Female victims of homicide 37/2026

FOI Reference: 37/2026

Request:

I'm writing to you to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please could you tell me:

1) Of the victims of homicide killed  between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025 how many were female? Where possible please also include the age and ethnicity of the victim.

2) Of the victims of homicide killed between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024 how many were female? Where possible please also include the age and ethnicity of the victim

3) In 2025, between 1 January and 31 December, how many female victims of homicide were known to the police via a domestic abuse marker or domestic abuse flag e.g. DARA. Where possible, please specify how the victim was known to police.

4) In 2024, between 1 January and 31 December how many female victims of homicide were known to the police via a domestic abuse marker or domestic abuse flag? e.g. DARA. Where possible, please specify how the victim was known to police.

Response 1:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested. However, some of the information has been exempted (please see the end of the document for an explanation of the applied exemption).

Response 2:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested. However, some of the information has been exempted (please see the end of the document for an explanation of the applied exemption).

Response 3:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, however, the information has been exempted by virtue of the following exemption.

• S30(1)(a) applies

Response 4:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

• Zero (0)

Explanation of the applied exemption:

Section 30(1)(a) is a class-based qualified exemption. This means that the legislators when writing the legislation considered that the release of such information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 would cause harm to the public authority or individual concerned. There is therefore no requirement to carry out a HARM Test in respect of such information. However, there is a requirement to carry out a Public Interest Test in order to establish whether the public interest in maintaining the exemption may be outweighed by a wider public benefit in disclosure.

Section 30(1)(a) Investigations and Proceedings conducted by Public Authorities:

(1) Information held by a public authority is exempt information if it has at any time been held by the authority for the purposes of -

(a) Any investigation which the public authority has a duty to conduct with a view to it being ascertained (i) whether a person should be charged with an offence, or (ii) whether a person charged with an offence is guilty of it.

Public Interest Test

Considerations favouring disclosure:

Disclosure of the information would improve the public’s knowledge and awareness and would provide satisfaction to the public that these cases are investigated thoroughly and offenders are being dealt with accordingly.

Considerations favouring non-disclosure:

This exemption covers information held at any time for the purpose of an investigation, whether the case is ongoing, closed or abandoned. To release specific details of an ongoing investigations, as in this case, could undermine and prejudice those investigations. This would impact on the forces’ future law enforcement capabilities by hindering the prevention or detection of crime.

Balancing Test

After considering the advantages and disadvantages in disclosure, it falls upon Dyfed-Powys Police to conduct a balance test on the issues. The strongest argument for disclosure, which is public awareness, needs to be weighed against the strongest arguments for non-disclosure, which in this case is that the release would undermine and prejudice ongoing investigations, which would impact on the forces’ future law enforcement capabilities by hindering the prevention or detection of crime. Therefore, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 23/02/2026)