HC Deb 30 June 1988 vol 136 c290W
Mr. Jopling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases there have been of a person convicted of murder having previously been similarly convicted since 1965.

Mr. John Patten

Four persons convicted of murder in England and Wales had previously been similarly convicted since 1965: of these, one committed the second murder in prison and two others committed the second murder before conviction for the first.