UK Crime Statistics
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1987 includes 15 victims of Michael Ryan.
2010/11 includes 12 victims of Derrick Bird.
2005/06 includes 52 victims of the 7 July London bombings.
2003/04 includes 20 cockle pickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay.
2002/03 includes 172 victims of Dr Harold Shipman.
2000/01 includes 58 Chinese nationals who suffocated in a lorry en route into the UK.
2018 includes 31 victims of the terrorist attacks that involved multiple victims, including the Manchester Arena bombing, and the London Bridge attack). It also includes 11 victims from the Shoreham air crash.
(Source. UK home Office)

Prison Population
The prison population of England & Wales on 7th October 2011 was 87,673.