Over 15 days in the Spring of that year he abducted, raped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 in Watford, London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire. READ MORE: Man jailed after being found with drugs and knife in Yeovil One of the most horrific examples of kidnapping in recent times is Joseph McCann, a convicted burglar who was freed after a probation service error at the start of 2019. That is also the highest seen in the last decade and more than quadruple the 1,525 recorded in 2011. Across all police forces in England and Wales, there were a total of 6,756 kidnappings recorded last year, up by 20% from 5,618 kidnappings in 2020. That compares to 15 in 2020 and 34 before the pandemic in 2019. In 2021, there were 23 child abductions recorded in Avon and Somerset. That might include someone who is unconnected to the child detaining them without due authority, or a parent or guardian taking a child out of the UK without the consent of another parent or guardian. Kidnapping does not include child abduction, however, which is a separate offence defined as taking a child away from a person or place they should lawfully be with. It says its Anti Kidnap and Extortion Unit receives an average of around 500 reports of planned kidnappings for ransom each year. The NCA says some of these offences are relatively new, which may explain the rise over the last few years. The National Crime Agency says kidnapping includes other offences in the same category, which “involve restricting or controlling someone’s movement”, such as false imprisonment, some modern slavery and exploitation offences, and some human trafficking offences. It might involve enticing a partner to a house and refusing to let them leave, a parent taking and keeping a child without the consent of their legal guardian, or the planned kidnap of someone for ransom or political purposes.
READ MORE: Somerset rapist made young girl watch porn before sex assault Kidnapping is defined as taking someone away by force or fraud and then keeping them illegally imprisoned without their consent.
It comes as a fictional kidnapping has been played out onscreen in the long-running soap Coronation Street.įans of the show have recently been following the troubles of Kelly Neelan - played by Millie Gibson - who was abducted by her criminal dad’s old acquaintances in a bid to get a £50,000 ransom. That was a 37% increase on 107 the previous year and the highest number in the last decade. The latest Home Office figures show there were 147 crimes of kidnapping recorded by Avon and Somerset Police in 2021. A growing number of people are falling victim to kidnappings in Avon and Somerset.
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