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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Anthony France and Nicholas Cecil

£7 billion cost of London’s violent crime surge amid ‘cycle of fear’

The financial cost of London’s violent crime epidemic has spiralled to a staggering £7 billion a year, a new report claims.

One in four people said they had been attacked or threatened with violence in the past five years while living in the capital, it concludes.

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