The Victims of Crime Trust was an English
charity which aimed at providing care assistance to victims of serious
crime, as well as raising awareness of the issues that are faced by victims of crime in the aftermath of the crime.
It was founded in 1994, and from 1996 was extensively involved in support for families of
murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...
and
manslaughter
Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is sometimes said to have first been made by the ancient Athenian lawmaker Draco in the 7th cen ...
victims.
Its founder and director was
Norman Brennan, a former police officer.
Its accounts and Annual Returns which should have been sent to the
Charity Commission
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were several years overdue in July 2010 and its website withdrawn from service.
The Charity Commission removed the trust's registration on 9 December 2010 on the grounds that it had "ceased to exist".
[ ''No longer registered'']
References
Charities based in England
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