Families of homicide victims concerned at unrecorded crime

The association representing families of homicide victims said it was “very concerned” at the revelation that 89 homicide offences have not been recorded on official crime statistics.

Advocates for Victims of Homicide (AdVic) is writing to Policing Authority chair Josephine Feehily on the matter, which emerged at the authority’s public meeting with the Garda Commissioner last Thursday.

The authority was told that a garda review had identified 89 homicides over a 14-year period that had not been reported to the CSO because of failings in how they were recorded in the Garda Pulse computer system.