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Homicide: Prosecutions

Answer

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) holds management information on its Case Management System showing the number of defendants allocated the Principal Offence Category of Homicide at completion of prosecution. Please note that homicide consists of a range of offences, including, among others:

• Murder
• Attempted murder
• Conspiring or soliciting to commit murder
• Manslaughter (corporate, gross negligence, unlawful act)
• Infanticide
• Child destruction
• Aiding or assisting suicide
• Causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult
• Causing death by careless or dangerous driving
• Manslaughter due to diminished responsibility
• Causing death by aggravated vehicle taking

The Principal Offence Category indicates the most serious offence with which a defendant is charged.

The table below shows the number of completed prosecutions and convictions for homicide from the start of January 2005 to the end of September 2015. The data provided in the table is in financial quarters.

‘Total completed prosecutions’ refer to the conclusion of a prosecution case against a defendant such as conviction after trial, guilty plea, acquittal, or the prosecution against the defendant being dropped. ‘Convictions’ refer to convictions after trial and guilty pleas.

Quarter	04/05-Q4	05/06-Q1	05/06-Q2	05/06-Q3	05/06-Q4	06/07-Q1	06/07-Q2	06/07-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	338	267	337	335	414	274	305	317
Convictions	253	212	255	283	317	217	239	261

Quarter	06/07-Q4	07/08-Q1	07/08-Q2	07/08-Q3	07/08-Q4	08/09-Q1	08/09-Q2	08/09-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	325	296	328	347	301	344	313	378
Convictions	249	234	269	266	234	288	246	329

Quarter	08/09-Q4	09/10-Q1	09/10-Q2	09/10-Q3	09/10-Q4	10/11-Q1	10/11-Q2	10/11-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	358	266	292	312	305	241	251	276
Convictions	289	209	246	255	236	204	205	224

Quarter	10/11-Q4	11/12-Q1	11/12-Q2	11/12-Q3	11/12-Q4	12/13-Q1	12/13-Q2	12/13-Q3
Total completed prosecutions	269	208	225	245	244	253	289	283
Convictions	212	167	187	207	205	204	223	222

Quarter	12/13-Q4	13/14-Q1	13/14-Q2	13/14-Q3	13/14-Q4	14/15-Q1	14/15-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	201	259	254	236	226	263	220
Convictions	166	206	208	195	174	214	172

Quarter	14/15-Q3	14/15-Q4	15/16-Q1	15/16-Q2
Total completed prosecutions	224	195	268	259
Convictions	180	161	220	196

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

26917

Session

2023-24

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Subjects

Convictions Homicide Prosecutions

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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