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Category: Incident and Crime Statistics

Domestic Homicide (324A/22)

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000/Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, I am writing to request anonymous information about domestic homicide offences (incorporating murder and manslaughter) recorded between 1st January 2015 and 31st December 2020 where the suspect/offender has claimed either:
1. the killing was a mercy killing (i.e. that they were assisting the victim to die, that they killed them in an act of compassion);

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