Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
No, its an offensive weapon in the UK. You can buy things like dye sprays to mark an attacker, but I can't imagine anyone thinking its a good idea to spray a mugger with a dye.

There really is almost nothing you can carry in the UK, IIRC an offensive weapon is anything designed to be or whjich you intend to use as a weapon. So you can be convicted for carrying even a perfectly innocent object, if they can prove that in fact you were intending to use it as a weapon. Kubotan key chains could get you in trouble if a copper recognises what it is (designed as a weapon) but of course having something like a short cylindrical metal bodied torch in your pocket is perfectly fine so long as you remember that you are planning to use it only as a light source, officer. What, you mean you could put it in your fist and hit someone? Well I never knew.
"No, no officer, the crowbar is just to help me get into boxes."