perpetrator * , perp (abbreviation) AmE informal

Almost a third of the perpetrators were white men under 30 years old.

But now I knew where the perpetrators were to be found.

Free of the need for the perpetrator to get on with our lives.

Or what might have been on the hands of the perpetrator.

How can the figure be known but not the perpetrators.

The perpetrators must be tried in a court of law.

He was going to have to find the perpetrator the hard way.

"The perpetrator must be put to death before the eyes of the world."

In few cases have the perpetrators been brought to justice.

One reason is that the police often are the perpetrators.

He was found to be the leader of the perpetrators.

His body was never found and the perpetrators were not caught.

They hope to find the perpetrators without giving away everything.

But he added that the church must also care for the perpetrators.

Six people, including the perpetrator and his own son, were killed.

They are not likely to do it, even if it's the right perpetrator.

The perpetrators were going out every third or fourth night.

The police and the military personnel were among the perpetrators.

Yet little is known about how the perpetrators actually operate.

The perpetrators can always say they are sorry, but that is too easy.

Or the perpetrators wait for days, just to kill it seems.

I hope we bring the perpetrators of last week's attack to justice.

The perpetrators have been caught; Let's not give this a further thought.

For one thing, perpetrators are always going to have to walk somewhere.

Might those very men have been the perpetrators of the original crime?