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Peace

A British Army veteran who served in NI during the Troubles is 54x more likely to be prosecuted?
21 July 2021
This claim is not accurate. Prosecutions to date suggest that ex-British Army personnel have been the subject of cases five times more than Republican and

Law

Was Belfast the sixth highest in murder rate for a European city in 2010?
4 February 2021
Available data shows other cities with higher homicide rates. Data for some other cities was not and is not published. By any reasonable definition, homicide

Europe

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Health

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Law

Does Northern Ireland have the highest femicide rate in Western Europe?
25 November 2019
Northern Ireland has the second highest rate (0.53) of female intentional homicide victims by intimate partner, per 100,000 inhabitants, in Western Europe, as defined by

Education

1 in 5 school staff assaulted weekly?
17 July 2019
The survey data was misinterpreted by ICTU. 1 in 10 of those surveyed experience physical abuse at least once weekly. Are one in five school

Law

Were there over 29,000 cases of domestic violence and abuse in 2016-17?
2 March 2018
The claim is accurate. On 9 February 2018, Anthony Harbinson (Head of Community Safety Division, Department of Justice) said: “Over 29,000 incidents of [domestic] violence and

Law

Do half of freed criminals reoffend within a year?
28 July 2016
The claim is accurate. However, while the article does break down re-offending rates among criminals released from prison, the majority of offenders receive sentences that

Health

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Law

Are 1 in 4 women in Northern Ireland victims of domestic violence?
11 July 2016
Approximately one in four women in Northern Ireland are estimated to have been victims of domestic violence. According to an article posted on MKBLaw, “One in four

Elections

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Law

Is crime on the rise in Northern Ireland?
4 May 2016
According to PSNI reports, annual offences covering the relevant period are marginally higher (105,289 versus 105,040). Meanwhile, crime in Northern Ireland has been rising every

Law

Has Northern Ireland’s legislation caused an 80% rise in sex workers in Ireland?
6 April 2016
While data on sex workers in Ireland is extremely lacking, the figures that are available and most commonly employed by experts do not support this