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72 Year Old Florist Held Over Fatal Stabbing


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Killing someone is deep, but you can't be running up in a man's place of work armed trying to rob and not expect some sort of repurcussion

Can imagine my man like "If you don't hear you will feel"

When I heard shopkeeper and stabbed robbers just was think it would be some next

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in the paper they are saying man is an ex boxer and still goes gym #pickedthewrongniggatorob

LOL at the hashtag

What I wanna know Gambino is how exactly has the meia twisted this story?! In the favour of the old man? And how is that even possible

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An elderly flower shop owner arrested on suspicion of stabbing an armed robber to death during a gunpoint raid will not face any charges, it emerged today.

In what will be viewed by many as another victory for the right to defend property, Cecil Coley, 72, will not be prosecuted over the death of 30-year-old Gary Mullings.

It is the second time in as many months that the Crown Prosecution service has dropped a case against men defending their property.

Mr Coley, who was pistol-whipped during the incident in July, was playing dominos with a friend after closing time when the raider and three accomplices burst into his florist shop in the Old Trafford district of Manchester.

A violent struggle then followed which ended with Mullings dropping his firearm and left reeling with a stab wound to the chest.

Neighbours found him lying in the street outside and tried to revive him with the kiss of life and heart massage but he was pronounced dead in hospital.

Regular churchgoer Mr Coley - known as Papa and a popular figure in his neighbourhood where gun crime has been rife - was later arrested over the fatal stabbing.

Police recovered the firearm at the scene.

But he was freed on bail pending further inquiries whilst police examined the circumstances of the tragedy.

Today the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed no charges would be brought against Mr Coley who had also been accused of injuring a second man in the incident.

Nazir Afzal, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West Area said he was satisfied Mr Coley was acting in ‘reasonable self-defence’ and should not be prosecuted for any offence over the death of Mullings.

Mr Afzal said: ‘It is difficult to envisage a more frightening set of circumstances than these.

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SALUTE

common sense prevails for once!

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