0 a person who intentionally encourages people to do something illegal so that they can be caught
He is a kind of agent provocateur and a journalist, and he likes to stereotype, but actually he's a very fine philosopher who reflects a lot on music.
At the subsequent rendezvous, the defendant was caught with the tablets on him, but again the defence claimed "agent provocateur".
That would seem to contemplate the use of agent provocateur methods on enforcement.
The fact that a person would not have committed an offence but for the activities of an agent provocateur is no defence in law.
I would describe him as an agent provocateur.
I mention this only because that agent provocateur system is always open to that objection where an interview is involved.
I believe that if an agent provocateur had not been involved in that incident there would have been no charge, investigation or inquiry.
A necessary element in being an agent provocateur is that the person should himself commit a substantive offence which is part of the conspiracy.
