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Sir John Wheeler
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of homicides recorded by the police in the Metropolitan police district in each of the last 10 years; and how many of these were subsequently recorded as murder.
Mr. John Patten
The number of offences initially recorded as homicide by the Metropolitan police, and the number of these subsequently found to be murder is shown in the following table for each year from 1982 to 1990:
| Homicide offences in the Metropolitan police district | ||
| Initially recorded homicide offences | ||
| Year | Total number | Subsequently recorded as murder |
| 1982 | 196 | 47 |
| 1983 | 148 | 39 |
| 1984 | 164 | 36 |
| 1985 | 191 | 40 |
| 1986 | 207 | 50 |
| 1987 | 194 | 43 |
| 1988 | 160 | 33 |
| 1989 | 165 | 46 |
| 1990 | 182 | 37 |