-- "Fully 6.3 million crimes were recorded in England and Wales in the year to March 2022 — a double-digit increase of 16 per cent on the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics. So-called high-harm offences appear to have increased even more sharply, with homicides up 25 per cent to 710 and sexual offences up 32 per cent to astonishing 194,683 offences. This includes the highest number of rape offences yet recorded, at 70,330." --
