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<p>Under the Probation Serious Further Offence (SFO) Review Procedures, the National
Probation Service (NPS) or Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) must undertake a
review where an offender under statutory supervision in the community is charged with
a qualifying offence – a “notification”. Not every notification results in a conviction
for an SFO.</p><p> </p><p>SFOs are rare. Less than 0.1% of offenders under statutory
supervision are convicted of murder, and less than 0.5% convicted of any SFO. Nonetheless,
every single SFO is taken extremely seriously, and in all cases a review is carried
out to identify any lessons for the better management of future cases.</p><p> </p><p>We
have interpreted ‘parole’ to mean offenders subject to indeterminate sentences of
imprisonment for public protection (IPP) released by the Parole Board.</p><p> </p><p>Table
1 below sets out the number of offenders convicted of murder, who at the time they
committed the offence were being supervised on a) an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment
for public protection and b) life licence in England and Wales between 2016 and 2018.</p><p>
</p><p>Table 2</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>a)
Offenders supervised on an IPP sentence</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>b)
Offenders supervised on life licence</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li>The
data provided are provisional figures subject to change when any outstanding cases
are concluded at court.</li><li>There were no other serious further offences of homicide
such as manslaughter or infanticide.</li><li>The data also includes cases where the
offender committed suicide or died prior to any trial, where a Court has ruled that
they were responsible.</li><li>Data is not included on any determinate sentence prisoner
either released automatically or released by the parole board early from an extended
determinate sentence or following recall.</li><li>Data Sources and Quality .We have
drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale
recording systems, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing</li></ol><p>
</p><p>We are not able to present the number of murders committed by offenders subject
to probation supervision as a proportion of all murders and homicides, as there are
differences in the way the respective data sets are produced. Published Homicide Index
data are based on the year when the offence was recorded as a crime, not when the
offence took place or when the case was heard in court. SFO data are first recorded
when the notification, usually triggered by the court appearance, is received by the
SFO Team in Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. However, in some cases it
will be the following year(s) when the offender is convicted of the SFO</p>
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