List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (1990–present)
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This is an incomplete list of unsolved known and presumed murders in the United Kingdom. It does not include any of the 3,000 or so murders that took place in Northern Ireland due to the Troubles and remain unsolved.[1] Victims believed or known to have been murdered by the same perpetrator(s) are grouped together.
1990s[]
| Year | Name of victim(s) | Location body found | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 January 1990 | William Howe | Worthing, West Sussex | The body of the 63-year-old retired vet was found tied up in his flat on 9 January. Because the flat had been ransacked, and because Mr Howe had tens of thousands of pounds hidden in a safe there (which the attackers did not find), robbery is thought to have been the motive for the killing. In the period leading up to his death, he was tortured by being hit with a hammer and having his back stamped or kneeled on, suffering broken ribs as a consequence. The cause of death was asphyxia, and it is believed he died the day before police found his body.[2] |
| 17 January 1990 | Doris Kellett | Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire | Doris Kellett was a 92-year-old who was hammered to death in her own home. It is likely that the person who struck the fatal blows to her head had an accomplice, for a witness reported having seen two men (one with a clipboard) talking to Doris on her doorstep about 45 minutes before her home help discovered her body. Her pension money was missing from the house, along with a ring and an amber paperweight. There are suspicions that her killer tricked his way in by pretending to be a gasman or some other type of official.[3] |
| 29 January 1990 | Surinder Gill | Hounslow, London | Surinder Gill was an insurance salesman who drove a distinctive modified dark red Mercedes with the index plate 16 GLL. He was found stabbed to death in his car in Beavers Open Space, Hounslow. Events leading up to his murder were reconstructed on Crimewatch in April 1990.[4] |
| February 1990 | Richard Humphreys | Body not found | The 51-year-old taxi driver vanished on 3 February and his Ford Sierra was found abandoned with bloodstains inside it in a car park at Heathrow Airport (some miles from Whyteleafe, the Surrey village where his home was) on 12 February. A forensic re-examination of the car in 2012 did not give detectives the breakthrough they were hoping for.[5] |
| February 1990 | Kevin Childerley | Mansfield, Nottinghamshire | Intruders armed with weapons attacked 29-year-old Kevin Childerley and his wife as they lay in bed, leading to his death and to her losing the sight in her right eye. Police charged two men with the murder of Mr Childerley and the attempted murder of Mrs Childerley, but when the case came to trial in 1991, they were cleared – in part because the judge considered Mrs Childerley's testimony unreliable because a medical expert did not believe she had genuine memories of the attacks.[6][7][8] |
| March 1990 | Ian Murray Erskine | Upware, Cambridgeshire | The body of Ian Murray Erskine, 44, was found in the River Cam in Upware on 25 March 1990. He had last been seen on 15 December 1989 at his workplace, the Bank of England, in the City of London. It is not known if he returned to his home at 5 Norland Square, Notting Hill, that evening. A number of cash withdrawals were made from Ian's account after his disappearance and a man hired a car using Ian's card and driving licence. Ian's body was found wrapped in plastic bags and the cause of his death could not be determined.[9] |
| March 1990 | Jack Royal | Sunniside, Tyne and Wear | Jack Royal, 57, was shot dead with a shotgun in the porch of his house. The science teacher had himself killed someone in January 1987, although a jury accepted his claim that he had been acting in self-defence and found him not guilty accordingly. In April 1990, a local man was charged with Jack's murder. The 21-year-old's sister had, at the time of his death in 1987, been the partner of the man killed by Jack, and this was viewed as a motive. However, he was cleared in June 1991.
In 1993, a second person was tried for Jack's murder. As with the previous defendant, someone close to him having a connection to the man Jack had fatally stabbed (in this case his girlfriend, who was the sister of that man) was viewed as a motive, and he spent nearly 14 years in prison for the murder before his conviction was overturned in 2007.[10][11] |
| June 1990 | Leonard Gomm | Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire | Mr Gomm, 75, was a taxicab driver found stabbed to death in Hampton Gay, near Kidlington in Oxfordshire, at 10:50 am on 13 June 1990. His Ford Granada taxi was found five yards away. Mr Gomm had radioed his employers four hours earlier (at about 6:35 am), telling them he was taking a passenger to Bicester. Police believe he picked up the fare from Gloucester Green, Oxford. Two witnesses saw the victim driving his taxi with a passenger at around that time. No money or valuables were taken from Mr Gomm or his taxi, making the motive for his murder a mystery. On the 20th anniversary of the murder, Thames Valley Police reported the uncovering of new forensic evidence which could shed light on the motive.[12][13] |
| June 1990 | Patricia Parsons | Upshire, Essex | Though an arrest took place in 2007 over Patricia Parsons' murder, the case has since gone cold once more. The 42-year-old was a masseuse who ran a sauna in London, and reputedly had VIPs including a judge and a TV presenter among her clients. When, in her car near Epping Forest, her body was found on 24 June, there were three wounds to the head caused by the bow of a crossbow, along with injuries suggesting she had been beaten prior to her death. Police thought that her blue diary would contain clues as to who had killed her, but it has never turned up.[14][15] |
| 3 August 1990 | Aeolian House, Darlington, County Durham | The 44-year-old mother-of-three had her throat slit while sunbathing outside her family home. Her husband, Peter, found the body and was later charged with her murder but the case collapsed. Nobody else has been charged with the murder.[16][17] There has been a suggestion that Ann's murder could be linked to convicted killer Christopher Halliwell.[18] | |
| August 1990 | William Webster | Yalding, Kent | 60-year-old William Webster died on 7 August 1990 after being attacked with something that burnt or scalded him.[19] |
| August 1990 | Brian Adams | Derby | 48-year-old Brian Adams was the victim of a fatal shooting just outside his Alvaston home after returning there on his motorcycle on 14 August 1990. Why someone wanted him dead remains unclear.[20] |
| August 1990 | Frank Harris | Leeds | Frank Harris, 26, was stabbed to death at a street party following an argument about a sound system. The murder, which a Birmingham man went on trial for but was not found guilty of, happened not long after the West Indian Carnival (an event that has taken place in Leeds annually since 1967) had officially come to an end and just hours before Sedley Sullivan and Rachel Soloman were murdered in the same street – a street fairly close to where people had earlier been enjoying the carnival proper.[21] |
| August 1990 | Sedley Sullivan and Rachel Soloman | Leeds | It is believed that Sedley Sullivan was the intended target of this possibly drugs-related shooting in Harehills Avenue and that 18-year-old Rachel Soloman was killed as well by accident. Anthony Johnson (himself the victim of a gangland killing several months later) was suspected of being behind the double murder but not picked out at an identification parade.[22][23] |
| September 1990 | Gail Whitehouse | Wolverhampton | Someone strangled 23-year-old Gail Whitehouse, a mother-of-two, and left her body in bushes in Wolverhampton's red-light district. Convicted serial rapist David Williams was acquitted of her murder in 1993.[24][25] |
| September 1990 | Andrew Pilch | Elsing, Norfolk | Andrew Pilch's wife reported finding him deceased at their Church Street cottage on 13 September and it was believed the death of the 34-year-old was due to natural causes until a pathologist found that strangulation was the cause of it. Three men were cleared of his murder.[26][27] |
| September 1990 | Andrew Bedford | Body not found | Andrew Bedford went missing on 28 September 1990. He lived in Huntingdon and was last seen in Ramsey, and it is thought by the police that he is likely to have been killed with a gun. In 2015, they reopened the investigation into the disappearance of the 30-year-old, but in 2020 a police spokesman said the case was now back in the hands of Cambridgeshire Constabulary's cold case team as there were no more lines of inquiry to pursue.[28] |
| October 1990 | Judith Gold | Hampstead, North London | A newspaper boy found the body of 51-year-old financial adviser Judith Gold, also known as Judith Silver, yards from her own home after she left dressed for a business meeting.[29] She had died after receiving several blows to the left side of her face from an unidentified weapon.[29] After serial killer Levi Bellfield's 2008 conviction for the murder of two women in south-west London with hammers, police announced they would be reviewing Gold's case, as they suspected it could be one of a number of unsolved attacks on women Bellfield was responsible for.[29][30] |
| November 1990 | Leslie Jackson | Blackburn, Lancashire | Leslie Jackson was beaten to death in his bathroom.
He had been a horse dealer and had been living in a sheltered bungalow in Sussex Drive, Blackburn. His bungalow had been ransacked. It was thought that he had kept large sums of money at his home and a watch and gold sovereign rings were later found to be missing. During their investigation, the police visited every jeweller, second-hand shop and pawn shop in the North West, searching for clues and traces of the known missing items. Two people were arrested in connection with his murder, but it was determined that there wasn't enough evidence to make a prosecution and the case was thrown out of court. A third man who was also arrested but who the police offered no evidence against later died, and his mother said that he never recovered from the trauma of his arrest. At the time of his murder, Leslie Jackson had been suffering from cancer and had recently undergone a triple heart by-pass, and didn't have long to live.[31] |
| December 1990 | Steven Johnson | Mow Cop, Cheshire/Staffordshire border | On 22 December, insurance salesman and part-time taxi driver Steven Johnson was last sighted at 3:30 am collecting a fare in Hanley bound for Packmoor. His body was discovered by a dog walker four hours later with his throat cut 20 yards from his taxi.[32] |
| December 1990 | Edna Kilbride | Leeds | Edna Kilbride, 70, was found dead at her home in Parkway Vale, Seacroft, on 30 December 1990. She had died the previous day and suffered facial injuries.[33][34] |
| January 1991 | Maria Requena | Leigh, Greater Manchester | 26-year-old Maria Christina Requena went missing on New Year's Day 1991, and her remains were found on 6 January in five plastic bin bags in the lake at Pennington Flash. Maria was a sex worker and the location where she was found is less than two miles from where the body of Linda Donaldson was discovered in 1988. A link between the two murders has been suggested[35] and a connection has also been suggested with the murder of Julie Finley.[36] |
| January 1991 | Wendy Gallagher | Barnsley, South Yorkshire | Wendy Gallagher, 24, was last seen in Barnsley town centre on Friday 18 January 1991, her body was found the following Monday at her home on Princess Street. She had been strangled with an electrical cord. On the thirtieth anniversary of Wendy's death, police announced that evidence would be re-examined for previously undetected DNA traces.[37] |
| February 1991 | John Green | Poole, Dorset | 36-year-old John Green suffered a frenzied stabbing in the office adjoining his shop and his fiancée found his body there the next day. He was not known to have had any enemies, causing police to wonder if he had been murdered in a case of mistaken identity. Two men seen pushing him into the shop on 1 February (the day of the killing) remain untraced.[38] |
| February 1991 | Janine Downes | Shifnal, Shropshire | Janine Downes was a 22-year-old mother of three. Her body was found close to Lambert's Restaurant on the road between Shifnal and Wolverhampton on 2 February 1991. Janine had been strangled and had extensive head injuries, some of her clothes were missing. Janine had been a sex worker and was last seen in Wolverhampton's red light district.[39] A link has been suggested with the murder of Sharon Harper in 1994 and a possible connection with the convicted killer Christopher Halliwell.[40] |
| February 1991 | Anthony "White Tony" Johnson | Cheetham Hill, Manchester | Known as "White Tony" to avoid confusion with a black associate whose first name was the same as his, he was shot dead on 22 February in the Penny Black pub's car park. A man he was with was also shot, but not killed. Desmond Noonan was tried for Tony's murder twice (along with alleged accomplices, including brother Damien at the first trial), and the prosecution claimed that Tony had been murdered because someone had threatened to complain to him about Desmond taking half of his share of the money from an armed robbery. However, each trial collapsed due to a hung jury.
Aged 22 at the time of his death, Tony was a grandson of Winnie Johnson, mother of moors murders victim Keith Bennett, and had begun to descend into a life of crime within a few years of leaving school.[23] |
| March 1991 | Ahmet Abdullah | Walworth, London | Jurors cleared two brothers of the murder of the Turkish drug dealer, who had been shot on Monday, 11 March – first inside a betting shop, then again in the street after leaving the building.[41] |
| March 1991 | Duncan Clift | Struck by a car in Hexham, Northumberland, died in hospital in Newcastle | Duncan Clift, 27, a Kent Police officer who had travelled to Northumberland (the county he was originally from) to visit family, was standing in front of a car in a bid to prevent theft of the vehicle when its driver purposely ran him down. He died on 24 March – two days after the incident, which happened in a car park. A jury found a man charged over Clift's death not guilty of his murder or manslaughter.[42] |
| April 1991 | Alan Leppard | Monkton, Kent | 43-year-old Alan Leppard was shot in the chest on Easter Monday after answering his front door. Brenda Long, his partner, heard the bang and rushed to the door to find out what the cause of it was, and she, too, was murdered at home just under nine months later. With no evidence that either of them had done anything illegal or was prone to making enemies, the reasons for the killings remain as much a mystery as the identities of the persons behind them.[43] |
| May 1991 | Glenda Potter | Rochester, Kent | Someone strangled 32-year-old Glenda Potter and left her body near the United Reformed Church in Crow Lane, Rochester in May 1991. Glenda was a sex worker and her murder was featured on Crimewatch. Police re-examined the case in 2010, stating that they had DNA from the scene.[44] |
| June 1991 | Alison Shaughnessy | Battersea, London | Bank clerk Alison Shaughnessy was knifed over 50 times on the stairway to her flat on 3 June. Sisters Michelle and Lisa Taylor were convicted of murdering the 21-year-old and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1992, but had their convictions quashed the following year, by which time they were aged 22 and 19, respectively. Michelle and Alison's husband had been having an affair prior to the killing (though both claimed it had ended by then – something the police did not accept), and the accusation was that Michelle, fuelled by jealousy, had stabbed Alison while her sister stood guard. An entry from Michelle's 1990 diary stating that her "dream solution would be for Alison to disappear as if she never existed" was used as evidence against her at the trial.[45][46][47] |
| June 1991 | Penny Bell | Perivale, London | The body of the victim, a 43-year-old businesswoman and mother of two, was found in her car in Gurnell Leisure Centre car park by two women who initially thought her corpse was just a woman sleeping. She had been stabbed 50 times as she sat behind the wheel of the vehicle.[48] |
| June 1991 | Lynne Trenholm | Boughton, Chester | Lynne Trenholm was found dead in Pinky's massage parlour in Boughton, Chester on 9 June 1991. She had been stabbed multiple times. Despite there being a solid fingerprint recovered from the scene, the police have no suspects and appeals are still made in an effort to solve Trenholm's murder.[49] |
| June 1991 | Sandy Drummond | Fife, Scotland | Reclusive Sandy Drummond, 33, was found dead on a farm track close to the home he shared with his brother, an isolated cottage near St Andrews, Fife, on 24 June 1991. Just days prior to his death, Drummond had withdrawn large amounts of cash from his accounts, although the money was later found in the house. He had also resigned from his job three days before his death. On the day itself, he was seen running from his house to fields opposite carrying a blue sports bag which has never been found. At 2:30 pm, a man was seen on a bus near to Drummond's cottage with a blood stained bandage wrapped around his hand. This man was never traced. Several occasions before Drummond's death (and twice on the actual day), an orange Morris Marina was seen parked outside the cottage, but it is still unknown who owned this car or who visited him. Drummond's death was originally ruled as natural, but forensics later revealed he had injuries to his neck.[50] |
| July 1991 | Sheila Egner | Nottingham | At Yeomans Army Stores (where Mrs Egner was working) on Mansfield Road, the 62-year-old was hit over the head repeatedly with a bottle or hammer by someone who then took the till drawer (which contained about £250) away with him after wrapping it in green curtain. The drawer was found dumped and empty in a garden in Basford the following day.[51] |
| August 1991 | David Brindle and Stanley Silk | Walworth, London | David Brindle, 23, and Stanley Silk, 47, died after two masked men opened fire in The Bell, a public house on East Street, on 3 August 1991. Brindle had two brothers who had recently been charged over the March 1991 murder of Ahmet Abdullah, but whether that was the reason for the shooting at The Bell is not known.[52] |
| August 1991 | Sharon Hoare | Fulham, London | 19-year-old Sharon Hoare moved from her home in Bristol to London, where she worked as a sex worker for escort agencies. Sharon's flatmate found her dead in her bedroom at their home on Brompton Park Crescent, Fulham. She had been throttled and bludgeoned. Her boyfriend was questioned but released without charge. On 16 August, six days after Sharon's death, another sex worker was attacked at her home in nearby Kensington and it was suggested the two attacks could be linked.[53] |
| August 1991 | Brendan Penn | Bradford, West Yorkshire | Father-of-three Brendan Penn, aged 22, was stabbed in the heart after running into a group of people already involved in a street affray. A detective later noted that he thought there were people with important information about the murder who were unwilling to come forward with it because they wrongly believed Brendan to have been an aggressor.[54] |
| August 1991 | Arthur Thompson | Glasgow | Arthur Thompson was the 31-year-old son of the Scottish gangster with the same name and died outside his parents' home on 17 August when a car pulled up there and an occupant or occupants of the vehicle shot him. A man was found not guilty of the murder.[55] |
| August 1991 | Andrew Elphick | Body not found | The disappearance of 21-year-old Andrew Elphick began to be treated as murder in 1995. Andrew was last seen in Brookwood, Surrey on 23 August 1991, and his car was found abandoned in Slough – approximately 18 miles away – the following day. Andrew worked in a shop in Woking and lived in Normandy. In 1995, three men were arrested in connection with Andrew's disappearance but no charges were brought against any of them.[56] |
| August 1991 | Veronica Anderson | Warrington, Cheshire | 42-year-old Veronica 'Vera' Anderson was found dead in her Ford Cortina on Tannery Lane, Penketh, Warrington, on 25 August 1991. Her throat had been cut.[35] Vera had last been seen at her home address on Hadfield Close, Widnes the previous day. That evening, she received a telephone call, then left her six-year-old son with a neighbour. It was not expected that she would be gone for long.[57] |
| August 1991 | Nicholas Hanscomb | London | Nicolas Hanscomb died in the early hours of 26 August at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington after a member of a group of youths stabbed the 38-year-old scientist in the groin at the Notting Hill Carnival. Part of Hanscomb's work as a scientist was to help develop the DNA genetic fingerprint test.[58] |
| August 1991 | Sarah Crump | Southall, London | Sarah Crump, 31, was found murdered at her home in Southall, west London on 31 August 1991. She had been stabbed. Two years later, David Smith stood trial for Sarah's murder but was acquitted. The same man was jailed in 1999 for the murder of a 21-year-old sex worker, Amanda Walker, who he had picked up near Paddington Station, London.[59] |
| September 1991 | Sarah Bowdler | Walsall, West Midlands | Sarah Bowdler, a 68-year-old charity worker and widow, was found strangled in her bedroom at her home on Somers Road, Pleck, Walsall, on 17 September 1991. No motive for her murder was established: nothing had been stolen and the fact that there was no sign of a break-in suggested that Sarah had let her killer into her home.[60] |
| September 1991 | Bobby Glover and Joe Hanlon | Glasgow | 31-year-old Bobby Glover and 23-year-old Joe Hanlon were two of three men due to stand trial for the August 1991 murder of Arthur Thompson Jnr when they were fatally shot on the night of 18 September. Their bodies were left near a Shettleston pub after the killings – killings thought to have been carried out in revenge for the murder they were suspected of involvement in.[61][55] |
| October 1991 | The Bolney Torso | Bolney, Sussex | In October 1991 a body was discovered in woodland off Broxmead Lane in Bolney, Sussex. The head and hands had been removed and the victim was never identified. In March 2009 police exhumed the body and gave a revised description of the victim. He was between 5 ft 6 and 5 ft 8 ins tall, well built and aged 35–45. Police also issued pictures of his clothing, including a light-blue shirt with a distinctive motif on its pocket.[62][63] |
| October 1991 | Diane McInally | Glasgow | Diane McInally, 23, was last seen getting into a car with two men in Cadogan Street, Glasgow, on 15 October 1991. Her body was found in woodland in the city's Pollok Park and she had been strangled. Diane was a sex worker and two men were charged with her murder but there was not enough evidence for them to stand trial. In 2017, Diane's son called for the investigation into his mother's murder to be reopened, claiming he had new evidence.[64] |
| November 1991 | Sharon Tyler | Tilney All Saints, Norfolk | 24-year-old Sharon Tyler was knifed to death at her home on 12 November. Hairs she had in her hand when discovered dead in the kitchen not being tested as well as they could have been, together with a forensic expert's case notes being altered and his failure to treat two bloodspots on the murder weapon separately, meant that the conviction of a man found guilty of murdering her was later deemed unsafe. (It was not possible to retest the hairs to establish whether they were his or not as they were destroyed long before his retrial.)[65] |
| December 1991 | Nicola Payne | Body not found | Nicola Payne, aged 18, went missing from the Henley Green area of Coventry on 14 December 1991. She was on her way to her parents' house from her home in Winston Avenue. She had a six-month-old son at the time of her disappearance. In June 2012 police began a search of parkland after being given new information.[66] On 20 June 2012, Nigel Barwell and his brother-in-law Thomas O'Reilly were arrested by the police[67] but later released.[68] On 27 January 2015, Barwell and O'Reilly were charged with her murder.[69] However, on 16 November 2015, they were found not guilty of murdering Payne.[70] A tent which appeared to show DNA evidence against the defendants had been stored in uncertain conditions for a month and cross-contamination was therefore possible.[71] |
| December 1991 | Brenda Long | Whitstable, Kent | Because there was a suicide note next to the bath in which Brenda Long's body was found and an empty pill packet was in the bath as well, foul play was not suspected to begin with, but an examination of the body by a pathologist revealed that someone had caused her to fall unconscious by holding a cloth soaked with ether over her nose before drowning her. The murder followed that of her partner, Alan Leppard, in April of the same year, and his is also still unsolved.[43] |
| December 1991 | Kathleen Waugh | Derwent Reservoir, Derbyshire | Kathleen Waugh was 41 years old when she went missing one night from Knowle House care home, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside. Her body was found floating in Derwent Reservoir early in 1992, six weeks after her disappearance. The location was 25 miles from where she lived. Kathleen had an intellectual disability and the deputy care manager of Knowle House was arrested then released; she denied all charges against her. Kathleen's murder was explored in March 1996 in Network First: The Killing of Kathleen Waugh – an episode of an ITV documentary series.[72][73] |
| January 1992 | Yvonne Fitt | Lindley Wood, near Otley, West Yorkshire | Yvonne Fitt was last seen in Bradford on 6 January 1992 but her body was not found until 12 September in Otley. Her murder was featured on Crimewatch that year and in 2019 police appealed to an anonymous caller who provided information after the broadcast to call again.[74] It is suspected that Yvonne could have been murdered by the killer of Leanne Tiernan. |
| January 1992 | Perry Wenham | Ipswich, Suffolk | Two men were charged with the murder of Perry Wenham but the judge at their trial ruled in their favour, describing the case against them as "deplorably weak". The case rested mainly on the fact that, on the night of the murder, the men were seen with Mr Wenham in the town centre when he was still alive before being seen without him and walking away rather quickly from the lane whose church's graveyard his stabbed body was later found in – a lane also in the centre of town. During a police interview, one of them admitted to seeing 31-year-old Mr Wenham get punched to the ground that night, but denied hurting him himself in any way.[75] |
| January 1992 | Tracey Meade | Grand Union Canal, London | On 20 January 1992, 14-year-old Tracey Meade said goodbye to her mother before going to stay the night at her aunt's flat nearby, an apparently frequent occurrence. Meade never arrived and 12 days later her body was found in the Grand Union Canal. She had drowned but was found to have been stabbed twice and police think there may have been a sexual motive as she was only partially dressed and some of her clothes were found elsewhere. A reconstruction was featured on Crimewatch in April 1992,[76] but police are no nearer to finding the killer. |
| March 1992 | Beatrice Greig | Nottingham | 79-year-old Beatrice Greig was beaten to death at her home in Loughrigg Close, The Meadows, Nottingham, on 28 March 1992. Beatrice's daughter, Patricia Bass, was convicted of her mother's murder but the conviction was quashed in 1996 and a retrial ordered. Patricia Bass was convicted a second time at the retrial in 1997 and this conviction was overturned the following year.[77] |
| April 1992 | Jacqueline Palmer-Radford | Eversley, Hampshire | The 40-year-old was found dead in her kitchen by her elder son on 1 April, having been raped and asphyxiated while he was at school earlier that day. Nothing was stolen from the house and there was no sign of forced entry, leading investigators to consider it likely that the perpetrator was not a stranger to her.[78] |
| April 1992 | Michael Schallamach | Body not found | After Michael Schallamach vanished in Southampton, his wife received a letter posted in France and purportedly from a woman he had left her for, but the police, having long been of the opinion that he had been murdered by the time the letter was written, do not believe it was authentic. In 2016, two men jailed in 2005 for killing a family in 2003 were named as prime suspects in the murder of 53-year-old Mr Schallamach.[79] |
| July 1992 | Christopher Stanley | Hounslow, London | Nine-year-old Christopher Stanley was last seen on 29 July 1992 talking with a friend and a neighbour on St Aubyn's Avenue, Hounslow. His body was found the next day in a wartime pill box on Hounslow Heath; he had been strangled. A man stood trial for Christopher's murder the following year but was acquitted.[80][81] |
| August 1992 | Michael Towler | Bradford, West Yorkshire | 57-year-old Michael Towler was found fatally stabbed in the living room of his home on Holly Street, Horton Bank Top, Bradford, on the morning of 6 August 1992. Neighbours had heard noise coming from his home the previous evening and a man had been seen acting suspiciously nearby. Michael's video recorder was stolen.[82] |
| October 1992 | Kevin Coniam | Mansfield, Nottinghamshire | The Kent-born lorry driver's Volvo Estate car was found with his body inside in woodland close to the northern outskirts of Mansfield. He had been strangled – police think by someone he had been associating with for drug-related reasons.[83] |
| October 1992 | Nikki Allan | Sunderland | Seven-year-old Nikki Allan was battered to death in the then-derelict Exchange Building. George Heron, 24, a neighbour of the victim, was subsequently charged with her murder. However, at his trial the case collapsed as it was deemed that his confession had been gained by coercion. In 2006, police confirmed that Nikki Allan's murder was being reinvestigated by a "cold case" review team based at Northumbria Police's headquarters.[84] In September 2013, the BBC's Crimewatch made a second appeal and showed another reconstruction in an attempt to solve the case.[85] In 2017, a DNA profile was recovered from samples taken at the scene and in 2019 a man was re-arrested. He was released under investigation as inquiries continued.[86] |
| November 1992 | Natalie Pearman | Norwich, Norfolk | 16-year-old Natalie was strangled and her body dumped in woodland at Ringland Hills, on the edge of Norwich. At around 3:45 am on 20 November, a lorry driver taking a short cut through Ringland Hills spotted Natalie's body in a layby.[87] New information about the case was received in November 2012.[88] Her death has been linked to serial prostitute killer Steve Wright, a theory supported by renowned criminologist David Wilson.[89] Police cross-checked the DNA found on Pearman's body to Wright's but the results were "inconclusive".[89] |
| November/December 1992 | Harold, Mary and Harold Jr Smith | Birmingham | Harold Smith, 72, his wife Mary, 72, and their son Harold Jnr, 47, were found murdered in a bedroom of their home in Overbury Close, Northfield, Birmingham on 2 December 1992. They had been bound, beaten and stabbed with a small knife. Nothing appeared to have been stolen and the motive remains a mystery. Criminal psychologist Paul Britton suggested the culprit(s) would be aged between 14 and 25 and have a good knowledge of the area.[90] |
| December 1992 | Johanna Young | Watton, Norfolk | On 23 December 14-year-old Johanna left her home in Merton Road, Watton, at around 7:30 pm and was seen outside her local fish and chip shop half an hour later. The alarm was raised the following morning when she failed to turn up for her paper round and, on Boxing Day, her body was found in a freezing pond near her home and clothes and shoes discarded nearby.[91] |
| December 1992 | Steven Clark | Body not found | Steven Clark, who was 23 and had disabilities due to injuries sustained in a road accident during childhood, was for many years thought to have last been seen in Saltburn (a small town on the North Yorkshire coast) on 28 December at around 3 pm, but in September 2020 a woman contacted the police to say she had walked past him near his Marske home 45 minutes or so later. (Marske is about two miles away from Saltburn.) This new piece of information followed the revelation that Steven's parents had recently been arrested on suspicion of his murder before being bailed. Both strongly deny being behind his disappearance.[92][93] |
| 2 January 1993 | Benji Stanley | Moss Side, Manchester | 14-year-old Benji Stanley was shot dead whilst in a takeaway with a friend. Though police found no evidence to support rumours that he had been involved in the trading of illegal drugs, they did reveal that they believed the murderer might have mistaken him for a drug dealer, and in 2011 disclosed the name of a dealer they thought likely to have been the intended target – someone similar in appearance to Benji at the time of the killing. Another theory is that the intended target was the friend of Benji's who was with him in the takeaway that day. (Benji was on the other boy's bike and had that boy's jacket on when the gunman struck.)[94] |
| 21 January 1993 | Arthur Brumhill | Northampton | 76-year-old Arthur Brumhill's body was found in the basement of the pet and garden centre on Wellingborough Road, where he worked part time, by a fellow employee. He had died from several blows to the head inflicted with a blunt metal object, thought to have been a tyre iron missing from the scene. The killer is suspected to have escaped out of an upstairs window with a small amount of money taken. An eyewitness described seeing Arthur with another man in his teens with "mousey-brown" hair, standing at about 5 ft 5 in tall, in the shop on the evening of the murder. Despite the case appearing on Crimewatch and several arrests being made the case remains unsolved to this day.
On 21 January 2013, the 20th anniversary of the murder, police announced they were reviewing the case and hoped that advances in forensic analysis and DNA profiling would bring the killer to justice.[95] A former colleague of Arthur's stood trial for his murder but was found not guilty in March 2017.[96] |
| 24 January 1993 | Stacey Queripel | Bracknell, Berkshire | The body of seven-year-old Stacey Queripel was found in woodland by South Hill Park on the night of 24 January 1993. She had been strangled with her necklace. It is believed she was murdered elsewhere because her shoes were clean but the ground where she was found was muddy. Stacey's mother, Gilliane Queripel, was arrested in connection with her daughter's murder but she was released without charge.[97] |
| February 1993 | Doris Shelley | Attacked in Martlesham, Suffolk; died at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge | Concerned for her welfare because she hadn't answered the door to a woman attempting to deliver shopping to her, a neighbour took the decision to enter Mrs Shelley's bungalow by breaking a lounge window. Inside, he found the 82-year-old cowering in her kitchen. A blunt instrument had been used to strike her head with considerable force, and she died in hospital ten days later, on 21 February.[98][99] |
| February 1993 | Bulic Forsythe | Clapham, London | Bulic Forsythe, 42, was last seen by his colleagues at Lambeth Social Services on 24 February 1993. There was concern when he did not arrive for work the following day and, that evening, his flat at Foster Court, Clapham Park Road, was deliberately set on fire. Bulic's body was discovered by firefighters in the early hours of 26 February, and the cause of his death was found to have been a fractured skull. It has been suggested that Bulic was murdered because he planned to expose widespread abuse at Lambeth Council's children's homes.[100][101] |
| March 1993 | Richard Miles | Stonehouse, Gloucestershire | The panel beater's mother found his body in their back garden during the afternoon of 10 March. In an apparently motiveless killing, he had suffered a single stab wound to the heart sometime after having arrived home for lunch from his workplace that day. Three men arrested in 2013 in connection with the murder – two on suspicion of being his killers, the third on suspicion of perverting the course of justice – all ended up being released without charge.[102] |
| March 1993 | Carol Clark | Sharpness, Gloucestershire | 32-year-old Carol Clark was last seen in Montpelier, Bristol, on 26 March 1993. Her body was found two days later, thirty miles away at Sharpness docks. She had been strangled and her body was partially clothed. Carol had been a sex worker and her murder was featured on the BBC programme Crimewatch in summer 1993. Among those questioned in connection with Carol's murder were convicted killers Alun Kyte and Philip John Smith.[103] |
| March 1993 | Jean Bradley | Acton, London | Stabbed to death in Carbery Avenue. The victim was a 47-year-old businesswoman. A man was charged, but due to insufficient evidence the case against him was dropped.[104] |
| April 1993 | Karen McGregor | Glasgow | Karen McGregor, 29, was murdered on 18 April 1993 and her body was found hidden in the Scottish Exhibition Centre car park, Glasgow, days later. In 1994, Karen's husband, Charles, stood trial for her murder but the charge was found not proven. Karen was a sex worker and a link has been suggested between her death and the unsolved murders of other sex workers in Glasgow in the 1990s.[105][106][107] |
| June 1993 | Tommy Roche | Near Heathrow Airport, London | Tommy Roche, 42, was shot on 21 June 1993 by a man on a motorcycle. His death was not thought to be linked to the January 1993 murder of his associate Donald Urquhart, for which a hired killer was jailed for life.[108][109][110] |
| July 1993 | Amanda Duncan | Body not found | Although the body of 26-year-old Amanda Duncan has never been found, police are treating her disappearance as a murder enquiry. Amanda worked as a sex worker and was last seen in the Portman Road area of Ipswich on 2 July 1993. In 2018, on the 25th anniversary of Amanda's disappearance, Suffolk Constabulary made a new appeal for information.[111] A link has been suggested to serial prostitute killer Steve Wright.[112] |
| July 1993 | Harry and Megan Tooze | Llanharry, South Wales | Shot at point blank range with a shotgun in their home at Ty Ar y Waun Farm. Jonathan Jones, the boyfriend of their daughter Cheryl, was convicted of their murder, but the verdict was quickly overturned on appeal. Since then South Wales Police have made several attempts to solve the murder, but no further arrests have been made.[113] A link has been suggested between the murders and serial killer John Cooper, responsible for the Pembrokeshire murders.[114][115] |
| November 1993 | Karen Hales | Ipswich, Suffolk | 21-year-old Karen Hales was stabbed and her body was set on fire during a vicious attack in her own home on Sunday 21 November. The attack was almost certainly witnessed by Karen's 19-month-old daughter.[116] |
| November 1993 | Paul Hamilton | Glasgow | The 35-year-old was shot as he was driving his car in the Riddrie district of Glasgow on 23 November, and there has been speculation that it was because he had given an alibi the previous year for the man standing trial for Arthur Thompson Jnr's 1991 murder.[117] |
| December 1993 | Paul Logan | Blue House Farm, Northumberland | On 23 December 1993, Paul Logan's workplace, a takeaway in Consett, received a call from a nearby phone box requesting the delivery of food to a house in the countryside. With no cause to suspect that the call was not genuine, the 25-year-old responded to it accordingly, only to be told when he arrived at the address supplied that no one living there had placed any such order that day. He was bludgeoned to death soon after walking away from the house, his body being found by police a few hours later on farmland within its grounds. (The police had been called to the farm because it had come to the knowledge of its owners that Paul's car hadn't left there.)[118] |
| December 1993 | Viv Graham | Wallsend, Tyne and Wear | Viv Graham, 34, was shot dead after leaving a pub on Wallsend High Street on 31 December 1993. He was well known locally as an organised crime figure and reportedly received a death threat shortly before he was murdered.[119] |
| January 1994 | Sarah Lewin | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire | Sarah Lewin, 36, was found bludgeoned at her home in Bradley Boulevard, Sheepridge, Huddersfield, on 14 January 1994. It is believed that Sarah may have known her killer and her murder could have had a connection to her involvement in the supply of amphetamines. Sarah's brothers made a new plea for information in 2018.[120] |
| February 1994 | Danny Ferguson | Bedford | 32-year-old Danny Ferguson's killer shot him in the head at his bedsit. Five men were charged with and subsequently acquitted of violent disorder in relation to a fight in the building the day before Danny was found murdered there, and the fight was believed to be connected with his murder.[121] |
| March 1994 | Trevor Monerville | Stoke Newington, London | 26-year-old Trevor Monerville was stabbed by five men on Trumans Road, Stoke Newington, on 19 March 1994.[122] |
| March 1994 | Doreen Morris | Holyhead, Anglesey | Doreen Morris, 64, lived alone with her two dogs in Mill Lane on the outskirts of Holyhead. Her burnt body was found at her home in the early hours of 25 March 1994. A man stood trial for Doreen's murder the following year, but was acquitted by the jury. A new appeal for information was made on Crimewatch in 2010.[123] |
| April 1994 | Karen Reed | Woking, Surrey | Karen Reed, 33, was shot on her doorstep at 31 Willow Way, Woking, at 9:15 pm on 30 April 1994 when she answered the door to a man pretending to be there to deliver pizza. The motive for her murder is uncertain, although it has been suggested that it was a case of mistaken identity and that Karen's sister, Alison Ponting, was the intended target. Alison's husband had been convicted of murdering two brothers.[124] |
| May 1994 | Dawn Shields | Castleton, Peak District, Derbyshire | 19-year-old mother of one Dawn Shields was last seen getting into a car in Broomhall, Sheffield on 14 May. Her body was found on 20 May buried under rocks at Mam Tor in the Peak District. Her clothing was missing and has never been found. Dawn was described by police as leading a 'troubled life' and had been forced into sex work from the age of 14. The investigation into her murder was reopened in 2019.[125] A connection with the murder of Michaela Hague in 2001 has been suggested, as has a link with convicted killer Christopher Halliwell.[40] |
| May 1994 | Diane Clark | Gainsborough, Lincolnshire | Died in a fire at 51 years of age when her house was set alight after being burgled. Despite three individuals having been arrested in relation to the case, no one has been charged with the burglary or with starting the fire that killed her.[126] |
| July 1994 | Sharon Harper | Grantham, Lincolnshire | 21-year-old Sharon Harper was set upon and strangled while walking home from the Market Cross, the Grantham pub where she had been working that evening. A Hove couple arrested in 1999 on suspicion of her murder were released without charge.[127][128] A connection has been suggested with the murder of Janine Downes in 1991 and a possible link with the convicted killer Christopher Halliwell.[40] |
| July 1994 | Iftkah Ahmed | Luton, Bedfordshire | The victim was 23 and died on 7 July 1994 after being shot in the chest twice whilst in the kitchen of the kebab shop he was employed by.[129] |
| July 1994 | Chris Little | Marple, Greater Manchester | Shot on 22 July while driving his car along Stockport Road.[130] Arran Coghlan was charged with the 31-year-old racketeer's murder but cleared of it; the next decade Coghlan went on to be charged with and cleared of two other murders and cocaine smuggling.[131] |
| August 1994 | Julie Finley | Rainford, Lancashire | Julie Finley, 22, was last seen on the evening of 5 August talking to a man near the Royal Liverpool Hospital. Her body was found dumped in a field just off the Rainford bypass the following day; she had been strangled and her clothing was missing.[132] In 2019 it was reported that police were investigating a possible link with convicted murderer Christopher Halliwell, who lived nearby and was a taxi driver. Finley was going to see a taxi driver shortly before her murder.[133] It has also been suggested that Julie's murder could be connected with the murders of Linda Donaldson and Maria Christina Requena.[36] |
| August 1994 | Kenneth Brown | Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire | Originally from the Scottish town of Falkirk, the 56-year-old businessman had suffered a single gunshot wound to the chest when a cleaner discovered his body in an outbuilding in the grounds of his mansion on 26 August. If the killer was a trespasser, they had managed to gain access to the property in spite of the tall fencing and trees at its perimeter and the remote-controlled iron gates at its entrance. Mr Brown had been fearful for his safety prior to that day, according to some of the people living close by.[134][135] |
| September 1994 | Julie Pacey | Grantham, Lincolnshire | Julie Pacey was found dead in the bathroom of her house by her daughter on Monday, 26 September after being strangled following a sexual assault. An unknown man wearing blue overalls was seen leaving the house the previous Friday and has been a suspect since the early part of the investigation into the murder. A Lincolnshire Police detective revealed in 2015 that they now had an almost complete DNA profile of 38-year-old Julie's killer.[136] |
| September 1994 | Stan Nicholls | Yalding, Kent | Stan Nicholls, 37, was shot in the temple on 26 September when two men, one of them armed, burst into a public house as he was leaving the building shortly before midnight. Whether the gunman meant to shoot him or whether he did so by mistake when his real intention was to rob the pub with his accomplice (nothing was taken from there by either of them) is unknown.[137] |
| October 1994 | Kathleen Hempsall | Lincoln | Kathleen Hemphall, 40, a part-time midwife, was stabbed in her home during a burglary on 11 October. A 15-year-old boy was convicted of aiding and abetting the burglary (which he had already pleaded guilty to) but not of Kathleen's murder (which he hadn't been charged with), while a second youth was convicted of her murder but later had his conviction overturned. A third youth charged with murder and burglary was acquitted of both.[138][126] |
| October 1994 | Michael McCormack and John Ogden | Balham, London | Colleagues Michael McCormack, 59, and John Ogden, 34, were shot in Cavendish Road on 21 October whilst walking back to work after having had lunch in a public house. It seemed likely that the gunman had mistaken them for other people.[139] |
| November 1994 | Lindsay Rimer | Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire | Teenager Lindsay Jo Rimer lived with her parents in Cambridge Street, Hebden Bridge. She was a pupil at Calder High School. At around 10 pm on 7 November 1994, she left home to visit the local Spar supermarket in Crown Street, Hebden Bridge to buy cornflakes. On the way to the shop she visited the Trades Club in Holme Street. According to CCTV footage of the supermarket, Lindsay paid for the cornflakes at 10:22 pm. Just over five months later, on 12 April 1995, her body was recovered from the Rochdale Canal, approximately one mile upstream from Hebden Bridge town centre.[140] It has been noted that Lindsay's murder bears similarities to the murder of Caroline Glachlan in August 1996, and a link with convicted killer Christopher Halliwell has also been suggested.[40] |
| November 1994 | Ethsham Ul-Haq Ghafoor | Nottingham | Father-of-two Ethsham Ul-Haq Ghafoor, aged 26 and known as Shami, was shot twice on 22 November while sitting in the driver's seat of his taxi. In the months that followed, although the police investigation into his death revealed him to have been a popular and well-respected individual, TV and newspaper appeals by detectives eager for any information that would move the case forward were not very successful. Despite this, two men in their 40s were arrested in 2014 on suspicion of Mr Ghafoor's murder; they were subsequently released on bail pending further inquiries.[141][142][143] |
| November 1994 | Rikki Neave | Peterborough | Six-year-old Rikki's naked body was found in woodland near his home. He had been strangled. Rikki was last seen leaving his Welland estate home on 28 November 1994. His mother, Ruth, was convicted of child neglect and also initially charged with murder, but was cleared of the murder charge at court in 1996.[144] A man was arrested in April 2016 for his murder following a renewed investigation into the case in 2015, but police later confirmed he would not face charges.[145]
In February 2020 a 38-year-old man, of no fixed address, was charged with Rikki Neave's murder.[146] The trial is due to begin in October 2020.[147] |
| December 1994 | Dr Michael Meenaghan (Spike) | Blackbird Leys, Oxford | A lecturer at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University, Dr Meenaghan, 35, was shot at about 4:30 pm at his end-terrace home on the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford. Police called it an apparently motiveless attack. He was shot through the kitchen window of his home at 4:30 pm on 10 December by a person or persons unknown.[148] |
| December 1994 | Leslie Watkinson | Peckham, London | Leslie Watkinson was a 66-year-old retired Salvation Army major and died when his skull was fractured during a mugging that took place as he was returning home with a pension collected at the post office.[149] |
| December 1994 | Tracy Mertens | Found fatally injured in Eaton, Cheshire. Died in North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent the following day. | A mother of two aged 31 from Rochdale, Greater Manchester who died 24 hours after being left on the steps of a church by her killers, who abducted her when she returned to pick up belongings from her former home in Nechells, Birmingham. She suffered horrific burns and was found by a man who heard her cries as he walked past the churchyard on 23 December 1994. It was a bitterly cold evening but her clothes were still smouldering. A petrol can was found nearby. Mertens was taken to hospital but died in the early hours of Christmas Eve.[150] |
| December 1994 | Amina Khatun | Washington, Tyne & Wear | 24-year-old Amina Khatun was beaten and stabbed to death in front of her three children on 30 December 1994 at her home on Manor View East, Concord, Washington, Tyne & Wear. Her brother, Syed Fokrul Islam, was charged with her murder but the charges were dropped because of a lack of evidence to secure a conviction. At the time he was an illegal immigrant to the UK and was awaiting possible deportation to Bangladesh. A woman and three other men were charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice but these charges were dropped too.[151][152] |
| January 1995 | John Kilcoyne | Bristol | Homeless 44-year-old John Kilcoyne had been drinking in a flat with two associates when the police were called to say he had been badly hurt there. An ambulance arrived soon afterwards, but Mr Kilcoyne was dead by then, and a stab wound to the neck was what had killed him. A 64-year-old man charged with the Irishman's murder had the charge against him dropped.[153] |
| 30 March 1995 | Nasreen Akhtar | Grandpont, Oxford, Oxfordshire | Nasreen was a 29-year-old mum of four who was strangled at her home in Cobden Crescent, Grandpont, Oxford. Her body was found by two of her children when they returned home from school on 30 March 1995. Her husband, Hakim Khan, stood trial for her murder but the case collapsed. In 2015, police reopened the case and Nasreen's elder son, Imran, made a new appeal for information.[154] |
| 10 April 1995 | Janet Brown | Hall Farm, Spriggs Holly Lane, between Radnage and Chinnor, Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border | Aged 51, a mother of three who worked as a nurse in Oxford, was found gagged and handcuffed at her home.[155][156] A link has been suggested with the murder of 50-year-old Carolanne Jackson 20 miles away in 1997 (see entry for 1997).[157] |
| April 1995 | Natalie McLean | Wythenshawe, Manchester | 18-year-old Natalie McLean was last seen with an unknown man in the Piccadilly 21 club in Manchester city centre early on Saturday 15 April 1995. Natalie's mother found her body at her Wythenshawe flat on 20 April; she had been stabbed. A man was arrested but released without charge. In 2014 it was reported that the same man had been jailed for a sex attack on another woman and that DNA evidence had matched him to Natalie's flat.[158] |
| April/May 1995 | Robert Higgins | Kirkliston, West Lothian | The body of Robert Higgins, 35, was found at the disused Craig's Quarry, Kirkliston, on 1 May 1995. Robert had died from a stab wound to his chest. Police believed someone local was responsible because the body had been dumped in a secluded location which only local people were likely to know about. In 2007, a man stood trial for Robert's murder but the charge was found not proven.[159][160] |
| May 1995 | David Ungi | Liverpool | 36-year-old David Ungi got out of his car and ran a short distance before collapsing and dying after he was shot in it whilst driving along North Hill Street in Toxteth on 1 May. A series of non-fatal shootings in Liverpool followed his murder and continued into June.[161] |
| May 1995 | Sabrina Brett | Grand Union Canal, Stoke Hammond, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire | The body of 17-year-old Sabrina Brett was found in the Grand Union Canal on Thursday 10 May 1995. She had been a teenage sex worker. Police believed she was strangled before being dumped in the canal up to six days previously.[162] |
| June 1995 | Leona McGovern | Glasgow | Someone throttled and stabbed 22-year-old Leona McGovern before leaving her body behind the Arts Centre on Washington Street, Glasgow in June 1995. A man stood trial for her murder but was cleared in January 1996.[163] |
| June 1995 | Michael Doherty | Port Glasgow, Inverclyde | Michael was reported missing on 9 June 1995, and his remains were discovered on 7 August 1995. He had gunshot wounds to the head and his body was dismembered. According to the police there has never been enough evidence to convict anyone for the murder of the 36-year-old and the case is still open.[164] |
| June 1995 | Christine McGovern | Walthamstow, London | 47-year-old Christine McGovern was found dead in her flat on Hamilton Road, Walthamstow, by a friend on 22 June 1995. Christine lived alone with her dog and was last seen at 6:30 pm in the street outside her home the previous evening. A dog, believed to be Christine's, was heard barking at about 11 pm that same evening. The cause of death was asphyxiation and Christine's flat was ransacked and a number of items taken.[165] |
| August 1995, August 1996 | Don Herbert, Paul Hemingway | Sharlston Common and Normanton, West Yorkshire | The same individual is thought to have murdered these two men. Don Herbert, a 64-year-old ex-miner, was fatally battered with an oxygen cylinder (used by him to help relieve symptoms of pneumoconiosis and emphysema) in his Sharlston Common flat during the August 1995 bank holiday, and Paul Hemingway, a 49-year-old window cleaner, was beaten and stabbed to death in Normanton 12 months later – again, in his own flat. The killer also took money from each victim's flat.[166] |
| September 1995 | Sally Ann John | Body not found | Although Sally's body has never been found, her disappearance began to be treated as a murder investigation in 2014. Sally was 23 and was last seen on Aylesbury Street, Swindon on 8 September. She was a sex worker at the time of her disappearance. Three men were arrested on suspicion of Sally's kidnap and murder but were released. In 2011, during enquiries into the murders of Sian O'Callaghan and Becky Godden-Edwards, it was discovered that convicted killer Christopher Halliwell was a regular client of Sally's.[167] In November 2014 Wiltshire Police launched a murder investigation based on 'significant new information'. In 2017, police revealed that a postcard purporting to be from Sally was sent shortly after her death and was discovered to be forged.[168] |
| September 1995 | Nobantu 'Mandy' Zani | Druid's Altar, Harden Moor, West Yorkshire | The body of 15-year-old Zani was found on 30 September 1995 near to Druid's Altar, on Harden Moor, not far from the towns of Keighley and Bingley. Police believe that she was strangled with her own chiffon scarf. She had not been seen for three weeks, but had not been listed as missing as her mother thought she was staying with friends. The police investigation uncovered a double life, but an inquest could not say with absolute certainty how she had died due to decomposition of the body. However, because she had been covered with branches and leaves it is classified as an undetected murder.[169] |
| October 1995 | Diane Jones, Shauna Hibbard and Sarah Jane Hibbard | Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales | Diane Jones, 21, died along with her two daughters, Shauna (aged two) and Sarah Jane (aged 13 months), after petrol was poured into their house and set alight by somebody who had torn its front door away. Diane and the children were asleep at the time. Three women each jailed for the fatal arson attack or an offence related to it appealed against their convictions, resulting in two of them having theirs overturned and the other having her prison term for perverting the course of justice reduced.[170] One of these women was exonerated by South Wales Police in a statement read out in court on behalf of the force in 2006.[171] |
| October 1995 | Joy Hewer | Walthamstow, London | Joy Hewer, 52, was stabbed and sexually assaulted at her own home on 17 October 1995. The retired primary school teacher was found dead after police and firefighters were called to a blaze at the sixth floor flat in St David's Court, off Parkstone Road, Walthamstow, at around 11:45 pm. Ms Hewer, a devout Christian, had suffered multiple injuries including a number of stab wounds. The murder remains unsolved but a £20,000 reward is on offer for information leading to a conviction.[172] |
| November 1995 | Ian Grant | Cherry Hinton, Cambridge | Ian Grant was a 24-year-old who had worked as a nightclub doorman in Cambridge and St Ives. He was shot dead on waste ground near Fulborne Hospital on 14 November 1995. Jurors at Norwich Crown Court cleared a man of conspiracy to murder him in 2000, and another man was cleared of the same charge in 2001.[173] |
| December 1995 | Trevor Hamilton | Birmingham | 37-year-old Trevor Hamilton was killed in a street shooting in Handsworth Wood on Wednesday, 27 December. Police soon started to suspect the murder to be linked with the non-fatal Christmas Eve shooting of an acquaintance of his.[174][175] |
| December 1995 | Frederick Barnett | Hull, East Yorkshire | 71-year-old Frederick Barnett was stabbed and had his throat cut at his home in Hopewell Road, east Hull, on 29 December 1995. Four men were found guilty of murder and conspiracy to rob, but the convictions were overturned in 1998.[176] |
| January 1996 | Michael Sutherland | Hull, East Yorkshire | Michael Sutherland died when he was stabbed through the arm and in the neck near where a New Year's Eve party was taking place. A man faced trial for the 31-year-old's murder, but the jury was instructed to find him not guilty of the crime when no further evidence was offered against him by the prosecution.[176] |
| January 1996 | Deborah Wood | Leeds | The smouldering remains of 20-year-old Deborah Wood, who had been missing since leaving a Leeds pub ten days earlier, were found near a train station on 14 January. Forensic evidence suggested that her body had been stored somewhere cold prior to being dumped and set on fire.[177] |
| January 1996 | Alan Holmes | London | Found in his Camden Town flat fully clothed and tied face-down to his bed by police on 4 January after having been there since Boxing Day; he died in hospital the next day. Several people had used his bank cards to steal £1,000.[178] |
| January 1996 | Angela Heys | Belmont, Lancashire | 33-year-old Angela Heys lived in Bolton, Lancashire. In January 1996, she was strangled and her body was dumped about six miles north of her home near a lay-by on the edge of moorland.[179] |
| February 1996 | Surinder Kaur Varyapraj | Birmingham | Surinder Kaur Varyapraj's body was discovered in her house in Handsworth on 5 March 1996 after a local shopkeeper had expressed concern about not having seen her within the last month. A pathologist would determine that someone had used a ligature or similar weapon to strangle the 36-year-old weeks previously. Police had the DNA profile of a suspect by the end of 2018, but it still hasn't been matched or partially matched to another in the National DNA Database.[180] |
| February 1996 | Kevin Nightingale | South Shields, Tyne and Wear | Kevin Nightingale, a nightclub bouncer aged 33, was shot at his doorstep four times after being driven home from his place of work on 17 February. The people he was in the car with immediately prior to the shooting were each twice charged with his murder – in 2000 and in 2001 – but none of the charges resulted in a conviction and the three of them would later be given £35,000 in compensation by Northumbria Police.[181] |
| February 1996 | Benjamin Rumney | Gillingham, Dorset | The 24-year-old's body was found in a wardrobe in his flat on Paris Court after firefighters were called there on 22 February to extinguish a blaze.[182] |
| May 1996 | Owen Graham | Liverpool | A man entered a betting shop in Toxteth's Granby Street and fatally shot 49-year-old Owen Graham there on the afternoon of 1 May 1996 – a year to the day after David Ungi was shot dead in the same area of Liverpool.[183][184] |
| May 1996 | John Marshall | Sydenham, London | John Marshall, 34, a married father of three, lived near Billericay in Essex but when his body was found on 22 May (a week after he had gone missing), it was in south London. He had been shot twice. The car dealer had once been in business with one of the three men killed in Rettendon in December 1995, and this prompted investigators to probe whether there was a connection between his murder and the Rettendon ones. A later police statement made it apparent, however, that no evidence of such a connection had been uncovered.[185][186] |
| June 1996 | Melanie Hall | South Gloucestershire | Melanie Hall, a 25-year-old psychology graduate from Bradford Leigh, Wiltshire, disappeared in June 1996 after a night out in Bath. Her skeletal remains were unearthed next to a slip road at junction 14 of the M5, approximately 15 miles north of Bristol, in October 2009. A man was detained as a suspect in November 2013.[187] |
| June 1996 | Janet Murgatroyd | Preston, Lancashire | Twenty-year-old Janet Murgatroyd was a student at the University of Central Lancashire and worked part-time for Lancashire Police. She was last seen in the early hours of 16 June 1996 running from a man on Penwortham Bridge in Preston. Her body was later found in the River Ribble, her cause of death was drowning and head injuries. A man was convicted of manslaughter but this was quashed on appeal in 2004.[188] |
| June 1996 | Jacqueline Gallagher | Bowling, West Dunbartonshire | 26-year-old Jacqueline Gallagher was last seen in Glasgow city centre on 24 June. Her body was found in a lay-by at a bus stop on Dumbarton Road, Bowling. She had been bludgeoned. Jacqueline was a sex worker and in 2004 a murder charge against a man, who admitted being one of her regular clients, was found not proven.[189][190] |
| July 1996 | Katrina Taylor | Brighton, East Sussex | 19-year-old Katrina Taylor was stabbed six times and her body was found by a dog walker on the morning of 5 July in the graveyard of St Nicholas Church. Four people were charged with the murder, and it transpired that eight weeks before her death, Katrina had kept watch while her boyfriend and a friend of his burgled a house to feed their drug habits. It also emerged that a great deal of damage was done to the property in the course of the burglary, and that when the woman whose house it was returned to it the next day, she vowed that whoever was responsible would pay for it. She and her brother were among those charged.
At the 1997 trial, the other two accused, drug dealers from London (one of whom was the woman's ex-boyfriend), claimed that when the four of them and Katrina were in a house together to try to reach an agreement, the woman and her brother, with Katrina in tow, had left the house and said upon coming back that Katrina was dead, while the woman and her brother claimed it was the drug dealers who had done that. However, her brother did admit to having put the murder weapon down a drain in Peacehaven. The drug dealers were found guilty of murder but their convictions were overturned on appeal in 1999. During the retrial, one of them admitted to a charge of false imprisonment but was freed anyway because of time he had already spent in jail.[191] |
| August 1996 | Caroline Glachan | Renton, West Dunbartonshire | On the evening of Saturday, 24 August 1996, 14-year-old Caroline left the home she shared with her mother in Bonhill, a council estate in the Vale of Leven. Caroline was heading out to see friends in Renton. She was last seen alive at 11:30 pm at the Ladyton shopping centre in Bonhill. The following morning her severely battered body was found by a drug addict, hidden in shrubbery beside the river. She had been the victim of a seemingly motiveless, violent attack. There was no evidence of a sexual assault.[192] It has been noted that Caroline's murder bears similarities to the murder of Lindsay Rimer in November 1994 and a link with convicted killer Christopher Halliwell has been suggested as well.[40] |
| November 1996 | Damien Nettles | Body not found | The 16-year-old vanished in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. The disappearance remains under investigation as murder and in 2011 several men were arrested and released on bail.[193] |
| November 1996 | Vera Holland | Reading, Berkshire | Vera Holland, a 47-year-old married mother of three, went missing on Thursday 14 November on her way to a local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Shinfield Rise, south Reading. Her husband, Brian, reported her missing when she failed to return home. Her body was found in a burning pile of rubbish close to the A327 road south of Reading early on Saturday 16 November. The cause of her death was strangulation. An appeal for new information was made by her children and Thames Valley Police on the 20-year anniversary of her death in November 2016, but, to date, no one has been charged with this murder.[194] |
| November 1996 | Michael Hewerdine | Body not found | 32-year-old Michael Hewerdine vanished after walking out of his home in the village of Ruskington, close to the Lincolnshire town of Sleaford, on 21 November, and it was suspected that his disappearance was to do with connections he was believed to have had to local criminals. A tip-off in 2016 led to police officers digging at nearby East Heckington to search for his remains, but none were found there.[195][196] |
| 10 December 1996 | Richard Watson | East Grinstead, Sussex | On the evening of 10 December, business tycoon Richard Watson was shot dead by an unknown gunman as he arrived home. Charges were brought against the victim's wife and stepdaughter, but these were eventually dropped. (Sussex Police later apologised to the two women and acknowledged their total innocence.) Another suspect has since been identified, but no charges for the murder have been brought against him.[197] |
| 27 January 1997 | Isabelle Gray | Leeds | 82-year-old Isabelle Gray was found dead in the kitchen of her home in Austhorpe Road, Crossgates, on 28 January 1997. It is believed she was attacked by two men who called at her house at tea time the previous day. Cash and her handbag were stolen.[198] |
| 15 February 1997 | Billie-Jo Jenkins | Hastings, East Sussex | Foster father Sion Jenkins was originally convicted of her murder in 1998. This conviction was quashed in 2004 and a retrial was ordered. The first retrial in 2005 and a second retrial in 2006 both ended when the juries were unable to reach a verdict. Jenkins was formally acquitted. |
| 25 March 1997 | Daniel Roff | London | Believed to have had a role in the April 1990 murder in Spain of Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson, Daniel Roff was shot on the drive of his Bromley home and died at the Royal London Hospital. The 36-year-old had used a wheelchair to get around due to having been paralysed by a shooting at a nightclub in 1995 or 1996.[199][200] |
| 13 April 1997 | Carolanne Jackson | Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire | Carolanne Jackson, 50, ran an antique jewellery business from her home in Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire. She was found murdered in her kitchen on Sunday 13 April 1997, she had been bound and beaten and died from asphyxiation. Police believed the culprit was trying to get information from Carolanne to access her safe. Her Rolex watch and some jewellery were taken but the safe was still locked. Carolanne had previously reported to police that a man was stalking her. A link has been suggested with the murder of Janet Brown 20 miles away in 1995 (see entry for 1995).[157] |
| 18 April 1997 | Linda Chandler | Birmingham | Widow Linda Chandler, 46, was stabbed on her doorstep on Fairbourne Avenue, Kingstanding, Birmingham, on 18 April. She managed to reach a neighbour's home but collapsed, and had died by the time she reached City Hospital. No motive has ever been established. A local man was arrested but released without charge.[201] |
| 3 May 1997 | Emily Salvini | Caversham, Reading, Berkshire | Seven-year-old Emily Salvini was asleep in her home on Hemdean Road, Caversham, Reading when petrol was poured through the letterbox and then lit early on Saturday 3 May. Emily's mother, Katie, was able to escape the blaze in the house along with Emily's brother, Zach, who was three years old at the time. Both were treated for severe burns at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and recovered from their injuries, but Emily died of smoke inhalation. It was found that phone lines to the house had been cut prior to the arson attack to prevent calls to the emergency services. On 3 May 2017, the 20th anniversary of Emily's death, her mother and brother made a new appeal for information but the case remains unsolved.[202] |
| May 1997 | Roger Foster | Norwich, Norfolk | A head injury that 39-year-old Roger Foster suffered when he was pushed over outside a pub caused his death, leading to the launch of a murder inquiry. Two people were acquitted of the offence.[26][27] |
| August 1997 | Patricia Grainger | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | Patricia Grainger, 25, a vulnerable woman with learning difficulties, was found murdered close to her home in Buchanan Road, Parson Cross, in August 1997. Her body was left beneath a bed base in a brook and she had suffered multiple stab wounds. In May 2020, Patricia's family and Crimestoppers offered a £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.[203] |
| August 1997 | Warren Wilson | Bedford | Warren Wilson, a 32-year-old police informant, had four bullets fired into his head as he sat in his car. A street cleaner found the murder weapon – a Smith and Wesson gun that had once belonged to a Scottish police force – sometime later, wrapped up in a towel in a flowerbed. Bedfordshire Police charged a man with his murder after being told by his brother that he had admitted to being the culprit to him. The prosecution alleged during the trial of the accused that two brothers had paid him £12,000 to commit the crime because they wanted Warren out of the way to make it easier for them to have control over the supply of drugs in the Bedford area, but he was cleared when the jury delivered its verdict.[204] |
| October/November 1997 | Sharon Lynch | Liverpool | Someone strangled and beat 22-year-old Sharon Lynch and left her body in a derelict warehouse in Liverpool city centre. Her body was found on 27 November, but may have lain undiscovered for as long as a month. The following year, John Flanagan was found guilty of Sharon's murder but his conviction was quashed in September 2005.[205] |
| November 1997 | Michael Pritchard | Kirk Langley, Derbyshire | 54-year-old Michael Pritchard was deliberately run over when trying to stop his delivery van from being stolen.[206] |
| November 1997 | Kate Bushell | Exwick, Exeter, Devon | Schoolgirl Kate Bushell was murdered as she walked a neighbour's dog a short distance from her home in Exwick, on the outskirts of Exeter. Bushell, aged 14, set off from her home in Burrator Drive at 4:30 pm on 15 November 1997. When she failed to come home, her parents called the police. A search located her body in a field next to Exwick Lane at 7:35 pm that evening. Her killer had slashed her throat.[207][208][209] |
| December 1997 | Deborah Steel | Body not found | Although the 37-year-old disappeared in 1997, it was not until 2014 when the police changed the status of her case from that of missing person to presumed murder victim. By the end of that year, three men had been arrested on suspicion of her murder, but none of them was charged with anything. In early 2015, the patio area of the Ely (Cambridgeshire) pub she had been the landlady of and the back garden of her former home in the city were both dug up, but no human remains were found at either location. The police think she was murdered within a short time of catching a taxi from the pub to her house, and would like to have a "proper conversation" with the driver of that taxi.[210] |
| January 1998 | Hannah Deterville | Perivale, London | The body of Hannah Deterville, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, was found mutilated at Horsenden Woods, Greenford on 27 January 1998. She had been stabbed 20 times in the face and the neck. No motive could be found.[211] |
| February 1998 | Charlie Jones | Attacked in Northwich, Cheshire, died about 16 days later | 42-year-old Charlie Jones died on 10 February from a blood clot triggered by a nighttime street attack he had suffered in his home town just over two weeks earlier.[212] |
| 28 February 1998 | John Bennett | Glasgow | John Bennett, aged 26, was beaten and stabbed multiple times on Glasgow's Royston Road in an apparently "motiveless" killing. The attack occurred in broad daylight, in front of shoppers. Three men, including Glasgow gangster Ian McAteer, stood trial but were acquitted of the murder.[213] |
| March 1998 | Elsie Freeman | Impington, near Cambridge | The body of Elsie Freeman, 76, was discovered on her bed at her home address at Mill Road, Impington at about midday on Saturday 7 March by a member of the family.[214] She had been dead for up to three days. Police believed she was murdered in a burglary gone wrong.[215] |
| April 1998 | Donna Keogh | Body not found | The body of 17-year-old Donna Keogh has never been found, but her disappearance is being investigated as a murder enquiry. Donna lived with cousins in Middlesbrough and was last seen in April 1998. In 2015, Cleveland Police apologised to Donna's family for how they had handled the investigation. In 2018, a specialist police team was set up to revisit Donna's murder along with the murders of other Middlesbrough women Vicky Glass and Rachel Wilson.[216] In the summer of that year, police excavated a former allotment site near Troon Close in the town as part of a search for Donna.[217][218] A link has been suggested with convicted killer Christopher Halliwell.[18] |
| 2 May 1998 | Robin Charles Wood | Northolt, West London | Car dealer Robin Charles Wood, 47, was shot dead by someone at his front door on Saturday 2 May 1998. Mr Wood was at home with his partner and 10-year-old son on the Racecourse Estate in Northolt, West London, when there was a knock on the door at around 10:40 pm. His partner, Kath Pribisevic, answered it to find a man calling himself Terry and asking to speak with Mr Wood. As the victim approached the front door he was shot in the neck with a sawn-off shotgun. He bled to death at the scene. The perpetrator, described as having sharp facial features and being white, aged 25–35, 5'7 in height and of slim build, as well as wearing an unzipped dark-coloured anorak, was seen to run into Kempton Avenue. On the 15th anniversary of the murder, detectives offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and prosecution of the person responsible.[219] |
| May 1998 | Annie Davies | Erskine, Renfrewshire | When Annie Davies, 84, was found dead at her Erskine home, police assumed she had died from a fall down the stairs. However, her purse, bag, keys and £2,000 were found to be missing. Seven years after Annie's death, in 2005, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Panel ruled that her death was 'attributable to a crime of violence' and the police reopened the investigation.[220] |
| June 1998 | Daniel McFadden | Bolton, Lancashire | 66-year-old Daniel McFadden was brutally beaten at his home in Mere Gardens, Halliwell, before the flat was set on fire in the early hours of 18 June 1998. Police were unable to establish a motive for his murder.[221] |
| June/July 1998 | Julie Jones | Manchester | 32-year-old Julie Jones was reported missing by her housemate on 27 June. Julie's body was found on 3 July 1998 under bushes in the old Smithfield Market in Manchester city centre. She had suffered catastrophic injuries consistent with falling from height or being hit by a car, and her clothing was missing. Julie had been a sex worker and detectives believed someone could have murdered her elsewhere before dumping her body.[222] Connections have been suggested with the Angel of the Meadow case and convicted killer Christopher Halliwell.[40] |
| July 1998 | Julia Webb | Sandiway, near Northwich, Cheshire | Housewife Julia Webb, 52, was battered with a blunt instrument while walking her dog near her home in Sandiway on 22 July 1998.[223] |
| July 1998 | Alfred Sandford | St Helens, Merseyside | 72-year-old Alfred Sandford died from a cardiac arrest during a violent robbery at his home Grove House Farm, Eltonhead Road, Sutton Heath on 24 July 1998. The armed gang left with a small amount of cash and the vehicles used in the robbery were later found burnt out about half a mile from the farmhouse. Alfred's wife, Inez, died just six months later from, what her family believe, was a broken heart.[224] |
| July 1998 | Jean and Anthony Trigg | Died in Colchester General Hospital from the effects of a fire at their Clacton residence | The fire that killed 27-year-old Jean Trigg and her five-year-old son was started in the hallway of the house they were in. The two victims along with Jean's other son, Callum (a baby at the time), had been staying with a friend at the address while Jean looked for a home of their own in the area, where she and her children had recently moved to from Bolton. Callum survived the blaze, as did the owner of the house. There have been two arrests over the double murder – one of a 16-year-old boy in October 1998, the other of a 23-year-old man in February 2004 – but no charges as of yet.[225][226] |
| October 1998 | Lyn Bryant | Roseland Peninsula, Cornwall | Lyn Bryant was murdered as she was walking her dog along a country lane at Ruan High Lanes near Truro in Cornwall on 20 October 1998. Her body was found at 2:40 pm. She had been stabbed several times. Bryant's killing is said to be linked to the murder of schoolgirl Kate Bushell the previous year.[227] |
| November 1998 | Saul "Solly" Nahome | Finchley, London | Nahome was shot at his home several times in the back; upon collapsing, he was shot again in the head. The murder is believed to be linked to the disappearance earlier in 1998 of business associate Gilbert Wynter.[228] |
| November 1998 | Daniel Brown | Birmingham | 20-year-old Daniel Brown went to a nightclub in the Lozells area on Sunday, 29 November 1998 and, allegedly after having an argument whilst there, was fatally shot outside that club in the early hours of 30 November.[229] |
| December 1998 | Alan Morris | Chester | Alan Morris, 44, had been a player for Chester City football club. He was fatally stabbed outside his home in Walker Street, Hoole, Chester on 31 December 1998. His partner stood trial for his death but was acquitted in December 1999. The pair had been seen arguing earlier that evening.[230] |
| January 1999 | Jay Abatan | Brighton, Sussex | Jay Abatan, 42, an accountant from Eastbourne, died at the Royal Sussex County Hospital five days after being punched to the ground in an attack outside Brighton's Ocean Rooms nightclub that appeared to have been racially motivated. Lack of evidence incriminating them led to the case against two men accused of involvement in the attack (one of whom went on to commit suicide in 2003) being discontinued.[231][232] |
| February 1999 | Steven Brown | Tranent, East Lothian | The beaten and stabbed body of Steven Brown was found in Tranent, a town a few miles from the eastern outskirts of Edinburgh, on 21 February 1999. Nobody has ever been arrested for the murder.[233] |
| March 1999 | Paul Booth | Southampton | The 31-year-old builder and diving enthusiast went to Southampton General Hospital on 5 February 1999 after being beaten by three men when he stopped at a petrol station in Totton to buy cigarettes, but left the hospital without receiving treatment because of the length of time he would have had to wait for it. Though there was a crack in his skull caused by the attack and he was having frequent headaches and dizzy spells on top of that, he returned to his workplace the following Monday and continued to go there until he was found unconscious at his Southampton address on 16 February. He died of a brain haemorrhage in hospital on 3 March. Police opinion was that the beating either was an instance of road rage or was planned and executed because someone who knew Paul (or knew of him) bore him a grudge.[234][235] |
| March 1999 | Kevin Palmer | Body not found | An expat businessman living in Spain, Palmer vanished after he got out of a taxi during a brief visit to the UK in March, having argued with fellow passengers. In 2014, police officers searched the grounds of an abandoned pub in Fareham, Hampshire following a tip-off in a bid to find his body. The case is being treated as murder.[236] |
| April 1999 | Jill Dando | Fulham, London | On the morning of 26 April 1999, Dando left the home of her fiancé, Dr. Alan Farthing, and returned to her house in Gowan Avenue, Fulham, West London. As she reached her front door at about 11:30 am, she was shot once in the head.[237] She was discovered shortly afterwards by a friend, local resident Helen Doble, and taken to the nearby Charing Cross Hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival at 1:03 pm BST. After a huge amount of press coverage and a 13-month investigation, police arrested Barry George, a convicted sex offender, for her murder. Originally sentenced on 2 July 2001 to life imprisonment, George appealed against his conviction in November 2007. Following an eight-week hearing he was acquitted on 1 August 2008.[238] |
| May 1999 | Michael Smith | Denton, Norfolk | Someone deliberately ran over the 53-year-old in a country road near his home village of Alburgh on 3 May 1999.[239] |
| May 1999 | Katherine O'Brien | Runcorn, Cheshire | 27-year-old Katherine O'Brien was murdered at her home at The Croft, Halton, Runcorn, on 3 May 1999. She died from head injuries. Her husband stood trial for her murder but was acquitted in May 2000.[240][241] |
| May 1999 | Mary Lazenby | Bethnal Green, London | Aged 80 and 4 feet 8 inches (1.42 m) tall, Lazenby was murdered on 22 May 1999 at her flat in Rochester Court, Wilmott Street, Bethnal Green. Her killer was possibly a man posing as a water board official. Lazenby was disabled, after a motorcycle accident had caused the loss of her left foot. Once a successful restaurateur in South Shields and known as the 'Curry Queen of South Shields', she eventually lost her business and settled in Bethnal Green with her son and grandchildren.[242] |
| June 1999 | Jack Hughes | Liverpool | 18-year-old Jack Hughes was stabbed in the leg in the early hours of 5 June 1999 in Adrian's Way, Kirkby. He died at Liverpool's Fazakerley Hospital shortly after the attack.[243] |
| July 1999 | Patrick and Margaret Spencer | Leeds | Patrick Spencer, 85, and his wife Margaret, 77, both died after their home in Sandiford Terrace, Manston, was deliberately set alight on 21 July 1999. The couple were rescued from their home but Margaret died a short while later from smoke inhalation. Patrick died from the effects of the fire two months later.[244] |
| July 1999 | Martin Bennett | Manchester | Gang member Martin Bennett was taken to hospital and died after falling victim to a shooting in Moss Side on 31 July. The shooting followed a quarrel the 25-year-old had got into outside a newsagent's shop a little while earlier.[245] |
| August 1999 | Dorrie McKie | Manchester | 20-year-old Dorrie McKie was gunned down in Hulme on 3 August by one of three bandanna-wearing youths on bicycles. Nobody has been convicted of the killing, but two men did go to prison for firearms-related offences after being found to have been in possession of the gun used in it.[246] |
| August 1999 | Antony Cook | Manchester | A car being pursued by another at high speed came to a halt when it crashed into a third car and then a lamppost, after which a man from the car that had been doing the chasing walked over to the crashed vehicle and shot both 24-year-old Antony Cook (its sole passenger), who died at the scene, and the driver, who pulled through following hospital treatment. Reports suggested that Antony's eagerness to climb the ranks in the gang he was a part of acted as a catalyst for his murder.[247] |
| August 1999 | David Scott | London | David Scott, 30, was stabbed in a Tottenham underpass and died at North Middlesex Hospital in neighbouring Edmonton. In 2012 prosecutors dropped the case against Kwame Appiah for the murder on the basis of scientific evidence.[248][249] |
| September 1999 | Vicky Hall | Creeting St Peter, Suffolk | Seventeen-year-old Victoria (Vicky) Hall went missing at about 2:30 am on Sunday, 19 September 1999, as she walked towards her home in Faulkeners Way, Trimley St Mary. Her body was found, about 25 miles away, in a stream near Creeting St Peter (near Stowmarket) at 7:30 pm on Friday, 24 September 1999.[250] In 2001, a man was cleared of Vicky's murder following a trial. The case was reopened on the twentieth anniversary of Vicky's death and police said that new witnesses had come forward with information.[251] In December 2019, police released CCTV footage of people visiting the field where Vicky's body was found and appealed for those people to come forward.[252] In July 2021, police announced that a man had been arrested on suspicion of murder.[253] |
| September 1999 | David Barnshaw | Stockport, Greater Manchester | The 32-year-old drug dealer was abducted and forced to drink petrol. He died in a burning car on 20 September 1999. Arran Coghlan – previously cleared of the murder of Chris Little – was prosecuted but cleared after it emerged the prosecution had held undisclosed evidence concerning another possible suspect. Coghlan went on to be charged with and cleared of a third count of murder and cocaine smuggling.[131] |
| September 1999 | Steven Devaney | London | Steven Devaney was fatally stabbed in a park near his Camden home when he was 34.[254][255] |
| October 1999 | John Nisbet and William Lindsay | Near Elphinstone, East Lothian | The bodies of drug dealers John Nisbet of Craigneuk and William Lindsay of Motherwell were found on a hilltop near Elphinstone. It is thought they had been abducted, stabbed and shot, with their bodies then set on fire. It is said to have been the outcome of a Glasgow drug war. No arrests have been made in connection with the case.[256] |
| October 1999 | Kevin Hector | London | Kevin Hector, aged 27 and from Willesden, died in hospital after being shot four times whilst in a parked car. A second person in the car (which was in the Golders Green area when the incident took place) was also wounded but not fatally. Kevin had told friends that the two of them were being followed just a short while before the shooting.[257][255] |
| October 1999 | Vincent Shaw | London | Vincent Shaw was stabbed in his Downham flat by one of a group of people wearing balaclavas, and died in hospital in Lewisham less than an hour later. They had gained entry to the 29-year-old's flat by barging past him when he answered the door to them on the evening of 23 October.[258] |
| October 1999 | Judah Dewar | Manchester | The 35-year-old courier was about to get into his car in Longsight when someone shot him dead on 28 October. Because he was not involved with any gangs and a motive unrelated to gang warfare was not obvious to the police either, one possibility explored by them (despite the fact that the vehicle was not stolen) was that the type of car he was driving – a dark blue BMW – caused him to become a target for a person or persons keen to commit robbery.[259] |
| November 1999 | Alan Rosser | Attacked in Blackpool, died in hospital in Preston (both in Lancashire) | A ten-strong gang attempted to kidnap Alan Rosser in March 1999, but the existence of a link between that incident and the fatal shooting of him at his car-repair workshop on 12 November has not been proved. The investigation into 34-year-old Alan's death involved looking into the theory that he had got mixed up with drug trafficking and crossed paths with one or more dangerous people as a result.[260] |
| December 1999 | Simon Brown | Manchester | A Christmas party at a community centre in Cheetham Hill had just ended when 27-year-old Simon Brown was shot as he exited the building at about 5:45 am on Boxing Day. Serious consideration was given by detectives to claims that the incident might have stemmed from a strong dislike that a hardened criminal had taken to him.[245] |
| December 1999 | Babatunde Oba | London | Babatunde Oba, 23, died at Ealing Hospital in Southall after being stabbed in the Broadway Boulevard nightclub on Ealing Broadway the night before when he intervened in an argument between two people. In December 2000, four men (one of them a professional footballer) were jailed for life for his murder, but their convictions were quashed in 2004.[261][262] |
2000s[]
| Year | Name of victim(s) | Location body found | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2000 | Roger Ormsby | Manchester | Roger Ormsby's body was in the driver's seat of his BMW when it was discovered burning in an alley in Whalley Range on 5 January 2000. The 34-year-old businessman's killer had shot him in the back of his head.[263] |
| January 2000 | Gabriel Egharevba | Manchester | 17-year-old Gabriel Egharevba was shot when he and a friend were being chased by two men on motorcycles whilst riding their bikes through Longsight on 12 January 2000. Detectives thought it was because Gabriel had been mistaken for someone else.[264] |
| March 2000 | Christopher Clarke | Birmingham | 22-year-old Christopher Clarke was attacked by a gang of ten or more men as he was leaving a nightclub in Small Heath in early March, and one of the assailants pierced his heart with a thin-bladed weapon, causing his death.[265] A man was acquitted of the killing when witnesses refused to give evidence against him, but would be convicted in 2005 of the murders of two teenage girls shot at a party in a different area of Birmingham in 2003.[266] |
| April 2000 | Sarah Benford | Body not found | 14-year-old Sarah Benford vanished in April 2000 and although her body has never been found, her disappearance is being treated as a murder investigation. Sarah was described by police as a "troubled teenager", she was in care and ran away from Welford House children's home in Welford Road, Northampton on 4 April. She visited her mother in Kettering on 6 April and there were various other sightings of her in Kettering that day. During 2003, a number of people were arrested and properties were searched but then the investigation stalled. In 2016, police searched woods near Warkton in Northamptonshire, the area was known to be used by acquaintances of Sarah for storing stolen goods and other items. During the search, a handgun was found but police did not believe it was connected to Sarah's disappearance.[267] |
| May 2000 | Nicola Ray | Body not found | Nicola Ray hasn't been seen since she parted company with a friend following a night out in Basildon on 2 May 2000. She was 29 or 30 years old at the time. The man she was engaged to when she vanished has been arrested twice on suspicion of her murder, but neither arrest led to a charge.[268][186] |
| 10 May 2000 | Frank McPhee | Maryhill, Glasgow | Gangster Frank McPhee, himself twice cleared of murder, was shot by a sniper in a block of flats opposite his own as he returned home.[269] |
| 13 May 2000 | Cheryll Maureen Grover | Newbury, Berkshire | Cheryll Grover, 21, was last seen alive by a visitor to her home on Audley Close, Turnpike, Newbury, at 10:30 pm on Friday 12 May 2000. Cheryll spoke to friends on the telephone at 2:35 am on Saturday 13 May but efforts made by her estranged husband, Steven, to contact her later that same day came to nothing. Concerned for Cheryll's welfare, Steven, and his mother, visited Cheryll's home at 3:30 pm and Steven climbed the drainpipe to reach the first floor bedroom window. Inside, Cheryll was found dead in her bedroom, someone had strangled her with a dressing gown cord. Police suspected that Cheryll was selling drugs from her home and an appeal led to a number of people coming forward. A 32-year-old man was arrested but released without charge.[270][271] Although Cheryll's death was investigated as a murder, the inquest returned an open verdict. In May 2006, Thames Valley Police announced that Cheryll's death was being reviewed by a cold case police team.[272] |
| June 2000 | Shkelquim Brakka | King's Lynn, Norfolk | A stab wound received outside a nightclub caused Kosovan Shkelquim Brakka's death on 4 June 2000. Someone charged with the 26-year-olds |
| June 2000 | Kellie Pratt | Body not found | Last seen talking to someone on her mobile phone while standing outside a pub in the red-light district of Norwich on 11 June, Kellie Pratt had become a sex worker to help pay for a drug habit after having moved to Great Yarmouth from her home city of Newcastle in 1998. An associate who phoned the 28-year-old within 15 minutes of that sighting was told by her that she was with a client, but it is not known who that client was. Kellie's disappearance has led to a homicide investigation by the police despite the fact that her body hasn't been discovered.[273] A link has been suggested to serial prostitute killer Steve Wright.[112] |
| June 2000 | Karen Chandler | Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire | A cause of death could not be established for 40-year-old Karen Chandler because her car was set alight with her body inside. Police charged a man in his 60s with her murder, and at the trial, it was asserted by the prosecution that the man, who acknowledged that he was riding his bicycle on Salisbury Plain on 20 June (the day she went missing) but denied that he had anything to do with her death, killed her because he was infatuated with her but saw no chance of a relationship between them developing. With the evidence against him being entirely circumstantial in nature, the jury decided to find him not guilty.[274] |
| July 2000 | Mark Corley | Near Bolam, County Durham | Grantham man Mark Corley was fatally shot in the head probably within days of leaving his home town for the last time on 7 July 2000. His skeletal remains were discovered in a rural area of County Durham in December 2000. Five men were due to go on trial in early 2002 for the murder of the 23-year-old, but a judge called off the trial after finding that the police had unlawfully bugged conversations between those men and their solicitors.[275] |
| July 2000 | Beatrice Wilson | Poole, Dorset | Beatrice Wilson, 74, was knifed to death in her sheltered accommodation. A boy who was 15 when Mrs Wilson died was charged with her murder owing to a confession said to have been made to a friend and to fibres found in her flat seeming to link him to the crime – a crime apparently committed when a burglary went wrong. At the subsequent trial, however, he was acquitted.[276][277] |
| August 2000 | Ronald Fuller | Attacked in Grays, died in hospital in Basildon (both in Essex) | 30-year-old Ronald Fuller was shot repeatedly outside his bungalow by a gunman who, according to the woman who was Ronald's partner at the time, calmly and unhurriedly walked towards his motorcycle (on which he left the scene) after committing the deed. Almost a year previously, a man was fatally stabbed during an incident at the Epping Forest Country Club while Ronald (also known as Ron or Ronnie) was on duty there as a doorman, and he was charged over his alleged part in the incident, as was another man. The charges were dropped before the case was due to come to court, though, and there is nothing to indicate that the police have formally linked Ronald's murder with that stabbing.[278][279][280] |
| September 2000 | Susan Kelly | Liverpool | Susan Kelly, 38, was working as a sex worker in Liverpool when she was murdered on 4 September 2000. Her body was found in an alley on Blessington Road, Anfield, and she had suffered a number of violent injuries. A man was cleared of her murder in 2003 and others have since been arrested then released.[281][282] |
| September 2000 | Clifford Clarke | Uppingham, Rutland | The body of the former plumber and hospital porter was discovered in his Uppingham flat by his brother on 10 September. He had been stabbed in the chest and neck, and it was noted at the inquest that his death could have occurred between two and four days prior to the grim discovery.[283] Fifteen years after the 56-year-old's murder, two men were arrested on suspicion of it, but to date no one has actually been charged with the crime.[284] |
| September 2000 | Thomas Ramsey | Manchester | 16-year-old Thomas Ramsey's body was found with two gunshot wounds – one to the head, the other to the neck – in a park in Levenshulme on 19 September.[285] His crime boss was acquitted of his murder but convicted of the murder of a man from another gang.[286] Thomas had been acquitted himself of the October 1999 murder of Judah Dewar – a murder linked to Thomas due to the discovery of one of his fingerprints on the victim's car.[287] |
| September 2000 | Vicky Glass | Danby, North Yorkshire | 21-year-old Vicky Glass went missing from Middlesbrough town centre on 24 September 2000. Her body was found twenty miles away in a stream in Danby on the North York Moors approximately six weeks later. Vicky was working as a sex worker at the time of her death. In 2018, a specialist police team was set up to revisit the murders of Vicky, Donna Keogh and Rachel Wilson. A Home Office review of all three cases said, "It is generally accepted that initial enquiries and investigations were inadequate."[216] A link has been suggested with convicted killer Christopher Halliwell.[18] |
| October 2000 | Alan Decabral | Ashford, Kent | 40-year-old Alan Decabral was shot dead on 5 October as he sat in the passenger seat of a car parked in a busy car park. It happened six months after he gave evidence that helped to get Kenneth Noye convicted of a fatal road-rage attack, and the idea that the gunman was acting on Noye's behalf has therefore been officially considered. However, it has also been noted by detectives investigating the case that the shooting could have been carried out because of a serious falling-out with someone in the criminal world (a world Decabral is known to have had dealings with).[288] |
| October 2000 | Clay Benjamin | Liverpool | The 24-year-old was stabbed in the heart on 21 October while at a blues party in Toxteth. A man in his 30s was cleared of his murder.[289] |
| December 2000 | Zoe Parker | Chelsea Harbour, River Thames, London | Zoe Louise Parker was 24 and last seen with two men in Hounslow, west London, on 6 December 2000. Zoe had learning difficulties and no fixed address - she stayed with friends or at hostels in various places such as London, Colchester and Bournemouth. She was known to turn to sex work when times were desperate. Shortly before her death she changed her name to Cathy Dennis. The upper part of Zoe's body was discovered in the River Thames on 17 December, someone had sawn her body in half before dumping her in the river.[290] |
| January 2001 | Andrew Williams | Peckham, London | Someone shot 30-year-old Andrew Williams and a friend of his following a confrontation, killing Andrew and injuring his friend (who ultimately survived the attack) badly enough for his condition in hospital to be described later as "serious but stable". Andrew and his friend had just left a nightclub when the trouble started.[291] |
| February 2001 | Peter Beaumont-Gowling | Newcastle | The 52-year-old hadn't long been out of prison for money laundering when he was shot dead on Valentine's Day at the doorstep of his flat in Jesmond. Two suspects caught on CCTV have always managed to avoid being charged with the offence. Peter Beaumont-Gowling had over half a million pounds in drug money on him when the police apprehended him for money laundering, and since the confiscating of that money prevented him from giving any of it to any of the drug dealers he was a courier for, a theory developed that he was killed because he refused even after his release from prison to compensate any of them for money lost as a consequence of his arrest.[292] |
| March 2001 | Ian Dowling | Grantham, Lincolnshire | 39-year-old Ian Dowling died after receiving gunshot wounds outside his house on 15 March. Accused in court of masterminding the act and paying a hitman to carry it out because Dowling was having an affair with his wife, a onetime close friend of his was convicted in 2003 of conspiracy to murder, but the conviction was overturned by appeal judges in 2005 on the grounds that it was unsafe because it hinged largely on the police bugging conversations between him and his solicitors when they shouldn't have.[293][294] |
| March 2001 | Stuart Lubbock | Roydon, Essex | Stuart Lubbock, 31, died during a party at the home of entertainer Michael Barrymore on 31 March 2001. His death was treated as an accidental drowning but an inquest found he had suffered injuries consistent with sexual assault. In a documentary, Barrymore: The Body in the Pool, shown on Channel 4 on 6 February 2020, detective chief inspector Stephen Jennings of Essex Police stated that mistakes had been made in the original investigation and that he believed Stuart had been raped and murdered.[295] |
| April 2001 | Rebecca Hall | Bradford, West Yorkshire | 19-year-old Rebecca Hall went missing from her home in Little Horton, Bradford on 13 April. Her body was found in Thornton Street on 26 April, she had suffered severe head injuries. Rebecca had worked as a sex worker and had a four month old son. In January 2019, police arrested a 37-year-old woman and then released her under investigation.[296] |
| 12 May 2001 | Andre Jan Aylward | London | 27-year-old Andre Aylward was shot in his car. He had been driving his black E28 5 Series BMW along Valleyfield Road in Streatham at about 2:10 am on 12 May 2001 when six shots were fired at it from a handgun. After the shooting, he lost control of the car and crashed. He had been hit twice in the head and neck and was taken to King's College Hospital, where he died at around 4 am.
A few minutes before the shooting, a grey 7 Series BMW car was seen alongside his and the police said that they were seeking to identify it. It was thought that the attack might have been a case of road rage or mistaken identity. The police also said that they found nothing in his background to suggest that he had been involved in any criminal activity. Aylward's murder was featured on Crimewatch in July 2001.[297][298] |
| 14 June 2001 | Colin Beer | Plymouth, Devon | It was thought that 42-year-old Colin Beer had been involved in an incident of road rage. He had been out drinking at the Hyde Park pub in the Mutley district on Saturday 9 June 2001 and was later seen walking in and out of traffic up to North Hill. He was seen to make contact with a wing mirror of a blue Peugeot 406 car, either hitting it or bumping into it. Witnesses then saw a man get out of a red Vauxhall Cavalier car at 6:15 pm and hit Colin Beer, who fell to the ground and suffered from a fractured skull after hitting his head. The car was said to have had an eight-inch black sticker on the offside of the boot. The driver was described as being aged around 30 years old, of a medium build, and with a thin face, short brown hair and a goatee beard. He was said to have been wearing a white shirt and blue or black jeans.
Colin Beer died in Derriford Hospital, Plymouth on 14 June 2001 – five days after being attacked. The incident was featured on Crimewatch in July 2001.[297][299] |
| July 2001 | Richie Clayton | Aigburth, Liverpool | 30-year-old Richie Clayton, a father-of-two, was shot on Belgrave Road, Aigburth, just before 8 pm on 25 July 2001. His attackers drove a green Ford Mondeo which was later found alight.[300] |
| August 2001 | Alphonso Madden | Manchester | 27-year-old Alphonso Madden had shots fired at his car from the pavement while driving through Longsight on 14 August. The car then collided with bollards at the junction of two roads in the district, but the actual cause of his death was a chest wound inflicted by a bullet.[301][302] |
| September 2001 | Yasser Nazir | Bradford, West Yorkshire | 16-year-old Yasser Nazir was fatally shot in his car by a masked gunman as he drove out of a petrol station in Heaton, Bradford, on 5 September 2001. It was believed that Yasser was killed in revenge for the shooting of a rival gang member.[303] |
| September 2001 | Lindsey Scholes | Died in hospital from the effects of a fire in Barnsley, South Yorkshire | Lindsey Scholes, 17, suffered burns and smoke inhalation in a fire which was deliberately started at a house in Milgate Street, Royston, in the early hours of 8 September 2001. Lindsey was rescued by firefighters but died two days later in hospital.[304] |
| September 2001 | "Adam" | River Thames, London | Unknown boy; also known as the "Torso in the Thames" case. |
| 8 October 2001 | Dean Eccleston | Manchester | Father-of-three Dean Eccleston, 24, was hit by several bullets in a street in Chorlton-on-Medlock while wearing a bulletproof vest.[305] |
| 13 October 2001 | Michael Madden | Port Glasgow | Fatally shot at the front door of his home on 13 October 2001, Michael Madden was a loan shark and 44 years old. The 2003 trial of a man accused of his murder ended with a not proven verdict.[306][307] |
| c. 20 October 2001 | Hugh Cameron | River Skeagh, Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland | Hugh Cameron's body was found in the river about a month after he went missing. He had been stabbed, beaten and possibly tortured before his death. It is believed the Ulster Defence Association were behind his murder, but nobody has ever been charged with it.[308][309][310] |
| 27 October 2001 | Jimmy Millen | Hollington, Hastings, East Sussex | Jimmy Millen, 27, was shot outside his home while working on his car in Tile Barn Road, Hollington by two men dressed in black and riding on a black motorbike in October 2001.[311][312] Following his death, his family revealed his involvement in the murder of Jason Martin-Smith and named their suspects to the police due to this association.[313] |
| 5 November 2001 | Michaela Hague | Sheffield | Michaela Hague was a 25-year-old sex worker. She was stabbed 19 times and then dumped on wasteland at Spitalfields, near Sheffield city centre. Before dying, she managed to give a description of her attacker to a police officer. She said her attacker was a white clean-shaven man with fair hair, and was wearing a wedding ring and drove a blue Ford Sierra with a roof rack.[314] A connection has been suggested with the murder of Dawn Shields in 1994 and a link with convicted killer Christopher Halliwell has been, too.[40] |
| 21 November 2001 | Brian Hardwick | Colne Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire | Brian Hardwick, 50, was gunned down at his place of work, Huddersfield Car Electrical Services, and the only evidence at the scene, was that of robbery. He was shot in the head and chest with a small-calibre weapon, but not found dead until the following day. On the day of his murder, Mr Hardwick had an argument with a man who wanted his car electrics checked but did not have an appointment for it. Later that day, Mr Hardwick was seen by his colleagues washing his hands, ready to go home, but found his car had a flat tyre caused deliberately, and so prepared to change it. His body was found at 8 am the next day by the owner of the garage. His killer, or killers, also took his cash card and used his PIN number to withdraw £350 from a cash machine at the Asda store on Bradford Road, Huddersfield, minutes after he was shot. The card has not been used since and has not been recovered.[315] There have been arrests over this murder but no convictions.[citation needed] |
| December 2001 | Donald Marlow Harriot | Clapton, London | A person or persons unknown fatally beat the 28-year-old at his East London home on 30 December.[316] |
| January 2002 | Michael French | London | At a New Year's Eve party in a flat in Clapham, an artery in Michael French's chest was seriously damaged when, over alleged theft of money, he was punched by a man who had in that hand a cloth with a knife under it. Emergency services were called and an air ambulance took Michael to King's College Hospital, where he was pronounced dead after dawn on New Year's Day. A man was charged with his murder, but claimed at the trial that he left the party to get drugs before the attack and did not go back to it. The jury believed him and acquitted him.[317] |
| January 2002 | Abdulkalaq Hussain Ali | Shepherd's Bush, London | On 9 January 2002, Abdulkalaq Ali was stabbed to death outside a house where he and others had met for a social gathering, and one of those others was later acquitted of the crime. The prosecution had contended that the defendant had murdered Abdulkalaq Ali for having started a rumour alleging that his (i.e. the defendant's) tribe had raped men at a party in his native Somalia because no women had turned up at it.[318] |
| January 2002 | Jacqueline Nyeko | Kennington, London | Dumped or left in a storage area of a block of flats after being murdered, she was discovered dead there on 13 January by two boys. Head injuries were what had caused her death, and detectives tracing the 24-year-old Brixton woman's final movements found the last sighting of her to have been at 10 pm on 10 January in St John's Crescent.[319] |
| February 2002 | Brian Francis | Oxford | 51-year-old Brian Francis was fatally beaten at his flat – a flat in Blackbird Leys that drug users paid frequent visits to. Police removed a phone box from Merlin Road so it could be analysed by forensic scientists, for it was believed that a 999 call about the incident had been made from there.[320] |
| 13 March 2002 | Exmoor Body in the Bag | Winsford Hill, Winsford, Somerset | The man's badly decomposed corpse was found wrapped in bin bags, a single green bed sheet and a single duvet on 13 March 2002. Also wrapped in them were a white pillowcase and a stereo wire, which Detective Superintendent Barrie Douglas said the victim might have been tied up with. He is thought to have died two to three years before being found. It is not clear if the body had been brought into the UK from abroad. In May 2002, detectives appealed on Crimewatch UK in the hope someone would recognise him, but nobody called in to say who he was. In September of that year, a new reconstruction of the man's head was released in a fresh appeal to identify him. He was 25–35 years old with black or dark brown hair and 5 ft 8–5 ft 9 ins tall. He was thought to have been Mediterranean, Middle Eastern or North African. He was wearing a gold chain that had a 22-carat pendant with verse 225 of the Koran, the Holy Text of Islam, inscribed in Arabic across it. A funeral was held for the mystery victim in September 2006.[321][322] |
| March 2002 | Evan Jones | Bristol | Punched, kicked and attacked with a chain, the 46-year-old father-of-two was left for dead in busy York Road at about 11 pm on 13 March 2002 – an hour or so after he had been enjoying a quiet pint in that road's Beaufort pub. He died at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. The weapon, believed to have been a bike chain or a large dog chain, was never found.[323] |
| March 2002 | Michelle Bettles | Scarning, near Dereham, Norfolk | A Norwich prostitute and mother of three small children, none of whom was in her care, 22-year-old Michelle was last seen alive in the Queens Road area of Norwich on 28 March soliciting clients.[324] Her fully clothed body was found in a woodland off Podmore Lane, Scarning, three days later.[325] In June 2012 Professor David Wilson, a criminologist, suggested that the killer was likely serial prostitute killer Steve Wright, but police said they had found no evidence to link Wright to the crime.[326] |
| April 2002 | Aeon Shirley | Manchester | A member of a rival gang shot 18-year-old Aeon Shirley four times on 11 April, piercing his heart with one of the bullets. Police officers investigating the Longsight shooting found that witnesses to it were reluctant to assist them.[327] |
| April 2002 | Les Bate | Chapel Amble, Cornwall | Les Bate, a 71-year-old millionaire, farmer and widower, was found dead in the utility room of his home in the village of Chapel Amble, Cornwall, on Sunday 14 April. He had been beaten and the attack triggered a cardiac episode, and his wallet was stolen and has never been found. Les had last been seen in his local pub on Friday 12 April. His home had been targeted in a burglary seven months earlier when thieves stole £47,000 in property and cash from his safe.[328] |
| 24 April 2002 | Terry Morgan | Ennerdale, Rugby, Warwickshire | 69-year-old grandad Terry Morgan was shot in the chest on the driveway of his home. Police think it may have been a contract killing. Despite rumours that Morgan was an anti-drugs campaigner for the local area, investigators found little to suggest that his murder had anything to do with such campaigning on his part.[329] There were arrests over the killing but all those arrested were released without charge.[citation needed] |
| May 2002 | Zennen Blackburn | Manchester | A man got out of a car and shot 27-year-old Zennen Blackburn dead in Moston late in the afternoon on 23 May. Investigators still don't know why the crime was committed, but rumour has it that it was to settle a debt owed to a criminal whom Zennen had fallen out with.[330] |
| 27 June 2002 | Alex Blue | Glasgow | A businessman from the city's west end, Blue was found outside his Dowanhill home with head injuries. He died at the Southern General Hospital two days later.[331][332] |
| July 2002 | Joseph Byrne | Attacked in Oxford, died in hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire | Paramedics attending a flat in Littlemore on 7 May 2002 were told by 61-year-old Joseph Byrne that he had had a liquid thrown at him. The liquid was a chemical that had caused his skin to become tightly stretched and his head to swell to twice its normal size, and he died at Stoke Mandeville Hospital on 1 July after breathing difficulties brought on by swelling in his airways triggered a heart attack. At his inquest, the assistant deputy coroner and a detective were critical of hospital staff for not informing the police of the assault sooner.[333] |
| August 2002 | Lorraine Turner | Norwich, Norfolk | The 37-year-old former journalist was murdered in her Old Catton home, where her ten-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter found her body on 17 August. A 21-year-old roofer was charged with the killing before being cleared of it in May 2003.[334][335] |
| September 2002 | Kevin Nunes | Pattingham, Staffordshire | Kevin Nunes' body was dumped in a country lane about two miles from the outskirts of his home city of Wolverhampton after he had been shot and beaten. Though five men went to prison in 2008 for murdering the 20-year-old drug dealer and amateur footballer, they were released in 2012 because it had come to light that information casting doubt on a witness's trustworthiness had been withheld from the defence.[336] |
| October 2002 | Julie Dorsett | Walthamstow, London | Dorsett, a 33-year-old sex worker, vanished in 2002 and her skull and upper body were discovered buried in an allotment in 2008. It is believed her remains were placed there shortly after she disappeared. In 2012 her former partner, Sinclair Lewis, was cleared of killing her and of burying her body.[337] |
| 8 October 2002 | Billy Sibbald | A1, near Musselburgh, Midlothian | Father of three Billy Sibbald went missing from Joppa, Edinburgh on 8 October 2002 after telling his wife he was meeting business associates. Three months later, his decomposing body was found in woodland by a lay-by on the A1 near Musselburgh. There have been various theories for Billy Sibbald's murder, including one that he may have been the victim of a gangland killing.[338] Due to a lack of information coming through to the police, nobody has been arrested for his murder.[339] |
| 11 October 2002 | David Draycott | Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire | The 40-year-old was gunned down on 7 October as he was about to get out of his car after returning home. A neighbour whose front door he managed to get to gave him first aid and called an ambulance, but he died in King's Mill Hospital four days later. The discovery at the crime scene of cartridges from two semiautomatic weapons led detectives to infer that there had been two people firing shots at him.
In December 2018, Robert Dawes, a drug baron and former Sutton-in-Ashfield resident whom British police wanted to interview about Mr Draycott's murder, was handed a 22-year jail sentence by a French court for drug trafficking and smuggling, among other offences.[340] |
| 15 October 2002 | Devon Brown | Shepherd's Bush, London | Devon Brown, a 39-year-old Jamaican-born father-of-two, was shot dead in Shepherd's Bush on the afternoon of 15 October. Operation Trident investigated the murder.[341] |
| 7 November 2002 | John Shippam | Nottingham | Found dead in his Bestwood flat from gunshot wounds. The 25-year-old had been assaulted at The Anchor Inn in Gunthorpe two days previously, and police believe the incidents are probably linked.[342] |
| 9 November 2002 | Theresa Jacobs | Nottingham | In front of about 40 people and within minutes of leaving The Drum nightclub in Radford with a male friend, Theresa Jacobs was shot point-blank in a crime thought to have been committed by a hitman with links to Nottingham's drug-supply network. An ambulance rushed her to the Queen's Medical Centre in the city, but she was pronounced dead there later that day. She was 33.[343][344] |
| 23 November 2002 | Martin Simpson | Leicester | 59-year-old Martin Simpson, a well-liked regular of various Leicester pubs, bars and betting shops, was assailed in the city centre on the night of 22–23 November. Finding him unconscious in the middle of Albion Street, a taxi driver raised the alarm, but it was discovered upon his arrival at a hospital in the vicinity that he had already died of his injuries.[345] Detectives were keen to trace two young men captured on CCTV near the scene during the night in question.[346] |
| 1 December 2002 | Susan McDonald | Broughton Astley, Leicestershire | A fire that someone started in a wheelie bin outside 47-year-old Susan McDonald's house resulted in her death when it trapped her in her bedroom, having spread to that room via the hall and the stairway after burning through the front door.[347] |
| 7 December 2002 | Debbie Remorozo | Oldham, Lancashire | Debbie Remorozo was a 26-year-old nurse who worked at Royal Oldham Hospital. She was originally from the Philippines. Debbie was found stabbed to death in her flat in Oldham on 7 December. She was attacked with two knives from her kitchen and her body was left in a crucifix position with her face covered with a tablecloth. In April 2003 a man and a woman were arrested in connection with Debbie's murder but released without charge.[348] |
| 12 December 2002 | Danny Regan | Haydock, Merseyside | 25-year-old Danny Regan was found dead in his house on Station Road with a gunshot wound to the chest. Also found on Station Road was the burnt-out shell of the vehicle the killer is thought to have arrived in: a stolen grey or silver Rover.[349] |
| 15 December 2002 | Carl Seaton | Liverpool | 28-year-old Carl Seaton was shot near Edge Hill's Weighing Machine pub after coming out of the building.[350] A man was charged but his trial was stopped because too many witnesses were absent.[351] Carl had starred in a 1998 film about the increase in gun-related incidents in inner-city areas of Britain – a film in which the young man played by him was seen practising with a gun bought for self-defence.[350] |
| 26 December 2002 | Mario O'Brien Clarke | Hackney, London | 25-year-old Mario Clarke, a soldier but not on duty at the time, was shot dead outside his home on Boxing Day. Police believed him to have been a victim of mistaken identity.[352] |
| 3 January 2003 | Edward Byrne | Attacked in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, died at Whiston Hospital | A lone gunman shot 66-year-old Edward Byrne in a pub in front of a number of people. Someone other than Byrne was meant to be killed instead, investigators thought.[353][354] |
| 13 January 2003 | David Warrilow | Chelmsley Wood, West Midlands | The father-of-two suffered serious head injuries when he was run over as he tried to stop thieves taking his van from outside GB Singh's newsagents in Willow Way, Chelmsley Wood. His murder was featured on Crimewatch in February 2003.[355] |
| 14 January 2003 | Brenda Wynne | Liverpool | 63-year-old Brenda Wynne died three days after being pushed over in a robbery on Castlefield Road, West Derby, Liverpool, on 11 January 2003. Her attackers were two men in their early twenties and Brenda's handbag was stolen.[356] |
| 3 February 2003 | Margaret Muller | Victoria Park, London | Margaret Muller, 27, was fatally stabbed while jogging in the park. Police suspect she may have been killed in a robbery gone wrong.[357] |
| 4 February 2003 | Paul Savage | Attacked in Mold, Flintshire; died in hospital in Wrexham | The 30-year-old postman died after being attacked by two men while on his round in Mold, in the Welsh county of Flintshire. He had been struck on the head several times with a wooden baton and was found lying in a pool of blood on the driveway of the home of Flintshire councillor Ray Dodd. The police later said they knew why Savage was killed, but would not elaborate. There is an £100,000 reward for information.[358] |
| 6 February 2003 | Beverley Brinkley | Attacked in Harlow, Essex; died at Addenbrooke's Hospital | Beverley Brinkley, a 35-year-old woman with three children, died four days after being severely assaulted by two men in the lobby of the third floor of the block of flats she lived in.[359] |
| 14 February 2003 | Mohammad Mahmood | Slough, Berkshire | 25-year-old Mohammad Mahmood sustained a stab wound to the chest during the theft of his friend's car by a group of four men. Police officers in a car near the crime scene saw Mohammad in an injured state and he was driven to the town's Wexham Park Hospital, but doctors there weren't able to save him.[360] |
| March 2003 | Peter Singleton | Wirral, Merseyside | A masked gunman shot Peter Singleton, 26, in front of his girlfriend and young son as they got out of a car on Column Road, West Kirby, on 27 March 2003. Peter suffered injuries to his head and stomach and died at Arrowe Park Hospital in Woodchurch.[361] |
| April 2003 | Stephen Colby | Great Yarmouth, Norfolk | 47-year-old Stephen Colby was battered to death in the terraced house he lived in by himself. His two sons discovered his body in the property on 11 April 2003 (nothing was missing from there, it was later established), and the following year, one of them was tried for his murder but not found guilty of it. Because there were claims that Mr Colby told people he was now wealthier thanks to money left to him in his aunt's will, an early line of inquiry pursued the theory that the murder was a result of a failed burglary.[362][363] |
| April 2003 | Natalia Doherty | Luton, Bedfordshire | 50-year-old Natalia Doherty went missing after visiting her ex-husband, Gerald Doherty, in April 2003. Her body was found twelve years later under rubble in the garden of a house on Icknield Way, Luton. Gerald's brother, Joseph, admitted perverting the course of justice in relation to Natalia's death in 2017. Gerald took his own life in 2003 and is believed to have murdered Natalia.[364] |
| 13 May 2003 | Viola Mead | Buckinghamshire | Viola Mead, 85, of Dobbins Lane in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, was attacked in her home by two men on 28 April 2003. She was found semi-conscious in her kitchen by a family friend and died on 13 May in Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Before she died, Viola was able to give a description of one of her attackers: He was 5 ft 10 ins tall, slim, and had a narrow face with a dark yellowish complexion. He was wearing a black jumper with a yellow motif on the left.[365][366] |
| August 2003 | Frank Bayley | Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire | Three men went to court for alleged complicity in the murder of 66-year-old Frank Bayley, but all of them were acquitted. Mr Bayley had been asphyxiated at his Hartshill Road off-licence.[367][368] |
| August 2003 | Justin Maynard | Manchester | 19-year-old Justin Maynard was fatally shot in Tugford Close, Moss Side, on 26 August 2003. He died of his injures at the scene.[369] |
| September/October 2003 | James Brodie | Body not found | James Brodie was involved in a robbery at an Arnold jewellery shop in which Marian Bates, the woman who co-owned the shop with her husband, was shot dead. Brodie, who was 19 and is believed to have been the one who pulled the trigger, disappeared soon afterwards, and it is thought that criminal associates of his killed him because the robbery hadn't gone as planned.[370] Brodie had an accomplice with him when he was in the shop, and in 2005 that man went to prison for Marian's murder, as well as for conspiracy to rob, possession of a firearm with intent to use it and beating her husband with a crowbar.[371]
In February 2013, another man who had been jailed for conspiring to rob the shop was charged with Brodie's murder,[372] but failure to gather enough evidence against him led to the charge being dropped in late April of that year.[373] Police searches for Brodie's remains at a farm and in a canal in Lincolnshire were in vain.[370] |
| October 2003 | Eamonn Bloodworth | Leicester | The 46-year-old electrician died after being robbed, kicked and stamped on in a nighttime attack. His body was found at the junction of Ravensbridge Drive and Blackbird Road. A man who stood trial in 2004 for the murder was cleared of any involvement in it.[374] |
| November 2003 | Charlene Downes | Body not found | 14-year-old Charlene Downes went missing from Blackpool town centre on the night of 1 November 2003. Police believe she was a victim of local grooming and child sexual exploitation. Two men were tried in connection with her death in 2007 but the jury failed to reach a verdict. A re-trial planned for 2008 collapsed. |
| November 2003 | Brian Jason Stock | Hull, East Yorkshire | On 2 November 2003, 33-year-old Brian Jason Stock (AKA Jason Stock) was found in a ground floor flat on Alexander Street, Beverley Road, Hull, having suffered severe face, head and bodily injuries caused by a heavy object. He died that afternoon at Hull Royal Infirmary. Mr Stock had been drinking with his girlfriend and friends on the night of his murder and witness reports stated that he was often domestically abused by his girlfriend in the months prior to his death. His girlfriend and two friends were prime suspects and arrested for the murder but later released due to lack of evidence. The case is still active in the hope that new information may one day come to light.[375][376] |
| November 2003 | Omar Watson | Nottingham | Omar Watson, 24, was shot in a Radford hair salon and died at the Queen's Medical Centre. It was the second time that year that he had been the victim of a gun attack, with the earlier, non-fatal attack having taken place in August.[377] |
| November 2003 | Gamal Fares "George" Mallwi | Attacked in West Kensington, London, died in hospital | Gamal Fares Mallwi, an Egyptian businessman known as George, was fatally shot at the junction of North End Road and Thaxton Road on 28 November as he was about to get into a car with his younger brother. George, who was 44, owned a chip shop just yards away from the crime scene.[378] |
| December 2003 | Peter Stone | Attacked in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, died in Addenbrooke's Hospital | Postman Peter Stone, a 37-year-old father of two from Cottenham, was attacked near The Chequers pub, where he had been drinking on the night of Saturday, 29 November 2003. He was found with serious head injuries in the early hours of the following morning. Stone was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital, where he died on 1 December.[214] |
| December 2003 | Joanne Broome | Renton, West Dunbartonshire | 18-year-old Joanne Broome was last seen alive on 3 December 2003. Her body was discovered in a flat which had been set alight on Main Street, Renton, about three miles from her home in Dumbarton. Joanne had died from stab wounds.[379] |
| January 2004 | Orville Donovan Gordon | Beachy Head, East Sussex | The body of Orville Donovan Gordon, 39, was found in a barrel which had been pushed off the cliffs at Beachy Head in January 2004. Orville was from south London, he had been stabbed and his blood was found on the floor of a disused restaurant in Brixton. Police believed his murder was revenge for a robbery and three men were arrested, however police struggled to gather witness statements.[380] |
| February 2004 | Craig Eaton | Liverpool | Craig Eaton, 22, was a worker at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and was shot shortly after getting off a bus on Molyneux Road, Kensington, Liverpool, on 24 February. Merseyside Police believe his murder was a case of mistaken identity.[381] |
| March 2004 | Camille Gordon | London | 23-year-old Camille Gordon was stabbed at her workplace, the Blue Bunny Club in Archer Street, Soho, in March 2004. A man had visited the club and become involved in a dispute about the payment of his bill. He attacked Camille in the doorway of the club and ran away. Camille died later that evening at the University College Hospital.[382] |
| July 2004 | Richard Clarke | Leeds | Richard Clarke, 32, was shot at point-blank range as he slept at his home in Moorland Avenue on the night of 29 July 2004. The weapon used was a 12-bore shotgun. Richard's girlfriend was sleeping next to him at the time of the attack and his three teenage sons were also in the house.[383] |
| August 2004 | Tom Brown | Southgate, London | BBC library assistant Tom Brown (who would have turned 28 the next day) was stabbed to death while walking home along Southgate High Street in the early hours of 21 August, but nothing on his person was stolen by the attacker, ruling robbery out as a motive. An e-fit of the suspected perpetrator was issued. Police appealed for a man and a woman who were sitting on a wall near the scene of the crime at around 4 am on the day of its commission to come forward, but without success.[384] |
| c. September 2004 | Aivaras Danilevičius | Bracknell, Berkshire | A body was found wrapped in bin bags and a blanket in Hawthorn Lane, Bracknell, on 24 July 2015. The skull was found to have two injuries indicating blunt-force trauma. The man was thought to have been 30–40 years old at the time of his death, but it is still not known how his body got to Hawthorn Lane or who put it there. In July 2016 he was identified as Aivaras Danilevičius, a Lithuanian who had gone missing towards the end of the summer of 2004.[385][386] |
| September 2004 | Natasha Derby | High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire | Natasha Derby, 23, was shot at a reggae night at High Wycombe's Multi-Racial Centre in the early hours of Saturday 4 September. A gun was fired while Natasha was on the dancefloor, and she died at Wycombe Hospital the following day. In 2009 a man was cleared of her manslaughter and two women were cleared of perverting the course of justice. Natasha's murder remains unsolved.[387][388] |
| 13 September 2004 | Patrick Devine | Claudy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland | Patrick Devine was found shot dead in his home at Stranagalawilly on 13 September 2004. The 51-year-old was a sheep farmer and part-time nurse. He was shot six times through his window as he ate his dinner and then at point-blank range three times in the head with a .22 rifle.[389][390] |
| 18 September 2004 | Daniel Blackett | Attacked in Thorpe Green, died in hospital in Chertsey (both in Surrey) | Millionaire Daniel Blackett, 36, was shot five times on his four-acre estate, despite having recently had a ten-foot fence put up around the edge of it along with signs warning of guard dogs and CCTV there. Because of the nature of illegal activities of his, one theory was that the murder had been committed or ordered by someone keen for him to be eliminated as a rival in crime.[391] |
| 27 September 2004 | Mick Love | Swindon, Wiltshire | The 40-year-old postal worker was stabbed to death in the street in Swindon's Old Town less than half an hour after he and a friend had parted company. When his body was discovered, money that he had had on him earlier was now missing, as was his mobile phone. A man charged with his murder and with robbery was not found guilty of either.[392] |
| November 2004 | Paul Mooney | Liverpool | A gunshot fired from close range killed 35-year-old Paul Mooney at a friend's bungalow in Croxteth on 13 November 2004.[393] Three men were found not guilty of murdering or conspiring to murder Mooney, and in October 2016, one of the acquitted men – Blake Brown – was shot dead himself. The killing of Brown is likewise an unsolved murder at present.[394] |
| November 2004 | Alistair Wilson | Nairn, Scotland | Alistair Wilson, 30, was shot dead on the doorstep of his home in Crescent Road, Nairn, near Inverness, in November 2004 one Sunday evening after his wife opened their door to the killer. Police have stated that they are not aware of a motive for the murder.[395] Detectives remain puzzled by some peculiarities of the crime. The killer had asked for Wilson by name, and then handed an envelope to Wilson, who took it back inside briefly before returning to the door where he was gunned down; it is unknown what was inside as the killer took it with him when he fled. Police revealed that the gun that killed Wilson was a rare CG Haenel Waffen 1920s pistol, often referred to as a "ladies" gun, and manufactured in Suhl, Germany.[396] |
| December 2004 | Solomon Martin | Thornton Heath, London | 24-year-old Solomon Martin, son of reggae music producer Steve Martin, died when the Renault Clio he was a backseat passenger in was shot at repeatedly on New Year's Eve. Police believed that the gunmen actually meant to kill the driver, who was not harmed in the attack.[397] |
| January 2005 | Jennifer Kiely | Eastbourne, East Sussex | Jennifer Kiely, 35, was found dead in a shelter on the seafront at Holywell, Eastbourne, in the early hours of 22 January 2005. She had been stabbed. Witnesses reported seeing a woman who matched Jennifer's description arguing with a man the previous evening. Two men were arrested but released on bail. Jennifer's murder was featured on Crimewatch in March 2005.[398] |
| January 2005 | Robert McCartney | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Robert McCartney, 33, was killed during an altercation in Magennis's Bar. He was dragged outside onto Verner Street in the centre of the city and beaten and stabbed. Allegations were made, particularly by friends and relatives of McCartney, that there was involvement of the IRA and Sinn Féin in both the murder and a subsequent cover-up.[citation needed] McCartney died of his wounds the following morning.[citation needed] |
| April 2005 | Emma Caldwell | Roberton, South Lanarkshire | 27-year-old Emma Caldwell was last seen leaving Inglefield Street Hostel, Govanhill, in Glasgow at 11 pm on 4 April 2005 for the city's red light district. Emma's body was found five weeks later in woods near Roberton forty miles from her home, she had been strangled and her clothing was missing. Emma was a sex worker and, during the police investigation, other women who worked as sex workers in Glasgow told police about clients who had taken them to the same woods where Emma's body had been found. Four men were charged with Emma's murder in 2007 but the case collapsed. Another man, who Emma had previously reported to police for allegedly raping her, was also questioned. He has admitted he was one of Emma's clients but denies murdering her.[399] |
| 3 August 2005 | Lucy Hargreaves | Walton, Liverpool | She was sleeping on the living room sofa at her home in Lambourne Road on 3 August 2005, when the killers struck. Three masked men burst into the address armed with a sawn-off shotgun and shot her twice in the stomach and once to the head from close range. Possibly to try to cover up the murder, the duvet cover Lucy was sleeping under was then covered in petrol and set alight. Gary Campbell, Lucy's boyfriend, was sleeping upstairs with the couple's youngest daughter Faye, and it is believed he could have been the intended target. He escaped the blaze by jumping with his daughter from an upstairs window.[400] |
| September 2005 | Kenneth Nunn | Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire | 85-year-old Kenneth Nunn died in what appears to have been an arson attack on his home on the night of 6–7 September 2005. A motive for starting the fire continues to evade the police.[401] |
| September 2005 | Elsie Hughes | Attacked in Caergwrle, Flintshire; died in hospital in Wrexham | 90-year-old Elsie Hughes was found injured at her home on Hawarden Road, Caergwrle, at 9 pm on 8 September 2005. She died of her injuries early the following day in Wrexham Maelor Hospital. It is believed that Elsie was murdered by intruders who stole £200.[402][403] |
| September 2005 | Anne Marie Foy | Liverpool | Anne Marie Foy, 46, was killed at around 5:30 am on 15 September 2005. Her body was found in bushes at the junction of Crown Street and West Derby Street in Liverpool; she had been battered to death. Anne Marie was a sex worker and a man stood trial for her murder in 2012 but was found not guilty.[404] |
| October 2005 | Nora Tait | Doncaster, South Yorkshire | Nora Tait was 69 when she was bludgeoned at her home in Stone Close Avenue, Hexthorpe, on 12 October 2005. She was murdered shortly after she'd bought fish and chips, which were untouched on her dining table when a friend found her dead the following day. Police made a new appeal for information on the tenth anniversary of her murder in 2015.[405] |
| October 2005 | Alexandre Marques | Luton | Alexandre Marques, 61, was last seen at his home at Clanricarde Gardens, Notting Hill, London, on Sunday 16 October 2005. His remains were found on 2 January 2006 on the grass verge of Woodside Road, Luton. CCTV images showed a man using Alexandre's bank card in west and north west London shortly after his disappearance. In January 2021, police reported that they had a new forensic lead and that a £20,000 reward was still available.[406] |
| November 2005 | Andrea Daly | Southend, Essex | 40-year-old Andrea Daly died when her Rochford Road house was set alight at nighttime on 10 November. Her sons, who were aged 17 and 20, managed to escape from the smoke and flames by jumping from a first-floor window. Police are still struggling to find a motive for the crime.[407] |
| November 2005 | Michael Grey | Newcastle | 45-year-old careworker Michael Grey was walking to the home of an elderly person he cared for on 11 November when he was attacked on Ellesmere Road in Newcastle's West End at around 8 pm. Michael's wallet was taken during the attack and afterwards he was able to get to his feet and seek treatment at Newcastle General Hospital, but he fell into a coma and died ten days later. Three people were charged with theft from Michael but no one has been charged with his murder.[408] |
| December 2005 | Kamila Garsztka | Bedford | Kamila Garsztka was 26 when she went missing in December 2005. Her body was found by canoeists in Priory Lake, Bedford, in January 2006. Kamila's boyfriend, Amilton Bento, was found guilty of her murder in 2007, but his conviction was quashed in 2009 and he went on to win a libel action against Bedfordshire Police in 2012, being awarded £125,000.[409] |
| December 2005 | Anthony Brightmore, Patricia Brightmore, Stephen Brightmore | Sheffield | Anthony Brightmore, 68, and Patricia Brightmore, 65, died in a fire at their home in Batemoor Walk, Sheffield, on 23 December 2005. Their son, Stephen, 35, was rescued but died a few days later in hospital. The fire was started in a wheelie bin outside the family's home; all three died from smoke inhalation. A teenage boy was cleared of three counts of manslaughter in 2006.[410][411] |
| January 2006 | Ralph Platten | Attacked in Sutton, Norfolk, died at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital | A group of men pushed past the 95-year-old war veteran and beat him when he opened the front door of his property on 3 January, and he died of heart failure the next day. Five people who were charged over the incident did not go to court for it because the Crown Prosecution Service found that there was not enough evidence to link any of them with it.[412] |
| January 2006 | Subramaniam Sivakumar | Willesden, London | Likely the victim of a ritual killing, 44-year-old Subramaniam Sivakumar was found dead in his shop on 5 January with a shoelace round his neck and wounds behind one of his ears.[413] |
| January 2006 | Richard Zephaniah | Basildon, Essex | 39-year-old Richard Zephaniah was stabbed outside his flat in Bockingham Green, Pitsea, on 6 January 2006. Three men were arrested on suspicion of his murder but in 2007 the Crown Prosecution Service ruled there was insufficient evidence to pursue a prosecution.[414] |
| January 2006 | Joyce Sutton | Skewen, Wales | Joyce Sutton, 65, was found dead in her bed at her home in Winifred Road, Skewen, on 11 January 2006. She had been beaten to death. Her partner stood trial for her murder in 2008 but was found not guilty.[415] |
| January 2006 | Rebwar Samin | Leicester | 21-year-old Rebwar Samin was stabbed in Clyde Street at around 5 pm on 11 January when a confrontation with two men escalated to a deadly level, and he died in hospital shortly afterwards. The police suspected early on in their investigation into his murder that the two people they most wanted to speak to about it (men originally from Iraq – as was Rebwar) did not live in Leicestershire any longer.[416] |
| January 2006 | Sukhwinder Singh | Epsom, Surrey | 27-year-old Sukhwinder Singh's killer strangled him and left his body in the car park of Epsom Downs Racecourse, where it was found on 21 January 2006. In October 2010, a 36-year-old man was arrested in Barcelona in connection with the murder before being released on bail while inquiries continued.[417] |
| March 2006 | Carlton Alveranga and Richard Austin | Salford, Greater Manchester | The pair had been hired as hitmen to murder David Totton, and entered the Brass Handles public house to carry out their task. Although Totton was shot, he survived. His assailants were then disarmed by the bar's patrons and shot dead with their own guns by a person or persons unknown. Alveranga and Austin's hirers were convicted of conspiracy to murder in 2007, but the actual killer or killers remain unidentified.[418] |
| March 2006 | Michael Shipton | Sheering, Essex | Michael Shipton, known as Joe, was 61 when he was found dead at his home in The Plashets, Sheering, on 25 March 2006. Joe had died from head injuries and there was no sign of forced entry to his house.[419] |
| May 2006 | Aaron Watson | Leeds | Aaron Watson, 27, was shot in the Creation nightclub on Cookridge Street on 1 May 2006, he died from his injuries in hospital nine days later. Police believed his attackers were from the Manchester area.[420] |
| June 2006 | Neil Davies | Neath, Wales | 27-year-old Neil Davies was stabbed in the chest during a barbecue at his home on Caederwen Road, Neath, on 25 June 2006. His wife stood trial for his murder in 2007 but was found not guilty.[421] |
| July 2006 | Jim Stanton | Liverpool | At around 6 pm one Monday evening in July 2006, two armed men burst into the car showroom where 58-year-old Stanton worked as a used-car salesman, and opened fire. Although his colleagues managed to escape to safety, Stanton was stuck behind his desk, which was situated just metres from the back wall of the showroom, resulting in him receiving a number of fatal shots. Merseyside Police suspect that Stanton might not have been the intended target of the attack, and have offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the convictions of those behind it.[422] |
| July 2006 | Beata Bryl | Wooburn, Buckinghamshire | 23-year-old Beata was last seen on CCTV at Leytonstone tube station, east London, on 28 July 2006. Her burnt remains were found by a motorist fifty miles away in woodland near Hendsor Lane, Wooburn, Buckinghamshire the following day. She had been bludgeoned to death. Beata was originally from Poland and came to the UK in 2003.[423] Her mother, Maria Bryl, believed her daughter was in an unhappy relationship with an older, controlling man.[424] |
| September 2006 | Jessie James | Moss Side, Manchester | James was murdered in a drive by shooting in September 2006. It is believed his murder was a case of mistaken identity. Police have been worried about the lack of witnesses coming forward, possibly due to fear of the repercussions.[425] |
| September 2006 | Dean Myles | Bristol | Shot dead in a Bristol nightclub during a visit to the city from London. Four men were tried for the murder of the 19-year-old, and one of them was acquitted. Because the jury could not reach a verdict on any of the other three, a retrial for them was ordered, but the case against them ended up being dropped because the Court of Appeal wouldn't permit statements from anonymous witnesses to be read out in court in their absence.[426][427] |
| November 2006 | Alexander Litvinenko | London | The Russian-born ex-spy became unwell following a meeting with two men on 1 November at a hotel in central London, and died at the University College Hospital on 23 November after having been transferred there from Barnet General Hospital. He had been poisoned by polonium-210, a radioactive substance that the police believed had got into his system via a cup of tea.
One of the men he was with at that meeting – men who, like Litvinenko, had once worked for the KGB – was (and still is) the chief suspect; however, he has always maintained his innocence and furthermore has suggested that the poisoner may have been someone working for a British security agency. The other man has likewise denied that any part of the crime was his doing. In 2016, a public inquiry into the 43-year-old's death launched the year before concluded that Vladimir Putin (Russia's president) had "probably" approved the plan to kill him.[428] |
| December 2006 | Jimoh Plunkett | Ipswich, Suffolk | The 24-year-old from London was shot in the chest in an Ipswich nightclub and later pronounced dead at the town's main hospital. In October 2008, a man who had become one of two prime suspects in the killing – fellow Londoner Errol Davis – died in very similar circumstances in another murder that hasn't been solved.[429] |
| January 2007 | Robert Pride-McLeod | Harrogate, North Yorkshire | Robert Pride-McLeod's body was found in the cellar of a homeless hostel on 21 January 2007 following a severe assault on the 49-year-old. The assault probably took place within a few days of his arrival at the hostel on 12 January.[430] |
| January 2007 | John Iveson | Body not found | John Iveson's disappearance in January 2007 is being treated as murder. The 36-year-old's wife was pregnant with his fifth child when he vanished from Nantwich, Cheshire. In April 2012, two men were found not guilty of his murder, the trial heard that John owed almost £250,000 to his brother-in-law.[431] |
| February 2007 | James Andre Smartt-Ford | London | On 3 February at 10:55 pm, the Metropolitan Police received a call about a shooting at Streatham Ice Rink, where around 300 people were attending a disco. A youth had shot 17-year-old Smartt-Ford, who then staggered down stairs to the ice and collapsed. He died at midnight in hospital. Although there were multiple witnesses, the killer has not been identified.[432] |
| February 2007 | Sajid Saddique | Body not found | Sajid Saddique, a father of three, met a friend in the car park of an Asda supermarket in Shipley, West Yorkshire, on 14 February 2007 and was never seen again. He was declared dead in 2014 and his disappearance began to be treated as a murder investigation later that same year. Sajid had been involved in disputes over money at the time of his disappearance and the investigation has seen two men arrested but not charged. A second inquest into his death in December 2020 ruled that he had been unlawfully killed, and the murder investigation remains ongoing.[433][434] |
| March 2007 | Tyno Kavuala | College Park, London | Tyno Kavuala, 20, was shot dead in his car near the northern end of Scrubs Lane on 4 March, and the shooting appeared to have been a gang-related one.[435] A 22-year-old man murdered in London in May 2010 (Daniel Smith) was thought to have been targeted because he looked like Kavuala's suspected killer.[436] |
| March 2007 | Mustapha Charkaui | Attacked in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, later died in hospital in Oxford | Mustapha Charkaui, 57, and his wife, Krystina, were attacked at their home in Dunsham Lane on 12 March 2007. Two men broke into their home and beat them with a spade. Krystina survived the attack but Mustapha died of his injuries almost two weeks later on 23 March. Police were unable to establish a motive for the attack.[437] |
| June/July 2007 | Ashley Dighton | Ashford, Kent | 19-year-old Ashley Dighton was last seen alive at Sainsbury's supermarket on Simone Weil Avenue, Ashford, on 11 June. His body was found a month later, buried beneath branches in woodland close to where he was last seen. He had been decapitated. Ashley's father made an appeal for new information on the eleventh anniversary of his son's murder.[438] |
| July 2007 | Xiong Zhang | London | The 33-year-old Chinese national made a living by selling DVDs on the street, but did not have any with him when two plain-clothed police officers found him conscious but not very responsive on a Barking towpath near to where he was seen hawking no more than a few hours previously, suggesting that he was targeted by someone (or more than one person) whose motive was robbery. He was taken to hospital, where it was discovered that he had a brain injury, and this injury led to his death on 29 July – eight days after the attack that caused it.[439] |
| October 2007 | Jonathan Matondo | Sheffield | Jonathan Matondo moved from the Democratic Republic of Congo to England at the age of six and was shot dead at 16 near a children's play area in Sheffield by someone presumed by police to have been from a rival postcode gang. A man formally accused of Jonathan's murder was found not guilty at a second trial after the jury at his first one failed to reach a verdict.[440] |
| November 2007 | Margaret Hawkins | Orpington, London | Following a burglary and an assault on Margaret Hawkins at the 87-year-old's bungalow on 16 November, the police started to class her as a murder victim when, after collapsing due to shock while telling officers about her ordeal, she died in hospital on 18 November. There were two perpetrators – both of whom were male and thought to be between 25 and 40 years of age.[441] |
| December 2007 | Dipo Seweje | Walworth, London | Dipo Seweje was fatally shot in a stairwell of a block of flats on Boxing Day and police found his body in a nearby communal garden the day after when investigating reports of a shooting around there. The gun used to kill the 20-year-old student was the same gun used to kill ex-professional boxer James Oyebola five months previously.[442][443] |
| January 2008 | Sarah Melia | Bolton, Lancashire | Sarah Melia, 34, was stabbed six times at her home on Catherine Street West, Horwich, on 14 January 2008. Her body was found by her teenage daughter at the foot of the stairs. Sarah's brother stood trial for her murder twice but both trials collapsed and he was found not guilty.[444] |
| March 2008 | David O'Leary | Lydden, Kent | A gunman fired two shots at David O'Leary, a scaffolder aged 31, within moments of him returning home from a night out with his girlfriend, hitting him in the chest and neck. The crime had hallmarks of a professional killing, but a motive for it remains undetermined.[445] |
| March 2008 | Harun Khan | Tipton, West Midlands | Taxi driver Harun Khan, 39, was shot dead in Tudor Street on 3 March after responding to a call from somebody saying that they wanted to be picked up from an address there. Nobody living at the address had made that call.[446] |
| March 2008 | Nicholas Clarke | London | Nicholas Clarke, known to his friends as 'Ratty', was mortally wounded by a bullet on the Myatt's Fields Estate, Stockwell, in the early hours of 15 March. He died in hospital. Ratty was with a group of friends at the time of the attack and received a fatal shot to the head which was fired from a distance.[447][448] |
| April 2008 | Matthew Demko | Ashtead, Surrey | Matthew Demko was killed with a metal barbell on 4 April 2008. A man whose family's property the garage in which Matthew died was a part of – someone who was both friends with him and about the age he was at the time of his death (25) – was charged with his murder, and when he was being tried for the offence, a barrister claimed that he killed his friend because of his (the accused's) inability to pay in full money that he owed him. The trial concluded with the returning of a not guilty verdict.[449][450] |
| April 2008 | Margaret Briers | Attacked in St Helens, died in hospital in Whiston (both in Merseyside) | Margaret Briers, 82, known as Peggy, was fatally injured by an intruder at her home on Caldbeck Grove, Carr Mill, on 30 March 2008. Her attacker stole just £16. Margaret was found twelve hours after the attack and died in hospital a week later.[451] |
| May 2008 | Kuldeep Sidhu | Birmingham | 25-year-old Kuldeep Sidhu, known as Kully, was found dead after a fire at her home on Glyn Farm Road, Quinton, on 14 May 2008. She was in the early stages of pregnancy at the time of her murder. The scene of Kully's death had been staged to make it look like she had committed suicide, with a note purporting to have been written by her and a noose around her neck. In May 2010, a coroner ruled that she had been unlawfully killed and stated that she had been killed by someone known to her.[452] |
| May 2008 | Joyce Cregeen | Epsom, Surrey | 81-year-old Joyce Cregeen was found stabbed to death at her home on Sefton Road, Epsom, on 15 May 2008. A woman stood trial for her murder the following year but was found not guilty. In 2018, the case was reopened by the Surrey and Sussex major crime team to investigate new lines of enquiry.[453] |
| June 2008 | Adam Chadwick | Leeds | Father-of-one Adam Chadwick was shot when a masked gang tried to force their way into his sister's house on 24 June 2008. Mr Chadwick was watching a film at the house in Clifton Mount, Harehills, when a woman knocked on the door and asked for "Michelle". She knocked again and three masked men tried to force their way in, shooting Adam in the struggle. He died two days later in hospital. Despite extensive appeals, including a reconstruction on the BBC's Crimewatch programme and a reward of £10,000, no-one has been convicted of his murder. West Yorkshire Police said the men were described as black and wearing masks and camouflaged clothing. The woman with them was described as being white, aged in her late 20s and around 5 ft 5 ins (165 cm) tall, and as having dark brown hair, olive skin and dark eyes.[454][455] |
| July 2008 | John Rouse | Hull, East Yorkshire | John Rouse's mother found him dead in his shower on 31 July after letting herself into his flat because no one had come to the door. A 45-year-old drug dealer, it appeared to detectives that whoever had shot John as he showered was in the flat with his permission and was likely someone he knew well, and that they might have decided to kill him because they owed him a lot of money. A pub landlord from London who was acquitted of this murder the year after the crime remains the only person to have been charged with it.[456] |
| September 2008 | Paul Duckenfield | Body not found | Paul Duckenfield was last seen at the Palm Trees restaurant near Great Saling, near Braintree, Essex, on 15 September 2008. Although Paul's body has not been found, police believe he was murdered on or around 16 September 2008. Investigations into his disappearance revealed a possible link with dealing in anabolic steroids.[457] |
| September 2008 | Clive Enkel | Romford, Essex | 53-year-old Clive Enkel was beaten at the home he shared with his elderly father on Alderwood Drive, Abridge, Essex, by men with baseball bats on 25 September. He died in Queens Hospital, Romford, two days later. Police were interested in a group of men who were knocking on doors looking for casual work at the time. Two men were arrested but released without charge.[458][459][460] |
| October 2008 | Errol Davis | London | 24-year-old Errol Davis, a prime suspect in the murder of 24-year-old Jimoh Plunkett in Ipswich, died at the Royal London Hospital about six hours after receiving a single shot to his head in the seOne nightclub on Weston Street, Southwark. A man tried at the Old Bailey in 2011 both for Errol's murder and for the February 2009 murder of 25-year-old Larry Safie was acquitted of each of these crimes but jailed for another shooting.[461][429] |
| November 2008 | Lea Brooke | Wakefield, West Yorkshire | Lea Brooke, 81, died when her home on Walton Lane, Wakefield, was set on fire. In a case which police believe was a case of mistaken identity, white spirit was poured through the letterbox and set alight. Lea's murder was featured on Crimewatch.[462] |
| November 2008 | Andrew Cresswell | Pluckley, Kent | Found dead on 11 November on the industrial estate where his mobile home was located; the cause of death was a blow to the head. Police think he might have been killed by a would-be burglar after leaving his mobile home to investigate a suspicious noise coming from outside. Five people have been arrested but not charged over his murder. Cresswell was a 51-year-old aviation archaeologist who also had a café on that industrial estate.[463] |
| December 2008 | Andrew Cunningham | Earlsfield, London | Andrew Cunningham, a 52-year-old convicted child sex offender, was found stabbed with his genitals mutilated in his caravan outside the haulage yard where he worked. Despite 500 witness statements and a £20,000 reward, no trace of the killer has been found. Police believe the motive to have been either revenge (making it a vigilante killing) or robbery.[464] |
| January 2009 | Molly Morgan | Harrow, London | Molly Morgan, 81, had her handbag snatched from her as she walked along Streatfield Road, Harrow, on 15 January 2009. Molly fell during the attack and hit her head, she died in hospital the following day. Her handbag had contained nothing of any value. Four men were arrested but released without charge. On the tenth anniversary of Molly's death, a £20,000 reward for information was offered.[465] |
| January 2009 | Ryan Quinn | Portrush, County Antrim | Ryan Quinn, 14, was assaulted then chased onto a railway line by a group of teenagers after an argument on 30 January 2009. His hand became trapped in a cattle grid near Dhu Varren and he was hit by a train. Two suspects were named in a police file but police said there was not enough evidence to pursue the case.[466][467] |
| February 2009 | David Currier | Bromsgrove, Worcestershire | An intruder who probably entered 35-year-old David Currier's house with accomplices killed him there in the early hours of 7 February by stabbing him in the leg. The six-year-old son of the victim was in the house as well.[468] |
| February 2009 | Rhys Davies | Cardiff | 17-year-old Rhys Davies was involved in an altercation while shopping with a friend on St Mary Street, Cardiff, on 13 February 2009 at 6:40 pm. He suffered head injuries and died the following day. Four men were arrested for Rhys's murder but released without charge due to lack of evidence.[469] |
| February 2009 | Larry Safie | East Dulwich, London | Larry Safie, 25, was shot once in the back of the head whilst walking along Barry Road, the road where his flat was.[470] A man tried at the Old Bailey in 2011 both for his murder and for the October 2008 murder of 24-year-old Errol Davis was acquitted of each of these crimes but jailed for another shooting.[429] |
| March 2009 | AbdulKarim Boudiaf | Tottenham, London | AbdulKarim Boudiaf, 18, had plans to study law at the University of Northampton when he was shot on Broadwater Road, close to the Elmhurst Hotel in Tottenham, at 10 pm on 14 March. A man stood trial for murder and two people stood trial for assisting an offender, but all three were acquitted in November 2009. In 2017, AbdulKarim's family called for the case to be re-investigated with the support of the MP for Tottenham, David Lammy. He stated that the case had 'echoes' of the Stephen Lawrence case.[471][472] |
| March 2009 | Claudia Lawrence | Body not found | Although the body of Claudia Lawrence has not been found, North Yorkshire Police are treating her disappearance as suspected murder. She was 35 years old when she was last seen on 18 March after her day's work as a chef at the University of York. Claudia sent a text message to a friend at 8:23 pm and was reported missing when she failed to arrive for work the following day. In the years since Claudia's disappearance, nine people have been arrested or interviewed under caution over it.[473] |
| April 2009 | Damian Clough | Keighley, West Yorkshire | Twelve-year-old Damian Clough died in a fire at his home at Kinara Close, Stockbridge, Keighley on 4 April. A group of people visited the house that evening and two fires were started shortly before 10 pm. A man and a teenager stood trial for Damian's manslaughter in 2010, but were found not guilty.[474] |
| June 2009 | David Cox | Doncaster, South Yorkshire | David Cox, 18, died after being punched in the head during an altercation with a group of youths in Bessacarr, Doncaster, in June 2009. He had tried to join in with a football game but was insulted and then fatally assaulted. David was autistic and had an intellectual disability.[475] |
| June 2009 | Anthony Otton | Fulham, London | Otton, aged 28, was killed by a single bullet through his heart just before 7 pm on 4 June 2009, as he left Geranium House, in Fulham Court, London, on the day of the wake for Darcy Bruce, who was gunned down outside Wandsworth Prison on 1 May 2009. Family members believe Otton was the victim of a revenge shooting. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Homicide and Serious Crime Command offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to his killer's or killers' prosecution.[476] |
| July 2009 | James Kamara | Sheffield | Though the killing of James Kamara – a 22-year-old who died when bullets fired from a passing vehicle hit him and a few others while he was sitting in his car – is believed to have been gang-related, it is not thought that James himself was a member of any gang. Four men were found not guilty of involvement in the crime.[477] |
| August 2009 | Marek Pudlowski | Bognor Regis, West Sussex | Marek Pudlowski, aged 51 and originally from Poland, was found dead on a bench near the seaside town's pier on 3 August. Though the autopsy could not determine exactly how he had died, it did nevertheless reveal that he had suffered an extensive assault immediately prior to his death. He had seemed anxious about something when he was in a Bognor bank on the day he was killed.[478][479] |
| August 2009 | Richard Clarke | Attacked in Eye, Suffolk; died at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | A couple walking past the retired thatcher's home during the evening of 21 August noticed that there was a man (since assumed to have been Clarke) in the driveway clutching the back of his head. The following morning, another passer-by saw Clarke in the same place, and by then he had collapsed. He was pronounced dead in hospital a short time later. A forensic pathologist who examined his body believed he had been dragged to the ground and punched not long before he was seen clutching the back of his head, and police have appealed for anyone with information about the assault to get in contact with them.[480] |
| August 2009 | Paula Hounslea | Fazakerley, Liverpool | Paula Hounslea's body was found in a former fire pit next to the loop line cycle path in Fazakerley, Liverpool, on 5 May 2012 by a dog walker. She had been missing since 22 August 2009, and her body was identified using her medical and dental records.[481] |
| August 2009 | Safrajur Jahangir | Sheffield | On 28 August 2009, 23-year-old Safrajur Jahangir was lured to where he was to be shot dead – Scraith Wood Drive in the Shirecliffe district – by someone pretending they wanted a curry delivered there. (Safrajur was the owner of a takeaway.) Six men were charged with conspiracy to murder him, but their trial in 2010 was discontinued following the revelation that South Yorkshire Police had withheld vital information from the defence (unintentionally, as it would turn out). A man thought to have been the actual hitman fatally overdosed on heroin before the police had enough evidence to charge him.[482][483] |
| October 2009 | Alan Wood | Lound, Lincolnshire | In October 2009, 50-year-old Alan Wood was found dead in his home, tortured – possibly for financial details – and with head wounds and a slit throat. A £60,000 reward and televised appeals have not resulted in a prosecution.[484] In December 2019, Lincolnshire Police stated they were pursuing fresh leads after an appeal on the tenth anniversary of Alan's death.[485] |
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| Year | Name of victim(s) | Location body found | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2010 | Antoine Denis | Chatham, Kent | Antoine Denis, 66, was found dead at his flat in Copperfield House, New Road, Chatham, on 9 January 2010. Murder was not suspected until the undertakers discovered a knife in Antoine's back when they moved his body. A woman was charged with Antoine's murder but the charge was dropped in March 2010.[486] |
| January 2010 | Angel of the Meadow | Angel Meadow, Manchester | On 25 January 2010, the skeletal remains of a woman were discovered hidden under multiple pieces of carpet in Angel Meadow, Manchester. A post-mortem revealed the decedent had suffered a fractured jaw, neck and clavicle prior to her death. Investigators believed the victim was most likely a Caucasian aged 18–30, and that her murder had occurred between 1975 and 1988.[487] |
| January 2010 | Mohamed Abdul Kadir | Liverpool | 19-year-old Mohamed Abdul Kadir died in hospital three days after suffering a head injury during a street attack in Toxteth – an attack that took place on 26 January. A local person other than the one responsible for his murder was withholding information that would help solve it, police believed.[488] |
| March 2010 | Nigel Price | Southampton | Nigel Price lapsed into a semi-coma following a beating he had suffered on Southampton Common on 13/14 November 2009, and died on 23 March 2010. Police weren't sure whether the attack on the 58-year-old was a homophobic one or not.[489] |
| April 2010 | Niamh and Cayden Adams | Buxton, Derbyshire | Five-year-old Niamh and Cayden, aged two, died in a house fire. Police suspected the arsonist was their 24-year-old mother, Fiona, who escaped the blaze by jumping from a window with her third child, and she was charged. She was later cleared at Nottingham Crown Court of the children's deaths, as well as arson and inflicting grievous bodily harm. Derbyshire Police set up an independent review team after the verdict.[490] |
| April 2010 | Barry Rubery | Iron Acton, near Bristol | Barry Rubery, a grandfather aged 68, was tied up with cable ties before being bludgeoned to death in his cottage on 28 April. Various items were taken from his home by the killers, too – among them a gold Masonic pocket watch, a Makita drill and a Nokia 3310 mobile phone.[491] |
| May 2010 | Daniel Smith | London | Smith, 22, was shot as he left a takeaway on Harrow Road in Paddington, and died later in hospital. The killing is thought to have been a case of mistaken identity. Two years later a jury cleared Kervin Kavuala, Shane Lewis, and Zeleke Forde of Smith's murder. Jonathan Yeboah was cleared of related gun crimes.[492][436] |
| June 2010 | James Davies | Norwich, Norfolk | 25-year-old care worker James Davies was stabbed in the heart, thigh and buttocks on 3 June after travelling up from London with three other people to take property from one of the occupants of a house on Old Palace Road. Seven people have been arrested but nobody has been charged in connection with the fatal attack.[493] |
| September 2010 | Imran Farooq | North London | Farooq was found dead outside his home in Green Lane, Edgware, London, on 16 September from multiple stab wounds and head injuries.[494] |
| October 2010 | Manzoor Begum | Bradford, West Yorkshire | 80-year-old Manzoor Begum was found dead at her home on Salt Street, Bradford, on 10 October 2010. Her husband, Ali Mohammed Sher, was found injured at the scene and stated that he might have killed her during an argument but could not be sure. Manzoor had been hit with a rolling pin and had died from a combination of cardiac arrest and blows to her head. Ali Mohammed Sher was not well enough to be interviewed by police and died nine months later.[495] |
| 19 October 2010 | Edith Stuart | Attacked in Cleveleys, died in hospital in Blackpool (both in Lancashire) | Edith Stuart, 96, died in Blackpool Victoria Hospital the day after an arsonist set fire to the care home bed she was sleeping in.[496] |
| November 2010 | Andrew Crawford | Leeds | 44-year-old Andrew Crawford was involved in an altercation after a Motörhead concert in Leeds on 25 November 2010. During the argument, Andrew and his cousin were punched to the ground and Andrew died the following day from blunt force trauma injuries to the head. An inquest into Andrew's death the following year found that no one was likely to be charged with his murder as it could not be known exactly who had struck the fatal blow.[497] |
| December 2010 | Wayne Bassnett | Attacked in Hale, Cheshire, died in hospital | Wayne Bassnett, 30, was killed by a bullet fired at him in a village street on 22 December 2010, and a man was acquitted of the act in March 2013. Police believe another man to have been involved in the shooting in some way but his whereabouts are unknown.[498] |
| 19 January 2011 | Joseph Cummins | Liverpool | Cummins was shot in the back by an unidentified assailant in Longmoor Lane, Fazakerley, and died in hospital. The case was dubbed "murder in the mist" by police because of foggy conditions, and a £20,000 reward is available for information that leads to someone being convicted of the crime.[499] |
| February 2011 | Lee Duncan | Lauriston Place, Edinburgh | Duncan's body was discovered in his flat in Edinburgh city centre. He had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer.[500] His neighbour Gary Parker was tried in court for the murder but he was found not guilty. The case remains unsolved.[501] |
| March 2011 | Dariusz Michalowski | Halifax, West Yorkshire | 44-year-old Dariusz Michalowski was last seen at his home on Macaulay Road, Birkby, Huddersfield, on 13 March 2011. Although his body wouldn't be found until woods on the outskirts of Halifax were being searched for it almost a decade later, police had announced in 2016 that they were treating his disappearance as murder. Dariusz had previously been attacked in February 2011 and in 2015, three men were arrested but released without charge.[502][503] |
| April 2011 | Damian Chlywka | Warlingham, Surrey | Two gardeners found the body of a man wrapped in tarpaulin in a garden well at Audley Drive, Warlingham, on 15 November 2013. The body was later identified as that of Damian Chlywka, 32, who had last been seen alive at his home in Thornton Heath on 17 April 2011. Although the cause of death could not be ascertained, it was clear that Damian had suffered a brutal assault and had died about two-and-a-half years previously. The crime was featured on Crimewatch in February 2014 and several men have been arrested over it and released without charge.[504] |
| July 2011 | Karoly Varga | Wellingborough, Northamptonshire | Karoly Varga was beaten to death with a small axe or something similar at his Cannon Street home in late July. He was 76 and had moved to England from his native country of Hungary in the 1950s. Fellow Hungarian Elemer Patakfalvi, a friend of his in his 40s at the time of the murder, was charged with it but found not guilty of it in court.[505] |
| 8 August 2011 | Trevor Ellis | Croydon, London | During riots in London, Ellis and friends were caught up in a car chase with a group of looters. He was shot in the head shortly after.[506] |
| August 2011 | Alisa Dmitrijeva | Anmer, Norfolk | The 17-year-old Latvian from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire disappeared on 31 August 2011 after she was spotted in a car with two men in King's Lynn, Norfolk. A member of the public found her body on the Queen's Sandringham Estate on 1 January 2012, but determining a cause of death was prevented by its advanced stage of decomposition. Police have not charged anyone with Alisa's murder but did make two arrests over it in 2012.[507] |
| September 2011 | Isobel Dobson | Hessle, West Yorkshire | Two-year-old Isobel Dobson died in a fire at Hessle Farm, Hessle, a hamlet near Wakefield, on 30 September 2011. A barn was deliberately set on fire, and the fire then spread to a van which Isobel was in. Her half-sister was rescued from the blaze. The inquest into Isobel's death found that her step-father could have started the fire; he had already been arrested over it but the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to proceed with a prosecution.[508] |
| December 2011 | Richard Williams | Birmingham | Richard Williams, a homeless 58-year-old, was fatally beaten on 30 December at a bus stop in Dudley Road. The trial of a 35-year-old Russian man alleged to have been the perpetrator was halted when the prosecution ceased to offer evidence against him.[509] |
| January 2012 | Adrian Milner | Attacked in Sittingbourne, Kent, died in hospital in London | Father-of-two Adrian Milner, 48, was punched as he walked along Church Road, Murston, Sittingbourne, just before 8 pm on 28 December 2011. The attack was unprovoked, Adrian hit his head on the pavement and died in hospital twelve days later.[510] |
| March 2012 | Tafadzwa "Taffy" Khan | Bawburgh, near Norwich, Norfolk | Tafadzwa "Taffy" Khan, 25, was stabbed to death on 18 March at a party at former boxing champion Herbie Hide's mansion. A 20-year-old man was charged with the murder of Taffy but in April 2013 the charge was dropped.[511] |
| May 2012 | Emma Winnall | Birmingham | 93-year-old Emma Winnall was brutally attacked in her bed at her home in Moseley sometime between 30 April and 1 May 2012. She died in hospital from her injuries on 29 May. No motive could be established, and police said the attacker had entered her home with a key.[512] |
| June 2012 | Marvin Hogan | London | Marvin Hogan, 28, was stabbed through the heart in Leyton during an attempt to stop someone (one of a group of three men) taking his keys away. A passer-by put his rucksack under Marvin's head following the stabbing and stayed with him until emergency services were at the scene, but he succumbed to his injury at the Royal London Hospital in the early hours of 5 June.[513] |
| July 2012 | Pamela Wheeler | Thamesmead, London | 76-year-old Pamela Wheeler was found dead at her home on Newacres Road, Thamesmead, in July 2012. She had last been seen on 9 July and was attacked in an apparent robbery. Pamela's wrists and ankles were bound and she died from suffocation and a head injury.[514] |
| September 2012 | Kyle Sheehan | Birmingham | 16-year-old Kyle Sheehan died a week after an incident on 21 September in which he was stabbed in the leg in a park in Birmingham's Bartley Green district.[515] |
| October 2012 | Dr Sabah Usmani, Hira Shakoor, Sohaib Shakoor, Muneeb Shakoor, Rayyan Shakoor, Maheen Shakoor | Harlow, Essex | Dr Sabah Usmani, 44, and her five children, Hira, 12, Sohaib, 11, Muneeb, 9, Rayyan, 6, and Maheen, 3, died in an arson attack at their home in Barn Mead, Harlow, in the early hours of 15 October 2012. Sabah's husband, Dr Abdul Shakoor, managed to escape to raise the alarm but the fire spread too quickly through the house for anyone else to survive. A car in the road was set on fire at the same time. An appeal for information in 2017 did not yield any new leads.[516][517] |
| 2 December 2012 | Jamie Starkey | Liverpool | 21-year-old Jamie Starkey was fatally shot outside his house in Fazakerley just after telling his seven-year-old sister that he was going to help her put up and decorate a Christmas tree the next day. Though Jamie had himself shot someone in 2008 (a drug dealer who had been harrying him and who was not actually killed by him), his parents think that his murder is likely to be unconnected with that incident.[518] |
| 16 December 2012 | John Roberts | Winlaton, Tyne and Wear | John 'the badge' Roberts, a father of one, was well known for selling pin badges on Newcastle United match days. On 16 December two police officers passing his home on Park Terrace, Winlaton, noticed that his front door had been left open, and found the 32-year-old dead inside with serious head injuries. Six people were arrested over his murder during the course of 2013 but all were released without charge.[519] |
| 17 December 2012 | David 'Les' Ross | Corby, Northamptonshire | David 'Les' Ross was found dead in his hotel room after having suffered injuries to his face, chest and arms, and had probably been rolled into a foetal position. Several people were arrested in the inquiry, but no one was charged. Police said the murder investigation remained open and detectives continued to visit possible witnesses.[520] |
| January 2013 | Robert Duff | Body not found | 37-year-old Robert Duff was last seen at a flat in Bredgar Road, Archway, north London, on 12 January 2013. He failed to turn up for his daughter's eighteenth birthday party that evening and police believe he was killed in a fight. Two men were arrested on suspicion of his murder in May 2018 but were released. In November 2020, police divers began searching the No 1 pond on Hampstead Heath, Highgate, in response to new information.[521] |
| 12 January 2013 | Una Crown | Wisbech, Cambridgeshire | Una Crown, 86 and a widow, was murdered in her bungalow in Magazine Lane, Wisbech on this date. She was stabbed and set on fire, and was robbed of her wedding ring and front door key. At least one suspect was arrested but nobody was ever charged.[522] |
| February 2013 | Joseph Burke-Monerville | Attacked in Clapton, London, died in hospital | Joseph Burke-Monerville, 19, was shot as he sat in the back of a car in Hindrey Road, Clapton, on 16 February 2013. Three men stood trial for his murder but were acquitted in 2015.[523] Joseph's brother Trevor was murdered in 1994 and nobody has been convicted of that killing either. Another brother, David, was murdered in June 2019 and a man has been sentenced over his death.[524] |
| April 2013 | Samuel Harry | Attacked in Bromham, Bedfordshire, died in hospital | 19-month-old Samuel Harry died at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on 22 April after suffering a bleed on his brain. The inquest into Harry's death found that his injuries were caused by a 'substantial blow' to the head and the coroner stated that he had been unlawfully killed. Samuel's mother, Deanna Buffham, and her partner, Ryan Bate, gave conflicting accounts of what happened to Samuel and the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute.[525] |
| 18 May 2013 | Xhem Krasniqi | Hove, East Sussex | Kransniqi, 31, was walking with his brother and nephew in Church Road, Hove, when the trio were shot at. Kransniqi died and the other two narrowly avoided injury. Edmond Nela, 32, was cleared of murder, two attempted murders, and possessing a gun illegally at a February 2014 trial.[526] |
| June 2013 | Vasilijs Ransevs | Lincoln | A friend found the body of Vasilijs Ransevs in his flat on 16 June. Non-accidental head injuries had caused the 33-year-old Latvian's death and arrests over it soon took place, but no charges followed any of them.[527] |
| September 2013 | Adeyemi Olugbuyi | Northampton | Adeyemi Olugbuyi's skeletal remains were found in January 2016 in undergrowth that was not far from where witnesses said they had seen someone – one of a small group of men – stab him on 13 September 2013. Four men arrested over the murder of the 31-year-old drug dealer were all released.[528] |
| December 2013 | Antonio Rodney-Cole | Attacked in Stoke Newington, London, died in hospital | Antonio Rodney-Cole, 22, was stabbed three times in his leg on 4 December 2013. After the attack, he tried to drive away from the scene but collapsed at the wheel of his car in Marton Road, Stoke Newington. A number of people were arrested and released.[529] |
| December 2013 | Rowan Thomas-Williams | London | 20-year-old Rowan Thomas-Williams was shot at a party in Mulberry Court, Elgar Avenue, Neasden, in the early hours of 6 December 2013, and died after being taken to hospital by friends. A £20,000 reward was offered for information leading to a conviction.[530] |
| February 2014 | Angela Millington | Foulness Island, Essex | Of no fixed abode when she disappeared in early February 2014 at the age of 33, the skeletal remains of Angela Millington were discovered washed up on Foulness Island in June of that year. Though a cause of death could not be determined, foul play was apparent all the same from indications that a tape mask (found close to the remains) had been attached to her face sometime before or after her death.[531] |
| February 2014 | Mashboor Hussain | Tooting, London | Mashboor Hussain, 76, died after two men forced their way into his home on Selkirk Road, Tooting, at 11:45 am on 11 February 2014. One of the men was armed with a gun and Mashboor collapsed after a scuffle. Although he had coronary heart disease, Mashboor's death was attributed to the break-in and his case is being treated as murder.[532] |
| June 2014 | Floarea Nicolae | Attacked in Edmonton, London, died in hospital | 20-year-old Floarea Nicolae was stabbed on Grove Street, Edmonton, shortly before midnight on 1 June 2014, and died at a hospital in east London. A woman stood trial for her murder but was acquitted in December 2018.[533][534] |
| June 2014 | Robert Hutchinson | Body not found | 56-year-old Robert Hutchinson vanished within a day of leaving his Sunderland home on 23 June, and detectives are treating his disappearance as murder even though his body is yet to be discovered. The blue Nissan Micra that he left his home in was found in Stewart Street in the city.[535] |
| October 2014 | Pragaret "Charlie" Singh | Manchester | Charlie Singh, 35, was shot outside his food-trading business in Openshaw on 31 October, and around £28,000 in takings was stolen from him too. Investigators would come to believe that the culprit was being shielded by a "small group of people".[536] |
| December 2014 | Luke Jackson | Pimlico, London | Luke Jackson, 33, was stabbed to death at an address at Lumley Flats, Pimlico, on 19 December 2014. The flat where Luke was attacked belonged to his mother and a number of people have been arrested and released without charge.[537][538] |
| February 2015 | Kevin Wilson | Liverpool | 17-year-old Kevin Wilson was shot in the back at 8:30 pm on 7 February 2015. The incident took place at the junction of Smithdown Road and Holmes Street in Wavertree, and he died later at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Thirteen people have been arrested in connection with Kevin's death but police say the investigation is still ongoing. A new appeal for information was made on the fifth anniversary of his death.[539] |
| February 2015 | Terry Isaacs | London | Terry Isaacs, 56, was found in Bannister Close, Tulse Hill, with serious head injuries. He later died in hospital from the assault, during which two mobile phones, his wallet, and his tobacco tin were stolen.[540] |
| April 2015 | Ola Raji | Peckham, London | 20-year-old Ola Raji was shot and stabbed by two men who confronted him as he cycled onto the East Surrey Grove Estate, Commercial Way, Peckham, on 21 April 2015. There have been arrests but no one has been charged with Ola's murder.[541] |
| April 2015 | Luiri "Laura" El-Hagrasi | Body not found | Laura El-Hagrasi, a woman originally from Latvia, disappeared after arriving at Heathrow Airport with family members on 22 April to catch a plane. Though it is still not known precisely why the 33-year-old failed to board the plane or what has become of her since that day, Kent Police have nonetheless added her name to their list of victims of murders that have not been solved. Laura was living in the Cliftonville area of Margate when she went missing.[542] |
| June 2015 | Christian Bagley | Hereford | 30-year-old Christian Bagley was walking under a bridge when someone stabbed and killed him on 21 June 2015. West Mercia Police have made four arrests relating to his murder but have not charged anyone over it.[543] |
| June 2015 | John Palmer | South Weald, Essex | John 'Goldfinger' Palmer, 64, was reputed to be one of Britain's richest criminals. He was shot six times at close range in the garden of his home on 24 June 2015. Police believe his murder was a contract killing and a reward of £100,000 was offered.[544] |
| August 2015 | Albert Williams | Southend, Essex | On 8 August 2015, 67-year-old Albert Williams was stamped on and strangled in his flat by one or more burglars (who took away with them about £10,000 of his money) before his body was set fire to. It came just seven days after a previous burglary there during which he was assaulted (albeit not quite so severely). Two men in their 40s were tried for both burglaries and attacks but found guilty of the earlier ones only, and for those they were each sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. Another man in his 40s has also been a suspect in the second burglary and fatal assault, having been arrested over them but never charged with either offence.[545] |
| August 2015 | Marvin Couson | Attacked in Shoreditch, London, died 13 years later | Marvin Couson was 26 when he was shot at the Lime Bar in Shoreditch on 12 May 2002. His injuries left him paralysed and unable to communicate and were the cause of his death thirteen years after the attack in August 2015. Since then, Marvin's death has been treated as murder and police arrested a man in May 2019.[546][547] |
| September 2015 | Tadas Jarusevicius | Plumstead, London | 29-year-old Tadas Jarusevicius was found dead beneath a bridge in Plumstead High Street on 23 September 2015. He had been living beneath the bridge with a group of people, and died from blunt-force trauma to the head and neck. Several people have been arrested and released without charge.[548] |
| September 2015 | David Brickwood | Northampton | 74-year-old David Brickwood was fatally stabbed in his house while it was being burgled on 26 September 2015. In April 2021, a judge told a jury that because the presence at that house of DNA belonging to a 27-year-old man on trial for murder and burglary could have been due to secondary transfer, they were to acquit him of each crime.[549] |
| November 2015 | Ladimeji "Ladi" Benson | Chelmsford, Essex | 27-year-old Ladi Benson, a Colchester resident who owned a trainer shop in Southend, died in hospital after he was stabbed in Chelmsford city centre when he got into an argument. Although at least three arrests have since been made in connection with his murder, police have yet to charge anybody with it.[550] |
| 14 November 2015 | Clocaenog Forest Man | Clocaenog Forest, Wales | On the evening of 14 November 2015, two brothers out camping in woodland found part of the skull of a man who had lain dead for up to 20 years. Detectives believe he died after being struck on the head at another location and was then taken to the woods between 1995 and 2005.[551] |
| December 2015 | Mumtaz Member | Leicester | A 56-year-old grandmother who died from head injuries on 12 December at her home in Holmfield Avenue, Stoneygate. Three people – the dead woman's sons and the wife of one of them – were charged with her murder but the charges against them were all dropped.[552] |
| January 2016 | Harjit Singh Dulai | Hayes, London | Harjit Singh Dulai, 44, was stabbed in the chest next to a tennis court in Rosedale Park, Hayes, on 27 January 2016. A 16-year-old boy stood trial for Harjit's murder but was acquitted in July 2017. Several other people have been arrested and released without charge.[553] |
| February 2016 | Tommy Ward | Rotherham, South Yorkshire | 80-year-old Tommy Ward, a retired miner, suffered a severe beating at his Maltby home on 1 October 2015 and died in Rotherham Hospital as a result of injuries sustained then on 23 February 2016. His life savings of £30,000 were stolen in addition to the assault, which several people have been arrested in connection with but without any charges.[554] |
| March 2016 | Junior Nelson | Northolt, London | The remains of Junior Nelson, 52, were found on an overgrown embankment on Rabournmead Drive, Northolt, on 13 March 2016. Junior lived in Kilburn and had last been seen the previous year on 17 August. Although the post-mortem results were inconclusive, police believe Junior died violently.[555] |
| 26 April 2016 | Unidentified | Forest Gate, London | The skeletal remains of a male were found in a disused factory. He died from blunt-force trauma to the skull, was aged between 29 and 35, and most likely came from the Indian subcontinent. He had been murdered between 2003 and 2006. The remains were in a sleeping bag and partially wrapped in a bin bag. Blood matched to his DNA was found in a first-floor room in the factory, leading police to believe that was where the killing took place.[556] |
| May 2016 | Rukevwe Tadafe | Attacked in Bermondsey, died in hospital in another part of London | 21-year-old Rukevwe Tadafe, nicknamed 'Peanut', was stabbed during a fight on Trundley's Walk, Bermondsey, on 30 April 2016. A man stood trial for his murder later that same year but was acquitted.[557] |
| May 2016 | Abdi Gutale | Leyton, London | Minicab driver Abdi Gutale, 24, was shot as he drove his Vauxhall Zafira at the junction of Melbourne Road and Capworth Street, Leyton, in the early hours of 14 May 2016. Five men were arrested but released without charge.[558] |
| June 2016 | Matthew Kitandwe | Battersea, London | 18-year-old Matthew Kitandwe was stabbed outside his flat on Wayford Street, Battersea, at 4:16 pm on 21 June 2016. Matthew was a talented footballer and police found no evidence that he had criminal connections. Eight people have been arrested and released.[559] |
| July 2016 | Ricardo Hunter | Headley, Surrey | Ricardo Hunter, 34, known as 'Forty', was shot dead during a party at a house on Church Lane in the early hours of 25 July 2016. Ricardo was from south London and was one of 400 guests at the event described as the 'Big Mansion Pool Party'. Three people have been arrested and released without charge and a £10,000 reward has been offered.[560][561] |
| August 2016 | Andrew Oteng-Owusu | Attacked in Bermondsey, London; died in King's College Hospital in Camberwell, London | 19-year-old Andrew Oteng-Owusu died from a single stab wound to his leg after an attack at the junction of Hornshay Street and Lovelinch Close in Bermondsey on 4 August 2016. Described as a 'gentle giant', Andrew managed to stagger back to his home in Upnall House, Sharratt Street, where he was found by his mother. A reward of £20,000 was offered.[562] |
| August 2016 | David Robinson | Archway, London | David 'Dawood' Robinson was shot four times at Big House 101 recording studio on Sunnyside Road, Archway, on 20 August 2016. Despite there being witnesses to the shooting, no one has been prosecuted. At the inquest into Dawood's death, in February 2018, his mother confronted a man who she believed carried out the shooting.[563] |
| October 2016 | Kacper Latuszek | Walthamstow, London | Kacper Latuszek, 31, was found dead at a house on Forest Road, Walthamstow, on 8 October 2016. A post-mortem found that his death was caused by internal bleeding. Two men were arrested but released.[564] |
| October 2016 | Jodie Wilkinson | Newcastle | In Stanhope Street on the afternoon of 17 October, someone barged into a man belonging to a group of people 27-year-old Jodie Wilkinson was with – someone alleged to have then racially abused him. Tensions eased following this hostility, but were rekindled when the man who had been barged into went back to the street to look for something he thought he had dropped there and someone who saw him decided to summon others to the area to attack him and his companions.
A short while later, Jodie (who was waiting for him further up the street) and another person in her group received stab wounds. The other victim survived but Jodie died in hospital, having alerted emergency services to the fact that she had been stabbed by dialling 999 and managing to speak to the operator. A 43-year-old man tried in 2017 for her murder was acquitted of any wrongdoing, but four other men who had been in Stanhope Street when the stabbings took place were found guilty of violent disorder.[565][566] |
| October 2016 | Blake Brown | Liverpool | Blake Brown, a 30-year-old acquitted at the age of 19 of the November 2004 murder of Paul Mooney, was fatally shot near St Michaels railway station on 24 October 2016. One man was cleared of being involved in any plot to kill or hurt Brown, and two brothers each received a suspended sentence for perverting the course of justice in relation to the murder of him.[394][567] |
| October 2016 | Ziggy Worrell-Owusu | London | 19-year-old Ziggy Owusu was stabbed at an 18th birthday party at The Basement Shisha Lounge, Goodmayes Road, Ilford, in the early hours of 27 October 2016, and died in an east London hospital. Ziggy had been a player for the Hackney Bulls rugby club and was reportedly trying to break up a fight when he was attacked. Three people were arrested and released without charge.[568] |
| November 2016 | James Owusu-Agyekum | Harlesden, London | James Owusu-Agyekum, 22, was shot dead by two youths on bicycles who fired shots through his front door on 2 November 2016. The suspects fled to the nearby Stonebridge Estate after the attack, which police believe was a case of mistaken identity. A reward of £20,000 was offered.[569] |
| November 2016 | Michael "Mick" Currer | Norwich, Norfolk | Mick Currer's on-off girlfriend and a man accompanying her to Currer's flat found him dead there on 12 November. His body had multiple injuries, but no weapon appeared to have been used on him and there was no sign of forced entry into the flat. He had phoned the police to ask for their help on 9 November, but was rather cagy during that call and made it clear that he did not actually want them to come to his residence. When officers went there anyway, a male voice they assumed to be his told them through the letterbox that they weren't needed, so they left. 59-year-old Currer had seemed edgy earlier that month according to the woman who had been his on-off partner. In February 2017, she confessed to being his killer and was arrested, but lack of evidence against her meant the police were unable to take things any further with her. (She later withdrew her confession, claiming that depression had been the reason for her falsely admitting to the murder.)[570][571] |
| November 2016 | Mohamed Kakay | Camberwell, London | 33-year-old Mohamed Kakay was stabbed in gardens at the back of St Giles' Church, Camberwell, at 9 am on 19 November 2016. He collapsed in Camberwell Church Street and is believed to have been attacked by two suspects. Several people have been arrested but no one has been charged, two years after Mohamed's death a £20,000 reward was offered.[572] |
| December 2016 | Thomas Roberts | Glasgow | A 35-year-old man was tried for the murder of 43-year-old Thomas Roberts and an assault on a 50-year-old friend of his in the early hours of Christmas Day, but was found guilty only of the latter offence, with a verdict of not proven being delivered for the former. When giving his version of events at the hearing, he claimed that, far from being responsible for the attack that was to lead to Roberts' death, he actually intervened to try to stop it and that the killer was in fact the friend of Roberts' he was also being accused of violence towards. Roberts' friend, however, maintained that the other man alone was the assailant. The attack happened in a communal area of the district of Milton and much of it was witnessed by people living in flats overlooking the area.[573] |
| January 2017 | Thomas "Tommy" Baker | Liverpool | 44-year-old Tommy Baker was shot in a car park after leaving the gym at the Stanley Meat Market on 27 January 2017. CCTV captured a car that the police think was being driven by the gunman as it headed away from there – a silver Volkswagen Polo also caught on CCTV at a few other locations in the city.[574] |
| February 2017 | Aaron Lewis | Liverpool | Aaron Lewis, 26, was fatally shot outside Anna Jung's chip shop on Grosvenor Road, Wavertree, on 1 February 2017. A friend who was with him was also shot in the attack but survived. Eight people were arrested and released without charge.[575] |
| February 2017 | Hang Yin Leung | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire | 64-year-old Hang Yin Leung was beaten by intruders who burgled her home in Orne Gardens, Bolbeck Par, on 31 January 2017. She died in hospital eleven days later. Four men were arrested but there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone. The case was featured on the Channel 4 documentary Catching a Killer in May 2018.[576] |
| February 2017 | Jonathan McPhillips | Attacked in Islington, London, died at the Royal London Hospital | Jonathan 'JJ' McPhillips was stabbed in the chest on Upper Street, Islington, on 25 February 2017. CCTV footage showed a group of men armed with knives attacking another group, which Jonathan was part of. A man stood trial for Jonathan's murder in August 2018 but the case collapsed.[577] |
| March 2017 | David Adegbite | Barking, London | 18-year-old David 'Dutch' Adegbite was shot in the head as he cycled through an estate in St Ann's, Barking, on 19 March 2017. A number of men were arrested but no one has been charged in relation to David's murder.[578] |
| March 2017 | Malachi Brooks | Battersea, London | Malachi Brooks, 21, was attacked in the early hours of 28 March 2017 on Surrey Lane, Battersea. Four masked men pulled up in a vehicle and three of them attacked Malachi, who died from a stab wound to the heart. Three men were convicted of perverting the course of justice, but no one has been convicted of Malachi's murder. A £20,000 reward was offered on the second anniversary of his death.[579] |
| April 2017 | Ahmed Deen-Jah | Custom House, London | Ahmed Deen-Jah, 21, was fatally stabbed on Freemason's Road, Custom House, on 2 April 2017. A black Mercedes car believed to have been involved in the crime was later found burnt out. Despite arrests, no one has been charged over Ahmed's death.[580] |
| April 2017 | Bjorn Brown | Croydon, London | 23-year-old Bjorn Brown was last seen talking to two men on Bensham Lane, Croydon, on 29 March 2017. CCTV footage showed all three going into Kelling Gardens, where Bjorn was attacked with a knife. The two suspects then fled while fatally injured Bjorn tried to ride his bicycle to hospital, where he died six days later. Two years after Bjorn's death, police offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of his killers.[581] |
| April 2017 | Karim Samms | North Woolwich, London | Karim Samms, 16, died from a gunshot wound to the chest on Roebourne Way, North Woolwich, on the evening of 7 April 2017. CCTV revealed two suspects approaching a group of people which included Karim; they fled in a car after the shooting.[582] |
| April 2017 | Abdullah Hammia | Wandsworth, London | 24-year-old Abdullah Hammia was fatally stabbed during an altercation on Melody Road, Wandsworth, close to the junction of Allfarthing Lane, on 25 April 2017. Later the same year, two men were jailed for perverting the course of justice. Two men were charged with murder but the charges were dropped.[583] |
| May 2017 | Seun McMillan | Attacked in Southgate, London, died in Barnet Hospital | Seun McMillan, 23, was fatally stabbed in Cowper Gardens, Southgate, on 2 May 2017. Six people were arrested and a man was charged but the case was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.[584] |
| May 2017 | Mohanna Abdhou | Kilburn, London | Mohanna Abdhou, known as Montana, was 20 years old when she was shot on the South Kilburn Estate on 26 May 2017. She was caught in gunfire from two masked men on bicycles and was hit by a bullet which ricocheted off a wall. Two men and a teenager stood trial for murder and manslaughter but were found not guilty in 2018.[585] |
| June 2017 | Yusuf Sonko | Liverpool | 18-year-old Yusuf Sonko was shot in the head while he stood with a group of friends on Tagus Street, Toxteth, on 2 June 2017. The killer had approached the group on a bike and it is believed that Yusuf was not the intended target. Nine people were questioned soon after the killing and in 2019, police stated that they wished to speak to Jason Curry about Yusuf's murder. A £20,000 reward has been offered.[586][587] |
| June 2017 | Abdirahman Mohamed | Peckham, London | Died within half an hour of being stabbed in the chest at around 11 pm on 2 June 2017.[588] The following January, at a trial alleging that the 17-year-old had been killed because he had made fun of one of the accused for getting arrested for having a samurai sword on him, two young men were acquitted of his murder.[589] Later that year, one of those men was himself fatally stabbed, but the jury at the trial of the man who had knifed him, satisfied that he had done so in self-defence, cleared him of both murder and manslaughter.[590] |
| June 2017 | Mahad Ali | Attacked in Park Royal, London, died in hospital | Mahad Ali, 18, was fatally stabbed on Coronation Road, Park Royal, on 29 June 2017. The case against a man charged with Mahad's murder was dropped in January 2018.[591][592] |
| August 2017 | Joshua Bwalya | Barking, London | 16-year-old Joshua Bwalya was fatally stabbed in Movers Lane, Barking, on 2 August 2017. Joshua had attended a school leavers' party and was attacked by a group of youths on bicycles.[593] |
| August 2017 | Cafer Aslan | Edmonton, London | On 23 August 2017, 54-year-old Cafer Aslan was found with fatal gunshot injuries in a part of Westminster Road close to the junction with Bounces Road. His cousin Bulent Kabala was shot dead six months later, in February 2018. Police have described both murders as contract killings and offered a £20,000 reward.[594] |
| September 2017 | Corey Junior Davis | Forest Gate, London | 14-year-old Corey Junior Davis, known as CJ, died after a drive-by shooting in Moore Walk, Forest Gate, at 15:08 on 4 September 2017. His mother claimed that he was being groomed by a drugs gang. In August 2018, a serious case review found that CJ and his mother were failed by local agencies which could have protected them from gang culture.[595][596] |
| September 2017 | Jude Gayle | West Norwood, London | Jude Gayle, 30, was fatally stabbed when he visited a shop in West Norwood on 24 September 2017 to buy a bottle of ketchup for lunch with his mother. Three men stood trial for his murder but were found not guilty.[597] |
| October 2017 | Jamie Perkins | Gilfach Goch, South Wales | The body of Jamie Perkins, who had been living in Tonyrefail and once boxed for Wales, was found in a culvert in a nearby village on 1 November – about three weeks after he is last known to have been seen alive. Four arrests over the murder of the 41-year-old father-of-one were made within a month of his body being discovered, but none of the people arrested was charged.[598][599] |
| November 2017 | Michael Jonas | Anerley, London | Michael Jonas, 17, was stabbed to death in Betts Park, Anerley, Bromley, on the evening of 2 November 2017. CCTV footage showed the suspects on bicycles shortly before Michael's murder. Six teenagers were charged with his murder in January 2018 but the charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence.[600] |
| November 2017 | Adam Ellison | Prescot, Merseyside | On 4 November 2017, Ellison became involved in an argument with people riding a motorbike in a pedestrianised area. He was fatally stabbed. The distinctive Kawasaki motorcycle has been recovered and is believed to have links to Plymouth. As of February 2021, the case remains unsolved.[601] |
| November 2017 | Jordan Ajobo | North Woolwich, London | 21-year-old Jordan Ajobo was fatally stabbed on Pier Road, North Woolwich on the evening of 8 November 2017. Two men were arrested then released and in January 2018, police named a man they were searching for in connection with Jordan's death.[602] |
| November 2017 | Kacem Mokrane | Attacked in Walthamstow, London, died in hospital four days later | Kacem Mokrane, 18, was stabbed on Mount Pleasant Road, Walthamstow, on 16 November 2017. He died four days later from his injuries. Two men were arrested and released.[603] |
| November 2017 | Piotr Woroniecki | Clapham, London | Piotr Woroniecki, 32, was found unresponsive on Parma Crescent, Clapham, on 23 November 2017. A post mortem found that he had died from compression to the neck and police believe he had been held in a headlock for a long time. Three men have been arrested and released.[604] |
| December 2017 | Janet Moore | Struck by a car in Molesey, Surrey; died in hospital six days later | During the early hours of 26 November, shouting was heard and a car was seen speeding away from The Hurst Pool's car park. Officers called to the scene found 54-year-old Janet Moore there with serious injuries caused by vehicle impact – injuries that would ultimately prove fatal. A man taken into custody in January 2018 to be questioned about his possible involvement in her murder was still a person of interest in the case four months after his apprehension.[605] |
| December 2017 | Alex Vanderpuye | Hackney, London | Alex Vanderpuye, 24, was stabbed to death at the junction of Cassland Road and Christie Road, Hackney, on 7 December 2017. A number of people have been arrested and released. In 2019, police offered a £20,000 reward for information.[606] |
| December 2017 | Taofeek Lamidi | West Ham, London | 20-year-old Taofeek Lamidi was fatally stabbed on Memorial Avenue, West Ham, on the evening of 31 December 2017. Police said he was with a number of other people at the time of the attack.[607] |
| January 2018 | Harun Jama | Oxford | 16-year-old Harun Jama, a Birmingham resident visiting Oxford, was stabbed in Friars Wharf on 3 January 2018. Several arrests have been made over his murder but no charges brought.[608] |
| January 2018 | Yaya Mbye | Attacked in Stoke Newington, London, died in hospital | Yaya Mbye, 26, was stabbed on the George Downing Estate in Stoke Newington on 28 January 2018; he died of his injuries in hospital a short while later. Police believe three suspects left the scene in a silver car.[609] |
| February 2018 | Bulent Kabala | Barnet, London | 41-year-old Bulent Kabala was shot dead on Mount Pleasant, near Edgeworth Road, Cockfosters, at about 11:45 pm on 12 February 2018. His car had been hit by a Ford Transit van, which had been following him, and he was shot when he got out of his vehicle. A man was arrested but later released. Bulent's cousin Cafer Aslan was murdered six months previously, in August 2017. Police have described both murders as contract killings and offered a £20,000 reward.[594] |
| March 2018 | Kelvin Odunuyi | Attacked in Wood Green, London, died in hospital | Kelvin Odunuyi, 19, was fatally shot on 8 March 2018 outside the Vue cinema in Wood Green. It is believed that Kelvin's murder was a revenge attack for the murder of Kwabena 'Kobi' Nelson in Tottenham in February 2018.[610] |
| March 2018 | Nikolay Glushkov | New Malden, London | Nikolay Glushkov, 68, was found dead at his home in Clarence Avenue, New Malden on 12 March 2018. The cause of death was determined to be strangulation. There was no sign of forced entry at the property and Nikolay's murder allegedly bore the hallmarks of a contract killing. Nikolay Glushkov was Russian and a prominent critic of the Kremlin, and had been granted political asylum in the UK in 2004.[611] |
| March 2018 | Johnny Robbins, Daniel Shaw | Coventry, West Midlands | 28-year-old Daniel Shaw was shot dead near his home in Tile Hill a few days after the disappearance of 33-year-old Tile Hill resident Johnny Robbins (who remains unaccounted for), and the police believe that Johnny was murdered as well and are linking the deaths of the two men. A prime suspect in the killings has been missing since soon after they took place and may have been murdered himself, while another prime suspect was bailed in late 2018 following his arrest in Spain.[612][613] |
| March 2018 | Abraham Badru | Hackney, London | 26-year-old Abraham Badru was shot dead as he opened the boot of his car on Ferncliff Road, Hackney, on 25 March 2018. Investigators were unsure what the motive was; one possibility is that Abraham was shot in error. A reward of £20,000 was offered on the anniversary of his death in 2019.[614] |
| April 2018 | Tanesha Melbourne-Blake | Tottenham, London | Tanesha Melbourne-Blake, 17, was fatally shot as she stood with friends on Chalgrove Road at 21:35 on 2 April. She had no links to gangs, and police believe her death was related to an ongoing territory dispute. In 2020, police made a new appeal for information and announced that the gun used to kill Tanesha had been found and been used in the murder of Joseph Williams-Torres in Walthamstow on 14 March 2018. Three men were jailed for Joseph's murder, which was a case of mistaken identity. Police believe the gun had been passed between gangs and have arrested and released five men so far in connection with Tanesha's death.[615] |
| April 2018 | Amaan Shakoor | London | In what may have been a gangland killing, 16-year-old Amaan Shakoor was shot in the face outside Walthamstow Leisure Centre on 2 April 2018 and died of his injuries in an East London hospital.[616] |
| April 2018 | Sami Sidhom | Forest Gate, London | 18-year-old law student Sami Sidhom was stabbed in Chestnut Avenue, Forest Gate on 16 April while on his way home from a football match. Police believe his death was a case of mistaken identity. Nine boys and men have been arrested over it but no one has been charged.[617] |
| May 2018 | Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton | Camberwell, London | Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, 17, was shot while playing football on the evening of 5 May 2018. He died shortly after the attack and his body was found on Warham Street, Camberwell.[618] |
| May 2018 | Fatah Warsame | Liverpool | Twenty-year-old Fatah Warsame, from Cardiff, was fatally stabbed in Liverpool city centre whilst on a night out on 6 May 2018. A man was arrested on suspicion of his murder and released without charge.[619] |
| May 2018 | Naheed Khan | Body not found | The body of 43-year-old Naheed Khan has not been found, but police are treating her disappearance in Middlesbrough as murder. She was last seen on 4 May 2018 and money was withdrawn from her bank account two days later. The cash machine used was at Adil's Pizzeria, at the junction of Marton Road and Southfield Road in central Middlesbrough; Naheed's bank account has remained untouched since. Crimestoppers are offering an award of £10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.[620][621] Five men have been arrested and released without charge. In June 2020, police announced that they were scaling back the investigation.[622] |
| May 2018 | Annalise Johnstone | Dunning, Perthshire | Annalise Johnstone, 22, was murdered at Maggie Wall's memorial in May 2018. Her throat was cut. Annalise's brother stood trial for her murder and, although he admitted dumping her body, he denied murder and the jury reached a verdict of 'not proven'. A woman also faced charges but was cleared.[623] |
| June 2018 | Mark Tremain | Attacked in Vauxhall, London, died later in hospital. | Mark Tremain, 52, suffered serious facial injuries during a fight in Albert Square, Vauxhall, on 31 May 2018. He died in hospital two weeks later, on 14 June, from head injuries.[624] |
| June 2018 | Ishak Tacine | Edmonton, London | 20-year-old Ishak Tacine was fatally stabbed in a fight on Cavendish Road, Edmonton, in the early evening of 27 June 2018. He died at the scene.[625] |
| July 2018 | Latwaan Griffiths | Attacked in Brixton, London, died later in hospital. | Latwaan Griffiths, 18, was stabbed on Minet Road, Brixton, on the evening of 25 July 2018. He managed to flee the scene and was found collapsed on Denmark Road in Camberwell, and he died a few hours later at King's College Hospital in the same district.[626][627] |
| August 2018 | Joel Urhie | Deptford, London | Seven-year-old Joel Urhie died in an arson attack on his family's home in Adolphus Street, Deptford, on 7 August 2018. His mother and sister managed to escape. An appeal was made on Crimewatch Roadshow in March 2019, two men have been arrested and released without charge.[628] |
| August 2018 | Kavan Brissett | Sheffield | 21-year-old Kavan Brissett died in hospital four days after he was stabbed in a car park in Upperthorpe on 14 August. Four men have been charged with conspiracy to rob him, but a man whom police still want to question about his death has been missing since September 2018 and is feared to have left the country.[629] |
| September 2018 | Ismail Tanrikulu | Tottenham, London | Ismail Tanrikulu, 22, was shot in Tottenham Cemetery on 3 September 2018. A man stood trial for his murder in March 2019 and was acquitted.[630] |
| September 2018 | Elyon Poku | Attacked in Stamford Hill, London, died in hospital | 20-year-old Elyon Poku was stabbed on 22 September in a flat where an 18th birthday party was being held – a party he was the DJ for. Those who attended it have been reluctant on the whole to tell the police about anything they saw or heard there.[631] |
| October 2018 | Carl Russell | Liverpool | Carl Russell, 27, was shot as he and his partner got out of their car in Cornwood Close, Belle Vale, at around 11.30 am on 7 October 2018. Three men have been arrested but police made a new appeal for information on the second anniversary of Carl's death.[632] |
| October 2018 | Leroy Ottey | Liverpool | Leroy Ottey, 25, was shot in the back when returning to his home in Alderson Road, Wavertree, on the night of 17 October 2018. A black Audi which sped from the scene was later found burnt out in Abbeystead Road close by.[633] |
| October 2018 | Ethan Nedd-Bruce | Greenwich, London | 18-year-old Ethan Nedd-Bruce was gunned down outside Collins House, Armitage Road, Greenwich on the evening of 22 October 2018. Shortly before his death, Ethan had been involved in an altercation with a group of men on Woolwich Road. In October 2020, police made a new appeal for information and offered a £20,000 reward.[634] |
| November 2018 | John Ogunjobi | Tulse Hill, London | John Ogunjobi, 16, was fatally stabbed on the evening of 5 November 2018 in Greenleaf Close, Tulse Hill. Police released CCTV footage of two vehicles which could be linked to John's murder. A year after his death, police made a new appeal for information and offered a reward of £20,000.[635] |
| November 2018 | Peter Gouldstone | Attacked in Bounds Green, London, died in hospital | On 6 November 2018, a violent burglary took place at 98-year-old Gouldstone's home. He subsequently died of his injuries on 30 November. Two suspects were captured on CCTV that has been released to the public, with an arrest taking place the following month and a second arrest in January 2019. Neither arrested man was charged and as of February 2021, the case remains unsolved.[636] |
| December 2018 | Maureen Whale | Barnet, London | Maureen Whale, 77, suffered a heart attack after two men ransacked her home in Bells Hill, Barnet, on 4 December 2018. She collapsed whilst on the phone to police. The burglars took jewellery and Maureen's purse.[637] |
| April 2019 | Calvin Bungisa | Kentish Town, London | 22-year-old Calvin Bungisa was stabbed to death in a possibly gang-related street killing after being chased by a group of men. A car believed to have been the getaway vehicle was later found abandoned and burnt out in Court Gardens, Highbury.[638][639] |
2020s[]
| Year | Name of victim(s) | Location body found | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Sudbury bones victim | Sudbury, Suffolk | Bones and severed legs of unknown victim found, in bin bags, in the River Stour at Sudbury, Suffolk. The deceased was a male of an athletic build, but no other details are known. On 25 May 2021 a man was arrested in relation to the discovery of the remains. [640] [641] |
See also[]
- List of people who disappeared mysteriously
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External links[]
- The BBC News Magazine article "When the murder trail goes cold" lists statistics for unsolved murders in the United Kingdom as of May 2010.
- A website devoted to unsolved murders in the UK can be found at Unsolved Murders
References[]
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- Lists of victims of crimes
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