Other Crimes
| Date | Name | Deaths | Type | Location | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | The Siege of Sidney Street | 6 | Siege | East End, London, England | A shootout between unarmed London constables and a group of Latvian anarchists led by George Gardstein left three officers and Gardstein dead. British authorities then laid siege to the anarchists' safehouse on Sidney Street, meeting fierce resistance from the three anarchists inside. A fire broke out after a six-hour battle and, while the bodies of Fritz Svaars and William Sokolow were found, their leader Peter Piaktow was not located. |
| 2001–2002 | The Antoni Imiela case (The M25 Rapist) |
- | Rape | South East England | West German-born Antoni Imiela, known as the M25 Rapist, attacks and sexually assaults seven woman in Southeastern England before his capture by authorities in 2004. |
| 2005 | The Stabbing of Abigail Witchalls |
- | Stabbing | Surrey, England | Abigail Witchalls was left paralysed after being stabbed in front of her 21-month old son Joseph in Surrey, England, on 20 April 2005. |
| 2009 | The Edlington Attempted Murders |
- | Attempted Murder | Edlington South Yorkshire, England | On Saturday 4 April 2009 an 11 year-old boy was found with critical head injuries near to a brickpit, while his 9 year-old nephew was found wandering nearby with knife wounds. Local residents told the media that both boys had been hit with a brick, slashed with a knife, and burned with cigarettes. On Tuesday 7 April two brothers, aged 10 and 11, who had been arrested on 5 April, were each charged with both the attempted murder and robbery of both of the injured boys.
The two boys responsible, now aged 11 and 12, were sentenced to indefinite detention on 23 January 2010. The Judge in the case ordered that under s.39 of the Children's Act their identities not to be disclosed. |
| 2012 | The Rochdale sex trafficking gang | - | Sex Trafficking | Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England | The Rochdale sex trafficking gang was a group of men who preyed on under-age teenage girls in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. They were convicted of sex trafficking on 8 May 2012; other offenses included rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child. 47 girls were identified as victims of child sexual exploitation during the police investigation. The men were all British Pakistanis (except for one from Afghanistan) and the girls were white; this has led to national discussion of whether the crimes were racially motivated, or, conversely, whether the early failure to investigate them was linked to the authorities' fear of being accused of racism. |
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