Domestic Abuse: Homicide
(asked on 18th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women were killed by their current or former partner in (a) Suffolk, (b) the East of England and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
The Home Office Homicide Index contains information on partner / ex-partner homicides. Information on the number of women aged 16 or over killed by a partner or ex-partner in (a) Suffolk and (b) the East of England and (c) England and Wales for each of the last five years is given in the table.
Table 1: Number of homicides recorded by the police in Suffolk, the East of England and England and Wales, where a woman aged 16 or over was killed by a partner or ex-partner, 2010/11 to 2014/15 1,2.3 | |||||
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Partner or ex-partner4 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
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Suffolk | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
East of England5 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 8 |
England and Wales | 97 | 89 | 77 | 85 | 81 |
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1. Source: Homicide Index, Home Office | |||||
2. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics |
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3. As at 13 November 2015; figures are subject to revision as cases are dealt with by the police and by the courts, or as further information becomes available. | |||||
4. Partner / ex-partner homicides include the following relationships: spouse, cohabiting partner, boyfriend/girlfriend, ex-spouse/ex-cohabiting partner/ex-boyfriend/girlfriend, adulterous relationship, lover’s spouse or emotional rival. | |||||
5. Includes Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk police. | |||||