Question follow-through · 2025
Homicide: Arrests
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances an individual arrested for murder is (a) held in custody and (b) released on police bail.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2024 · 36 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what circumstances an individual arrested for murder is (a) held in custody and (b) released on police bail.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2024
Answer published
A suspect arrested on suspicion of murder may be held in custody before charge where the custody officer a) is determining whether he has before him sufficient evidence to charge them with the offence for which he was arrested and b) has reasonable ground...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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