HC Deb 25 February 1966 vol 725 c157W
Mr. Shepherd

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what percentage of cases involving murder during the last five years the murderer was of foreign origin.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

Of the persons who have been convicted of murder during the last five years and were executed or are still in prison or on licence, approximately 2 per cent. were aliens at the time of conviction.