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BRITAIN: 356 victims of knife crime every day
Date: Jul 18, 2008 10:24 AM
PUBLICATION: The Daily Telegraph
DATE: 2008.07.18
SECTION: News
PAGE: 001
BYLINE: Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Editor
WORD COUNT: 339

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356 victims of knife crime every day

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ONE person is the victim of a knife crime every four minutes, Home Office figures
released yesterday showed.

Almost 130,000 violent offences involved a knife last year, equivalent to 356 a
day, the British Crime Survey found.

The figures, which showed that such offences accounted for 6 per cent of the estimated
2.16 million violent crimes last year, are further evidence of the scale of the
knife problem sweeping the country.

The police’s recorded crime figures, released alongside the British Crime Survey,
showed that, overall, crimes committed in England and Wales were down by 10 per
cent, although there were increases in shootings and murders. The police statistics
showed that there were 22,151 knife offences in the 12 months to March 31.

This included 231 attempted murders, 11,528 personal robberies, 2,359 business robberies
and more than 8,000 woundings.

The figure is lower than the British Crime Survey’s figures because less than
half of offences are reported to police.

One third of knife crimes, which include attempted murder, grievous bodily harm,
wounding and mugging at knifepoint, were in London, which had 7,409 offences.

The West Midlands had 2,303 incidents and Greater Manchester had 2,294. Many rural
forces also recorded hundreds of knife crimes. Devon and Cornwall recorded 288 offences
while

Northumbria recorded 351. Sussex had 274 knife crimes, Hampshire 388, Kent 327 and
Cheshire 224.

This is the first year that figures for knife crime have been recorded separately.
Their release follows a spate of high-profile stabbings, including that of Ben Kinsella,
16, in London last month.

Police figures showed a 2 per cent increase in firearms offences to 9,803 while
recorded drug offences rose 18 per cent, mainly due to an increase in those dealt
with for cannabis possession.

As disclosed by The Daily Telegraph last week, the police statistics also showed
an increase in murders, up from 759 in 2006-07 to 784 last year.

Overall there were one million fewer crimes, while the risk of being a victim of
crime had fallen from 24 to 22 per cent, the lowest level recorded since the British
Crime Survey began in 1981.

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, said she was “extremely pleased”
with the figures, although more needed to be done to cut crimes involving knives
and guns.

The Tories said that the knife crime figures were a “shocking indictment of
Labour’s failure to tackle crime and its causes”.

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