- My amateur effort to keep track of the murdered body count in this "scepter'd Isle" since July 3rd 2007, as the government and the liberals insist that crime figures are falling and there is no need to look again at sentencing policy.
My sources are the BBC News sites which do not necessarily report every homicide on the main regional bulletins, so this is not an exhaustive list. However, quite often, several months later, the accused appear in court and that is often reported so I pick up some cases which passed me by at the time. For my purposes, men and women are 17+ years and children are 16- years.
TOTAL SINCE 3/7: 414 men: 138 women: 57 children:
CODES: EN= England, SC=Scotland, NI=Northern Island, WA=Wales.
April and the advent of Spring brings us a particularly grisly set of murders. Two parents in their 60s slaughtered by their son who has been sectioned; a grandfather hung by his grandson; the head and hands of a woman found on a beach; a boy and girl, 14 and 12, arrested for murdering a man by setting fire to his flat; and a woman, apparently killed in a tractor accident last December, turns out to have been murdered by her husband.
Apr 1st - Apr 15th
- EN: Harlow: Man killed, man arr next to pools of blood, body found later.
- EN: Allerton: Man, Woman, 60s, multipler stabs, son 35 sectioned
- EN: Flanborough: Man 76, grandfather, hung by grandson 25.
- SC: Arbroath: Woman, head and hands found on beach, 2 men arr
- EN: Handsworth: Man 20s, found on golf course with burns
- EN: Colchester: Woman 29 hit by train on crossing, man chgd m/slaughter
- EN: Margate: Man 31 (1/3/08) targeted shooting in his driveway
- SC: Bonneyrigg: Woman 42 dead at home, husband 64 arr
- EN: Bristol: Man 19 deliberately hit by car in pub carpark, 2 men arr
- EN: Northampton: Man 32 killed in fire at flat, boy 14, girl 12 arr
- EN: Nott'ham: Man, body found in street, man arr
- SC:Inchmarlow: Man 70, body in bin, killed by son 29 (10/07)
- EN: Hoxton: Woman 60s, head injs in house, man 40s arr
- EN: Ilford: Man 66, shopkeeper stabbed, man 21 arr
- EN: Ashstead: Man 25 dead in garage, man 24 arr
- SC: Rutherglen: Man 22 dead in flat
- EN: Preston: Man 47, social worker on visit, stabbed, man 53 arr
- EN: Kirk Andrews: Woman 53 thought to have died by accident with tractor on 1/12/07, now murder, husband 40 arr
- WA: Newport: Man 46 head injs assault at home, 5 people arr
- WA: Six Bells: Man 55 dead in property, man 22 arr
- EN: St Helens: Woman 82 died in hosp after broken hip from intruder, man arr
- EN: Shefield: Man, body in flat, susp death
- EN: West Heath: Man 50 stabbed in house, man 52 arr
- EN: Bradford: Man 33 assault outside home, man 22 arr
- EN: Stourport: Man 62 body found in river 12/07, man, woman arr
- EN: Poole: Woman 29 dead in flat, husband arr
- NI: Ballykinler: Man 62 on life support since March, died, 2 men arr
- EN: Salisbury: Man 40s, dead in river, man 20 arr
- EN: Mitcham: Man 56, head injs, man and woman 40s arr
- By providing these bare details I hope to impress on you that these are not just statistics but were real human beings with families, friends and a future before them - just like me and you, really!
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