, 2011 #2
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I wonder , was the shooter another coon ,
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