ONS · offence category: 5E Endangering life

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 5E Endangering life

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

13,462offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 5E Endangering life totalled 13,462 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 40.7% (3,895) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Endangering life [note 10, 13]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
  5. 3948 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2013 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2013 to Year ending March 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour01k2k3k201520202025Year ending March 2013: 778 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 801 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 992 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 1,324 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 1,740 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 2,854 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 2,698 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 2,287 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 1,985 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 2,597 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 3,058 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 2,632 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 3,824 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 3,948 offences · published 23 July 2026

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What this measures

The number of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for every offence and offence group in the ONS appendix table, for each year ending March since 2003. Coded rows are individual Home Office offence codes; rows marked (subtotal) are the groups the ONS prints without a code.

Offences whose code was retired or introduced part way through the series (shown as unavailable for those years), or fraud reported to Action Fraud and Report Fraud for the latest year.

Source

Dataset
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 9e4a930ec090b4b4
All values
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) by offence category