asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many murders were committed in each of the last 20 years for which records are available; how many such instances led to prosecutions in each such year; and in how many and in what percentage of such prosecutions in each year the accused was convicted;(2) in how many and in what percentage of murder cases in each of the last 20 years for which records are available the person killed was the husband or wife of the person killing; in how many and in what percentage of such cases the murder was committed in the course of the commission of another criminal offence; in how many and what proportion of such cases the murder was classed as terrorist or as a gang murder, respectively; and how many and what percentage of such murders were committed with firearms, bombs, other weapons or by poison, respectively.

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