§ Sir Richard Glynasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many capital murders were committed in England and Wales during the four years 1960 to 1964; if lie will give comparable figures for the four years 1965 to 1968; and how many murderers were executed in England and Wales in the four years 1960 to 1964.
§ Mr. CallaghanThe corrected figure for offences of murder known to the police in England and Wales that were
347Wor might have been capital in the four-year period 1961–64 is 67. The figure is hypothetical wherever the case did not come to trial. For the reasons explained in the recent Home Office publication "Murder 1957 to 1968", no comparable figure exists for 1965–68. While the report estimates that 154 offences of murder in the years 1965–68 might have been "capital", it points out that these figures are inevitably overestimated. For capital murders known to the police in England and Wales in 1961–64, 10 persons were executed.