§ 42. Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the proportion of homicide victims for the latest year for which information is available who were (a) children under the age of one, (b) children aged one to five and (c) children aged five to 15 years; and how many in each of the above categories were victims of a homicide by a member of their own family.
§ Mr. MellorThe information requested is given in the table below. Statistics on the ages of victims of homicide offences are published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" (in Table 4.6 of the volume for 1984 Cmnd. 9621).
Offences currently* recorded as homicide by age of victim and relationship of victim to principal suspect England and Wales Number and percentages Age of Victim Percentage of total offence Number of offences of which family relationship Less than 1 year 4 20 15 1–4 years 6 34 32 5–15 years 6 32 18 16 and over 85 477 152 All ages 100 563 217 * As at 1st June 1985.
Notifiable offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was reported to have been used and for which there was a suspect England and Wales 1984 Numbers Offence Age of principal suspect Violence not endangering life Violence endangering life Burglary Robbery Criminal damage Sex offences Other Total Under 18 36 888 5 55 167 3 — 1,154 18 and over 204 319 29 364 162 9 66 1,153 Total 240 1,207 34 419 329 12 66 2,307