§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison officers in England and Wales were murdered in the course of duty during each of the past 10 years.
§ Dr. SummerskillOne, in 1965; none subsequently.
§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many murders were committed in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonIt has been found that cases of murder are often indistinguishable from other homicides—i.e., manslaughter and infanticide—in the absence of court decisions; this is reflected in the change of classification of such offences for the purpose of the criminal statistics from 1973 onwards (of Chapter 7 ofCriminal Statistics 1973 (Cmnd. 5677)).
The following table gives figures for offences currently recorded as homicide together with the number of those offences subsequently decided by the courts to be murder:
year of Recording by the Police Number of offences of Homicide Number subsequently decided by the Courts to be Murder 1965 N.A.* 54 1966 N.A.* 64 1967 354 67 1968 360 73 1969 332 69 1970 342 91 1971 406 84 1972 412 88 1973 391 82 1974 535 150 * The number of homicide offences on the current classification is not available for the years up to and including 1966. Information about murder in terms of the former classification is available in the annual volumes of the Criminal Statistics up to and including 1972.
§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many 398W police officers in England and Wales were murdered in the course of duty during each of the past 10 years.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonThe following is the information
Police officers on duty who were victims of homicide, England and Wales, 1965–1974: cases subsequently decided by the court to be murder.
Year of recording by the police Number of Offences 1965 1 1966 4 1967 — 1968 — 1969 — 1970 1 1971 2 1972 1 1973 1 1974 1