My Lords, I intervene to ask my noble friend a question. I listened carefully to what he said and I completely support the amendment, but does it go far enough? I cannot find any excuse or justification for anyone who is not a family member to take any photographs of a woman breastfeeding. It would seem from what my noble friend said on the amendment that mens rea has to be proved—there has to be a proven intent to get sexual gratification from it—but why should that be the case? In my view, there can be no justification for anyone outside the family—a stranger—to want to photograph a woman doing this. This is a simple question from my simple little mind.
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Blencathra
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 12 January 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
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