The position regarding omissions for actual offences is generally relatively straightforward. In the United Kingdom, the legal position is that murder can be committed by omission in exceptional circumstances.

For example, one of these is where there is an established "special relationship". In the case of R v Gibbins and Proctor (1918) 13 Cr App R 134, the legal guardians of a child who starved to death were convicted of murder by making an omission where they had a special relationship to the child (and therefore a duty of care).

However, the position seems much less clear to me on the subject of attempted offences.

If, for example, the facts were the same as in the above case, but the child had been saved before dying. Would it be possible for this omission to constitute attempted murder?

I am not aware of any case law on this issue and so I it isn't clear to me what the position of the courts would be in a situation like the above and on omissions more generally when it comes to attempted offences.