Statistics for Kidnapping in the United Kingdom are often hard to discover, due to the country's policies around the crime.
According to the Offender Management Caseload Statistics, UK had recorded about 57 convicted kidnappings cases between 2007-2008.
[2] A 2004 Home Office research study presented 798 police reports regarding child abduction in England and Wales.
[3] The kidnapping figures published by the Office for National Statistics recorded about 532 cases of child abductions that were reported to police in 2011/12.
In 1992, Joanna Grenside, an aerobics teacher and bulimia sufferer from Harpenden, England, had staged her disappearance to avoid Christmas due to what the magistrates' chairman accepted as being related to her bulimia and the food that would normally go with Christmas.