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Victims of Crime Trust

former English charity

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2023
Entity authorityQ7925615 ↗
Source-derived summary

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 and manslaughter 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Returns which should have been sent to the Charity Commission were several years overdue in July 2010 and its website withdrawn from service.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".

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Victims of Crime Trust” as former English charity. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1996, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Victims, Crime and Trust can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as former English charity. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 13, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7925615. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994, 1996 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Victims of Crime Trust” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.