Not proven verdicts delivered from 2011 to 2016: FOI release

FOI reference: FOI/17/02213
Date received: 2 October 2017
Date responded: 19 October 2017

Information requested

You asked for 'statistics as to how many not proven verdicts were delivered in Scotland in the past 5 years, as well as similar statistics for guilty and not guilty verdicts in Scotland.'

Response

The answer to your question is provided in the tables below:

People proceeded against in court by outcome of court proceedings, 2011-12 to 2015-16

Outcome	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
PNGA¹ ² or deserted³	10,910	9,975	9,687	9,323	9,044
Acquittd not guilty	4,517	4,719	5,322	6,275	6,633
Acquittd not proven	991	972	1,119	1,149	1,173
Charge Proved*	108,424	101,018	105,656	106,622	99,950
All	124,842	116,684	121,784	123,369	116,800

1 - Plea of Not Guilty Accepted.

2 - Includes cases where proceedings are dropped after a person has been called to court e.g. if witnesses cannot be traced.

3 - Deserted simpliciter, i.e. trial is permanently abandoned by the Procurator Fiscal.

* - Excludes people against whom proceedings are started but which are dropped before they reach court.

Source: Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings Database

People proceeded against in court by outcome of court proceedings, 2011-12 to 2015-16

Outcome	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
Guilty	108,424	101,018	105,656	106,622	99,950
Not guilty¹	16,418	15,666	16,128	16,747	16,850
All	124,842	116,684	121,784	123,369	116,800

1 – Not guilty includes: PNGA or deserted, Acquitted not guilty and Acquitted not proven.

Source: Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings Database.

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