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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

Is there not a problem with the words ““entered as a trespasser””? Earlier, an Opposition Member, who is no longer in his place, referred to an example, in which ““but for the law”” he would have been a hero for retaliating against someone who came into his shop to commit an act of theft. As my hon. Friend knows, the reality is that if someone commits a criminal act on a property, the licence is revoked and he then becomes a trespasser. If someone enters a shop as an innocent purchaser of an item without the intention of breaking the law, but subsequently decides to commit a criminal act thereby becoming a trespasser, he or she did not enter the shop or property as a trespasser, which is the threshold required for the provisions to apply. Is not that the problem?