Homicide Offences Recorded in the 12 Months to March 31, 2022 by Age of Victim
Keywords
Homicide, Age, Victim, Manslaughter, Murder.
Publication Number
PUB 1492
FOI Reference Number:
16991
Request Title
Homicide Offences Recorded in the 12 Months to March 31, 2022 by Age of Victim
Date Range
March 2021 to March 2022
Information Requested
The number of homicide offences recorded in the 12 months to March 31, 2022, broken down by age of the victim.
If possible within cost limits, please state whether the offence is murder, manslaughter or infanticide.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at
27 June 2022
Date of Disclosure
01 December 2022
Related Documents/Links
Murder/Unsolved Murder Case Reviews 1997-2021
Teenage (13-19) Homicide Victims and Perpetrators 2020 and 2021
Female Victims of Homicide - 2021
Teenage Homicides - 2020 to 2021
Information on LGBTQ+ Victims of Homicide Since 2016
Domestic homicides April 2014 to March 2017
Policies for Reviewing Homicide and Missing Person Investigations
FOI 16991 Response
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police does hold information relating to all of your request.
Second Duty – The below data has been provided in relation to your FOI submission.
Fact – Data collated for homicides recorded according to Home Office Crime Recording Standards.
Exemption –N/A
Signposting- The below links to information already in public domain may be of use to you:
Appendix tables: Homicide in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
Performance Summary To March 2022 (essex.police.uk)
Caveats: The data is correct as of 27/06/2022.
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The table below shows the number of Homicides in the 12 months to March 2022 broken down by the age of the victim.
|
HMIC Crime Tree Level 3 |
Full Offence Title |
Age of victim |
|
HOMICIDE |
Manslaughter |
2 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Manslaughter |
22 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Manslaughter |
54 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
16 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
16 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
19 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
21 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
22 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
24 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
33 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
34 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
35 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
35 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
40 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
43 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
46 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
46 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
50 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
52 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
57 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
66 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
67 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
67 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
69 |
|
HOMICIDE |
Murder - of persons aged 1 year or over |
89 |
|
Total number of Homicides |
25 |
|
Every effort is made to ensure that data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.