List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (1980s)

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Main article: List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom
Year Name of victim(s) Location body found Notes
February 1980 Elizabeth McCabe Dundee Elizabeth McCabe, a trainee nursery nurse aged 20, was strangled after parting company with a friend and leaving a nightclub on Monday, 11 February. The killer dumped her naked body in Templeton Woods. In 2007, a former taxi driver was arraigned for the crime, but he was found not guilty at the conclusion of the trial. Similarities between the cases have led to speculation that this murder is linked to that of Carol Lannen in 1979.[1]
April 1980 Lillian Wright Body not found Lillian Wright disappeared from Lowestoft in Suffolk when she was 55, having last been seen in the town's Lovewell Road. A frequenter of the town's bingo hall, it was believed that she left her home one Tuesday morning to attend the first game at the then Hippodrome on Battery Green Road. Her car was found parked in its usual spot in the car park at the end of the road, a five-minute or so walk from the Hippodrome; but strangely, her handbag, containing all her personal belongings, was locked inside and the keys to the car were found to be missing. No further leads to the case were uncovered. Lillian's family hired a clairvoyant in an attempt to uncover where she might be. The clairvoyant believed there were clues which indicated she or her remains may be somewhere in Scotland. Police were treating Lillian's disappearance as a no-body homicide by 2004.[2][3]
May 1980 Jessie Earl Beachy Head, East Sussex Aged 22; disappeared from Eastbourne around 15 May 1980. Her skeletal remains were found almost nine years later, in April 1989, in bushes at nearby Beachy Head. British serial killer Peter Tobin became (and remains) an official suspect in Earl's murder, as he lived in Eastbourne in the early 1980s. Police later commented, however, that they "cannot prove anything unless Tobin confesses".[4] Her murder is believed to be linked to the disappearance and suspected murder of Louise Kay on Beachy Head in 1988. Tobin has been an official suspect in both cases.[5]
June 1980 Patricia "Patsy" Morris Hounslow Heath, London Choked to death with a ligature at the age of 14 after she mysteriously left her school during the lunch break.[6] Serial killers Peter Tobin and Levi Bellfield – the latter of whom did not live very far from the victim when she was killed – have both been suspects in her murder even though Bellfield was only 12 at the time.[7] Morris was Bellfield's childhood girlfriend and she was killed one year before his first conviction, for burglary, at age 13.[8] Bellfield has reportedly boasted of killing Morris in prison and police said they would be investigating him for the murder in 2008 after he confessed to a cellmate.[6]
August 1980 John Greenwood and Gary Miller Attacked in Whiston, Merseyside, died at Walton Hospital in Liverpool John Greenwood and Gary Miller were both eleven years old when they were found beaten and hidden in a disused quarry in Whiston. A dog walker found the injured boys at 7.20 pm on 16 August 1980 at a site which is now Stadt Moers Park. Both boys died in hospital from head injuries.[9] A man was acquitted of their murder the following year and new leads led to the case being reopened in 2016. In 2019, Merseyside's chief constable said there was insufficient evidence for a new investigation and apologised to John and Gary's families for the original investigation not being as thorough as it could have been.[10]
November 1980 Derek Grain Bristol The 39-year-old was murdered by having his head struck repeatedly with a sand-filled traffic cone and being kicked. A nurse walking to work discovered his body close to Berkeley Square. Police believed it was possible that there was more than one attacker, and very likely that the motive was robbery, in view of money being missing from his jacket pocket. Though its owner was traced and had not been in or even near the city at the time, a red Jaguar seen in central Bristol by no fewer than two people that night turned out to have been registered in the Hertfordshire town of Hitchin, where Derek moved to Bristol from two months before his death.[11]
November 1980 John Welch Newcastle John Welch was beaten to death in Room 101 of the Swallow Hotel on 26 November 1980. Two men were charged in 1990 over the 45-year-old businessman's murder, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided against putting either of them on trial.[12]
December 1980 Eric Carver Nottingham A man jailed in 1982 for the murder of Eric Carver had his conviction quashed in 2006 because appeal judges ruled that lack of evidence against him together with heavy-handed tactics used by the police to get him to confess to the crime meant that his conviction was not safe. 64-year-old Carver was bludgeoned to death at his Lenton home while he was asleep.[13]
February 1981 Henry Carr West Brompton, London The 51-year-old former British spy had been stabbed and mutilated with a knife when his body was discovered at his flat in Cathcart Road on 28 February. A number of sex workers were quizzed over his death.[14][15]
April 1981 Caroline Harris-Reed Stockwell, London Student-teacher Caroline Harris-Reed was murdered in the flat she was sharing with a 22-year-old nurse. Police issued an artist's impression of the perpetrator, who forced his way into the property before holding the two young women at knifepoint and stabbing Miss Harris-Reed (who was also 22) to death.[16]
May 1981 Anthony Donnelly Hackney, London A youth stabbed to death in Glyn Road in the early hours of Friday, 8 May. Four black youths were convicted over the attack, despite a witness statement suggesting that the assailants were all white. (The statement also suggested that Anthony was targeted by them for mixing with black people.) One of the four youths was convicted of murder, the other three of perverting the course of justice, but appeals resulted in the overturning of all the verdicts in March 1982.[17]
July 1981 Vishal Mehrotra Rogate, West Sussex Eight-year-old Vishal Mehrotra was last seen by his family on 29 July 1981 on a crowded street near his home in Putney, southwest London. His remains were found in February 1982 fifty miles away at Durleigh Marsh Farm, Rogate, West Sussex. Vishal's father, Vishambra Mehrotra, said he was called by a man who told him that his son's disappearance was connected to a paedophile ring whose members frequented Elm House guesthouse in Barnes.[18] Police have on several occasions investigated possible links to notorious paedophile Sidney Cooke and his infamous "Dirty Dozen" paedophile ring.[19]
August 1981 Carol Morgan Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire 36-year-old Carol Morgan, a mother of two, was attacked at the shop she ran with her husband in Linslade, near Leighton Buzzard, on 13 August 1981. She was struck with a sharp and heavy weapon and her body was found in the storeroom. In 2019 police announced that they had arrested a 69-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman from Brighton.[20][21]
August 1981 Nude in the Nettles Yorkshire A woman's naked and decomposed body was found dumped in bushes next to a country road near Sutton Bank on 28 August 1981 after police received an anonymous tip-off from a "well-spoken man" who refused to give his name for "national security reasons".
September 1981 Kenneth Jewell Luton, Bedfordshire The 33-year-old was fatally injured on Saturday, 19 September during an altercation in High Town Road in which he was knocked to the ground.[22]
September 1981 Jillian Matthews Clapham Wood, West Sussex Homeless Jillian Matthews, a 37-year-old with schizophrenia, was sexually assaulted and strangled. She had gone missing around six weeks before the discovery of her body.[23][24][25]
November 1981 Pamela Hastie Johnstone, Renfrewshire Pamela Hastie, 16, went missing on her way home from school in November 1981. Her body was found in Rannoch Woods close to her home. Teenager Raymond Gilmour confessed to Pamela's murder and was jailed, but he maintained that he was coerced into confessing. In 2007, the verdict of his trial was ruled unsafe and Raymond was released after spending twenty years in prison. It has been suggested that Pamela could have been a victim of serial killers Peter Tobin or Robert Black.[26] Fifteen months after Pamela's murder, 11-year-old Tracey Waters was murdered in the same town.
November 1981 Dolphus Smith, Sidney Hickling and Susan Ovens Rushden, Northamptonshire Travellers Dolphus Smith, 57, Sidney Hickling, 27, and Susan Ovens, also 27, were shot to death in their caravans along Ditchford Lane, a road on the outskirts of Rushden, on 24 November 1981.[27][28]
January 1982 John McIntosh Gullane, East Lothian John McIntosh's body was found in his home on 26 January. The 71-year-old pensioner's killer had not left the property with anything stolen from there after beating him to death.[29]
February 1982 Sarah Hill Lees, Greater Manchester An intruder murdered Sarah Hill, 86, at her home on Thomas Street, Lees, on 12 February. Sarah had lived in the area all her life and worked in the nearby cotton mills. She was 4 ft 10 ins tall and frail at the time of her death, relying on neighbours to run errands for her. The intruder beat Sarah about the head and opened some drawers in her home but police were unable to establish if anything was stolen.[30]
February 1982 Elaine Wakefield Axe Edge, near Buxton, Derbyshire 20-year-old Elaine Wakefield was last seen after she left the home which she shared with her police officer boyfriend in Buxton on 25 February. Her partially clothed body was found six miles from Buxton two days later close to High Edge Raceway at Axe Edge. Elaine had died from compression to the neck.[31]
May 1982 Ann Lee and Margaret Johnson Aldershot, Hampshire 44-year-old Ann Lee and 65-year-old Margaret Johnson were stabbed to death on Monday, 10 May while out walking their dogs on Aldershot Common. A man told police that he was behind the double murder and served nearly 17 years for it, but appeal judges quashed his conviction when they heard that certain factors – namely having a "suggestible" personality, being a fantasist and having an alibi that rang true – rendered his confession unreliable.[32]
June 1982 Jean Brook Bedgebury Forest, Kent The 46-year-old mother-of-three's body was found in Bedgebury Forest on 11 June 1982 – a little over two and a half years after the discovery in the same forest of the beaten body of a woman whose identity is still unknown. Police have not linked the two murders.[33]
June 1982 Roberto Calvi Blackfriars Bridge, London The 62-year-old Italian banker and chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in one of modern Italy's biggest political scandals, was found hanged on 19 June. The death was ruled as murder after two coroners' inquests and an independent investigation. In June 2007, five people were acquitted of his murder after a trial in Rome. See also In God's Name, a book by David Yallop which relates Calvi's murder, and the 'suiciding' of his secretary, to corruption and possibly the death of Pope John Paul I: Papa Albini.
July 1982 Dora Pratt Ipswich, Suffolk The shopkeeper aged 76 was struck on the head three times at her Bulstrode Road premises on 9 January 1982, but didn't succumb to her injuries until 6 July. Items having been stolen from the shop at around the time the attack took place suggests robbery was the motive for it.[34]
July 1982 Tervina Cameron Sheffield 59-year-old Tervina Cameron was found dead after a house fire in Addy Street, Sheffield, on 8 July 1982. A post-mortem revealed that she had died of strangulation.[35]
August 1982 Edmund Simpson Manchester 58-year-old Edmund Simpson's head was hit repeatedly with a blunt object at his workplace (a bookshop near Manchester Cathedral) and £65 stolen from the premises on 9 August 1982. He died from his injuries on 11 August. An agitated-looking man was seen running away from the area of Edmund's place of work at about the time he was attacked there.[36]
August 1982 Gurcharn Singh Landa (known as 'John') Cyprus Road, Mapperley, Nottingham The 33-year-old Nottingham taxi driver died in the early hours of Saturday 14 August, having been stabbed 87 times. The police believe he was robbed of his takings before being stabbed; most of the stab wounds were in the chest. Eleven people were arrested but no one was charged over his murder.

A father of eight, Mr Landa had gone to Peel Street at about 4 am to pick up a passenger called 'Shelton', who had rung from a phone box. Police believe he picked someone up before driving to Cyprus Road, about a mile away. At 4:05 am, a woman living on Cyprus Road heard a car brake suddenly and, looking out of the window, saw the taxi rocking violently as though a fight was taking place inside it. She also reported seeing a man searching the taxi's dashboard. She called the police and then went to help but Mr Landa died shortly after police arrived.

The police re-opened the case in August 2012.[37]

November 1982 Andrew Stevens Leicester The 20-year-old from Ratby was laid into outside a nightclub in Leicester city centre by two men who police believed may have been football fans. He was treated at the Leicester Royal Infirmary for cuts to his face and then told that he could leave, but was taken back there after falling unconscious on 1 November (the day following the attack). He spent a week in a coma before dying in the hospital.[38]
December 1982 Esme Anne Hoad Tonbridge, Kent Esme Hoad was 85 and was killed in her Havelock Road house with a sharp instrument. A photofit was released of a man who had been spotted paying visits to the house in the last few weeks of her life.[39]
February 1983 Tracey Waters Johnstone, Renfrewshire 11-year-old Tracey Waters went missing on the evening of 14 February 1983 when she went to her local youth club. Her body was found under a hedge in Shanks Crescent about half a mile from her home; she had been beaten and strangled. Tracey's uncle was charged with her murder but the charges were dropped; he vanished from his home in 2001 to escape vigilante attacks and police believe he subsequently took his own life.[40]
April 1983 Mary 'Molly' Willmore Taplow, Buckinghamshire The home of 74-year-old Mary Willmore, known as Molly, was set on fire in the early hours of Saturday 2 April 1983. Her body was discovered in the kitchen there and had severe head injuries. Molly's lifestyle was described as 'eccentric': she had lived alone with 15 cats in just a few rooms of the dilapidated house on Boundary Road. Police believed the attack to have been due to a burglary having gone wrong.[41]
April 1983 Sheila Anderson Edinburgh Sheila Anderson, 27, was last seen alive outside Lindean House on Commercial Street, Edinburgh at 11:25 pm on 7 April 1983. Her body was found just half an hour later on a track at Gypsy Brae, off West Shore Road in Granton. She had been repeatedly run over by a car. Her shoes and handbag were found a week later in a car park in East Lothian. Sheila had been a sex worker and had developed a drug habit after the death of her mother. Police obtained a DNA profile in 2009 which has not yet been matched to anyone.[42]
June 1983 Gary Hutchings Islington, London Gary Hutchings, 23, was shot dead on Saturday 4 June near his flat on Camden Walk. Police inquiries found that the killing had followed an argument he had been involved in at a public house.[43]
July 1983 Diane Jones Brightwell, Suffolk Diane Jones vanished outside the house she shared with her husband in Coggeshall, Essex when the pair had returned from a drink at a nearby pub on Saturday 23 July. Her body was found with a fractured skull three months later in an area of Brightwell where someone had been seen taking a rolled-up carpet out of a car sometime during the weekend of her disappearance. Suspicious that the 37-year-old victim had died at the hands of her husband, police arrested him on 14 November 1983 and again on 16 June 1990, but released him without charge both times.[44]
August 1983 Eila Karjalainen Oxfordshire In the summer of 1983, 23-year-old Eila Karjalainen, a Finnish nursing student, was on holiday in England, and probably hitch-hiking, when she was murdered by an unknown perpetrator. Eila was last seen alive on Sunday, 7 August 1983 in London. Her decomposed body was found on 25 November 1983 in Barnham Woods on the Blenheim estate at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Her rucksack, however, was found five miles away, beside the A40 at Barnard Gate near Oxford. The cause of Eila's death was determined as strangulation.[45][46]
August 1983 Olive Wilkinson Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire The corpse of Olive Wilkinson was found in her home on 10 August with stab wounds and injuries caused by someone having beaten her with a weapon. Robbery was believed to have been the motive for the murder of the 36-year-old widowed mother of five.[47][48]
September 1983 Janice Weston Cambridgeshire At 9:00 am on Sunday 11 September 1983, the fully clothed body of an unidentified female was found in a ditch adjacent to a lay-by on the northbound carriageway of the A1 road, approximately 11⁄2 miles south of the Brampton Hut roundabout in Cambridgeshire. The body, which had several head wounds caused by a blunt object, was identified as that of Janice Weston, a 36-year-old from London and a solicitor and partner of a well-established firm based at Lincoln's Inn in the city. She was last seen alive at her office there the previous day.[49]
September 1983 George Murdoch Aberdeen Taxi driver George Murdoch was found fatally injured on Pitfodels Station Road on the evening of 29 September 1983. The 58-year-old had picked up a fare at 8.35 pm but never made it to his destination, Culter. A cheese wire was used to attack him and left at the scene.[50]
October 1983 Winifred Locke North Petherton, Somerset 80-year-old Winifred Locke was strangled and sexually assaulted at her sheltered accommodation after her daughter-in-law had left there on 21 October following a visit to give her her pension and some shopping she had done for her.[51]
5 November 1983[52] Lloyd Simpson Hoxton, London 26-year-old Lloyd Simpson was attacked as he watched TV in his flat at 83-94 Shaftesbury Court, Shaftesbury Street, in Hoxton, London. He was shot in the head and stomach (his pit bull terrier was left unharmed). Despite the flat's thin walls, the sound of gunshots didn't attract neighbours' attention – reportedly due to a fireworks display outside the building at that time. According to detectives, the murder bore all the hallmarks of a professional killing. The victim's body was discovered two days later by his father after he failed to turn up for work at the family's wastepaper business. A theoretical motive behind the killing had to do with the victim's sideline dealings with second-hand cars. However, such hypothesis was strongly disputed by his father. Another hypothesis was that the perpetrators were looking for something important to them (the flat was searched thoroughly[citation needed]).[53][54][55][52]
November 1983 Stephen Sylvester Car park at London's Heathrow Airport In the early hours of 17 November 1983, the 39-year-old West Indian minicab driver was stabbed multiple times with a commando knife, while on duty. He was attacked in the car's back seat, where he had got in circumstances that remain unclear, and one of the stab wounds penetrated his heart. Sylvester's body was hidden in the car's boot and then found four days later at the airport's car park. Most likely his killer is also responsible for the murder of another taxi driver in the same area: Pardeep Sangha.[56][57]
December 1983 Gary Collins Brightling, East Sussex The 25-year-old drug dealer was discovered stabbed and beaten to death in woods at Brightling, near Battle. Detectives believe it may have been a contract killing related to drug smuggling. Collins had disappeared from his home in St Thomas Road, Hastings on 12 December 1983 – three months before his body was found. His unlocked grey BMW car was found abandoned at Battle rail station. Also the body of his cross-bred collie Trudy, who had been stabbed through the heart, was found in the same woods.[58][59]
January 1984 Phyllis Smith-Millward Sheerness, Kent Found dead on 13 January, 56-year-old Phyllis Smith-Millward's murder had involved her receiving one or more blows from a blunt instrument.[39]
February 1984 Colin Maxwell Streatham, London On Sunday 19 February 1984, 13-year-old Colin Maxwell left his home in Streatham and was never seen alive again. His skeletal remains were found on 14 June 1986 in a back garden on Polworth Road, Streatham. The cause of death is unknown, although it is believed the teenager was strangled. The murder primary suspect Albert Newman was cleared of charges at Old Bailey.[60]
March 1984 Pardeep Sangha By the A30 road close to the southern perimeter fence of Heathrow Airport In the early hours of 31 March 1984, Indian minicab driver Pardeep Sangha was stabbed to death while on duty. His body was found slumped behind the car's passenger seat at 2 am. Probably the killer intended to hide the body in the car's boot and then abandon the car at Heathrow Airport, but their plans were thwarted by the car running out of petrol some distance away from the airport (where it was eventually dumped) and their inability to open the car's boot. It is likely that Sangha's killer is also responsible for the murder of another taxi driver in the same area: Stephen Sylvester.[57]
17 April 1984 WPC Yvonne Fletcher London WPC Yvonne Fletcher, 25, was patrolling the area just outside the Libyan embassy during a protest when shots were fired into the crowd, injuring her fatally and 10 others less severely. She died at Westminster Hospital. The inquest into her death ruled that she was killed with an automatic weapon fired from within the embassy. After much tension, all of its staff were returned to their home country. The Libyan government accepted responsibility for her death in 1999, but no one has ever been prosecuted for it.[61]
April 1984 Anthony Littler East Finchley, London The 45-year-old senior Customs and Excise man's body was found in a pool of blood in a dark alley near East Finchley tube station. He had been returning home from the city centre, and was attacked soon after he had left the tube station, at around 0:20 am on 30 April 1984. The man who alerted the emergency services from a nearby telephone box was never traced.[57]
May 1984 Yvonne Coley Kings Heath, Birmingham The body of Yvonne Coley, a 28-year-old sex worker, was discovered hidden under a hedge on the edge of Cocks Moors Woods Golf Course at Warstock Lane, Kings Heath. She had been strangled with her own bra in the early hours of 25 May 1984.

Alun Kyte, the killer of two other sex workers, was suspected of Yvonne's murder; however, no official charges were filed against him in this case.[62][63]

June 1984 Shelley Morgan Backwell, Somerset US-born 33-year-old mother-of-two Shelley Morgan disappeared on 11 June 1984 while drawing and taking pictures of the Avon Gorge in Bristol. Her remains were found on 14 October 1984 in a copse off Long Lane, in Backwell. Shelley was sexually assaulted and stabbed 14 times in the back. Her Olympus OM20 camera (serial number 1032853), as well as her bag, clothes and glasses, were stolen and have never been found.[64][52]
August 1984 Edna Harvey Ipswich, Suffolk Edna Harvey's body was found in her ground-floor flat after concerned neighbours had seen smoke coming out of its front door. The 87-year-old's killer had assaulted her before setting fire to her bed. Police thought it was likely that she had been murdered because a burglary had gone wrong.[65]
September 1984 Mark Billington Meriden, West Midlands 15-year-old Mark Billington lived in South Yardley, Birmingham, and was last seen with his blue racing bike on 1 September 1984. His body was found hanging from a tree nine weeks later on 11 November in remote woodland near Meriden - about seven miles from Mark's home. The inquest into Mark's death returned an open verdict, but the case was revisited and reopened as a murder enquiry in November 2001, after a man who had been convicted for murdering child Roy Tutill in 1968 – Brian Lunn Field – was found to have lived in the area in 1984.[66] Three men were arrested in connection with Mark's death in 2002 and subsequently released without charge.[67][68] Brian Field is suspected of being responsible for Billington's death.[69]
September 1984 Mark Yendell Docks by Welsh Back, Bristol On the evening of 10 September 1984, 33-year-old British Rail steward Mark Yendell received fatal blows to the head in the car park near to Temple Meads station in Bristol. He was attacked by at least two unidentified men. Then his body was placed on the back seat of his own red Lancia and taken to docks between Bristol Bridge and Redcliffe Bridge, where it was subsequently dumped into the water. The motive behind the killing has never been clearly established.[70][71]
September 1984 Elizabeth Sutherland Culbokie, Ross-shire, Scotland In the afternoon of 24 September 1984, Elizabeth Sutherland, a mother of two, was stabbed to death in her own house in Culbokie, apparently after she disturbed burglars. A few hours later her body, lying in a pool of blood, was discovered by her 10-year-old daughter, Jane.[72]

In December 1985 George McPhee was convicted of the murder. However, the case was re-opened many years later and brought to the Appeal Court in 2003, when the jury overturned the conviction and McPhee was released. The murder is now officially unsolved, then, although the police have decided not to hunt the killer anymore.[73]

October 1984 Barbara Pinder Battersea, London Barbara Pinder, a 76-year-old pensioner, was beaten, strangled and then stabbed 35 times in her flat at 24A Prince of Wales Mansions in Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea, at some point between 26 and 28 October 1984. The motive behind the killing has never been clearly determined.[74][63]
8 December 1984 Lisa Hession Leigh, Greater Manchester 14-year-old Lisa Hession was attacked, sexually assaulted and strangled to death on Saturday 8 December 1984, as she walked home alone from a party. Her body was discovered just before midnight in Rugby Road, Leigh, 200 yards from the family home. Her mother, Christine, reported her missing when she failed to return home, but within a very short space of time, she received a call from the police asking her to make her way to Leigh Infirmary to identify her daughter's body. Hession's clothing had been disturbed (suggesting a sexual motive), and she also had marks around her neck and a black eye. The case went cold, but advances in DNA technology meant that the swabbing of men in the Leigh and Wigan area was allowed to take place in 2011. However, nobody has been charged with the murder. Hession's mother died in 2016.[75]
9 December 1984 Peter Miller Great Yarmouth, Norfolk The 24-year-old was found stabbed in his kitchen by his brother. He died from one single stab wound to the chest. Although he had links to convicted criminals Andrew Hall and James Ventham, his murder was not linked to either of them. A CS canister was also found at the scene, believed to have been used by either Miller or his killer during a struggle.[76]
January 1985 Aristos Constantinou Hampstead, London Aristos Constantinou, the 40-year-old co-founder of the fashion label Ariella, was shot dead in his home on Bishop's Avenue – 'Billionaires Row' – in the early hours of New Year's Day 1985. Aristos was shot with six silver-coloured bullets. Police initially suspected the motive was robbery but a number of family disputes have emerged in the years since his death.[77]
3 February 1985 Two children of Robert and Lee Goble Hastings, East Sussex On the night of 2–3 February 1985, a fire was deliberately started at the house of the Goble family, at 38 St Helen's Road in Hastings. Robert and Lee Goble managed to escape the fire with the help of alarmed neighbours; however, two children (their 4-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter) sleeping in a room on the first floor didn't survive the attack.

A motive for the arson hasn't been established. One hypothesis is that the attackers meant to target a different house, but set fire to the Gobles' instead by mistake.[78]

February 1985 Constance "Connie" Aris Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 73-year-old widow Constance Aris, known for short as Connie, died from several axe blows to the head in her house at 32 Roman Road. The murderer, who was probably known to her (since there was no sign of forced entry), struck unexpectedly as she was sitting in a chair and watching TV.

Connie was last seen alive when she was returning home from a community centre on the evening of 27 February 1985. Her body was discovered the next morning by her son and daughter-in-law. Despite a massive hunt for the perpetrator, nobody was ever charged with the killing. A possible motive for it was robbery (watches, jewellery and Connie's pension book were missing).[79][78]

March 1985 Pat McCluskey Birmingham The body of 52-year-old Irish builder Pat McCluskey was found under a mattress on waste ground in Small Heath, Birmingham on 17 March 1985. He had been beaten around the head with a brick, barbed wire was tied around his throat and his stomach had been slashed. Pat was last seen alive with a ginger-haired man in the Shakespeare Pub and had links with the criminal underworld.[80]
21/22 April 1985 Jackie Waines Frampton Cotterell, near Bristol 35-year-old Jackie Waines, a sex worker and mother-of-three also known as Linda Guest, was stabbed to death on the night of 21/22 April 1985. She was last seen alive at 11.20 pm on Ashley Road in Bristol. One hour later her body was found on Perrinpit Road near Frampton Cotterell. Jackie was probably killed by one of her clients. Witnesses who discovered the body, spotted dark Ford Cortina parked nearby. The car drove off as soon as witnesses emerged.[81][82]
April 1985 Mary Budworth, Mark Budworth, Leslie Budworth Liverpool Pregnant Mary Budworth and her twin toddler sons Mark and Leslie died at their home in Hindley Walk, Speke, on 22 April 1985. Mary had been strangled before the house was set on fire and it was found that she had died from strangulation and smoke inhalation. Mark and Leslie died from smoke inhalation; three other children who were in the house managed to escape.[83]
June 1985 Sandra Phillips Swansea The 37-year-old mother of four was found beaten and strangled inside the sex shop she managed, which was locked up. Two brothers were wrongly convicted and spent seven years behind bars before their 1992 release, after which police apologised for investigational failings. Reviews of the case in 2002 and 2004 turned up new information but no killer, and in 2009 it was announced that the investigation would cease until and unless new information surfaced.[84]
August 1985 Dennis Radcliffe Tottenham, London Seven men were cleared of the murder of Dennis Radcliffe, a 23-year-old fatally stabbed in Campbell Road on Sunday, 25 August after he had been to a party.[85]
September/October 1985 Alexander McClelland Brighouse, West Yorkshire On 7 October 1985, the body of 66-year-old Alexander McClelland, also known as Sandy, was found in a car boot at the car park between Bethel Street and the Calder and Hebble Navigation in Brighouse. Sandy was stabbed to death for an undetermined reason. He was last seen alive during the evening of 12 September 1985 near his house in Leeds, and seemed to be in a good mood at the time.

The investigation was re-opened in 2017, but without results.[86][87]

September/October 1985 Violet Milsom Bristol On the night of 30 September/1 October 1985, 62-year-old Violet Milsom was tied up, raped and strangled in her flat on Ashley Road in St Pauls. Her body was also severely mutilated and the flat was thoroughly ransacked. There was no sign of forced entry, which led to the conclusion that Violet might have known her assailant and let him in, despite the fact that she used to go to bed very early and not let anyone in after 6 pm.[88][89]
6 October 1985 PC Keith Blakelock London PC Blakelock was defending firefighters as they tended to a burning supermarket during the Broadwater Farm riot in Tottenham; he stumbled and was set upon by a mob with bladed weapons. Three men were convicted in 1987, but the convictions were overturned after forensic evidence suggested interview transcripts had been falsified. The officer in charge of the original investigation was cleared of inventing a statement by one of the accused.[90]
9 October 1985 Philip Wong Glasgow Restaurateur Philip Wong, 48, was hacked to death in central Glasgow by three men with machetes. It is thought that somebody ordered the killing because Wong wouldn't do a deal with a Triad group eager for a share of a Chinese video rental business owned by him.[91]
6 November 1985 Phil Nickson Stoke Newington, London A 32-year-old civil servant killed by a blow to the head in Newington Green Road at about 5:20 pm on 6 November 1985. An extensive police investigation along with a reconstruction on the BBC programme Crimewatch failed to solve the case.[92]
16/17 November 1985 Clara Kirton Southwark, London Clara Kirton was a few days shy of her 86th birthday when she was fatally attacked with a broken beer bottle in her Southwark flat. Police are of the opinion that her killer entered her flat to burgle the property and turned on her when she became aware that she had an intruder.[93]
January 1986 Dr Danuta Kaczmarska Birmingham Polish GP Danuta Kaczmarska was 52 years old when she was found dead in the kitchen of her home on Coniston Close, Hall Green, Birmingham, on 22 January 1986. She had suffered head injuries (possibly from a small axe), been gagged with a tea towel and had her body set on fire. Two used champagne glasses were found close by. The wire cork cage and foil from the bottle were also found but the champagne bottle itself was missing. Cash and valuables in the house had been left alone.[62]
February 1986 Rosalia Jones Luton, Bedfordshire 24-year-old Rosalia Jones was murdered at her home on Layham Drive on 14 February 1986. She was found in bed having suffered head injuries and asphyxiation.[22]
March 1986 Kevin Hicks Body not found 16-year-old Kevin Hicks disappeared after leaving his home in Addiscombe, Croydon, London, to walk to a corner shop only a few minutes away in order to buy some eggs for his O-level home economics exam the next day. He left his home for the shop at 20:30 on the evening of 2 March 1986. The last known sighting of him was at 22:00 in Shirley Road, walking in the general direction of his home. In 2016 police announced that they were treating his case as murder. In 1996 a man called the Croydon Advertiser and said he knew where Kevin's body was, and police urge this man to come forward.[94]
April 1986 Peter Thurgood and Lindsey Benstead Rake, near Rogate, West Sussex Peter Thurgood, 47, and Lindsey Benstead, 49, were both from Whitehill in Hampshire. They were attacked on 22 April 1986 while in a silver Mazda hire car which was parked in a lay-by near the village of Rake in West Sussex. Peter was shot in the head and chest while Lindsey was shot in the head. The pair had been conducting an affair, and Lindsey's husband was questioned about the murders but had an alibi.[95][24]
May 1986 Sandra Court Near Bournemouth, Dorset A group of teenagers found the 26-year-old's strangled corpse in a ditch beside the Avon Causeway after she had been out the night before to celebrate a new job she was due to start soon.[96] The suspected killer of Suzy Lamplugh, John Cannan, is believed to have killed Court.[97] A pay-and-display parking ticket proves he was in Bournemouth on the night.[97]
May 1986 Arif Khan Tipton, West Midlands Arif Khan's body was found in a garage on Coneygree Road on Friday, 9 May after the 28-year-old foundry worker's murder. The neck and chest of the body had burn marks suggesting that the person or persons behind his death had tortured him.[98]
May 1986 Julie Perigo Sunderland 51-year-old Julie Perigo was violently attacked in her one-bedroom flat on Kidderminster Road, Sunderland. Police discovered her body there after forcing entry to the property on 23 May – a week after she was last seen alive. Julie was a sex worker and kept diaries of her clients; police used these in their investigation, which resulted in three men being arrested and then released. A couple of men who had contact with Julie around the time of her death were never traced.[99] Julie's murder was featured on Crimewatch in July 1986.[100]
May 1986 Georgina Davies Salford, Greater Manchester Semi-retired nurse Georgina Davies, 72, was known as Jean to her friends and neighbours. She was a widow who lived alone and still did some part-time nursing work. She was last seen going into her home on Mildred Street, Higher Broughton, Salford, by a neighbour at around 6 pm on Tuesday 20 May 1986. A friend called at her home at 9 pm that evening to ask if she wanted to go out for a drink, but there was no answer. When Jean didn't arrive for work the next day, her concerned employer visited her home, noticed a broken window and called the police. Jean was found in her bedroom and had died from pressure to her neck. A set of house keys was taken from her home along with her handbag, a jacket and some wellington boots. Jean's murder was featured on Crimewatch in July 1986.[100]
July 1986 Suzy Lamplugh Body not found Suzy Lamplugh was a British estate agent reported missing on 28 July 1986 (aged 25) in Fulham, southwest London. She was officially declared dead, presumed murdered, in 1994. Although the Crown Prosecution Service ultimately decided that there was insufficient evidence to charge him, police announced in November 2002, in a very rare move, that they believed John Cannan had killed Lamplugh.[101] Cannan had been released from a prison near Fulham three days before Lamplugh vanished.[97]
August 1986 John Malthouse Cambridge John Malthouse was 55 and of no fixed abode. On 22 August 1986, three days after he had arrived in the city, his body was found in the toilets at Victoria Avenue, Midsummer Common, Cambridge. He had been the subject of an extremely violent assault.[102][103]
October 1986 William Smith Mirfield, West Yorkshire William 'Bill' Smith, 56, was murdered on the evening of 25 October 1986. He had been walking along a path between Mirfield Memorial Park and the canal known as the Calder and Hebble Navigation. His body was found at the bottom of an embankment next to the canal; he had been asphyxiated. Police made a new appeal for information on the thirtieth anniversary of his death.[104]
November 1986 John Gaspa Camden Town, London 42-year-old John Gaspa was shot in his flat in Julian Court, Camden Road and found dead in the property on 10 November. Speculation followed that the murder was over money he owed due to a gambling habit.[105]
November 1986 Ann Ballantine Edinburgh Ann was a 20-year-old woman whose body was found wrapped in carpet in a canal. She had been raped then throttled. The killer kept her body for a while before dumping it in the canal.[106]
December 1986 Linda Cook Portsmouth, Hampshire The 24-year-old barmaid was raped and beaten to death in a school playground. Footprint evidence led to the conviction of an off-duty sailor, Michael Shirley, and the case was dubbed the Cinderella Murder. Shirley was sentenced to life in 1988, but released in 2003 when DNA evidence proved he was not the killer.[107]
December 1986 Nigel Bostock Banks, near Southport, Lancashire Nigel Bostock was found dead five days before Christmas in the semi-detached bungalow he lived in by himself. He was half in and half out of the bathtub, and around his neck was a ligature. It was thought that up to three people had been at the bungalow on the night of his death, but nobody claiming to have been there that night has ever been traced or come forward. In 2003, police received an anonymous letter with information about the gay shoe shop owner's murder; however, it did not lead to a breakthrough. Nigel was 31 when he was killed.[108]
January 1987 Marina Monti Shepherd's Bush, London The 27-year-old sex worker was strangled and her body left on waste ground in Shepherd's Bush towards the end of January.[109]
January 1987 Rachel Applethwaite Chelsea, London 24-year-old Rachel Applethwaite was found dead in Sumner Place the day after Marina Monti was in Shepherd's Bush,[109] but investigators eventually ruled out a link between the deaths of the two sex workers.[110] Rachel had been beaten and stamped on.[111] A Mexican who worked at his country's London-based embassy handed himself in to the police after finding out from Crimewatch that they were interested in speaking to a man whose description matched his,[109] but they did not charge him with either woman's murder.[110]
January 1987 William Barnard London A murder hunt began on 30 January 1987 following the death the previous day of Cricklewood man William Barnard, a 65-year-old who suffered a fatal heart attack after being assailed in the Neasden area in an attempt to rob him. The offenders (two youths) wanted money off Mr Barnard but he was not carrying any.[112]
10 March 1987 Daniel Morgan Sydenham, Kent Daniel Morgan was found dead with an axe wound to the head in the car park of the Golden Lion pub. There are suggestions that police corruption is linked to the death of the 37-year-old private investigator.[113]
28 March 1987 Helen Fleet Weston-super-Mare, Somerset The brutal murder of Helen Fleet has left a lasting legacy in Weston-super-Mare. Many years since the 66-year-old was beaten, stabbed and strangled, some townsfolk still fear returning to the beauty spot where she met her end. People continue to talk about the murder – an apparently motiveless attack on a defenceless pensioner.[114]
April 1987 Shani Warren Taplow, Buckinghamshire 26-year-old Shani Warren left her Stoke Poges home on the evening of Good Friday 1987 (17 April) to dispose of some grass clippings after mowing her lawn. Her body was found floating in Taplow Lake the following day, 18 April, at 6.30 pm. She had been gagged and bound and died from drowning. Her broken-down car was discovered in a lay-by close by. The lay-by, on the London-bound side of the A4, was about five miles from Shani's home. The car had been left unlocked, with one door slightly open, and some of Shani's personal belongings were found in the undergrowth close by.[115]

Shani had been sexually assaulted and there's a suggestion that her attacker could have been serial rapist Clive Barwell, who was given eight life sentences in 1999 for a number of offences, including multiple accounts of rape, attempted murder, kidnapping and assault.[116][117] In November 2021, police announced they had charged a man with the murder of Shani Warren.[118]

August 1987 Michael Galvin London 23-year-old Michael Galvin was stabbed at his stall at the Notting Hill Carnival on 30 August and died in hospital. The conviction of a man jailed for his murder was quashed following a claim by a police informer that he had lied under oath about what he had seen at the carnival due to intense pressure from officers for him to do so.[119]
September 1987 Fitzroy Johnson Brixton, London Jamaican by birth and aged 27, Fitzroy Johnson died on 2 September after a bullet or bullets fired by an unknown person struck his head in Coldharbour Lane.[120]
September 1987 Simon Dale Heath, Herefordshire The body of Simon Dale, a near-blind recluse and former architect, was found on Sunday 13 September at Heath House, an isolated 17th century mansion close to Herefordshire's border with Shropshire. Dale's corpse bore marks of a savage attack believed to have been inflicted some two days earlier. His ex-wife, Baroness de Stempel (née Susan Wilberforce), stood trial in July 1989 for the murder of her former husband (earlier charges of murder against two of the Baroness's children, Marcus and Sophia Wilberforce, had been dropped); she was found not guilty. No one else has ever been charged with the murder.

The investigation coincidentally revealed a fraud committed by the Baroness against her late aunt, Lady Illingworth. Police investigating the fraud made a search of the grounds of Heath House for missing gold bullion said to be worth some £10 million, but none was found.[121]

October 1987 Phillip Saunders Cardiff 52-year-old Phillip Saunders was beaten with a spade in the garden of his home in Anstee Court, Canton, on the evening of 10 October 1987. He died in hospital five days later. Phillip ran a newsagent's kiosk at Cardiff Central bus station and he was robbed of his day's takings during the attack. Three men, known as the Cardiff Newsagent Three, were jailed for Phillip's murder but their convictions were quashed in 1999.[122]
30 October 1987 Elsa Hannaway Manchester Elsa Hannaway, 37, was beaten, raped and left for dead in Whitworth Park in Rusholme after visiting the West Indian Sports and Social Club and the Big Western pub in Moss Side one night. A woman who got out of a taxi that night stated at the inquest into Elsa's death that she saw a woman arguing and struggling with a Rastafarian man on a footpath in Whitworth Park. Police think they were Elsa and her killer-to-be. Next to her body was a Sekonda watch believed to have been his.[123]
November 1987 Cyril Fensome, Florence Pennell and Stacey Darlington Northampton 62-year-old Cyril Fensome and 60-year-old Florence Pennell died when petrol poured through the letterbox was ignited. The third victim of the blaze, seven-year-old Stacey Darlington (Florence's granddaughter), died later in hospital.[124][125][126]
December 1987 Roland Carmagnole Liverpool Student Roland Carmagnole, 28, was beaten to death with a plank of wood on Scotland Road, Liverpool, in December 1987. The case was featured on Crimewatch in 2001 which resulted in new information. A man was arrested in April 2005 but the case remains unsolved.[127]
December 1987 Alice and Edna Rowley Birmingham Sisters Alice and Edna Rowley ran a shop together for over fifty years in Greswolde Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham. On 23 December 1987 the sisters were found dead in their home above the shop. Alice, 87, was in the living room – she had been strangled, and Edna, 77, was found suffocated in her bedroom. There was no sign of a break-in. Among the items missing were a cassette radio, boxes of chocolates, a bottle of Tia Maria and an old brown leather suitcase. A man described as looking like a 'vagrant' was seen knocking at the shop door the previous evening but no further leads emerged.[128]
January 1988 Anthony Gardner Manchester Anthony Gardner, 26, was shot and killed outside a Moss Side drug den on 9 January. Gangster Anthony Johnson was suspected of being the perpetrator, and he was himself unlawfully killed by a bullet just over three years after Gardner was. Johnson's murder hasn't been solved, either.[129]
February 1988 John Lennon Forest Gate, London Killed in a street attack when he was 41 by a person who also stole items from his pockets. His body was found on 20 February in St Antony's Road.[130]
February 1988 Kate Simpson Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham A woman visiting the widowed 94-year-old's semi-detached house to deliver groceries on 27 February found her dead in her living room with a knife sticking out of her chest. Three men were tried for and found guilty of her murder, but attempts to get the convictions against them quashed met with success. The person who stabbed Mrs Simpson was probably one of two or three distraction burglars and might not have been planning to go as far as killing someone.[131]
March 1988 Donna Healey Leeds Sex worker Donna Healey disappeared after being seen by family the day before her 18th birthday, which was in March 1988. Her body was discovered in a Chapel Allerton park in January 1991, but it wasn't known whose it was until DNA advances made identifying it as hers possible in 2003. In a state of mummification when it was found, it would later be revealed that the body was stored in a cool and dry place for a considerable amount of time, and the police think that whoever was storing it finally got rid of it because having it at home was no longer viable for some reason.[132]
23 March 1988 Debbie Linsley Victoria Station, London Debbie Linsley, 26, from Bromley, was found murdered in a carriage of a Network SouthEast train at Victoria station. She had died from multiple stab wounds to the heart. The case was reopened in 2002 but so far no-one has been arrested in connection with it. She lived and worked in Edinburgh and had been visiting her parents and brother Gordon. She got into an old-fashioned compartment of the 14:16 train from Petts Wood to London Victoria stations. Screams were heard between Brixton and London Victoria. The killer left traces of his blood at the scene but the murder weapon, thought to be a knife with a blade length of between 13 and 19 centimetres, was not found. There is a £20,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.[133] The case led to Network SouthEast reconfiguring the interiors of their trains and removing the compartments from most workings.
26 March 1988 Carol Baldwin Northampton A jury took over seven hours to find a 13-year-old girl not guilty of killing 13-year-old Carol Baldwin in a park. She was alleged to have stabbed the other girl for calling her a name, but in court she insisted that she was not in that park when Carol was knifed there and that her confession to being the killer to the police was false and due to coercion.[134]
April 1988 Inga Maria Hauser Ballypatrick Forest, near Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland Inga Maria Hauser, 19, a German tourist, was found murdered in the remote Ballypatrick Forest area of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She was last seen on the Stranraer to Larne ferry on 6 April, two weeks before her body was discovered strangled and sexually assaulted. Police now have the DNA profile of a person who could be the culprit and believe it may belong to someone living in one of a number of nearby villages, but have been unable to obtain enough evidence to charge any suspect.[135]
April/May 1988 Abdur Rashid Epping Forest, Essex Abdur Rashid's killer murdered him by battering his head, after which they poured petrol over his body and set it alight in Epping Forest. Though no motive for the murder is known, the idea that the victim might have been targeted because of his religion (he'd formerly been a mullah at the East London Mosque) cannot be discounted.[136][137]
May 1988 Joan Macan Ashridge, near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire Bludgeoned to death after disturbing burglars at her cottage on 6 May 1988 (her 81st birthday). A 47-year-old man appeared before magistrates in 1994 to stand accused of her murder, but no conviction for it followed that hearing.[138][139]
June 1988 Joseph Hargreaves Leeds 71-year-old Joseph Hargreaves was beaten to death without the use of a weapon.[140] Although somebody was charged with his murder, no conviction resulted from it.[141]
June 1988 Jack Christian South Witham, Lincolnshire Jack Christian, 74, was battered to death on 8–9 June at his home. His son was charged with the murder despite being the one to have raised the alarm over it, but was acquitted after it was revealed that traces of blood found on his trousers – blood matching his father's blood group – could have got on them by his dog sniffing a pool of blood and then sneezing near them.[142][143][144]
17 June 1988 Sheila Farrow Stockport, Greater Manchester Someone brutally killed 49-year-old Sheila Farrow in Stockport town centre on 17 June. A witness saw her talking to a man in the early hours of the day she was murdered. He was described as being white, about 25, of slim build and with spiky brown hair. He was wearing a silvery, shiny suit and an open neck white shirt. Police released an e-fit of him in July 1988. Sheila was a mother of eight and her murderer has never been found.[145]
18 June 1988 Marie Wilks Close to the section of the M50 motorway near Bushley, Worcestershire Wilks, aged 22 and seven months pregnant, was driving the family's Morris Marina when the vehicle broke down on the M50 motorway. Leaving her 13-month-old son and 11-year-old sister in the car, Wilks walked approximately 700 yards along the hard shoulder to use the emergency telephone to call for help. At some point during the call, Wilks was abducted. She was found dead two days later, three miles from the location of the emergency phone (which had been found hanging down by its cord). Wilks had been stabbed in the neck. An artist's impression of the suspect resulted in the arrest and subsequent trial of soldier Eddie Browning, who spent five-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of the murder in November 1989. He was ultimately released in May 1994 after the Court of Appeal ruled the conviction unsafe due to crucial evidence being withheld by the police. Browning received a £600,000 payout for wrongful imprisonment. In May 2018, Browning died aged 63. Reviews of the case have failed to uncover any other potential evidence or suspect.[146][147]
24 June 1988 Louise Kay Body not found Although her body has never been found and little clues exist as regards to her fate, the disappearance of 18-year-old Louise Kay has been investigated by police as a suspected murder. She was last seen dropping off her friend in Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the early hours before driving off alone, saying that she was going to sleep in her car on Beachy Head that night. Neither she nor her car have ever been seen again. Her case was featured on Crimewatch. In the late 2000s, serial killer Peter Tobin became the prime suspect in her murder after it was discovered that he was working in a hotel in Eastbourne at the time and was known to have been selling a small hand-painted car after her disappearance. She was also known to have met an unknown Scottish man a few days before she vanished, who had given her money for petrol. In 2010 police dug up some of Tobin's former homes in Brighton but failed to find her body. Her case is believed to be linked to the murder of Jessie Earl in 1980, who disappeared after going for a walk on Beachy Head and was later found dead there in 1989 (Tobin has also been investigated for Earl's murder). Kay's disappearance was featured on the 2018 series of The Investigator: A British Crime Story, in which the lead DSI of Operation Anagram, the police unit set up to investigate Tobin's crimes, stated that he believes Tobin murdered Kay.[5][148]
27 June 1988 Kenneth Challenger (a.k.a. Kenny Roberts) and Richard Duddie Kingston upon Thames, London Kenneth Challenger and Richard Duddie died in a fire at the house they and other vagrants were using as a squat. An expert who examined the house afterwards concluded that three separate fires had been started there deliberately, merging into one as they spread. A woman in her 50s was jailed for murdering the two men but the Court of Appeal quashed her conviction ten years later, in 1999. The men had been sharing the squat with her at the time of the blaze.[149][150]
August 1988 Percy Francis Rushden, Northamptonshire Because nothing suggested that entry to Percy Francis' bungalow had been gained illegally, his killer had likely been welcomed into it by him. 70-year-old Percy's battered and stabbed body was found there on 2 August – the day after someone probably known to him had attacked him with fatal consequences. The perpetrator appeared not to have stolen anything from there.[151]
August 1988 Samuel Williamson Bournemouth, Dorset The 58-year-old's body was found in Cotlands Road on 10 August after somebody had strangled him. In 2005, the finding of fingerprints and a hair on items from the crime scene, as well as DNA from under the victim's fingernails, led to a 54-year-old man being charged, but he was acquitted of murder and manslaughter at the end of his trial.[152][153]
August 1988 Michael Williams Highgate, London Other than his murderer, the last person known to have seen Michael Williams alive was a colleague he was with on the London Underground late at night on Friday 26 August. A dog walker found his body on a path next to Highgate Wood early the following morning, and possessions he had on him on the night of 26 August (including his watch and wallet) were now missing, it was soon discovered. The pathologist tasked with determining the cause of the civil servant's death gave it as a blow to the throat, noting too that the blow was probably inflicted by a karate chop. Williams was a 42-year-old married bisexual, and police could not rule out that the attack on him was motivated by homophobia.[154]
September 1988 Lee Boxell Body not found Lee Boxell was last seen on the High Street in Sutton, south London on 10 September 1988. In 2014 several men were arrested for his murder. The police believe the 15-year-old might have been killed after witnessing a sexual assault on another person at an informal youth club.[155]
September 1988 David Short Broadstairs, Kent 36-year-old David Short's killer murdered him with an unknown hard instrument by striking his head after spraying an incapacitant into his face as he stood at his doorstep on Thursday, 22 September. The victim had had debts of up to tens of thousands of pounds at various times in his life, but hard evidence that he was beaten to death for failing to pay up has not been found.[156]
October 1988 Laurence Winstanley Baitings Reservoir, West Yorkshire 23-year-old car mechanic Laurence Winstanley was last seen in his local pub in Oldham on 2 October. His body was found almost a year later in Baitings Reservoir on 26 September 1989. Laurence had been shot and his body wrapped in a curtain and weighed down with a pick-axe head. A few days after Laurence's disappearance, a man sold his car to a scrap dealer in Oldham. This man has never been traced.[157]
October 1988 Linda Donaldson Lowton, Greater Manchester 31-year-old Linda Suzanne Donaldson was from Liverpool. Her body was found in a ditch on Winwick Lane, Lowton, near Leigh, on 18 October 1988. Linda had been stabbed and her body mutilated then washed after death - she had been murdered elsewhere and her clothing was missing. Linda was a sex worker and in 2018 police stated they would be interviewing new people about her death.[158] It has been suggested that Linda's murder could be connected to the murders of Julie Finley and Maria Christina Requena.[159]
November 1988 Harry Howell Blackpool, Lancashire Harry Howell, a 74-year-old former mechanic, was last seen alive outside his home at Ibbison Court, off Central Drive, Blackpool, on 5 November 1988. His body was found by his window cleaner seventeen days later, slumped in his chair in his living room. Harry had been bludgeoned with a heavy weapon and police believed he died on the night he was last seen. The motive for his murder is believed to have been robbery: Thousands of pounds in cash and a gold watch were stolen, and Harry had let slip in his local pub that he kept his life savings at home. His murder was featured on the BBC's Crimewatch the following year.[160]
November 1988 Derek Brann By the M20 in Kent Although the inside of Derek Brann's taxi was soaked with blood when it was found in Sandgate (the area of Folkestone where he lived) on the morning of 6 November, Derek himself was nowhere to be seen, and it was to be a fortnight before his body (which had many stab wounds) was discovered some miles from there. Police still aren't aware of any motive for the 49-year-old's murder.[161]
December 1988 Peter Hurburgh Fickleshole, Surrey 57-year-old Peter Hurburgh had a fatal heart attack when, along with another man, he was dragged out of his parked car and given a beating in the early hours of 16 December. The other man was robbed of money as well as beaten but did not die. The assailants then went on to target people in other parts of Surrey, stabbing a man in Oxted and robbing a couple in Fetcham but without actually killing anybody else. Three men ("the M25 Three") convicted in 1990 of Peter Hurburgh's murder and the other offences were freed when the Appeal Court ruled in 2000 that failure to disclose that a man who testified against them in 1990 was a police informer and convicted criminal meant their trial was not a completely fair one.[162]
January 1989 Michael Fahey Bristol The homeless 33-year-old was beaten to death with a blunt instrument and his body was then left at the corner of Ashley Road and Picton Street. Overnight heavy rain meant that when local police became aware that they had a new homicide on their hands up to 11 and a half hours later, anything at the scene that might have been useful as forensic evidence had they known about the crime earlier, either had been washed away or was too contaminated to have much forensic value now. Prior to the police being informed that a body lay at that spot, numerous people had passed it but simply assumed it was a sleeping vagrant, with one man who wasn't traced perhaps even capturing it on film when taking a photograph there. Whether Michael Fahey had died there or somewhere else wasn't determinable.[163]
January 1989 Margaret McManus Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Margaret McManus was found deceased in Queens Road in Fletton on 28 January 1989, and the cause of the 66-year-old's death was blunt-force trauma. A man tried twice for her murder was convicted at the second trial, but the Appeal Court later overturned his conviction.[164]
February 1989 Jeanette Kempton Wangford, Suffolk 32-year-old Jeanette Kempton was last seen at The Loughborough Hotel in Brixton, south London at 7.15pm on 2 February. She lived in Brixton with her family and had no connection to the area in Suffolk where her body was found on the Earl of Stradbroke's estate, Wangford, just off the A12 on 18 February. Her coat, one shoe, purse, some jewellery and a wreath she had bought for a funeral were missing. Jeanette had been strangled. Police had five suspects in Jeanette's murder at one stage, including her ex-husband, but still no one has been convicted of it. The murder was featured on Crimewatch in May 1989.[165]
February 1989 James Hassard Caol, near Fort William, Scotland The badly beaten body of James "Jimmy" Hassard, 47, was found in a car park in the Highland village of Caol, near Fort William, in the early hours of Saturday, 18 February 1989. Mr Hassard had been drinking in the nearby Lochaber Bar between about 8 pm on Friday, 17 February and 1 am on Saturday. Despite a lengthy police inquiry, no-one has ever been caught. In 2010, the Northern Constabulary said they were conducting a review into the case in the hope that some new evidence would come to light and ultimately resolve it.[166]
March 1989 Cyril Davies Swansea A person was acquitted of the murder of 48-year-old Cyril Davies, who was beaten to death in his own home on Thursday, 23 March.[167]
June 1989 Tina Bell Billingham, County Durham Aged 18, Tina Bell went missing soon after leaving a flat above a Billingham fruit shop in early June. Not until over ten months later, when her skull, collarbone and shoulder blade were found on wasteland near ICI's Cassel Works in the town, was it confirmed that she had been murdered. Tests done on the remains indicated that the killer had tried to dissolve them in a chemical of some sort.[168][169]
July 1989 Martin Broom Boreham, near Chelmsford, Essex Martin Broom, 29, was fatally beaten at his home in Sussex Close, Boreham, on 22 July 1989. Bloodied weapons were found at the scene and nothing appeared to have been stolen. Essex Police made a new appeal for information in August 2019.[170]
September 1989 Trevor Metcalfe Redcar, North Yorkshire The body of Trevor Metcalfe was found at Dormanstown recreation ground on 16 September 1989; he had been beaten and suffered a brain haemorrhage. An anonymous letter was sent to police in September 1998 from someone claiming to have more information about the killing of the 25-year-old.[171]
September 1989 Louis/Lewis Raggett Attacked in Ash, Surrey; died at Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot, Hampshire The 55-year-old was the landlord of many bedsits in the Aldershot area, and it was thought that an embittered ex-tenant evicted by him for falling behind with rent payment may have had something to do with him being fatally attacked as he returned to his house at nighttime. The only person who's been indicted for his murder, however, is his wife, who was with him when two men stabbed and beat him that night before leaving on a motorcycle. She was accused of hiring hitmen to kill him and ensuring that neither of her pet dogs would be in a place where it could interfere with their mission, but the jury at her trial found her not guilty.[172]
October 1989 Ricky Haywood Southampton Police believe that when 36-year-old Ricky Haywood was shot five times in the flat above the jewellery shop he owned, it was probably by a hired killer acting on behalf of someone whom Ricky had got on the wrong side of. A £100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction for his murder is still on offer.[173]
November 1989 William Youens Chatham, Kent William Youens' killer beat him with a blunt instrument and stabbed him. The attack took place on 7 November, and Youens was aged 51.[39]
November 1989 Carmel Gamble Stroud, Gloucestershire Firefighters called to a blaze at a holiday cottage in Rodborough on Remembrance Sunday found the remains of the 43-year-old woman inside. It was later determined that she had died not because of the fire, but as a result of having her head battered. Police would still like to speak to a man seen arguing with Carmel in Stroud High Street a week before the murder.[174]
December 1989 Clifford Howes Blacknest, Hampshire Petrol was poured through the wooden doors of a country pub's cellar and a homemade wick was lit to start a fire there during the night of 4–5 December 1989. Though the flame on the wick went out before it had burnt down enough of it to reach the petrol, a huge explosion was nonetheless triggered by fumes from the petrol causing an automatic dehumidifier in the cellar to come on and spark in the process. The explosion destroyed the building, killing 34-year-old pub chef Clifford Howes and seriously injuring the bar manager as well, and a likely motive for setting fire to it is something that investigators have never been able to come up with.[175]
December 1989 Keith Burgess Bristol 38-year-old Keith Burgess was found brutally murdered at his home on Duchess Road, Clifton, on 17 December 1989. He had been attacked with a hammer and stabbed. Keith had last been seen alive at the Alma Tavern pub at lunchtime that day. It was believed he had invited the attacker into his home and a man of scruffy appearance was seen near his flat.[176]
December 1989 Terry Gooderham and Maxine Arnold Epping Forest, Essex The couple were shot dead in Terry's Mercedes after leaving their flat in Walthamstow when they had sat down for an evening meal. Terry was 39 and Maxine was 32. It has been suggested that Terry was murdered because it was feared that he would blow the whistle over a scam he had found out about in his job as a stocktaker, and that Maxine was murdered too because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.[177]

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