This is also true of anyone found to even "attempt to commit unnatural offences".
The Act is quite distinctive in that it penalises abetment of or attempt to commit any of the offences listed in the preceding sections (section 16).
People attempt to commit suicide.
Children attempt to commit suicide.
I: Why did you attempt to commit suicide?
Thus we discuss such crimes as murder, rape, and other attacks on the person, as well as such property offences as theft, fraud and criminal damage; and we discuss completed versions of these crimes, or 'non-consummate' offences that are closely linked to those complete offences, such as attempts to commit those offences.
Attempts are governed by the Criminal Attempts Act 1981, which states that "if, with intent to commit an offence to which [the act applies], a person does an act which is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the offence, he is guilty of attempting to commit the offence".
This provides that anyone who attempts to commit an offence will be punished with the same period in prison as if they had succeeded; since theft carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison, for example, someone convicted of attempted theft would also find themselves sentenced to a maximum of seven years.
A Whitehall source told The Daily Telegraph: "People want to know that those who commit, or try to commit, terrorist offences face the toughest punishments.
Inchoate offences in English law are offences in England and Wales that cover illegal acts which have yet to be committed, primarily attempts to commit crimes, incitement to commit crimes, and conspiracy to commit crimes.
[ 55] Further, it is a gross contravention of medical ethics, as well as an offence under applicable international instruments, for health personnel to engage, actively or passively, in acts which constitute participation in, complicity in, incitement to or attempts to commit torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
