READERS will be outraged by the Home Secretary's recent decision not to back our campaign for a change in the law to provide greater protection for homeowners who are attacked by intruders.
The present law is tilted too far in favour of burglars and The Freedom Association has been campaigning for the past two years for a fundamental change in this law, a position recently backed by the Conservatives and some sections of the press.
We believe that the Home Secretary Charles Clarke should respond to public opinion, 83 per cent of which supported our campaign in a poll commissioned on our behalf at the launch of our campaign.
A clear majority believes that intruders should lose all their rights to protection from the law when they enter another person's property with the intent of robbing, raping or harming the property owner or his or her property.
Despite the Home Secretary's refusal to listen to the public, The Freedom Association campaign will continue and we urge readers to apply pressure on their local MP to back reform of the present wholly inadequate law.
PHILIP J DULY, Campaign Manager, The Freedom Association, Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
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