Reoffenders
(asked on 16th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 03 October 2019 to Question 292174 on Re-offenders: Homicide, how many offenders under statutory supervision have been charged with serious further offences, broken down by offence, in each of the last five years.
The table below sets out the number of offenders under the statutory supervision of the NPS and CRCs who were charged with a serious further offence, broken down by offence in each of the last five years.
SFO offence | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Arson with intent to endanger life | 15 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 18 |
Assault by penetration | 24 | 30 | 35 | 37 | 15 |
Attempt or conspiracy to commit murder | 46 | 54 | 60 | 85 | 79 |
Aggravated Burglary | 24 | 22 | 41 | 57 | 35 |
Causing death by dangerous/careless driving/aggravated vehicle taking | 5 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 16 |
False imprisonment | 11 | 10 | 25 | 29 | 17 |
Firearms offences including possession with intent | 19 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 17 |
Kidnapping | 23 | 15 | 14 | 22 | 28 |
Manslaughter | 8 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 13 |
Murder | 71 | 69 | 86 | 114 | 132 |
Offences under the Explosive Substances Act | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
Other offences against the person | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other qualifying sexual offences | 26 | 36 | 26 | 38 | 21 |
Other serious violent offence | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Other specified offence causing death | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rape | 172 | 217 | 245 | 242 | 130 |
Robbery with firearm | 8 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 13 |
Under 13 sexual offences including rape | 27 | 34 | 25 | 32 | 23 |
Total | 481 | 548 | 624 | 740 | 562 |
- Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording systems, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing
- The NPS and CRCs are required to complete reviews on any eligible offender who has been charged with (including attempted or conspiracy to commit offences): murder manslaughter, other specified offences causing death, rape or assault by penetration, or a sexual offence against a child under 13 years of age.
- Data provided for offences should in italics are “conditional” reviews completed by the NPS only when an offender has been assessed as high risk of harm during the current sentence.
- Not all SFO notifications result in the completion of a reviews as charges can be reduced or dropped. Not every offender charged with a SFO is convicted.
- The data represents SFO charges and not a unique count of offenders.
You have also asked for what reason the figures on the number of offenders convicted of murder, who at the time they committed the offence were being supervised on a life licence between 2016 and 2018 are different from the figures for offenders released from a life sentence for murder who went on to commit another murder while on life licence in the same period.
The figures in PQ 267272 relate to the number of offenders being supervised on life licence, not restricted to those on life licence for a mandatory life sentence for the offence of murder, charged in the years 2016, 2017 and 2018 and subsequently convicted of murder.
The corresponding figures stated in PQ 292174 are lower because they refer to the number of offenders released in 2016, 2017 and 2018 on life licence following a conviction for murder who have since been convicted of another murder.