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Posted in: Uncategorized by Tony on October 04, 2008
Police say charges against a South Auckland liquor store owner are a warning to people who take the law into their own hands.
A 40-year-old Otara man has appeared in the Manukau District Court facing two charges of injuring with intent to injure.
The charges relate to a brawl outside the man’s liquor store on Tuesday night after a group of five youths entered the shop.
ONE News caught the aftermath of the brawl that left a teenager with serious injuries and the liquor store owner and his nephew in hospital with stab wounds.
But it is Indian shopkeeper Varinder Singh Bains who has appeared in court.
“If someone comes at you with a knife, what are you supposed to do? Are you supposed to stand there and die?” says his wife, Gagandeep Kaur.
Singh told ONE News he only used the hockey stick to chase the teens away but police allege he did much more than that to two of them.
“One of them received reasonably serious facial injuries,” Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Pizzini says.
“He’s had damage to his teeth and sustained swelling to his nose and mouth area, and the other one has bruises on his back and shoulders.”
Singh’s wife says he was acting in self defence against the group she claims were drunk and aggressive.
“We’re not going to stand back, we’re going to fight [until] the end,” she says.
“You know, it doesn’t matter if it’s the police or the public who thinks it’s wrong. I think whatever we did was good.”
And that view is backed by gun shop owner, Ray Carvell, whose son Greg was initially charged after shooting an intruder armed with a machete.
Pizzini says the law allows shop owners to use reasonable force to defend themselves, others or their property.
However, he says those that clearly exceed that force can expect to be arrested and held accountable before the criminal courts.
Police say it is likely a 15-year-old involved in the brawl will also be charged.
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