Reply to post: Re: Entrapment?

'Walter Mitty' IT manager admits to buying gun on dark web

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Re: Entrapment?

Is entrapment legal in the UK? Anyway, he didn't 'buy a gun' he ATTEMPTED to buy a gun from a rip-off merchant

It is not entrapment if the illegal activity is initiated by the suspect without any encouragement or suggestion from the undercover contact. That's why undercover operations always have to wait for the suspect to make the deciding move (which is the nervous part of a sting - if the suspect walks away they have no case).

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