Homicide level down for first time in five years bbc.com

Last year saw killings across the UK fall but London's level rise to its highest since 2008.
It comes a week after the home secretary gave 18 police forces £35m to combat violence.

Throughout 2019, the BBC recorded details of murder and manslaughter investigations launched by the 46 UK police forces.

Homicide figures fell for 26 of those forces while five recorded the same figure as in 2018.