... CRIME. The country has been recently aroused from its state of false security by a succession of the most daring and dreadful crimes. Had these been confined to one district of the kingdom it might have been supposed that the cause was local and exceptional; ...

... CRIME Recorded crime in Scotland fell by 8% between 1992 and 1993. Violence against the Ferson declined by 16% and burglary by 14%. However, sexual offences over the year increased by 11%. Around 90% of prison sentences for adults in Scotland are for ...

... crimes said he was the victim of a witch hunt. The verdict left Count Tolstoy (54), of Abingdon, Berkshire, and Mr Watts (51), of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, with a bill for £1.5 million damages. Legal costs are estimated at another El million• Mr Justice ...

... Crime PC RHEA'S duties as village bobby had brought him in contact with the amazing Miss Harborough, an eccentric old lady who lived alone. MY next contact with Miss Harborough was some time later, on the occasion of a forthcoming Govern ment Census. ...

... crime morning, Mr Sim said there was no apparent explanation why the numbers of crimes in these two regions had risen faster than anywhere elseboth well above the Scottish average of 5%. One hopes that a force that's higher this year averages out next ...

... crime with TAYSIDE POLICE are to introduce metal detectors to the streets of Dundee in a bid to cut violent knife crime. The initiative, which is due to be launched in a matter of weeks, reflects the force's Operation Combat campaign which was launched ...

... crime viewing was pioneered in the United States six years ago where tests found senior high school pupils were able to get more information from witnesses using these principles than policemen using conventional techniques. Further tests of police ...

... crime smuggled into Ireland before the October 1987 seizure of the Eksund gun-running ship were also still to be accounted for, according to Sir Hugh. Last night, Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew said Sir Hugh's proposals for two national ...

... without one mitigating circumstance to excite our sympathy or alleviate his crime. Not only so, but there falls to be added ingratitude of the blackest kind, to the catalogue of his crimes, and to that, a life stained with every moral impurity. Unabashed, however ...

... CRIME IN There are a number of disturbing features in the report on criminal statistics published by the Scottish Secretary. Last year the total of crimes and offences was up 3782 on 1953. There were fewer crimes against property. But more drunkenness ...

... in crime FOURTEEN POLICE pocket notebooks connected with the inquiry into the West Midlands Serious Crimes Squad have disappeared, it was disclosed yesterday. The senior officer in charge of the largest inquiry by the Police Complaints Authority said ...

... Crime on the THERE WERE 275,134 crimes committed in Strathclyde last year—an increase of 6%. And the biggest increases were in dishonesty and drugs. In his annual report, presented yesterday in Glasgow, Strathclyde's Chief Constable, Andrew Sloan, said ...