Crime Statistics
UK Murder Statistics
For some strange reason the UK
government are not very forthcoming on providing these
statistics, plus we have the battle of recorded crime versus
reported crime and the ambiguity of the British crime Survey.
if you find a reliable source we would love to know.
In 2002, 16,110 people were murdered in
the USA. / In 1999 23,000 were killed in Colombia.
March 1999 - March 2000 = 760
March 2000 - March 2001 = 792
March 2001 - March 2002 = 891
March 2002 - March
2003 = 1,048 - (876)
This includes 172 attributed
to Harold Shipman
March 2003 - March 2004 = 853
March 2004 - March 2005 = 868
2005 - 2006 =
765
includes 54 victims of the July bombings in London
March 2006 - March 2007 = 759
March 2007 - March
2008 784
(Provisional figure)
As of March 2003 there were 3,500 men
serving a sentence in prison for murder or manslaughter
