Only 1% of London bike thefts result in police action, according to figures

More than 1,363 incidents of bike-related crime were reported in the London borough of Hackney last year

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Just 1% of bike thefts in London, the capital of the UK, resulted in an arrest, prosecution or conviction last year, according to data analysis carried out by Lawtons, a solicitors based in the capital.

According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 61,000 recorded bicycle thefts in England and Wales last year. Within London, Lawtons has found - via analysis of Metropolitan Police data - that the boroughs of Hackney and Camden are the worst-affected areas for incidents of reported bike theft.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.

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