Author Topic: More than 100 knife crimes A DAY in Wild West Britain: Crime stats reveal offences with blades rose  (Read 359 times)

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Killings rose by 14 per cent to 739 last year, and increase of 90 homicides recorded in England and Wales than in the previous 12 months.

Knife crime rose by 12 per cent as nearly 40,000 were reported to police according to shocking new crime statistics released by the Office for National Statistics today. That brings the average daily total to more than 100.

Rape increased by 16 per cent to 56,698 offences and other sex offences rose 13 per cent to 101,464. About 20 per cent of those were against children.