The number of suspects charged for burglaries has halved in seven years, BBC analysis shows.
Ed Thomas, Noel Titheradge & Larissa KennellySharon Hornsby doesn't sleep at night and spends her days watching four CCTV cameras set up around her home because she lives in fear of being burgled.
"I was on the phone while they were robbing me," says Sharon, who is disabled and has cancer. "He put this hand around my neck, and the first thing I thought was, my God he's going to strangle me. He took my chains from around my neck, my rings off me, and the next minute the baseball bat knocked me unconscious," she said.Sharon isn't the only one living on her street in this situation. Oak Grove is a quiet cul-de-sac of 14 bungalows in Doncaster.
Another resident, Sylvester Watson, suffered an attempted break-in soon after moving up from London hoping for a quieter life. He says he now stays up until midnight out of anxiety that it will happen again.Of the 10 burglaries by Oak Grove, only one crime has resulted in a prosecution. The number of suspects charged for residential and commercial burglaries in England and Wales has fallen from 25,163 in 2015 to 11, 271 in 2022, BBC analysis shows.
Diana Fawcett, chief executive at the charity Victim Support, said she is seriously concerned by the plummeting rate of charges over the past year.
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