FOI 162998
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 162998
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 31st March 2022. Please find below the response to your request:
Since 2005, the number of reports your force has received of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl aged between 13 and 16, contrary to section 6 of the sexual offences act of 1956, where the incident was alleged to have occurred at any point between 1956 and 2003.
Reply
Number of Crimes of Rape of a Girl aged 13, 14, 15, or 16 which occurred between 1956 and 2003 recorded in West Mercia from 01/01/2005 to 31/03/2022:
2005 – 6
2006 – 8
2007 – 6
2008 – 12
2009 – 3
2010 – 9
2011 – 16
2012 – 14
2013 – 2
2014 – 6
2015 – 12
2016 – 17
2017 – 14
2018 – 51
2019 – 29
2020 – 37
2021 – 12