FOI reference: FOI-2025-2689
You asked
I am requesting to have access to homicide offenders by age.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We publish our Homicide in England and Wales article, which analyses data from the Home Office Homicide Index. The Home Office Homicide Index contains record-level information about each homicide recorded by the police in England and Wales.
Table 31 of our Appendix tables: homicide in England and Wales, published alongside this release, provides the number of suspects convicted of homicide by age. The figures are subject to revision as cases are dealt with by the police and by the courts, or as further information becomes available.
As these data are collected by the Home Office it may be helpful to contact them directly if you have any further questions about the data. They can be contacted via email at CrimeandPoliceStats@homeoffice.gov.uk
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are primarily responsible for data on offenders. They publish Statistics each quarter which may be of use to you. They also publish data on prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes by offence code in their Outcomes by Offence data tool: June 2024 tables. Using this tool, you can filter by offence, age, sex, ethnicity and various other categories.
The Ministry of Justice may also be able to help you further if you have any questions. They can be contacted at CJS_Statistics@justice.gov.uk