Almost three million dollars has been paid out to victims of crime since 2002 by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (CICB).The money was given as a result of 283 successful claims, according to information released by Government for the first time yesterday.More than half a million dollars ($508,277) was awarded by the publicly-funded board in 2009, when there were 43 successful claims and eight unsuccessful.That compares to $400,638 for 48 successful claims in 2008 and $448,199 for 49 successful claims the year before.The pay-out figure for 2009 of $508,277 represents an increase of almost 80 percent from the amount awarded five years before in 2004 of $282,527.For the years 2002 to 2009, an average of $370,366 was paid out to victims annually, with an average of 40 claims a year made (36 successful and four denied).The average age of applicants over the eight-year period was 34 and the average age range was 13 to 66.Assaults accounted for 81 percent of claims.In 2009, there were 32 claims relating to assaults, 12 of them involving a weapon, 16 with no weapon and four sexual.The statistics are contained in the CICB’s annual reports for the years 2003 to 2010, which were tabled as one document in the House of Assembly yesterday by Attorney General Michael Scott.The Royal Gazette revealed in September that a report for the board had not been tabled in Parliament since 2006 and that report was for 2003.Former Attorney General Kim Wilson pledged to get the outstanding reports to the House.The Criminal Injuries (Compensation) Act 1973 requires the board to submit an annual report to the AG as soon as possible after the end of each calendar year and the Minister must then lay the report before the House and Senate.The board secretary said in September that the reports for the years before 2009 were sent directly for the attention of Sen Wilson’s two predecessors, Larry Mussenden and Philip Perinchief.