Crime
Hate crime has gone up by more than 20% London in the past year. The rise is due to world events but also due to the fact more people are prepared to make these complaints today. About 32,000 more crimes of a violent nature have been committed.
In July where a record number of faith hate offences were made 95% were anti-semitic in the aftermath of Gaza being invaded by Israel.
These revelations come on top of these further London crime statistics:-
Religion, racism and homophobia attacks are up dramatically Faith related offences up 23% to 1048 Violent hate crime up 21% to 1140 Homophobic crime rose 21.5% = 100 cases a month with 175 reported in June alone Transgender hate crime up 86.2%, 58 to 108 cases Disability hate crime up 12.5% and racist and religious up almost 20%. Crime in Haringey up 38%, Barnet 31%, Kensington & Chelsea 31%, Redbridge 29%, Hillingdon and Bromley about 28%, Kingston 7.5% and Ealing 10%
However only 43% of criminal incidents are thought to be reported.
The police said that since October they have attended nearly 5300 premises visits, 400 alcohol test purchases, seized 400 weapons in 5000 sweeps, 3000 out of 160000 stop and searches had positive results e.g. weapon retrieval.
A 25% rise in domestic violence charges is likely to be made to April this year. There have been nearly 10,000 prosecutions from April to December this year which is up by more than 1000. The good news is that more than 65% have resulted in successful convictions with nearly 6500 either admitting/being found guilty over the last two quarters.
The UK taken as a whole paints a similar picture with just over 89,000 prosecutions expected by the first week of April, almost 20,000 more than the nearly 71,000 last year. A rise is rape proceedings is similarly reported.
Sexual violence has been described as being the worst in London for more than 30 years by the Metropolitan Police’s leading Commander.
Drinking whilst pregnant is not an offence
Three judges sitting in the Court of Appeal have recently ruled that if a woman drinks heavily during pregnancy and causes severe mental and/or physical deformity to her unborn child no criminal offence has been committed upholding an earlier ruling by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
Delayed birth delivery – £7,000,000 awarded by the High Court
A 6 year old boy suffering from quadriplegic cerebral palsy due to the lack of oxygen to his brain has won the above captioned award.
As he was in the breech position he was required to be delivered by Caesarean. However due to delays at the south east London hospital when his mother was actually attended to it was too late for it to be performed and a normal delivery ensued.
He will require the use of a wheelchair and is not expected to live beyond the age of 26.
Solicitors in London hope that proper training will be given to all maternity staff especially to sub-contracted midwives.
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