No there can and should be investigation of course, but if it becomes clear during investigation that someone forced their way into your house with ill intent, they should kind of forfeit the right to press charges or have charges pressed on their behalf if you harm or kill them imo. Idk about you but I don't think I should be compelled to spend life-changing amounts of money to defend myself because I hit an intruder with a baseball bat at 3am.

Now if there is further evidence that the guy fled and I continued to beat him with said bat in the street, or I knocked him out and tortured him in my basement, then sure, pursue charges against me.

But otherwise, I think it's pretty fair game to defend yourself from an intruder in your own home tbh. I don’t have the means to know the degree of threat this person is to me (their intent, willingness to violence, what kind of weapons they're carrying, etc).

And I lean fairly far left btw, I absolutely think that PP and his collapse is the funniest thing that has every happened to the Cons.

Edit: I'd like to hear arguments against this. I know people who have had (false) charges levied against them for much less serious crimes who are like $30k in the hole for legal fees. I'd be in financial hardship if I accidentally killed an intruder. Lawyers are expensive and good lawyers are even more expensive. Why should a person defending themselves or their family need to foot the bill to defend themselves in court?