§ 126. Mr. Sandysasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many capital murders, after deducting those reduced to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, were committed in each of the years 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967.
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§ Mr. Elystan MorganFollowing are the latest corrected figures for offences of murder known to the police in England and Wales that were or might have been capital under the Homicide Act, 1957. The figures are hypothetical wherever the case did not come to trail or came to trial after the enactment of the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, 1965.
1962 … … … 18 1963 … … … 15 1964 … … … 20 1965 … … … 32 1966 … … … 35 1967 … … … 49* * Includes one offence not yet disposed of by the courts.