(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he or she possesses or controls any article in circumstances giving rise to a reasonable inference that he or she possesses or controls it for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation, facilitation or instigation of -
(a) an offence under section 15 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997,
(b) a drug trafficking offence within the meaning of section 3(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1994,
(c) murder,
(d) murder to which section 3 of the Criminal Justice Act 1990 applies, or
(e) the common law offence of kidnapping to which section 2 of, and paragraph 4 of the Schedule to, the Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act 1976 applies.
(2) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to prove that at the time of the alleged offence he or she did not possess or control the article concerned for a purpose specified in subsection (1).
(3) Where a person is charged with an offence under this section, no further pr
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