Glasgow UK’s number one for phone theft; Chelmsford 4th!

Link: Glasgow is UK’s phone theft capital – Tech

Glasgow is now also infamous as the UK’s prime crime hotspot for the fortuitous theft of mobile phones.

While not a claim to be particularly proud of, Glasgow’s positioning at the top of the mobile phone theft performance table is closely followed by Belfast and Liverpool, which ran in a close second and third respectively.

Chelmsford sits in fourth position, while London, which you might expect to be higher given its population density, came in at a moderate fifth on the top-ten list. Rounding out the UK rundown of the more perilous phone theft cities are Bristol (6), Manchester (7), Leeds (8), Sheffield (9), and Cambridge (10).

Chelmsford is FOURTH?

CHELMSFORD? The little sleepy town of Chelmsford?

I think someone from the insurance companies should be taking a look at their figures. Wikipedia lists Chelmsford‘s population at a believable 110,000 — or 150,000 if you’re counting the borough area of small towns around it.

Now, Manchester, the 7th city in the league, has a population of 441,000 according to Wikipedia.

So what the hell is going on in Chelmsford? How come it’s number 4 and Manchester — with at least FOUR times the population — is at number 7?