Between 1990 and 2003 the number of homicides - i.e. murder , manslaughter , etc. - in London averaged 173 per year , with a low of 139 in 1996 , and a high of 204 in 2003 . The number then fell in each and every year between 2004 and 2014 to a new low of 83 . They then rose sharply to 118 in 2015 , followed by a fall to 110 in 2016 . In 2017 there was a further rise to 131 , although this included the combined 14 victims of the Westminster Bridge ( 5 ) , London Bridge ( 8 ) , and Finsbury Park ( 1 ) terrorist attacks , but even with these major events was still lower than any year between 1990 and 2009 . As of 31 December 2018 , there have been 132 homicides reported in London in 2018
Finsbury Park
2017 Finsbury Park attack
Crime in London