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1 The promise of some advantage held out by a person in authority in relation to a prosecution to a person suspected of having committed a criminal offence. At common law a confession made after an inducement was inadmissible. It may now render the confession unreliable, and therefore inadmissible, under section 76 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

2 See misrepresentation.

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