HC Deb 03 March 1988 vol 128 cc636-7W
Mr. Wheeler

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many killings of prison officers in England and Wales, resulting in murder convictions, have taken place in each year since 1957.

Mr. John Patten

Since 1957, in England and Wales, one prison officer has been killed (in 1965) and the result was conviction for murder.