Homicide: Greater London
Home Department
Bob Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded murders there were in each London borough in each of the last 10 years; and what percentage of those recorded murders led to a conviction in each year, broken down by borough.
Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)
The statistics are not available in the form requested. The recorded crime statistics relate to homicide offences and convictions data relates to offenders. In addition, recorded crime data are published on a financial year basis and conviction data are published on a calendar year basis. For these reasons, the two data sources are therefore not directly comparable.
Figures for the number of offences recorded and the number of convictions are in the following tables. Recorded crime data at borough level are only available from 2000-01.
| Table 1: Recorded offences of homicide by London borough—2000-01 to 2005-06 | ||||||
| Borough | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 |
| Barnet | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| Bexley | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Brent | 6 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 10 |
| Bromley | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Camden | 7 | 10 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 22 |
| City of Westminster | 8 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
| Croydon | 3 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 10 |
| Ealing | 8 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Enfield | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 6 |
| Greenwich | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 5 |
| Hackney | 14 | 14 | 6 | 20 | 9 | 7 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 6 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Haringey | 9 | 7 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 5 |
| Harrow | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Havering | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| Hillingdon | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| Hounslow | 5 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| Islington | 11 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Lambeth | 13 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 7 |
| Lewisham | 6 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 9 |
| Merton | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Newham | 11 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 13 |
| Redbridge | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Southwark | 15 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| Sutton | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Tower Hamlets | 4 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 0 |
| Waltham Forest | 4 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 7 |
| Wandsworth | 3 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Total | 189 | 202 | 195 | 211 | 195 | 175 |
| Number of defendants found guilty at all courts of homicide, broken down by London court area, 1996 to 2005( 1,)( )( 2,)( )( 3) | |||||||||||
| London court Area | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| City of London | |||||||||||
| Guildhall Justice Rooms | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Inner London Courts | |||||||||||
| Bow Street | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Camberwell Green/Tower Bridge | 8 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 16 |
| Greenwich and Woolwich | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 11 |
| Highbury Corner | 15 | 16 | 14 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 6 |
| Horseferry Road | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| Marylebone | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| South Western | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | — | 4 |
| Thames | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 13 |
| West London | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| Inner London Juvenile Courts | 1 | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total - Inner London | 38 | 51 | 50 | 59 | 52 | 62 | 49 | 58 | 52 | 59 | 73 |
| Outer London Boroughs | |||||||||||
| Barking and Dagenham | — | — | — | 6 | 1 | — | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Barnet | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| Bexley | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 4 |
| Brent | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 8 |
| Bromley | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | — |
| Croydon | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 6 |
| Ealing | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Enfield | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 9 | |
| Haringey | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Harrow | — | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — |
| Havering | 1 | — | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | — | 4 | — |
| Hillingdon | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| Hounslow | 2 | — | 3 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 4 | — | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Merton | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |
| Newham | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 12 |
| Redbridge | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 1 | — | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sutton | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — |
| Waltham Forest | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | — | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Total - Outer London | 45 | 26 | 33 | 52 | 41 | 52 | 63 | 62 | 58 | 91 | 77 |
| Total | 83 | 77 | 83 | 111 | 93 | 114 | 112 | 120 | 110 | 151 | 150 |
| (1) These data are on the principal offence basis. (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) The data covers: murder, manslaughter and infanticide—provided to be consistent with recorded crime data provided for this PQ. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform — Ref IOS 210-07. | |||||||||||