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In the UK the Home Office is responsible for the reduction and prevention of crime and oversees policing. The Ministry of Justice oversees prosecution and sentencing. For both victims and perpetrators, crime can mean lives are never the same again.

Police have confirmed the body found on Monday is that of missing heiress Eliza Fletcher.
Fletcher, 34, was a teacher in the area and the granddaughter of a local billionaire.
The Tennessee mother-of-two was abducted while jogging on Friday morning near the University of Memphis campus.

Should Shinzo Abe have a state funeral? As the government pushes forward with plans for such a funeral to honour Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, opposition grows over costs amid reminders that Abe was a divisive figure in the country.