HC Deb 12 December 2001 vol 376 cc923-4W
Dr. Murrison

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many homicides were committed in each year from 1997 to 2001 by criminals who were on early release from prison at the time of the attack. [18418]

Beverley Hughes

Records held centrally are not in a form as to permit routine analyses of the re-offending of all those on early release.

However, figures are available for homicides by persons who had previously been convicted of homicide in England and Wales, and are as follows:

  • 1997: 2—One offender committed suicide after the second offence.
  • 1998: 2
  • 1999: 5—One offender committed suicide and one offender died following the second offence.
  • 2000: 0
  • 2001: 0

Data for suspects convicted of homicides by previous homicide convictions are published annually in tables 4.10 and 4.11 of Criminal Statistics England and Wales.