Provocation: where the defendant suffers a sudden loss of control due to provocation
-> Homicide Act 1957, section 3
Provocation covers many different situations including:
- Physical assualts, both on the defendant or on his relatives
- the continual crying of a young baby
- supplying drugs to the defendants son
- racist remarks
Case examples: R v Thornton (1995) , DPP v Camplin (1978)
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