Are we overdoing the empathy?

[Suff]

I saw that. Seriously not amused. It is like the "tribute" to the criminal who broke into a pensioners house, threatened him with a lethal weapon (more than one police officer has been killed with a screwdriver), then was killed for his effort.

I heard, yesterday, that the pensioner (forget his name), has had to sell up and leave.

That is the world we live in, where criminals rights are almost more important than our own and it is "good news" to sensationalise it.