News feature
Meet Walsall’s victim’s champion
Justine Halifax B'ham Mail 13 Oct 10
Walsall is a diverse and multi-cultural borough home to around 254,000 people, but it’s just one of a number of hotspots in the West Midlands that’s being plagued by anti-social behaviour.
Now, in a bid to stop people suffering in silence for fear of reprisals, it has just become one of 80 areas in the UK to be awarded Home Office funding to recruit a victims champion.
Karen Bateman has been charged with the job of encouraging more people to pursue complaints so robust action can be taken to curb the anti-social antics of gangs making some residents’ lives a misery…