I love your story,Rapaire ! But,sadly,due to "soft"attitudes and "Human Rights",anyone in Great Britain who used a wepon of any sort (we are not allowed to own guns) in order to protect themselves from intruders would be arrested and thrown in prison,whilst the intruders would get counselling and compensation. Sounds crazy,but it's a fact.
What the imbeciles who govern us don't realise is that it is actually counter -productive,as one day someone who is really pissed off is going to think "Fuck it ! I am going to prison for this ,if I hit them,so I might as well KILL them !" But then the days of sensible government in the UK,when it was an accepted fact that "an Englishman's home is is castle " are long gone down the plughole.