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There certainly is! The bar is quite high though; it's not enough for a police officer to have given you an opportunity to commit a crime, they really have to h

There certainly is! The bar is quite high though; it's not enough for a police officer to have given you an opportunity to commit a crime, they really have to have tricked someone into it who wouldn't reasonably be expected to normally commit a crime.

amygdyl 9y ago
You mean under PACE? I was after a act addressing the issue directly (or revision of another act) or else a clear statute standing alone with a unencumbered commencement order. I have had the debate while cuffed to a young officer gleefully chirping no such law exists, and I replied as pretty much you have to me. This below is clarification and I believe supports my originally intended declaration, however I don't think I sufficiently eliminated ambiguity in lay terms from my wording, adequate to claim correctness absolute: <quote>It is established case law that, while offering significant mitigation at sentence, there is no defence of entrapment in English law (R v Sang [1980] AC 402). However, it is also considered to be an abuse of court process for agents of the state to lure citizens into committing illegal acts and then seek to prosecute them for doing so. State-created entrapment of this sort will result in a stay of proceedings.</quote> https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/the-law-regarding-entrapment/55972.article https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/the-law-regarding-entrapmen...