Homicides in England reach highest level in a decade
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Figures show knife crime is up 6% and proportion of offenders being charged has fallen.
By Vikram Dodd, Police and Crime Correspondent
Homicides are at a record high for the past decade, knife crime is rising and the proportion of offenders being charged has reached a record low, two sets of official figures show. The Office for National Statistics said that in the year to December 2018, 732 lives were lost to homicide, compared with 690 the previous year. The figure is the highest number recorded since 2008. Homicide includes murder, manslaughter, corporate manslaughter and infanticide.
The total covers both England and Wales, although in Wales homicides fell from 35 in 2017 to 27 in 2018.
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