No, the whole system is fucked up.
1. The police should never have referred charges to the CPS. They knew within minutes that I was not the initiator of the incident as apparently they had been watching the whole ten second incident on video and they had apologized profusely to me for being a guest in the UK who had been treated badly. However, shortly after that, I was still (but apologetically) cuffed and stuffed in the back of a tiny fucking police car for the 'evil crime' of merely defending myself.
2. I am not a fully trained martial artist, I hold no belts and in fact entirely dislike unarmed combat. However, I was still assumed to be a "dangerous weapon" as an "obvious martial artist" and was treated the same way someone who had murdered 37 people bare handed in the middle of Bond Street and was likely to Hulk out at any moment would have been, right down to some goddamn leg shackles.
3. Apparently the two assholes who attacked me disappeared shortly after being taken to the hospital, yet the CPS continued to prosecute. Oh, despite the fact that they were wanted in connection with other crimes, that they were out on early parole for their nth offense, and that they were not juveniles, apparently neither the CPS or police thought they were worth holding on to with significant force. But me, the tourist? Who had the balls to defend himself from potential grievous bodily injury or death? Yeah, we're locking your ass up in England.
4. The judge in the case clearly did not believe in the concept of self defense and was apparently stunned that one man, not in that great of shape, could take down two yobs. But when the Crown had to drop the charges, he tried to give them every opening to maintain the charges against me. Cute, huh?
And, of course, my little stay over there cost me quite a bit in income and time. I am unlikely to forget the stupidity that is the English legal system any time soon.
Oh, and your yobs are fucking amateurs. They're letting goddamn anyone into the UK thieves' guild these days - my lesbian friend who is all of 90lbs soaking wet could have taken this pair of 'hardened repeat offenders' with one hand tied behind her back.