I need some advice about self defense?

Hi all,





I need some advice about self defense in the United Kingdom. I was in a argument last night and a male said to me ';If you say more, i will punch you'; and i did say more and his fist came 2 inches away from me and i pushed him. So he didn't hit me but he was going to unless i pushed him away. Now he said it's assault and that he was going to get the police involved. What are my chances? I Will i get arrested?I need some advice about self defense?
No worries bud. If you did not take action he would have hit you. Self Defense. in the US anyway...I need some advice about self defense?
dun worry ur clean as a whistle
Well here in the US what he made was a ';conditional threat'; .....';If you say more I will punch you';.....This means YOU are provoking him. Stop the conversation and the condition causing the threat ceases see how that works.


From the sound of it all though is what we have are two pansies..........One who won't shut his mouth and another who can't even throw a good punch both either call or are scared of what the cops might do.


Why don't you two just hold hands an go for a skip on the beach sounds more like your speed anyhow.
I'll be up to who is the most believable and what the witnesses say if there were any.
You can use force to prevent immediate harm to yourself. If you are asking if the cops or a jury is likely to believe your version over the other fellow's, I have no guesses.
scott technically he assaulted you an you commited battery on him. an assault is the threat of violence . a battery is the violence. however we use the prudent man standard here in the us. what would the ordinary person do in this situation. he threatened you and made a motion to strike you. the prudent man would do something to protect themselves if he takes you to court countersue.
You can defend yourself even if the other person does not attack you, but you believe you are about to be attacked. You can do what you eed to defend yourself, but you cannot punish someone. So if you hit someoen round the head with a lump of wood you need to have in your mind that this was the only way you knew how to protect yourself at the time and that you were scared and believed you were about to be attacked etc. Of course, you may have to convince a jury that these were genuine thoughts of self-defence in your mind and you were not just punishing someone you felt deserved it.





What you describe to me is very reasonable force to someone who very visibly indicated a physical threat. If he went to the Police I would think he could end up charged with threatening you. I wouldn''t worry about it. Go and have a chat at the local Police station if you're worried about it. Then having registered that you are having a problem with someone who threatens you, next time you can give him a good smack...I mean you can act againin self-defense. (It is what is in your mind that is important, if your motivation is defence or angry punishment)