There has been a nine per cent increase in recorded crime in the UK in the last year but when will it end?

Official figures show police forces in England and Wales registered a total of 5.6 million offences in the last year.

This year alone in London there have been at least 100 homicides, and over 2,000 attacks or violent crimes including knife attacks, robberies and muggings.

The data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed a 14 per cent increase in police-recorded homicide offences, from 630 to 719.

These figures exclude the terrorist attacks in London and Manchester.

There were also jumps in the numbers of recorded robberies (up 22 per cent), sexual offences (up 18 per cent), vehicle-related theft (up seven per cent) and burglaries (up two per cent).

London Mayor Sadiq Khan keeps investing money into new schemes to keep young people off the streets and to put them on a straighter path.

However, not all the crimes are being committed by young people, so what can we do about the rest of the offenders?

Joe Traynor, from the ONS Centre for Crime and Justice, said: "Over recent decades, we've seen continued falls in overall levels of crime but in the last year the trend has been more stable.

"The latest figures show no change in the total level of crime but variation by crime types.

"We saw rises in some types of theft and in some lower-volume but higher-harm types of violence, balanced by a fall in the high-volume offence of computer misuse.

"There was no change in other high-volume offences such as overall violence, criminal damage and fraud. To put today's crime survey figures into context, only two out of 10 adults experienced crime in the latest year."

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