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Violent Crime Reduction Bill

The noble Baroness has our full support on this amendment. She described the conduct as ““despicable””: it is vicious and dangerous. It can lead to the filming of potentially fatal attacks on people, as has happened previously. On the question of gratification, what came into my mind when listening to the noble Baroness were the pictures taken of Iraqi detainees inside the barracks—who were, it is said, being kicked and beaten by members of the forces—and the obvious expressions of glee and delight that the person filming the scene had in doing that. Those are something with which we are all familiar. We do not even have to go to the internet to find an instance like that. To record an offence to gratify oneself in that way should be punished.