Homicide rate at lowest level in a decade
London has recorded its lowest homicide rate in over a decade, figures from the Metropolitan Police have revealed. There were 97 killing in the capital in 2025, the figures showed, an 11% fall compared to the 109 from 2024. This makes 2025 the year with the lowest homicide rate since 2014 when there were 95 recorded.
This comes after US President Donald Trump described London’s crime levels as “crazy,” repeating the claim that police would not patrol some areas. Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley described the claims as “complete nonsense.”
England and Wales as a whole saw a 6% fall in the homicide rate over a 12-mnth period, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed. The figures show that homicides have reached their lowest level since 2003 when the current method of reporting began. 518 homicides were recorded by the police in the year to June 2025, compared with the 552 in the previous 12 months. That is 27% below the pre-pandemic total of 710 in 2019/20.
In 2025, the Met recoded the lowest homicide rate per capita on record with 1.1 per 100,000. That is below the rate for other major cities around the world, with New York at 2.8, Berlin at 3.2, and Paris at 1.6 per 100,000, according to the Met.
The “record-low homicide rate,” Sir Mark Rowley said, was thanks to “relentless work.” He pointed to 1,000 more offenders being arrested every month, technology including facial recognition, and “precise action” against gangs, organised crime, and predatory men.
“The results speak for themselves,” he said, “fewer lives lost, fewer families shattered.”
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