Murder

Murder was a criminal offence involving the killing of one or more individuals.

Murdering a being could result in numerous penalties. Common ones were life imprisonment and execution. Killing beings on a battlefield did not usually count as murder. A killing classified as murder usually meant it was a targeted attack on a single individual. It was one of the most serious crimes in the Universe. Assassination was a murder which ordered by a superior and tasked to an assassin.

Murder can be contrasted with genocide, which involved the deaths of entire populations.

Examples of murder

• Sarah Jane Smith declared Styre a murderer after he killed Roth as he ran away. (DW: The Sontaran Experiment)
• The Master murdered many people. His victims included Tegan Jovanka's Aunt Vanessa and a policeman when they found his TARDIS. (DW: Logopolis) Another of the Master's victims was Thomas Milligan, whom he murdered with his laser screwdriver in an alternative timeline. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)
• George Cranleigh murdered several servants at Cranleigh Hall. The Fifth Doctor was blamed for these murders. (DW: Black Orchid)
• Shockeye of the Quawncing Grig murdered Oscar Botcherby for asking him for money. (DW: The Two Doctors)
• In 2006, the Tenth Doctor accused Harriet Jones of mass murder when she ordered Torchwood to shoot down the escaping ship full of Sycorax. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)
• In 2008, Lucy Saxon murdered the Master with a gun. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)
• In 1926, Professor Peach, Miss Chandrakala and Roger Curbishley were murdered by the Vespiform Reverend Arnold Golightly. He did so in the style of Agatha Christie's novels. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
• River Song was convicted circa the 51st century of murdering the Eleventh Doctor at Lake Silencio in 2011, but the Doctor faked his death using a Teselecta double. (DW: Flesh and Stone, The Wedding of River Song)
• Oswald Danes was a convicted murderer, rapist and paedophile. In 2006, he raped and murdered 12-year-old Susie Cabina. (TW: The New World)
• In 2472, Captain Dent murdered Eric and Jane Leeson using an IMC robot while using a visual trick to shift the blame on a giant lizard. (DW: Colony in Space)
• In 50,000, the bounty hunter Ahab murdered Zanthus Pia. He tried shifting the blame on K9. (K9TV: The Bounty Hunter)
• In 4126, Mr Halpen murdered Dr Ryder by throwing him into the Ood Brain. (DW: Planet of the Ood)