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It has had more than £9 billion spent on its regeneration, and boasts a modern transport hub, Europe’s biggest shopping mall and the vast Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

But today Stratford in East London is awarded a less welcome accolade as the country’s worst crime hotspot – a magnet for muggers, pickpockets and thieves.

Analysis of official police figures by The Mail on Sunday reveals that the postcode covering the huge Westfield Stratford City mall is plagued by almost 200 offences every month.
Revealing: Crime rates have been compared for every postcode in England, Wales and Northern Ireland over the course of more than a year

Revealing: Crime rates have been compared for every postcode in England, Wales and Northern Ireland over the course of more than a year

Scotland Yard has recorded 3,440 crimes in the area over the past 18 months, including 500 shoplifting offences, almost 300 violent crimes and hundreds of pick-pocketings and muggings.

Just last week five thugs were jailed over a gang fight inside the Westfield Stratford centre in which a young man, Liam Woodards, was stabbed to death in front of horrified shoppers.

In a further blow to the mall’s Australian owners Westfield Group, its other London shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush emerges as the site with the second-highest number of crimes – 2,524.

Airports where weapons are often seized from foreign visitors, railway stations haunted by beggars and football hooligans, and high streets where drinkers gather also see large numbers of arrests.

But this newspaper’s pioneering research has also uncovered some unlikely crime hotspots.



They include a hospital in Northern Ireland where hundreds of violent attacks have been recorded, and a seaside resort on the South Coast that has suffered more burglaries than anywhere else.

Music festivals such as Glastonbury also trigger huge spikes in the usually sleepy countryside.

It is the first time that crime rates have been compared for every postcode in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, each covering just a few hundred yards, over the course of more than a year.

The data was taken from details uploaded by every police force in the country to a website maintained by the Home Office.

Nick Herbert, the former Policing Minister who has championed crime maps, said last night: ‘The power of crime mapping is putting information in the hands of people.

I was in Stratford during my summers holidays staying at my mates home. Nothing too shoddy about it in broad light but as it gets dark, it's a bit something else.

WHERE'S LESTRADE OF SCOTLAND YARD WHEN YOU NEED HIM?

David Cameroon no take action?

where's statistic for Msia
oh wai, cos it's everywhere so they can't decided which is the top 10 most

even Sherlock wouldn't be able to clean out this "Augean stables"

busy protecting west London

vampires?

the only country in the world that u might consider of intimidate the police

Lol..Muckamore Abbey Hospital is Hospital Orang Gila what, of course have lots of 'violent crime'.

Belfast City Airport violent??

if you sort the criminals by race or religion... then you get your answer...

I bet the worst place in UK is still better than the best place in MY.

I thought Stratford is a trendy place to go shopping in UK.

I didn't notice anyone suspicious there.

lmao bunny still dummy as always

apalah dummy... perrghh!

a lot indians live there..

Outside from Malaysia is not our territory.

UK need to learn from us how to combat crime so that they can become the safest country in their region

Get rompak banyak happy je?

inb4 modelling