The variety of deadly stabbings in England and Wales is at its highest stage since information started greater than 76 years in the past.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics present 282 homicides have been dedicated utilizing a knife or sharp instrument within the 12 months to March 2022.
This is a 19% rise in contrast with the earlier 12 months – and the very best annual complete since information started in 1946, in response to the ONS.
The time period “homicide” covers homicide, manslaughter and infanticide.
The complete variety of deadly stabbings in 2021-22 is just like a earlier report of 281 within the 12 months to March 2018.
The ONS stated the current enhance was pushed by an 18% rise within the variety of male victims, from 184 to 218.
Data confirmed the biggest enhance was for teenage boys aged 16 to 17, rising from 10 homicides to 24.
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According to the newest figures, 177 of the murder victims have been white (63%), a rise of 36 in contrast with the earlier 12 months.
There have been 59 black victims (21%), in contrast with 57 within the earlier 12 months. Of these, 25 have been aged 16 to 24.
As in earlier years, utilizing a knife or sharp instrument continued to be the commonest technique of killing, the ONS stated.
The ONS analysed knowledge held by the Home Office Homicide Index, which incorporates detailed details about every killing recorded by police in England and Wales.
It discovered the entire variety of homicides returned to ranges seen previous to the pandemic, with 696 victims recorded.
A complete of 69 of the victims have been aged between 13 and 19. Of these, 51 have been killed by a knife or sharp instrument.
The ONS additionally famous a rise within the variety of home homicides – up by 18 to 134 – the place folks have been killed by companions, ex-partners, mother and father, kids or different members of the family.
In a 3rd of the 60 circumstances by which ladies have been killed, the suspect was their associate or ex-partner.
Source: information.sky.com”