A city centre which has witnessed a recent murder in a bank and a brazen shop robbery both in broad daylight has left some people too terrified to visit.
As police officers patrol the streets of Derby after the shocking crimes just weeks ago, one worried mother said: 'It makes you fearful to come here but whenever I do I make sure the kids are close by my side.'
The mum-of-three, 34, told how the East Midlands city where she has lived since the age of three, has got a 'lot worse over he past years' and is 'very scary.'
She said: 'If I never had to set foot here again I'd be happy but I need to come shopping here at times.'
The mother, who declined to be named, told of her 'absolute shock and horror' at the brutal stabbing to death of a businessman in Lloyds Bank in busy St Peter's Street and masked robbers smashing a pawnbrokers with crowds gathering and watching on helplessly.
