Locking up bankers won't solve Britain's crime epidemic

On Monday, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Munster Square in Camden. A Witness reported seeing three men ‘screaming and laughing’ as they chased him with a machete. The poor kid apparently sought refuge in a house, banging on the door and pleading for help, but his pursuers were close behind him.

A couple of days before, across town in Leyton, a police officer had been attacked with a machete after trying to stop a van. PC Stuart Outten was slashed across his head and hand but courageously resisted the attack and survived.

In Tottenham, a week before, an 89-year-old woman was reportedly raped and murdered in her home.

Of course, unless you live in a small community you will always hear about evil and nauseating crimes. To expect to live in a society without rape and murder – let alone theft and fraud – when man is a fallen species, would be terribly utopian.