"Enough is enough. Things are far worse for women than when my Sally Anne was killed. I'm not surprised about Croydon - I've been warning about it for two decades. When detectives first started to investigate Sally Anne's murder, even they were shocked by the number of sex offenders living a short distance away from her home. They had to knock on all of their doors first before widening searches further afield."
"It's 20 years and women are still not safe. The police are doing as much as they can with the funding available. But how many bobbies can you put, not outside nightclubs, but in every suburban street? Every woman needs to be given a rape alarm. It should also be compulsory for everyone to be on the national DNA database, so you know if you steal as much as a chocolate bar, you'll be caught. There's no deterrent. Empty promises were made to us."
An interactive map and latest ONS Crime Survey figures show sexual offences, stalking and harassment remain widespread across London, with Croydon among the highest hotspots. Several boroughs including Tower Hamlets, Westminster, Ealing, Newham, Lewisham and Lambeth report high numbers, while Kingston upon Thames, Richmond, Merton and Sutton report the fewest. The monitoring forms part of a government aim to halve violence against women and girls. Linda Bowman, mother of murdered model Sally Anne Bowman, reports that women remain unsafe twenty years after the killing and calls for measures including more policing, rape alarms and compulsory DNA registration.
Read at www.standard.co.uk
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