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Originally Posted by jimbuna
No, entrapment as a concept doesn't exist in UK law. The police can set up a sting and if you fall for it, you are arrested.
Your only defence would be if the individual was induced or persuaded by a Police Officer to commit the offence.
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It certainly does*. Some local bobbies fell foul of it in York about four
(or five?) years ago when they tried to get convictions of drug dealing
by offering drug users unusually large amounts of money to buy illegal
substances.
The court ruled that in the normal course of events the accused would
have not been offered such high prices and therefore would not have
been tempted to deal drugs.
It made the papers because several officers where suspended and
there was an PCC case opened. No idea how it ended up.
*It may not exist in the code, but it is certainly exercised by the courts
when the integrity of the legal process looks under threat.
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