
National Crackdown on Illegal Plates
Government funded national enforcement against ghost, cloned and missing plates. Stronger penalties were consulted on; Sarah Coombes’ full proposal has not yet become law.
LBC · 4 September 2026We’re forcing the system to change.
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Government funded national enforcement against ghost, cloned and missing plates. Stronger penalties were consulted on; Sarah Coombes’ full proposal has not yet become law.
LBC · 4 September 2026
The Crime and Policing Act created a power to recover tracked stolen goods without a warrant when delay is impracticable. At 14 September 2026, it was not yet in force.
Home Office · Police powers factsheet

BTP removed its two-hour and £200 screening limits after Crush Crime’s FOI work and pressure from road.cc, Cycling UK, supporters and MPs.
road.cc · 28 January 2026
After 40 days of filming and pressure for action, the victim-blaming “Mind the Grab” warning disappeared.
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After campaign research on backlogs and empty courts, Government funded 2,000 extra sitting days, taking the 2024-25 allocation to 108,500.
Ministry of Justice · 17 December 2024
Podcast · TriggernometryI Proved The Police Don’t Investigate CrimeWatch / listen
Podcast · The SpectatorScuzz Nation, The Edition podcastWatch / listen
Podcast · Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise PerryHow to Crush CrimeWatch / listen
Podcast · The Peter McCormack ShowThe Collapse of Law and OrderWatch / listen
Broadcast · The Spectator‘You build a marketplace where theft is rewarded’: on ‘legal’ phone and bike theftWatch / listen
Broadcast · SpectatorTV‘Theft is essentially legal’: Lawrence Newport’s plan to crush crimeWatch / listen
Broadcast · Good Morning BritainShould repeat offenders be locked up for longer?Watch / listen
Broadcast · BBC NewsnightLawrence Newport on the phone theft crisisWatch / listen
Broadcast · GB NewsLawrence Newport explains the ready-to-go National Inquiry BillWatch / listenArticle · City AM
Reporting from City AM on londoners want the police to treat crime as if it’s actually illegal.

Article · road.cc
Reporting from road.cc on police confirm u-turn on controversial two-hour bike-theft policy.

Article · ABC News
Reporting from ABC News on london is the world’s “phone theft capital”, but one australian decides to fight back.
Article · Breitbart
Reporting from Breitbart on london phone thefts hit record high with over 116,000 stolen last year.

Article · GB News
Reporting from GB News on sadiq khan accused of ignoring london’s phone-theft crisis.

Article · City Hall Conservatives
Reporting from City Hall Conservatives on tackling london’s theft epidemic with the crush crime founder.

Article · GB News
Reporting from GB News on lawless london: sadiq khan accused of ‘chasing headlines over chasing criminals’.

Article · The Standard
Reporting from The Standard on phone theft is a cancer eating away at london, here’s my plan to cut it out.

Article · LBC
Reporting from LBC on police fail to find bike stolen outside scotland yard, as officers close case despite tracker.
Article · Daily Mail
Reporting from Daily Mail on my bike was stolen from outside the new scotland yard and met police ‘did nothing about it’.

Article · Conservative Home
Reporting from Conservative Home on the revolving door of justice is breaking britain’s social contract.

Article · Daily Mail
Reporting from Daily Mail on only around one in 200 criminals are sent to prison, new figures reveal.

Article · Daily Express
Reporting from Daily Express on uk crime madness as ‘99.5% of criminals don’t go to jail’.

Article · Daily Mail
Reporting from Daily Mail on hardened criminals are ‘laughing at the law’ after being handed short sentences.

Article · The Sun
Reporting from The Sun on fury as half of all uk crime is committed by just 10 per cent of career crooks who walk free again & again.

Article · The Spectator
Reporting from The Spectator on tfl chief accused of ‘lying’ over tube graffiti claims.

Article · The Standard
Reporting from The Standard on transport for london accused of ‘lying’ to smear vigilantes cleaning graffiti-covered tube carriages.

Article · London Centric
Reporting from London Centric on the dominic cummings-backed group cleaning up london’s tube graffiti.

Article · The Standard
Reporting from The Standard on behind the scenes of the tube graffiti epidemic: what happened when we met the guerrilla cleaners.


The debate over longer sentences for repeat offenders.
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