James Hodson Information Rights Police Headquarters, Woburn Road, , , MK43 9AX

Telephone: 01234 842547 Email: [email protected]

28th January 2019

Our Ref: FOI2019/00008

REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 Ref No: FOI2019/00008

I write in connection with your request for information received on 2nd January. I note you seek access to the following information:

I would like to make the following request under the Freedom of Information Act.

In the last five calendar years, how many homicides have been recorded by your force?

Can the figure be broken down by each calendar year, the area where the homicide was recorded (town/city) and the type of homicide (stabbing, shooting, assault, arson etc).

I am required by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act) to handle all requests in a manner that is blind to the identity of the requestor. Any information released in response to a request is regarded as being published and therefore, in the public domain without caveat.

Following enquiries within the Constabulary please see our response below.

Response – Please see the below tables detailing the information you have requested.

Homicide 2014

Date Row Offence Location Type Committed 1 12/03/2014 MURDER Hatfield Domestic/Strangulation Welwyn Garden 2 16/03/2014 MURDER Dispute/Stabbing City 3 24/05/2014 MANSLAUGHTER Croxley Dispute/Physical attack

4 01/06/2014 MURDER St Albans Domestic/Child Neglect 5 10/06/2014 MURDER Hatfield Domestic/Strangulation Domestic/Hammer 6 03/07/2014 MURDER Bishops Stortford attack 7 22/08/2014 MURDER Watford Dispute/Stabbing 8 22/08/2014 MURDER Hertford Dispute/physical attack Domestic/Blunt 9 18/10/2014 MURDER Watford instrument Dispute/Unknown 10 20/10/2014 MURDER Potters Bar weapon

Homicide 2015

Row Date Offence Location Type 1 26/06/2015 MURDER Broxbourne Dispute/Hit and run Hemel 2 14/09/2015 MURDER Stranger/Stabbing Hempstead CORPORATE 3 03/10/2015 Hoddensdon Negligence/Explosion MANSLAUGHTER 4 03/10/2015 MURDER St Albans Dispute/Stabbing

5 24/10/2015 MURDER Cheshunt Stranger/Sexual/Strangulation

Homicide 2016

Row Date Offence Location Type

Domestic/Unknown 1 11/04/2016 MURDER Royston weapon 2 21/04/2016 MURDER Stevenage Robbery/Stabbing

Domestic/Blunt 3 23/05/2016 MURDER Letchworth instrument 4 23/06/2016 MURDER/SUICIDE Berkhampstead Domestic/Strangulation

5 17/09/2016 MURDER Watford Dispute/physical attack 6 06/11/2016 MURDER Stevenage Dispute/Physical attack

Homicide 2017

Row Date Offence Location Type 1 04/01/2017 MURDER Letchworth Domestic/Stabbing Hemel 2 08/01/2017 MURDER Dispute/stabbing Hempstead 3 19/02/2017 MURDER/SUICIDE Cheshunt Domestic/stabbing 4 12/03/2017 MURDER Stevenage Dispute/stabbing 5 05/06/2017 MURDER Watford Dispute/Stabbing 6 25/07/2017 MURDER Radlett Domestic/Stabbing Waltham 7 07/12/2017 MURDER Dispute/Stabbing Cross

Homicide 2018

Row Date Offence Location Type 1 15/01/2018 MURDER Hemel Hempstead Dispute/Hit and run Welwyn Garden 2 18/01/2018 MURDER Dispute/stabbing City 3 23/02/2018 MURDER Berkhampstead Dispute/Stabbing 4 13/03/2018 MURDER Hemel Hempstead Dispute/Stabbing 5 06/05/2018 MURDER Hertford Dispute/physical attack 6 11/06/2018 MURDER Hemel Hempstead Domestic/blunt instrument Welwyn Garden 7 16/06/2018 MURDER Robbery/Stabbing City

8 03/06/2018 MURDER Hitchin Domestic/Weapon unknown

9 10/07/2018 MURDER Watford Dispute/stabbing Aggravated 10 23/07/2018 MURDER Hertford Burglary/Stabbing

11 28/11/2018 MURDER At Albans Dispute/Stabbing

12 04/12/2018 MURDER Hoddesdon Dispute/Shooting

The numerical data presented in this response is an un-audited snapshot of un-published data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter please do not hesitate to contact me quoting the above reference number.

Yours sincerely

James Hodson Information Rights

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