Clause 66
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
5:45 pm
Edward Garnier (Shadow Minister, Justice; Harborough, Conservative)
Before the hon. Gentleman intervened, I was going to ask the Minister what the Government meant by having a legitimate reason. Surely—this feeds into the point that the he made—it is for the prosecution to prove that the possessor of the image had no legitimate reason to possess it. That is the guts of the offence—the unlawful possession of an extreme pornographic image.