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Murder rate doubles in the West
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Incidents of homocide in the Western garda division doubled last year.
According to the Central Statistics Office there were 14 reported cases of homocide at the end of 2013 compared to 7 for the same period in 2012.
However, the figures show that there was a reduction in sexual offences in the West
There were 212 reported cases of sexual offences in the Western garda division at the end of 2013, compared to 232 the previous year.
Attempts or threats to kill or assault were also down last year by almost 9 percent.
However there was an increase in the number of kidnapping and related offences with 11 reported last year, up from 7 in 2012.
Recorded drugs offences were also up in 2013, increasing from 1 thousand 120 in 2012 to over 12 hundred last year.
The biggest area of crime which saw a decrease in the West last year was burglaries.
In 2012, there were 2 thousand 374 burglary and related offences, while this decreased to just over 2 thousand last year.