They weren't all saints: virtue isn't automatically bestowed on someone just because they are the victim of a senseless crime.

Book theft can be such a senseless crime.

This senseless crime was completely avoidable.

I saw the victims of a senseless crime.

The parents of the victim spoke of their anguish at the 'senseless crime' which had taken their son's life.

He came from a decent, loving family whose lives have been shattered by his senseless death.

We want to use words to make sense of otherwise senseless death.

Through our words and actions may we give additional meaning to their senseless deaths.

The real demonstrators were as revolted as anyone by the senseless violence.

The cartoon highlighted the irrationality of mindless hatred and senseless violence.

It's a slow slide into inevitable and senseless violence that, while haunting and disturbingly written, doesn't quite rise out of the realm of predictability until the last thirty pages.

Set over the course of four days, it soon becomes clear this was not a random act of senseless violence, but something more sinister.

I found the book frightening - all the growing and shrinking, and the characters gripped by senseless violence.