THE “resilience” of the victim must be recognised as a key to overcoming the trauma of crime, and victims should not be pressurised into feeling they needed to forgive, a leading Dutch criminologist has said.

THE families of four Dutch people killed in a plane crash in the Knockmealdown Mountains 20 years ago made the sad journey back to The Vee yesterday to attend a memorial Mass.

IRELAND has the highest level of assaults, sexual crimes and robberies in the EU and it’s going to get worse, according to a major report of victims’ experiences.