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(Picture: Shutterstock)The number of rapes recorded by police nationwide has hit a new record high amid a 10 per cent leap in attacks in London, official figures revealed today.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the 63,136 rapes across in England and Wales was the “highest recorded annual number of rape offences to date” and accounted for 37 per cent of the 170,973 sexual offences in the 12 months to the end of September last year.
