'Homicide' - Long-term national recorded crime trend

Source: Research Development & Statistics (CRCSG) Home Office

• There were a total of 765 homicide offences recorded in 2005/06, a decrease of twelve per cent compared to the previous year.  The figure of 765 includes 52 homicide victims of the 7 July London bombings.
• Increases in homicides in recent years, and in particular 2002/03, have been influenced by the victims of Harold Shipman, whose deaths will have occurred some years prior to the period in which they were recorded.
• The figures for 2000/01 include 58 Chinese nationals who collectively suffocated in a lorry en route to the UK. 
• Homicide includes the offences of murder, manslaughter and infanticide.
• Data for the British Transport Police are included from 2002/03 onwards.