13 killings reported in Western Garda Division

Galway Bay fm newsroom – There were 13 killings in the Western Garda Division in the first three months of this year, almost double the figure for the previous year. That's according to the latest crime statistics from the Central Statistics Office. It shows that there were also 210 sexual offences reported in the West between January and March. There were more than 16 hundred attempts or threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences in the west. The biggest number of incidents were related to theft and related offences, totalling more than 5 thousand.