By Press Association 2021
A Metropolitan Police officer
Britain’s biggest police force is reviewing all the domestic killings of children last year amid fears that lockdown may have contributed to an increase in the number of deaths.
The number of homicides in London fell from 150 in 2019 to 126 in 2020 but there was a rise in the number of domestic killings.
Data from the Metropolitan Police showed that there were 22 domestic homicides in 2020, up from 16 in 2019. The 2020 figure includes 12 children, compared with seven in 2019.
All the child deaths are under review by the force and other support services.
Commander Dave McLaren said: “It is fair to say that mental health has played a part in a number of those crimes this year and it isn’t a massive leap of faith to say that lockdown has an impact on all of us in terms of our wellbeing.
By Press Association 2021
A Metropolitan Police officer
Britain’s biggest police force is reviewing all the domestic killings of children last year amid fears that lockdown may have contributed to an increase in the number of deaths.
The number of homicides in London fell from 150 in 2019 to 126 in 2020 but there was a rise in the number of domestic killings.
Data from the Metropolitan Police showed that there were 22 domestic homicides in 2020, up from 16 in 2019. The 2020 figure includes 12 children, compared with seven in 2019.
All the child deaths are under review by the force and other support services.
Commander Dave McLaren said: “It is fair to say that mental health has played a part in a number of those crimes this year and it isn’t a massive leap of faith to say that lockdown has an impact on all of us in terms of our wellbeing.
By Press Association 2021
A Metropolitan Police officer
Britain’s biggest police force is reviewing all the domestic killings of children last year amid fears that lockdown may have contributed to an increase in the number of deaths.
The number of homicides in London fell from 150 in 2019 to 126 in 2020 but there was a rise in the number of domestic killings.
Data from the Metropolitan Police showed that there were 22 domestic homicides in 2020, up from 16 in 2019. The 2020 figure includes 12 children, compared with seven in 2019.
All the child deaths are under review by the force and other support services.
Commander Dave McLaren said: “It is fair to say that mental health has played a part in a number of those crimes this year and it isn’t a massive leap of faith to say that lockdown has an impact on all of us in terms of our wellbeing.
By Press Association 2021
A Metropolitan Police officer
Britain’s biggest police force is reviewing all the domestic killings of children last year amid fears that lockdown may have contributed to an increase in the number of deaths.
The number of homicides in London fell from 150 in 2019 to 126 in 2020 but there was a rise in the number of domestic killings.
Data from the Metropolitan Police showed that there were 22 domestic homicides in 2020, up from 16 in 2019. The 2020 figure includes 12 children, compared with seven in 2019.
All the child deaths are under review by the force and other support services.
Commander Dave McLaren said: “It is fair to say that mental health has played a part in a number of those crimes this year and it isn’t a massive leap of faith to say that lockdown has an impact on all of us in terms of our wellbeing.
Wife found children killed in horrific scene after shop keeper cut their throats Will Taylor Pavinya Nithiyakumar, aged 19 months, and Nigish Nithiyakumar, aged three, had their throats cut at their family home. (PA/SWNS)
A father who slit the throats of his two young children has been been detained in hospital indefinitely.
Nadarajah Nithiyakumar, 41, who suffered from a delusional disorder, attacked his 19-month-old daughter Pavinya and three-year-old son Nigish at their home in Ilford, East London, on 26 April, as their mother Nisanthini showered.
Nithiyakumar had washed and watched television before the attack. When she found the children, Nisanthini said the shop keeper told her: “I have cut the children off.”