Professor Amanda Haynes:

Yes. Some of the data we acquired from the Prison Service related to the top five offences for which, for example, women Travellers were carrying out a sentence on the day the service provided us with this snapshot data. For non-Traveller women, the top offences were theft, murder, robbery, assault and assault causing harm, manslaughter and the possession of drugs. For Travellers, the top offences were theft, robbery, indecent assault and assault. What we are seeing there is that overall, non-Travellers are in prison for very serious offences, such as murder, which is the second-highest ranked offence, manslaughter and assault causing harm, while Travellers are in prison, in particular, for theft. On the day in question, there were 16 Traveller women in prison and 11 of them were in prison for theft.