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Britain's crime minister has bag stolen at police conference (www.reuters.com)

submitted 11 months ago by oleorun@real.lemmy.fan to c/weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan

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[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Grammatically, introducing "her" doesn't reduce the ambiguity.

The sentence still could refer to her ordering someone to steal her handbag. E.g. "the crime minister had her partner killed" will almost always refer to a murder for hire.

"The crime minister's bag was stolen" is less ambiguous. But it's English, everything is going to be a bit vague.