[Ramon de Ramon y Ramon]

Thank you, Arvon. [img]smile.gif[/img]

And why am I not surprised?

Bardan, you do have a point though, that the right to self-defense should not be limited so far that the self-defender is forced to take an unacceptable degree of risk for his own personal safety before s/he can be absolutely sure what the intruder's intentions are, especially since nobody can be expected to perform a perfectly error-free "risk assessment" in such a tense and frightening situation.

However, in this particular case, taking into account the extra information about it provided by other posters and which was "somehow" missing in the account posted at the beginning, a fact which just "might" be explainable by the nature of the source it was taken from, the big question is of course if this qualifies as a case of self-defense in the first place.