Non-Fatal Strangulation
Date of request: 14 August 2023
Reference: 978/23
Request
I am writing to request data under the FOI Act. Specifically, I would like to know how many offences have been recorded under the new non-fatal strangulation offence (s75A Serious Crime Act 2015 (as amended by Domestic Abuse Act 2021), since it was introduced in June 2022. Please provide the following information:
- How many crimes of non-fatal strangulation (s75A Serious Crime Act 2015) have you recorded between 7 June 2022 and 14 August 2023?
- Please provide a breakdown of victims and offenders/suspects for non-live by:
- Sex/gender (how many female victims, how many male victims, how many unknown and same for offenders/suspects)
- Age group for victims and suspects (16-24, 25-39, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, 85-89, 90+)
- Ethnicity of victims and suspects (using usual HO categories or whatever you use to organise ethnicity)
- Relationship between victim and suspects (spouse/partner, acquaintance, friend, neighbour, other family member, stranger, relationship not known).
- Breakdown of case outcomes: for non-live cases, how many arrests, charges, prosecutions and convictions.
Response
1/ We have identified 847 crimes in the requested time frame.
2a/ The following two tables shows the recorded gender of the victim and suspect in the requested time frame.
| Victim Gender | Count of Crimes |
| Female | 642 |
| Male | 194 |
| Unknown | 4 |
| Not recorded | 7 |
| Sum: | 847 |
| Offender Gender | Count of Crimes |
| Female | 96 |
| Male | 665 |
| Unknown | 2 |
| Not recorded | 91 |
| Sum: | 854 |
2b/ The following two tables shows the recorded age range of the victim and suspect in the requested time frame.
| Victim Ages | Count of Crimes |
| 16-24 | 193 |
| 25-29 | 109 |
| 30-34 | 137 |
| 35-39 | 89 |
| 40-44 | 62 |
| 45-49 | 78 |
| 50-54 | 28 |
| 55-59 | 38 |
| 60-64 | 22 |
| 65-69 | 6 |
| 70-74 | 6 |
| 75-79 | 6 |
| 80-84 | 2 |
| 85-89 | 1 |
| Not Recorded | 8 |
| Under 16 | 62 |
| Sum: | 847 |
| Offender Ages | Count of Crimes |
| 16-24 | 112 |
| 25-29 | 96 |
| 30-34 | 132 |
| 35-39 | 102 |
| 40-44 | 87 |
| 45-49 | 53 |
| 50-54 | 52 |
| 55-59 | 43 |
| 60-64 | 24 |
| 65-69 | 10 |
| 70-74 | 3 |
| 75-79 | 3 |
| 85-89 | 1 |
| Not Recorded | 96 |
| Under 16 | 47 |
| Sum: | 861 |
2c/ The following two tables show the recorded ethnicity of the victim and suspect in the requested time frame.
| Victim – Merged Latest Ethnicity IC Code and Desc | Count of Crimes |
| IC1 – White – North European | 580 |
| IC2 – White – South European | 25 |
| IC3 – Black | 27 |
| IC4 – Asian | 19 |
| IC5 – Chinese, Japanese or other Southeast Asian | 3 |
| IC6 – Arabic or North African | 1 |
| Other | 19 |
| Unknown | 173 |
| Sum: | 847 |
| Offender – Merged Latest Ethnicity IC Code and Desc | Count of Crimes |
| IC1 – White – North European | 565 |
| IC2 – White – South European | 18 |
| IC3 – Black | 44 |
| IC4 – Asian | 14 |
| IC5 – Chinese, Japanese or other Southeast Asian | 1 |
| Other | 19 |
| Unknown | 194 |
| Sum: | 855 |
2d/ The following table shows the recorded relationship between the victim and suspect in the requested time frame.
| Current Offender/Victim Relationship | Count of Crimes | ||
| Acquaintance | 70 | ||
| Brother (incl. step/half/adopted) | 30 | ||
| Daughter (incl. step/half/adopted) | 9 | ||
| Ex-partner: Heterosexual | 137 | ||
| Ex-partner: Non-heterosexual | 5 | ||
| Ex-partner: Not known | 5 | ||
| Grandchild (incl. step/adopted) | 1 | ||
| Not known/No current suspect | 20 | ||
| Other relative | 6 | ||
| Parent (incl. step/adopted) | 45 | ||
| Partner: Heterosexual | 277 | ||
| Partner: Non-heterosexual | 5 | ||
| Partner: Not known | 3 | ||
| Sister (incl. step/half/adopted) | 5 | ||
| Son (incl. step/half/adopted) | 40 | ||
| Stranger | 38 | ||
| 151 | |||
| Sum: | 847 |
3/ The following table shows the current recorded outcome of the crimes in the requested time frame.
| Current Classification HO Outcome Code and Desc | Count of Crimes |
| Filed – Incident Report OR CRI | 3 |
| New – Under Investigation | 11 |
| OC01 – Charge/Summons | 94 |
| OC03 – Caution – Adults | 13 |
| OC05 – Offender Dead | 2 |
| OC08 – Community Resolution | 7 |
| OC09 – Not in Public Interest (CPS) | 3 |
| OC10 – Not in Public Interest (Pol) | 9 |
| OC11 – Offender Under Age | 2 |
| OC12 – Offender too ill | 1 |
| OC13 – Vict/Witness Dead/Ill | 1 |
| OC14 – No Sus / Victim Decline | 36 |
| OC15 – Sus/Insuff.Evidence | 161 |
| OC16 – Sus/Victim Declines | 452 |
| OC17 – Time Limit Expired | 4 |
| OC18 – No Sus / No Line Enq / Filed | 24 |
| OC20 – Transferred Other Agency | 11 |
| OC21 – Investig. not in Public Int. (Police) | 9 |
| OC22 – Diversionary, educational, intervention | 3 |
| 1 | |
| Sum: | 847 |
You may have noticed what appear to be discrepancies in the totals.
The general rule of one crime per victim applies so as expected the victim details tally with 847 crimes.
However, some crimes have multiple offenders listed and these offenders may have differing ages, genders and/or ethnicities.