In practice, that "reasonable force" judgement call and the often demonstrated lack prosecutoral good will results in atrocities like this one, which was merely

In practice, that "reasonable force" judgement call and the often demonstrated lack prosecutoral good will results in atrocities like this one, which was merely the first I found with a quick Google search: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1461346/Five-years-in-prison-for-acting-in-self-defence.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1461346/Five-years-in... It can most certainly come up in home invasions, another article by the BBC mentioned about 11 cases in the recent past.