UNSOLVED CRIMES
INCREASE IN BRITAIN
" I here are to-day in Britain more unsolved mysteries of crime than there have been for the past. 60 years,” said -Mr Justice AlcCardie in his address toiUe wraml .’Jury at Yorkshire Assizes tit Leeds.
“During tile prist 40 years,” said his lordship, ' there, has been a slow ami steady decrease in the number of convictions for indictable crime, but, recently published figures reveal that the undiscovered, indictable offences throughout this country are larger to-day than they have been for 60 years.”
') lie reason for this, he said, might.be either that the criminal of to-day was more efficient or that the police’ were giving a larger measure of attention to minor matters.
"It--may be,” he continued, ‘‘that an undue tendency to leniency has arisen in the criminal courts of the country, and the judges will have to consider whether or not it- will be essential to give sharper sentences to those whomi a 1 offended a second time.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 July 1925, Page 9
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163UNSOLVED CRIMES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 July 1925, Page 9
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