Murder Investigations - 1199/20

Date Responded 11 September 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

1. How many murder and manslaughter investigations have been launched by Northumbria Police between January 2015 and July 2020.

For each investigation can you specify:

2. The date of the investigation (for example June 2016)

3. The area the crime took place (Newcastle, Sunderland, South Shields)

4. The outcome of the investigation

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Crime Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

To note – your request asked for information to include August 2020. As the date of your submission was 5^th August, and as requests under the FOIA are for information held at the time of submission, and we are unable to predict a future date, this was changed to the last full complete month – July 2020.

Month/Year	Offence	Location	Result
March 2015	Murder	South Shields	Charge
April 2015	Murder	Newcastle	Charge
April 2015	Murder	South Shields	Charge
May 2105	Manslaughter	Gateshead	Charge
June 2016	Murder	Newcastle	Charge
September 2015	Murder	Newcastle	Charge
September 2015	Murder	Gateshead	Charge
November 2015	Murder	Blyth	Charge
November 2015	Murder	Sunderland	Charge
November 2015	Manslaughter	Cramlington	No Charge
November 2015	Manslaughter	Wallsend	No Charge
November 2015	Murder	Sunderland	Charge
December 2015	Murder	Washington	Charge
December 2015	Manslaughter	Newcastle	Charge
January 2016	Murder	North Shields	Charge
Janurary 2016	Murder	Gateshead	Charge
February 2016	Murder	North Shields	Charge
February 2016	Manslaughter	Newcastle	No Charge
March 2016	Murder	Sunderland	Charge
May 2016	Manslaughter	Jarrow	No Charge
June 2016	Murder	South Shields	Charge
July 2016	Murder	Wallsend	Charge
August 2016	Manslaughter	Newcastle	Charge
September 2016	Murder	Whitley Bay	Charge
September 2016	Manslaughter	Gateshead	Charge
October 2016	Murder	Gateshead	Charge
October 2016	Murder	Newcastle	Charge
December 2016	Murder	Cramlington	Charge
February 2017	Murder	Hexham	Charge
February 2017	Murder	Newcastle	Charge
February 2017	Murder	Gateshead	Charge
March 2017	Murder	Whitley Bay	Charge
April 2017	Murder	Sunderland	Charge
April 2017	Manslaughter	Sunderland	No Charge
April 2017	Manslaughter	Blyth	Charge
June 2017	Manslaughter	Houghton	Charge
June 2017	Murder	Sunderland	Charge
July 2017	Murder	Newcastle	Charge
July 2017	Murder	Morpeth	Charge
August 2107	Manslaughter	Newcastle	Charge
August 2017	Manslaughter	South Shields	Charge
August 2017	Murder	Houghton	Charge
October 2017	Murder	Wallsend	Charge
January 2018	Murder	Newcastle	Charge
January 2018	Murder	Gateshead	Charge
August 2018	Murder	Gateshead	Charge
August 2018	Murder	Whitley Bay	No Charge
September 2018	Murder	Sunderland	Charge
September 2018	Murder	Sunderland	Murder/Suicide
October 2018	Murder	Ashington	Charge
October 2018	Murder	Gateshead	Charge
November 2018	Murder	Houghton	Charge
November 2018	Manslaughter	Newcastle	Charge
January 2019	Manslaughter	Cramlington	No Charge
January 2019	Murder	Washington	Charge
February 2019	Manslaughter	Newcastle	Charge
February 2019	Murder	Sunderland	Charge
March 2019	Murder	Jarrow	Charge
April 2019	Murder	Ashington	Charge
May 2019	Murder	Jarrow	Charge
May 2019	Manslaughter	Sunderland	No Charge
July 2019	Murder	Blyth	Charge
August 2019	Murder	Newcastle	Charge
August 2019	Murder	Blyth	Charge
September 2019	Murder	Gateshead	No Charge
October 2019	Murder	Wallsend	Charge
December 2019	Manslaughter	Ashington	No Charge
February 2020	Murder	Sunderland	Murder/Suicide
February 2020	Murder	Bedlington	Charge
April 2020	Murder	Blyth	Charge
May 2020	Murder	Newcastle	Charge
May 2020	Murder	Houghton	Charge
May 2020	Murder	South Shields	Charge
June 2020	Murder	Sunderland	Charge

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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