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Oral Answers to Questions — Murders (Statistics)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 1947.

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Photo of Mr Hector Hughes Mr Hector Hughes , Aberdeen North 12:00, 27 November 1947

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many murders known to the police in England and Wales during the last 20 years were committed by persons previously convicted of crime; and what proportion this bears to the total number of murders known to have been committed in that area during that period.

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