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Domestic Violence: Homicide

Volume 467: debated on Monday 19 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) men and (b) women were killed by their current or former partners in each of the last five years. (163734)

I have been asked to reply.

Information relating to homicides recorded during the period 2001-02 to 2005-06 was published in table 1.05 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin “Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence, 2005/2006” (HOSB 02/07) and is shown in the following table.

Homicides currently recorded1 in England and Wales where victim is partner/ex-partner of principal suspect, 2001-02 to 2005-062

Victim gender

Year offence initially recorded as homicide3

Male

Female

2001-02

29

117

2002-03

30

106

2003-04

26

95

2004-05

39

105

2005-06

23

83

1 As at 9 October 2006; figures are revised as cases are dealt with by the police and by the courts, or as further information becomes available.

2 Data for 2006-07 are scheduled to be published in late January 2008.

3 Homicide offences are shown according to the year in which the police initially recorded the offence as homicide. This is not necessarily the year in which the incident took place or the year in which any court decision was made.

Source:

Table 1.05 of HOSB 02/07