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<p>The table below provides the number of people killed by offenders who were at the
time on licence for an earlier homicide offence, for which they had served a prison
sentence and been released. As they were on licence, when they were charged with a
new offence of killing [homicide], it would have generated a formal serious further
offence (SFO) notification to HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), and the number
in each calendar year reflects the year in which HMPPS received the notification.
The answer interprets homicide to include offences of murder, manslaughter, death
by dangerous driving and death by careless driving when under the influence of drink
or drugs.</p><p> </p><p>Data are not available on offenders with a previous conviction
for homicide who had completed their sentence and associated statutory probation supervision
by probation and then went on to commit a further homicide.</p><p> </p><p>SFOs are
rare. Fewer than 0.5% of offenders under statutory supervision are convicted of serious
further offences. Nonetheless every single serious further offence 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><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year SFO notification
received</p></td><td><p>Total number of people killed in a SFO by someone convicted
of homicide offences at both index offence and SFO</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019<sup>[1]</sup></p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><ol><li>We will publish SFO conviction data for 2019/20 in October 2021, therefore
data for 2019 can only be provided for January, February and March.</li><li>Figures
are based on conviction data that was produced in September 2020.</li><li>Data are
derived from the date of SFO notification to HMPPS</li><li>This figure only includes
convictions for serious further offences that have been notified to the national SFO
Team, HMPPS.</li><li>The data provided are provisional figures subject to change when
any outstanding cases are concluded at court.</li><li>The data also includes cases
where the offender committed suicide or died prior to the trial, where a Court has
subsequently ruled that they were responsible.</li></ol><p>Data Sources and Quality.
We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale
recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p>
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