Latest figures from ONS show racial disparity among murder victims has worsened over last decade

Black people in England and Wales are four times as likely to be murdered as white people, according to new figures published by the Office for National Statistics.

The figures show that there were 39.7 black murder victims for every million people in England and Wales in the three years ending March 2022 – more than four times the 8.9 white victims.

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