Homicide: Convictions
(asked on 20th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the change was in the number of people convicted of murder between 2010 and 2015.
The available information on the number of convictions for homicide offences in England and Wales is given in the table and is taken from the Home Office Homicide Index.
| Table 1: Offenders convicted of homicide1,2,3, 2010/11 to 2013/14 | ||||
| England and Wales | ||||
| Outcome4 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
| Numbers | ||||
| Convicted of homicide: | ||||
| Murder | 259 | 236 | 243 | 194 |
| Sec. 2 manslaughter | 26 | 26 | 25 | 16 |
| Other manslaughter | 133 | 98 | 110 | 93 |
| Infanticide | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Total convicted of homicide | 420 | 361 | 379 | 306 |
| Number of homicide cases completed at court 5 | 357 | 326 | 326 | 239 |
| 1. Source: Homicide Index, Home Office | ||||
| 2. Homicide Index data are not designated as National Statistics | ||||
| 3. As at 5 November 2014; figures are subject to revision as cases are dealt with by the police and the courts, or as further information becomes available. | ||||
| 4. Includes offenders whose court proceedings were completed by 5 November 2014. | ||||
| 5. These figures are based on number of homicide cases concluded at court (e.g. the number of victims in currently recorded homicides), rather than the number of suspects who have been to court. | ||||
Data are based on the number of offenders whose court proceedings have been completed. Due to the time it can take for cases to pass through the criminal justice system, more recent years will contain a greater number of homicides that remain under investigation and therefore fewer convictions in those years. Updated figures for the number of people convicted of homicide in previous years, along with new figures for 2014/15 will be published by the Office for National Statistics in their Focus on Violence publication on 11 February 2016.