Homicide 2011

  • Reference Number: 3456
  • Date released: 14 November 2011

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request information regarding incidents being treated as murder, manslaughter or culpable homicide committed between 1st January 2011 and 23rd September 2011.

I would like the information to include:

A. The number of incidents which have occurred.

Additionally, I would like the information to include, for each crime:

B. The name and age of the victim. (If a name cannot be given, I would instead request that the gender and age of the victim be supplied).

C. The date of the crime/ date on which it was notified to the police.

Response

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

There were a total of 6 homicides recorded between those dates. Please note, culpable homicide is an offence in Scottish Law only.

Details are shown in the table below -.

Victim  Age  Date Crime Reported
Carl Chadwick 40 29/01/2011
Thomas Martin Ithell 49 11/03/2011
John Michael Wright 45 04/03/2011
Kelsey Shaw 17 29/04/2011
Henry Joseph Morris 57 18/06/2011
Christopher Murphy 33 28/08/2011*

* incident of males fighting reported on 20/08/2011 – victim died of his injuries on 21/08/2011.

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