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<p>The Ministry of Justice’s annual collection of data from coroners does not include
the number of adjourned investigations which are resumed after a murder trial. The
number of such cases will be low, however, because the coroner has to have sufficient
reason for resuming the investigation and a criminal trial will often cover the statutory
questions which the coroner is required to address.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry’s data
collection does include the number of cases <em>not</em> resumed after an adjournment,
broken down by sub-groups including murder. The table below shows the number of adjourned
murder inquests which coroners decided not to resume from 2013 to 2017.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Murder
Inquests Adjourned and Not Resumed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>333</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>296</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>287</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>326</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:
Coroners Statistics 2017, MoJ publication</p>
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