Police crime figures showed that the murder rate rose by 34 to 571, the highest in five years. “We welcome today’s experimental ONS figures on fraud and cybercrime – offences which we have always known were happening but were previously unable to quantify. The 96 deaths at Hillsborough in 1989 will be added to the official homicide figures and included in the next set of crime figures after the inquests finished in April. Only when the ONS has 12 months of data in January will the online crime figures be incorporated into the headline crime rate. Knife crime offences rose by 10% in the past year and gun crime increased by 4% over the same period.

Source: The Guardian July 21, 2016 09:08 UTC