[jumpy]

This is why I could never be a solicitor... also why I hold the opinion that there's a special place in hell for most of them.

You can argue the technicalities all you like, but I find a heavily disabled, wheelchair bound man to constitute very little physical threat to anyone. Bat or no. Give him a firearm on the other hand...

Lets hope the prosecution levies the correct attention to the real crime here. And just so we're clear, it's the paedophile. It's not vigilante justice, otherwise the fiddler would have been given a pasting proper like, nor would the police have been contacted to arrest the guy in the first place.

What would you do to prevent a suspected gary from escaping arrest, knowing the police were on their way, when it involved a family member? If you had any decency, you'd do what was right regardless of the cost to you. Had wheelchair man wanted to do the other chap real harm there's much more he could have done than attempt to level the playing field of his disability with a baseball bat.