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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his correction. Kenneth Noye was a well known member of the organised crime fraternity. He killed a plain clothes police officer who was staking out his property, because he thought he was a trespasser. Noye escaped conviction, even under the existing law of reasonable force. What would be the position were the new proposals in the Bill to apply? Plain clothes police officers could be subject to disproportionate force all over the place, both in the circumstances that we have heard described and in many others that I am sure that everyone in the House can imagine.