lets get this in persepctive - in a city of maybe 10M people with extremes of wealth and poverty , tis is going to happen - sad but true likely , it was over a tivial matter, as is usually the case, but obviously no one can comment yet very very very few of us will have actual experience of a face to face violent crime in the area, even fewer will have experience of a random violent crime If a murder a mile away has you quaking in your laura ashely quited bed, then maybe an escape to the 'burbs is the answer - o of couse you could still live in the area and at a push, support or get involved in whatever is going on to help move away from the ( overhyped ) series of street assaults that seems to fill our every waking moment from Breakfast telly until we go to bed. Anyway, the horror of living in the dead black heart of Sevenoaks is enough to make me stay here ( until the snorklets need to go to a High achieving grammar school etc ) pah