THE number of women arrested for violent offences hit a record high in the UK last year, more than doubling over the last decade, The Sun reported today.

  • By Graeme Wilson
  • From: NewsCore
  • January 29, 2010
Some 88,139 females were held for committing violence last year, compared to 37,100 such arrests in 2000.

The latest report from the Ministry of Justice showed the number of women arrested for fighting soared by 1,000 last year, while the figure for men fell by 10,000 to just under 390,000.

Cops blamed the surge in female brutality on the hard-drinking culture among young women.

Hundreds of females brawl in the street every weekend.

There was also a rise in attacks by girl gangs.

Some 13,690 women were arrested on drug-related offences, up nearly 1,600 on 2008. Another 8,308 were held for fraud or forgery, a rise of nearly 500.

The opposition Conservative justice spokesman Dominic Grieve called the figures deeply disturbing.

"It's a damning indictment on this government's failure to get to grips with social problems from drug abuse to family breakdown," he said.

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