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The police have managed to solve all murders committed in 2020, in a year where for the first time a father was charged with killing his son.
It is the second successive year where the police recorded a 100 per cent success rate, and the first time this has occurred since 2004, according to crime historian Eddie Attard.
Six cases were solved last year and three in 2019 – in other words, the police mounted prosecutions in all the murders that took place, although they are all still pending a court judgment.
Last year was not an extraordinary one for murders in terms of numbers: the six cases left seven victims, equal to the number of victims in 2018 and lower than the eight lives claimed in 2017.