Where is the justice in the world? How can any legal system allow for so many frivolous lawsuits. Don’t frivolous lawsuits make you sick? We are not the only country facing this scourge; England is suffering too.

Get this – a guy who actually helped a mall security guard subdue would-be shoplifters is getting sued by the man he wrestled to the ground. Are you kidding me?

The drama began when a former heroin addict with two knives in his waistband was stopped by a security guard after setting off the alarms as he left a busy branch of Boots. As he was being taken back into the store, he became aggressive. At the same time, a second man seemed to be rushing to join him.

It was then shopper Reginald Wharton went to the aid of the outnumbered security guard, trying to calm the second man – who was feared to be an accomplice – before wrestling him to the ground.

Police arrested the suspected shoplifter and accomplice, and the Boots manager thanked Wharton for his bravery.

But more than a year after the incident Wharton now faces a legal nightmare after receiving a lawyer’s letter seeking compensation for an injured elbow from the man he wrestled to the floor.

The without the assistance of the 31-year-old Wharton someone could have been stabbed. How the justice system in our country allows anyone to sue like this? He faces the devastating possibility of being sued for thousands of pounds.

He was in Boots with his four-year-old twins in November 2010 when recovering heroin addict Justin Birt, 30, was detained for shoplifting.

It was when he began arguing with the security guard that the man assumed to be his accomplice, Phillip McCarthy, became involved.

Wharton, a painter and decorator who is due to marry his fiancee Kelly, 25, a banking adviser, next year, said: ‘The man [Birt] became aggressive, and at the same time a man I took to be his accomplice appeared from nowhere and roughly grabbed hold of the security guard by his left arm.

Wharton has worked as trained security guard myself and learned the proper way to put someone on the ground without hurting them,, he claimed.

Birt, 30, later pleaded guilty to possession of two knives, a serrated bread knife and a meat knife. He was not charged with shoplifting. McCarthy was arrested for a public order offence and questioned but not charged.

The only one suffering is the good Samaritan who came to the rescue.

That stinks. Our legal system as well as Britain’s needs an overhaul no doubt. Perhaps mandatory stop theft classes for thieves and stop frivolous lawsuit classes for any attorney filing one.

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