Children under-10 have committed almost 400 offences in the Thames Valley area a Freedom of Information request has revealed. 

The BBC report:

Children aged under 10 committed 379 offences in the Thames Valley region over the last three years, figures obtained by the BBC have shown.

Those responsible fall under the age of criminality and cannot be prosecuted.

The offences included a sexual assault by a four-year-old, and a nine-year-old caught in possession of a firearm.

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Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.