This is a list of major crimes in the United Kingdom that garnered significant media coverage and/or led to changes in legislation.
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“Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.”
—John Major (b. 1943)
“Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 24:16.
“You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816–1902)
“The kingdom of our Prospero, Freud, now dissolves in air.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)