What's it like in Europe?

[RosieMcPosie]

ollie, just to make myself clear, i wasnt saying portugal is worse. i'm aware that children go  missing all over the world- but i don't think it's 'very common' anywhere...
i just really don't think the uk is much worse than anywhere else in europe!

[RosieMcPosie]

[OllieC]

I agree RosieMc. And despite my view that all things are relative,  just the thought of something like that happening to my little angle makes me feel sick.

[Melbourne12]

I just looked up some comparative figures.  In round numbers, the probability of being the victim of crime in the UK in any one year is 10%.  For the EU as a whole, 7%. For Spain, 5%.

Obviously the statistics will be influenced by local laws and regulations, but that seems to me to be a sufficient spread of numbers to show beyond doubt that Britain suffers comparatively highly from criminal behaviour.