Editing Entrapment (section)

== European Convention of Human Rights ==

[[Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights|Article 6]] of the [[European Convention on Human Rights]] has been interpreted as forbidding prosecution of acts induced by undercover officers. In the case of ''Teixeira de Castro v Portugal'', the [[European Court of Human Rights]] found that the prosecution of a man for drugs offences after being asked by undercover police to procure heroin was a breach of the defendant's rights under Article 6 as the investigating officers's actions "went beyond those of undercover agents because they instigated the offence and there is nothing to suggest that without their intervention it would have been committed".<ref>[https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?library=ECHR&id=001-58193&filename=001-58193.pdf Teixeira de Castro v Portugal], paragraph 39</ref> The decision in ''Teixeira de Castro'' has been used by signatory countries in interpreting domestic law (e.g. in the United Kingdom in the ''Looseley'' case described above).