At present a statistic would be hard to come by, but my experience of meeting a great number of Travellers is that it is likely that fewer Travellers are criminal than the national average in the population as a whole, but that is not a supportable fact, it is purely anicdotal, as is the opinion of the police interviewed in the articals. However, I have had more entre to the general population of Travellers than they have. Travellers do, and I have seen it, isolate members of the community who commit crime, as it is bad for buiness. As to spellings of her name, when I was a paralegal I recvied a memo from my boss correcting the spelling on my name... often. Some folks and cultures don't put a lot on spelling and some do. My father called me Lor, or Lorcan, my mother Lawrence, my school friends, Larry, I use all of those names... lock me up, keep me away from my nephew and niece, call my family and I bizarre and secretive as we speak a few languages at home... oh no, as Sharon points out, I'm not a Traveller, I'm settled... Cheers Larry, Lor, Lorcan, Lollya, etc.