Murder is so rare in Scotland our media have to scrape up a story of a Nigerian and a Ugandan in London who met in Aberdeen years before

Lewisham where the death occurred rather than the National’s image of Aberdeen where it did not?

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In the National yesterday:

and:

What on earth is the point in this? Does Aberdeen do a Masters in Murder now? Talk about scraping a barrel.

How do we know they met in Aberdeen? AI can find not a trace of them in Abderdeen.

Lewisham and Aberdeen have similar populations, 300 000 and 227 000 but very different homicide rates, 11 in Lewishasm last year compared to only 4 in Aberdeen, 1.7 and 3.7 per 100 000 respectively.

Sources:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-year-ending-june-2026/

https://aoav.org.uk/2026/londons-2025-murders-examined-key-figures-in-the-uk-capitals-homicides/

Back to the headline, just how rare is homicide in Scotland?

In the whole world only Norway has a murder rate just lower than Scotland after 19 years of evidence-based and joined up policy initiatives back by funding from a government that listens to professional and academic opinion

Uganda? 9 per 100 000.

Nigeria? 15.7 per 100 000?

Source: https://statisticsoftheworld.com/homicide-rate-by-country

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  1. Essentially, this story is about a resident of Glasgow who had attended Aberdeen University who had travelled to London to meet a friend who also had studied at Aberdeen and who lived in north London. They went to a pub/restaurant in South east London and in an altercation outside the venue a man died.

    I know the two areas of London pretty well, especially Lewisham, which has a large population of people from Nigeria and the restaurant specialises in Nigerian cuisine.

    In the census of 2021, Lewisham had a majority of people who were not English-born and whose first languages were other than English. The largest group in the population of the borough is white English-born people whose first language is English. It is a very multicultural community with residents from other parts of the UK (such as my daughter and her partner – Glaswegians), from countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, and, I dare say, from Australasia.

    So, if an event, such as an alleged manslaughter, occurs in Lewisham, it can be connected via one or two individuals to any country in the world!

    My wife and I, while staying for a short while in the part of north London where one of the two accused lives, used to go to a coffee shop in the Main Street after we’d got our shopping. It was a pleasant, sociable place and people got drawn into general conversations amongst all the customers at the time. It was usually a mix of people from various parts of the World, and on more than one occasion other customers would comment on how well we spoke English, although we had odd accents! This was despite the fact that we were the only ones present whose first language was English(Scots).

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