Reoffenders: Homicide
(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people previously convicted of (a) murder and (b) other killings have subsequently been convicted of carrying out additional killings after being released from prison in each year since 2010; and how many of those people had been serving (i) life and (ii) indeterminate sentences before being so released.
(a) The mandatory sentence for murder is life imprisonment. The number of offenders serving a life sentence for murder and, after being released, subsequently convicted of an offence or offences which resulted in death is in column (a) in the table below.
(b) The number of offenders serving a sentence for offences resulting in death (but not murder) and, after being released, subsequently convicted of an offence or offences resulting in death is in column (b) below. None of these offenders was serving an indeterminate sentence.
The numbers given in each column relate to the year in which the offenders concerned were charged with an offence or offences which resulted in death not the year in which they were convicted.
Year |
| a) Life sentenced prisoners convicted of murder or other offences resulting in death at both index offence and SFO | b)Other sentenced offenders convicted of offences resulting in death at both index offence and SFO |
2010 |
| 1 | 1 |
2011 |
| 2 | 1 |
2012 |
| 0 | 0 |
2013 |
| 2 | 1 |
2014 |
| 1 | 2 |
2015 |
| 2 | 1 |
2016 |
| 0 | 0 |
2017 |
| 3 | 0 |
* Not all SFO outcomes have been received for 2017, as some cases have not yet reached conclusion