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HigHurtenflurst on 06 April 2018
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SuperNova said:

I don't see why they arrested him on a murder charge. Isn't murder specifically premeditated?
If they charge him at all, it should be a manslaughter charge.
It doesn't seem that at any point the elderly man specifically planned to murder the burglar. Unless there's a piece of information withheld, like if the burglar had like 48 stabwounds or something.

Edit: Ah, I see the charges were drooped. Anything else would have been surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder

I don't think it has to be premeditated as in planned well beforehand, but if you intend to kill someone and then do so it's murder, however long the time is from initial intent to the deed.

I think it might be either: a) the papers sensationalising things for effect. The police have to question him to find out what happened, and because he is held by the police the best story to sell is "man arrested on murder charge for defending himself"
or b) if someone is killed it is automatically "arrested on murder charge" until it can be proved otherwise, they don't leave them free to skip the country while they try to determine what happened.