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Bashed guard kills attacker
2004-07-26
I like the lady
BLEEDING and bruised after being bashed and robbed, a security guard struggled to her feet and, in a lethal response, shot her attacker dead. At 11am yesterday Karen Muratore was leaving the Moorebank Hotel on a regular run for Elite Guard Force Security, carrying the hotel's takings in a backpack. Dressed in casual clothes to appear inconspicuous and working alone, she was struck down with a knuckle-duster on the hotel steps by a thief who had been waiting in a stolen car. Screaming at him to stop and with blood gushing down her face, the man, aged in his 20s, ignored her as he calmly walked to his vehicle to make a getaway. Witnesses claim Ms Muratore then walked up to the closed door of the beige Ford Falcon and fired one shot through the side window, hitting the thief in the head.
"[BANG!] Stop or I'll shoot!"
Waitress Made Price, who was clearing tables at the restaurant in the hotel, watched horrified as Ms Muratore drew her gun at point-blank range and fired through the closed driver's window. "At first we thought it was two junkies fighting," Mrs Price said. "There was no struggle, nothing, he was just relaxed inside the car. When the bloke closed the door, the lady pulled out the gun ... and the lady just shot him. Maybe she was about 2m away." Mrs Price said the thief did not have a chance to start the car.

Another witness heard Ms Muratore scream after she was set upon on the steps of the hotel, then a single gunshot. Ernest Summerton was in the backyard of his McKay Ave home, which faces the hotel's carpark, and said: "I heard a woman screaming. It was a real long scream, then a shorter scream and then I heard a huge bang and knew it was a gunshot straight away." Liverpool police Superintendent Terry Jacobsen said Ms Muratore was attacked in an attempted robbery, suffering facial injuries, at 11am. He said police had not charged her and she had refused to talk about the incident at this stage.
Smart lady. She knows the craven politicians will try to make an example of her, especially if the thief is a "minority"
Both Ms Muratore's pistol and a knuckle-duster were found at the scene. Police were unable to determine the identity of the attacker, who was not carrying identification.
"Looks like Herb, but Herb only has two eyes..."
Ms Muratore was released from Liverpool Hospital where she was treated for her injuries, with lawyers advising her not to talk to police. She was followed to the hospital by police. The Daily Telegraph contacted the Elite Guard Force Security head office yesterday but the owner refused to comment. An employee from the company said he had worked with Ms Muratore for at least two years. "I can't really speak about it at the moment. I don't really have the details but she was bashed up pretty bad," the man, who did not wish to be named, said.
Posted by:tipper

#4  This being the U.K. where did she get permission to be armed? They will of course try and put this poor victim of crime in prison for having the sense of duty to do what she was paid for, protect the property she was carrying and the sense of justice for kill the mutherphucker who hit a woman, in the face no less.

Too bad it's the U.K. and where not talking to the police can be used against you in a court of law. Wonder where the 5th came from? There is your answer, you have no right not to incriminate yourself in the U.K. and Blunket can't wait to get his picture in the paper in his outrage over this act of devine justice I bet.
Posted by: FlameBait93268   2004-07-26 9:06:37 PM  

#3  I wonder how many years in prison she'll get?
Posted by: danking70   2004-07-26 5:16:39 PM  

#2  "Who is he?"

"No idea. Dump him in the river..."
Posted by: mojo   2004-07-26 4:00:15 PM  

#1  Police were unable to determine the identity of the attacker, who was not carrying identification.

I guess dental records are out of the question. Good riddance.
Posted by: BH   2004-07-26 12:10:08 PM  

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