It appears that the current scourge of home invasions is treated rather trivially based upon the responses of the Honourable Prime Minister, the TTPS and the courts in their sentencing of offenders.
At the many news conferences, the TTPS categorises home invasions as a burglary-type offence.
This is quite inappropriate in the modern times since apart from the breaking and entering of a family home, nothing else is similar.
Current home invasions entail not only breaking and entering but grievous bodily assault and, more seriously, hostage taking/kidnapping for ransom in your own home and, of course, the robbery aspect.
These are far more serious criminal offences than to use the term “burglaries”.
J Deering
Maraval
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