Summary
To provide context to the harrowing events of last month, some facts are called for. According to the latest British Crime Survey, violent crime across the country has fallen by 11 per cent, a figure the Home Secretary naturally describes as "encouraging". Separate recorded crime statistics published by the Home Office itself show that firearms offences rose in the same 12-month period by 6 per cent, amounting to just under 11,000 gun crimes and 73 deaths.
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Brutalised Britain
What do the following people - Anthony Walker, Richard Whelan and Jean Charles de Menezes - have in common? In life, it seems, nothing. But they have been united in death-victims of crime and terrible misfortune. The first victim...
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