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Mr. Peter Robinson
asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many murders there are in Northern Ireland for which no one has as yet been arrested and charged.
Mr. Humphrey Atkins
It is not possible until the result of a trial to distinguish between murders and other unlawful killings.During the period 1 January 1969 to 31 March 1980 there were 1,259 unlawful killings in respect of which the police are treating their inquiries as murder investigations and for which no one has as yet been charged.During the same period 746 people were charged with terrorist murders.