A senior Crown Prosecution lawyer has warned the public of the dangers of what he called the "12 crimes of Christmas" - serious misdeeds which tend to increase during the festive season.
In a speech on Thursday, Nazir Afzal, chief prosecutor of the north-west of England, said that during the Christmas break his office saw an increase in domestic abuse, alcohol fuelled public disorder, burglary and sexual assault.
Afzal said there were also a spikes in:
• harassment and stalking, due to people trying to rekindle old relationships
• drink driving
• shoplifting
• street robbery
• drink fuelled assaults
• car theft
• making off without paying for services such as restaurant and bar tabs
• fraud, in its many offline and online forms.
He said other crimes also increased during the holidays, but that these crimes had the "greatest impact on the greatest number".
Afzal, who has chosen not to prosecute in recent cases where people used lethal violence to defend their homes against theft, said there was an increase in burglaries as criminals made off with easily available pickings under Christmas trees, and assured residents that they were "entitled to use reasonable force to defend yourself, your family and your property."
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