Policing and Crime Bill
12:00 pm
Peter Lodder: This is a broad offence and it tries to encapsulate a number of different aspects of the problem. If you deal with it in this way, you get the problems that you have just highlighted and that is why we are unhappy about it. A way of dealing with it is to try to break down the objective. For example, if there is a situation that is more akin to rape, that will be dealt with. If you are talking about a factual matrix which is more akin to rape, maybe this is not the legislation under which someone should be prosecuted anyway. Maybe it should be under sexual offences legislation.