Has anyone here ever been a victim of crime?

Question

If so, would u like to tell me about what happened? I would like to know the victims side of what happens in this country (UK). If u don't want to tell the world feel free to email me via my connection. If u just don't wanna tell me, that's fine too.
I myself have been beaten a few times by gangs of yobs.

Cool dude, and anyone else who would like to talk, contact me via [e-mail].
I applaud ur courage and bravery for sharing these tales with me and pray that such things never happen again.

Answer 1

i got my house broken into on boxing day last year i was very lucky tho they didnt get much only about 10 dvds they must of been disturbed but they did get away on my partners bike

Answer 2

I think possibly most of us have been a victim of some crime or other at some time in our lives, but you have obviously suffered more than most.

The victims of the crime are, and have always been, very hard done by. Our liberal society is geared towards the "poor" criminal, their terrible upbringing, and how best we can rehabilitate them!! The victim comes a very poor 3rd or 4th in the equation!!

I say this not as a victim of any significant crime, but as a former police officer, who has seen the effects that criminals have on their victims. Even when we catch these people, and put them before the court, the sentences are derisory.

Until recently, crime victims were not even given any help or advice, about giving evidence in court.

I remember never being taught how or why we should help the witnesses who give evidence in court, to put them at ease, or look after them in the court building to stop the criminal trying to intimidate the witness.

I was taught this by an old hand at the job, some years after being a police officer. Up until that time, I had not given it a thought, and neither had my colleagues or senior officers!!

From that day on though, I made sure my witnesses were given all the help and advice they needed. Things are changing, but only very slowly.

Answer 3

I'd been in my new flat for two months, I was working nights at the time. Came home after being in town to do some shopping during the day, put my bags in my flat then went to Asda, which is five minutes away. I came back and walked in to find my bedroom door open and muddy footprints on the carpet. This actually sent a shiver up my spine and froze me to the spot for what seemed like and age, it was in reality only a few seconds. Luckily my neighbours disturbed them and they didn't get away with anything of value. The police did catch them, they did go to prison and I even got some compensation. Unfortunately to this day I expect to come home and find that the same thing has happen again - touch wood it won't again, but I have resigned myself to the fact that if it happens it happens. I'm from the UK.

Answer 4

Yes. Once my shopping trolley was nabbed after I had paid for my groceries, while I wasn't paying attention in the supermarket. At the time it contained my old briefcase, half a pound of onions, a tin of tomatoes, two toilet rolls and four bananas. And the pound coin which you can retrieve when you return your trolley to the Trolley Park. Of course, I was devasted and reported the matter to the police. A few days later I received a standard letter from my local police station offering me counselling (as a Victim Of Crime) from the Victims of Crime Support Group. After some thought I declined, but ever since I have been wondering what they could have possibly said to comfort me. What do you think?

Answer 5

My flat was broken into by some scumbag who stole all my stuff including a ring my Nana had left me when she died it wasn't worth alot but it was the only thing of hers that I had. They also smoked drugs in there and kicked my little kitten around. When I got home from work there was blood everywhere and it looked like a tornado had been at work in there. I never felt safe in the flat again and moved out within the month. The police were useless it was as if they were bored being there, they probably had speeders to catch!!

Answer 6

This one is slightly odd but my husband commited a crime in 1999, which he paid for with 4 years of his life, anyway he came home things were going great. He sold a boy a truck, and did some mechanical work from our home, almost immediatly things began to come up missing, tools and such. Needless to say a few weeks later this kid was arrested for numerous thefts and burglaries. The detectives cut him a deal for claiming that my husband was involved, so now 19 months later this kid is still out and my husband is still incaercerated, this boy came to my home tried to kick my door in and they wouldnt even let me press charges against him. So i am a victim as well as my husband. I am in no way dumb or naive, i watched every move my husband made, i know he was home on the nights they claim he wasnt, i have seen their so-called evidence, and it is all based on the testimony of an admitted drug addict. That probably isnt what you were looking for, but allowing this kid to do as he pleases is a crime.

Answer 7

I am from the US and was a victim. I was evicted from my home by my landlord with false allegations charged at me. I had all my canceled checks to prove my rent had been paid up to the first of the year, at which time my landlord told me to stop paying rent because he did not want to give his soon-to-be-Ex half the profits. When the magistrate asked if he told me to stop paying rent he said yes he did tell me and she turned to me and said very sarcastically to me "where do you get off thinking you can live somewhere for free" and slapped me with 6 months back rent PLUS interest and 14 days to vacate the premises. Not only did she fine me but I had to pay court costs and she would not even discuss the breaking and entering charge with distruction of personal property against my landlord, she said it was not a magistrate problem but a police problem. I was not only violated by my landlord but by an inapt magistrate that didn't care that my landlord lied, filed false charges against me, broke into my residence, and distroyed my property. My bank account was froze, by the courts, and money from my account taken to pay my debt to my landlord and the real kicker in all this....my landlord was my boss...to this day he still owes me back wages totaling $14,000.00, I designed houses for him, and even though I have attained a lawyer to help retrieve my wages we are yet to get the legal documents from his lawyers. The legal system sucks and the poor working man pays the price and at ever turn we get the screws put to us because someone else has more money to buy off the courts

Answer 8

Some years ago (probably more than 15) I got slashed with a knife, it was an unprovoked attack and it was unnecessary.

This happened on london underground, in hounslow to be exact.

The railings of the station backed on to the street and you could talk to passers by and people could see on to the platform. I was with two other people, we all got attacked by about 6 or 7 guys, it wasn't a racist attack as they were of asian origin, sikhs to be exact.

From what I could remember one of my mates was talking to one of the guys who were passing by on the street, he mentioned something about some guy he met in school, I was minding my own business waiting for a train, next thing i knew about six or seven of them came on to the platform and just went crazy.

How they got on to the station and left without being noticed or without tickets I will never know, there was no station staff and I don't think they had cameras on the paltform. My whole coat was covered in blood from my neck down to my waist, and i had to call the ambulance, the other two did not know what to do.

I was scarred for life, 6 stitches on my face and in a bit of shock.The police just asked whether i wanted them to go ahead and search, i said no, i just wanted to be somewhere else as i could not think straight.

That was it, i got big earache from my parents. As time passed i got over it. The police never followed up on me and i got no further support for being a victim.

Thats my side of the story and i've got no reason to add or take things out or exaggerate, but i still have scar.

IF JUST BY PURE CHANCE, THE PERSON THAT INFLICTED THIS ON ME IS READING, WHICH EVER DIRECTION YOU CHOSE TO CONTINUE YOUR LITTLE LIFE IN (good or bad) I HOPE IN SOME WAY GOD TEACHES YOU A LESSON FOR WHAT YOU DID. I'M NOT A VOILENT PERSON, NITHER AM I REVENGEFUL.

BUT I STILL HAVE YET TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN NATURE, AND THE NEED TO KILL OR ATTACK WITHOUT REASON OR PREJUDICE.

Answer 9

was moving house when i was younger and most my possesions were in a rucksack- went to the chip shop came back and someone had climbed in through the window and pinched it. Was angry at the time.

Had my bike nicked from outside my house- ha that thing had a flat tyre and the gears didn't really work too well, lucky them

Also had a guy hit me in the head on a train, i pinned him to the wall and nearly destroyed his face but i told him to **** off through gritted teeth and let him go unhurt.

Answer 10

When we lived near an inner city area we were broken into eleven times, despite getting alarms etc., It only stopped when we got a dog. After that things were better.