Is it right to punish people for protecting their own property? There has been a lot of discussion recently in the UK about how we are going to protect our homes against crime in the future. In 2000, Tony Martin, a farmer from Norfolk, was sent sending to prison because he killed a man who was robbed him. The their was walking around Martin’s house when he was shot by the farmer. A lot of people thought that it was been wrong to send the farmer to prison. He was later released from prison in July 2003.