Also given consideration were other huge robberies to set alongside the Great Train Robbery and the Brinks-Mat cases, like the Millennium Dome and Hatton Garden heists.Ĭrimes in which children are the victims of abuse, neglect or murder have been far too common on this island: Damilola Taylor, Victoria Climbié, Rhys Jones, the Thames torso case, Baby P, April Jones, Sarah Payne, and the Philpott children, for example. There are the many serial killings of men like Robert Black, Archibald Hall, Neville Heath, Peter Manuel, Bruce Lee, Kenneth Erskine, Steve Wright, Gordon Cummings, Levi Belfield and Stephen Port, and miscarriages of justice typified by the Carl Bridgewater, Stephen Downing and Rachel Nickell cases.
That they are not included essentially stems from the unavoidable and lasting impact of the 27 that have been detailed: these others may be as horrible or dramatic in many regards-as sad or regrettable-as those included, but they fall short in regarding the criteria utilised in the final selection: notoriety, impact, a lasting impression made on society and on our shared cultural memory. There are many other British crimes that could have been part of The American Compendium of British Crimes.
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