Black people four times as likely as white people to be murdered, ONS data shows

The statistics represent a 19% increase in murder-stabbings compared with the previous year.e Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

Black people in England and Wales are four times as likely to be murdered as white people, according to new figures published by the Office for National Statistics.

There were 39.7 black murder victims for every million people in England and Wales in the three years ending March 2022 – more than four times the 8.9 white victims, the figures show.