Unsolved Murder - 1489/21

Date Responded 16 November 2021

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You asked:

Could you please send me details on the number of unsolved murders and/or murders being reviewed by the force’s Serious Crime Review Group since 1997?

For each murder could you let me know:

The date of the murder
The age of the victim
The ethnicity of the victim, and
Where possible the name of the victim

In Response:

Victim	Age	Ethnicity	Date Of Murder
Stephen SWEENEY	45	White European	08/071998
Peter Beaumont GOWLING	52	White European	14/02/2001
Sidney Richard BALDWIN	45	White European	19/05/2002
Michael GREY	45	White European	11/11/2005
John James Wyn ROBERTS	32	White European	16/12/2012
Robert HUTCHINSON	58	White European	26/06/2014

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