Nov 1 – Paul Edmonds, an east London gangster, was shot outside The Sultan pub in Plaistow, NE London. Tony Argent, 31, from West Ham, was jailed for life in June 1999. Edmonds’ friend, Mickey Kelt, had got into a row with Argent during a christening party. Edmonds was an associate of notorious east London gangster Davey Hunt.
October
Oct 31 – Jennifer King, 22, from Warmley, went missing on her way home from Chasers nightclub in Kingswood, near Bristol. Her body was found in a copse near her home. Paul Hunt, 21, a factory worker, was jailed for life in March 2000.
Oct 31 – Brian Service, 35, an unemployed Catholic construction worker, shot in the head as he walked home from his brother’s home in Ardoyne, Belfast. He is thought to have been killed by the loyalist Red Hand Defenders. Unsolved.
Oct 27 – David Tomkins, 51, surveyor from Princes Risborough, was shot as he got out of his Mazda MX5 in Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire. He died in hospital in High Wycombe. His wife Penelope Tomkins, 48, was jailed for 3 years and 6 months for soliciting to murder. Her lover Adrian Littlebury, 53, from Hayes, was jailed for life in July 1999.
Oct 23 – Gillian Sexton, 49, was found in the boot of a car at Ilton, near Ilminster, Somerset. Her husband Clifford Sexton, 52, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter. He drove to a police station to confess to killing her.
Oct 22 – Nijole Siskevicine, 44, hotel worker originally from Lithuania, was raped and strangled with a ligature and dumped outside garages in Lancelot Road, Wembley, NW London. James Citro, 54, an Irishman (real name Kennedy) who later moved to Weston-super-Mare, was jailed for life (20 years) in 2011. He sent two anonymous letters to police claiming two black men were responsible. When he was finally caught in 2011 he admitted having sex with her but denied rape or murder. Citro had been convicted of rape in his native Ireland as a young man.
Oct 21 – Tony Robinson, 61, shot in the head in his VW Camper van outside his home in Hove. Dennis Mulder, 50, was jailed for life in 1999. The trial at Lewes CC heard that Mulder was also accused of abduction and firearms offences in Peacehaven.
Oct 20 – Lynda Bryant, 41, mother of two, stabbed while walking her dog at Ruan High Lanes, near Truro, Cornwall. The killer may have been a man with a bushy beard or the same man who killed Kate Bushell in Exeter. Unsolved.
Oct 12 – Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre, police constables, shot dead in Walsh Street, South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia, after being lured there to check an abandoned car. They were picked at random and killed in revenge after gangster Graeme Jensen was shot dead by the police. An associate of the infamous Pettingill crime clan, Jensen was best mates with “Flemington Crew” armed robbery gang leader Victor George Peirce. Also implicated was violent career criminal Jedd Houghton, later shot by members of the Special Operations Group while trying to avoid arrest, and a car thief named Gary Abdullah, also shot dead by police. Peirce, a nasty crook and sixth child to crime matriarch Kath Pettingill, was charged with the murders of Tynan and Eyre alongside half-brother Trevor Pettingill and associates Anthony Farrell and Peter McEvoy – himself a notorious stick-up man.
Peirce, Pettingill, Farrell and McEvoy were all eventually acquitted.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/gangland-witness-jason-ryan-tells-why-he-put-his-life-on-the-line-to-dob-in-the-walsh-st-police-killers/story-fni0ffnk-1226745448263
Oct 11 – Michael Baxendale, head doorman, was stabbed after an all-night party outside Niche nightclub in Sheffield. Two others were seriously injured. A £10,000 reward was offered by his brother Steven, who owned the club. Cade Redshaw, 26, from Bolton, was charged with violent disorder, but the CPS dropped the charged due to insufficient evidence.
Oct 11 – Alan Bowen, 54, died of head injuries after being beaten with a sharp instrument in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. His second wife Susan Bowen, 34, and her lover Graham Kenyon, 45, a lorry driver, were jailed for life in Oct 1999. The trial heard that Bowen had killed his first wife.
Oct 10 – Cheryl Lewis, 42, solicitor, was poisoned with cyanide in a hotel room in Luxor, Egypt. Her lover John Allan, 47, a father of five from Birkenhead, was jailed for life at Liverpool CC in Jan 2000. The trial heard he had stolen £16,000 from her. He also hoped to claim £400,000 from her life insurance. Allan also poisoned another girlfriend, Jennifer Hughes, but she survived. He was convicted largely on the basis of forensic toxicology work by Forensic Alliance.
Oct 10 – Wayne Fowler, 20, died of head injuries at home after being involved in a fight earlier at the Early Retreat pub in Lower Earley, Reading. In Sep 1999 Joseph Lane, 17, was jailed for 7 years for manslaughter and Charlie Lane, 18, for 4 years. Fowler had been hit over the head with a pool cue and had his head smashed against a fruit machine.
Oct 9 – Charles Catterall, 56, retired steel worker, died of head injuries at his council flat in Ashington, Northumberland. A boy of 15 was charged with murder. Several other boys were charged with burglary.
Oct 7 – Matthew Shepard, 21, a homosexual, was lured out to the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming, pistol whipped, tied to a fence and left to die. Aaron McKinney, and Russell Henderson, 21, were both jailed for life in March 1999. The motive was simple homophobia.
Oct 7 – Wendy Upton, 40, a housewife, was killed and her skeletal remains were found behind Tesco in Lichfield, Staffordshire, nine months later. Steven Salisbury, 31, a former Tesco security guard, was jailed for life in June 2000. He claimed they had sex in exchange for food from a waste trolley and then she cried rape and he panicked and killed her.
Oct 5 – Douglas “Jack” Rumbold, 67, retired site watchman, was beaten in a caravan at Clembins scrapyard, Pinglewood, Reading. Daniel O’Connors, 30, and his brother Michael Connors, 34, were both jailed for 6 years for manslaughter.
Oct 2 – Sean Regan, a former bodybuilding champion, was stabbed in his flat above a betting shop in Southport, Merseyside. Philip Caine, 25, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter in June 1999. No evidence was offered against his father Philip Caine senior, 45.
Oct 1 – Andrew Karanicola, 40, a father of two who suffered from chronic osteoporosis, was attacked in public toilets in Weston-super-Mare. Craig Gustar, 29, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter in Oct 2000. Gustar claimed Karanicola pinched his bottom.
Oct 1 – Kevin Maguire, 36, and Nathan Jones, 23, shot in broad daylight in Crosby health and fitness club in Waterloo, Liverpool. Darren Becouarn, 23, was jailed for life after a retrial. Police dropped the charges against his brother Paul, 26.Darren Becouarn denied involved. He made a prepared statement accusing the club’s owners and Mr Maguire’s wife of having links with Merseyside’s underworld. He said both victims had links with the area’s drugs gangs and claimed he had been picked out as a scapegoat.
September 1998
Sep 4 – Isabelle Lewis, 38, mother of three from New Addington, was killed, chopped up and her decomposing, headless body was found on a golf course in Selsdon, Surrey, on Oct 17. Keith Valentine, 38, an unemployed neighbour, was jailed for life in Sep 2000. The trial at the Old Bailey heard he shot her with an air rifle but claimed it was an accident. Mrs Lewis had suffered from depression since the death of her 2 year old daughter Sherie in 1995.
Sep – Sean Lummes, 29, stabbed and beaten at home in Sheerness, Kent. His wife Susan Lummes, 32, and her lover Carl Adams, 35, were both jailed for life in March 1999.
Sep 29 – Lily Lilley, 71, a pensioner, was robbed, beaten and dumped in a wheelie bin in the Rochdale Canal at Failsworth, near Oldham. Lisa Healey, 14, and Sarah Davey, 15, were jailed for life in June 2000 but could not be named at the time because of their age. The Daily Mail named them in 2011 when Davey was at HMP Askham Grange, near York.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375061/Portrait-pitiless-murderer-Sarah-Davey-enjoys-nights-shopping-trips.html
Sep 28 – Jason “Sparky” Lewis, 19, stabbed 4 times at Hackney Wick station in east London. Kazadi Kongolo, 18, originally from Zaire, was detained under HM Pleasure in March 1999.
Sep 28 – Remy Surage, 56, stabbed in the back while walking in Orpington High Street, SE London. Paul Knight, 35, a paranoid schizophrenic from Ramsgate, was sent to Broadmoore indefinitely in August 1999. The trial heard there was no motive and Remy was picked at random.
Sep 26 – Father Paul Orchard, 80, a Catrholic priest, was stabbed at Our Lady & St Hubert Church in Oldbury, West Midlands. Mark Massey, 31, a homeless glue-sniffing tramp, was jailed for life in Feb 2000. Father Orchard had offered him food and shelter.
Sep 25 – Anthony Gibson, 17, a mugger from Bethnal Green, was stabbed in Strutton Ground, near Victoria, central London. Carlos Dos Santos, 38, a Portuguese chef, was acquitted on the grounds of self-defence.
Sep 23 – Eric Innes, 61, deaf mute bakery worker who was gay, was bludgeoned to death at home in Inverness. His body was then set on fire. George McGeoch, 27, a drifter from Glasgow, was jailed for life in April 1999. The trial at Inverness high Court heard they met by chance in the street.
Sep 27 – Ronald Goldie, 36, was shot in Calton Pool Hall in Glasgow Cross, Glasgow. Two men ran off. Unsolved.
Sep 26 – Mahamed Farah, 28, Somali cyclist, shot in the head at the junction of Phillip Lane and Janson Road in Tottenham, north London. Three men were arrested. Unsolved.
Sep 26 – Leslie Davidson, 18, stabbed outside the Cineplex in Antrim city, Northern Ireland. John Smith, 20, who was high on ecstasy and prescription drugs, was jailed for life in Dec 1999. He said he remembered nothing about the attack. But the trial was told he shouted: “Fuck the Shankill Butchers. Up the Antrim Butchers. No names to the peelers”. In 2012 it was reported by the Sunday Life that he was a suspect in a Troubles-related sectarian murder in 1994, that of Gerald Brady.
Sep – Arthur “Joe The Crow” Rouse, 44, drug dealer, shot in the face as he left home in Chiswick, west London. But his body was not found until Feb 1999 when it was unearthed under a patio at a house in Perivale, west London. Tommy Green, who lived in the house, fled to Cornwall, but was arrested and jailed for life in 2000. His nephew Jack Lang, 32, from Biggleswade, was convicted of perverting the course of justice. Both were cocaine dealers and Rouse was killed in a row over a £50,000 cocaine debt.
Sep 24 – Irene Swanwick, 86, widow, was stabbed at her home in West Bridgford, Nottingham. Tony Gamble, 27, was jailed for life in June 1999. He was a burglar who stole a kettle, toaster and radio alarm clock.
Sep 21 – Kathleen Pennington was suffocated at home in Feltham, Middlesex. Her husband Brian Pennington, 50, was jailed for life in April 1999. He claimed she nagged him all the time.
Sep 18 – William O’Neill, 66, was killed in a house in Port Glasgow, Scotland. Unsolved.
Sep 18 – Glendon Dandy, 23, stabbed in the street in Tyseley, Birmingham. A neighbour, Wayne Shipley, 31, was jailed for 54 months for manslaughter in March 1999.
Sep 17 – Kevin Winterflood, 45, a horticultural worker, was killed in a flat in Lake, near Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Nigel Ward, 31, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter in Feb 1999.
Sep 17 – Ted Binion, 55, a casino owner, was poisoned and strangled at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. His girlfriend Sandra Murphy, 26, a former showgirl, and her new boyfriend Rick Tabish, 40, were jailed for life in March 2000. The trial heard that the motive was money and they stole $8m of silver bullion bars from him and buried it in the desert near Pahrump, Nevada. Their convictions were overturned in 2003 and they were both acquitted at their retrial in 2004. There were doubts about his death and whether he had died of a simple overdose, possibly a suicide. Both were jailed for 1-5 years for the theft. Tabish was finally released in 2010. Binion was the son of the legendary Benny Binion, who founded Binion’s casino in downtown Las Vegas. The case was best described in the book Murder In Sin City, by Jeff German.
Sep 14 – Ann Trindle, 41, shot at home in Moreton, near Gnosall, Staffordshire. The house was then set alight. The inquest heard it was possible she may have shot herself. Coroner recorded an open verdict on 28 May 1999.
Sep 10 – Martin Cass, 26, was shot at a house in Ford End, near Great Dunmow, Essex. Jane Smith, 36, survived. Smith’s former boyfriend Johnny Piccolo, 51, a horse trader from Suffolk, shot himself after being challenged by armed police. Piccolo also shot his 26 year old son Darren Piccolo in Woodbridge, Suffolk, but he survived.
Sep 8 – Ruksana Begum, 21, bank clerk, stabbed on her way to work in Handsworth, Birmingham. A neighbour, Cameron Fields, 43, a paranoid schizophrenic, was detained indefinitely at Ashworth Hospital in March 1999 after admitting manslaughter (diminished responsibility). He “thought her family were draining his life force”.
Sep 7 – Celeste Bates, 30, her son Daniel Bates, 8, and baby Miloe Bates, 16 months, battered to death with an ornamental iron and a pickaxe handle at home in Bolton. Celeste’s boyfriend Peter Hall, 34, a care worker from Radcliffe, was jailed for life in March 1999. The trial at Manchester CC heard that Ian Bates was the father of the children. Hall feared she was going to leave him. He bragged to friends in the pub that he was going to be famous. He hanged himself in prison in Dec 1999.
Sep 6 – Tariq Sattar, 35, a publican, was shot in the head after being bound and gagged in the cellar of the Black Bull pub in Birkby, Huddersfield. In 2002 Kevin Fisher, 46, from Fartown, Huddersfield, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 6 years for attempted robbery. Paul Lovell, 25, from Bradford, was jailed for two years for burglary. A murder charge was dropped against him.
Sep 5 – Barry Queripel, 33, died of chest wounds after a fight at Perry Oak, near Bracknell, Berkshire. His brother Andrew Queripel, 32, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter in May 1999. Barry’s stepdaughter Stacey, 7, was strangled in 1993.
Sep 4 – Lee Harris, 30, unemployed, was shot and stabbed six times in the legs and abdomen at home on the Longmead estate in Epsom, Surrey. He died in hospital. The killer fled in a white Vauxhall Astra Merit diesel estate, registration number L618 OAK. He may have been a hired hitman and it is thought to have been drug-related. Unsolved.
Sep 2 – Jonathan Humphries, 16, a pupil at Ifield College, was stabbed in the street in Crawley, West Sussex. Paul Fagence, 16, survived but had half a lung removed. Timothy Bell, 30, a complete stranger, was jailed for life in July 1999. The trial at Lewes CC heard he bumped into them in the street and a fight broke out.
Sep 2 – Gillian Harvey, 30, Ian Brown, 36, decorator, and Peter Smith, 31, railway worker, were all hacked to death with an 18 inch axe at a flat in Wellesley Road, Slough after being bound and gagged overnight. Harvey’s boyfriend Alan Hobbs, 31, who was high on amphetamines, was jailed for life (20 years) in July 1999. The trial at Reading CC heard Harvey was having an affair with both Brown and Smith but had just had sex with Hobbs. He was “deranged”, having abused drugs since the age of 11.
Sep 1 – Charles Nelson, 65, stabbed in a passageway in Kensington, Liverpool, after leaving a friend’s house. Christopher Lee, 44, was acquitted of murder in Feb 1999.
August 1998
Aug 30 – Liam Quinn, stabbed in Islington, north London. Kevin Lyons, 39, an armed robber who had absconded from HMP Maidstone in 1992, was the prime suspect. He fled to Ireland.
Aug 30 – John Quinn, 52, killed in his flat in the Gorbals, Glasgow. Unsolved.
Aug 30 – Peter Hennessy, 22, stabbed outside the Duke of Wellington pub in the City of London. Unsolved.
Aug 30 – Simon Dawson, 30, computer operator, battered and drowned at Brotherton Park, Bromborough, Wirral after spending the night at a club in Birkenhead. Carl Harrison, 19, and Craig Roberts, 16, were jailed for life in July 1999. He stopped to ask them for directions, they tortured him to reveal his PIN number.
Aug 23 – William Burnsen-Hicks, 30, was shot at home in Wednesfield, Wolverhampton. His drinking pal Stephen Cartwright, 29, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter. The trial heard they were playing Russian roulette after becoming bored with chess.
Aug 20 – Joanne Clarke, 24, a British graduate from Banbury, Oxfordshire, was strangled in Paradise Island, Bahamas. Tennel McIntosh, 19, mentally retarded and blind in one eye, was acquitted of murder in January 2000. The same killer is also believed to have murdered Lori Foglemann, 32, an American teacher on the same island in July 1998. A third woman, Carole Leach, 37, was beaten to death on Eleuthera in the Bahamas in August 1997. McIntosh’s trial was told he was framed to cover up the existence of a serial killer on the island, which would have been bad for tourism.
Aug – Christine Johnson, 36, a care assistant, was squirted in the face with CS gas and stabbed in the garden of her home in Norwich. Her boyfriend PC Owen Palmer, 55, was jailed for life in March 1999.
Aug 18 – Rachel Tough, 18, battered at home in Consett, County Durham.
John Thompson, 27, hanged himself in woods nearby three days later. Various rumours have suggested he was linked to the murders of Paul Logan, Malcolm Hester and
Julie Smailes. He was one of 6,000 men interviewed about the Smailes case but police said forensic investigation placed him at the scene (see 1996).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/3832003.stm
Aug 17 – David Shanks, 39, gay waiter, was battered and stabbed to death at his flat in Glasgow. John Hughes, 23, was jailed for life in Jan 1999.
Aug 17 – Tracy Lambert, 19, and Susan Moore, 25, shot in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Eric Queen, 21, Francisco Tirado, 19, and Christine “Queen” Walters were sentenced to death in 2000.
They were members of the Crips and the bullets had been specially painted blue, the colour of the Crips. Queen hanged himself in his cell on Death Row in August 2007. Walters’ death sentence was commuted to life without parole in 2012.
http://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/walters-christina.htm
Aug 16 – Amjad Malik Farooq, 38, from Pakistan, kidnapped from a house in Bedford, battered to death with an axe and dumped in Silsoe, Bedfordshire. His niece Nyla Hussein, 22, Shazad Hussein, 25, and Imran Farid were jailed for life. Parvez Akhtar, 34, Ashiq Hussain, 45, Kadeem Hussein, 40, and Shabaz Hussain, 19, were acquitted. The trial at Luton CC heard that he was killed after disgracing the family by having an affair with his niece.
Aug 16 – Kevin Hjalmarsson, 4, was strangled and beaten and dumped on the shore of a lake in Arvika, northern Sweden.
After being killed, he was dragged 30m from the seaside to a raft, where his grandfather later found him. Robin Dalen, 5, and Christian Karlsson, 7, were thought to have killed him but they were too young to be put on trial. But in 2017 the case was reopened and the boys – now men – were absolved of guilt. Unsolved. http://www.newsweek.com/sweden-child-murder-crime-reopened-case-kevin-613199
Aug 14 – Major Anthony Jones, 82, battered with a walking stick in Sulhamstead, Berkshire. His neighbour Eric Nicholls, 64, a disabled ex-car salesman, was jailed for 30 months for manslaughter in April 1999. The trial at Kingston CC heard they had rowed about gravel extraction.
Aug 11 – Mick Willson, 62, former football referee, was shot on allotments at Netherhall, Leicester. Sandor Bata, 73, a Hungarian war veteran, was jailed for life in Sep 1999. The trial at Birmingham CC heard it was over a row about rubbish on the allotment.
Aug 10 – Nicky Verstappen, 11, disappeared from a summer camp he was attending in Brunssum, Netherlands. His body was found on the evening of 11 August, 1.2 kilometres away in Landgraaf. Despite extensive investigation, the case remained unsolved for twenty years. In August 2018 Jos Brech, a 55-year-old Dutchman was arrested in Spain when DNA from his belongings and relatives matched samples taken from Verstappen’s clothing, following the largest DNA-harvesting operation in Dutch history.
Aug – Alan Bearder, 48, a netball umpire from Wolverhampton, was lured to London by a “honey trap”, robbed of his cash card and beaten to death in a squalid flat in Walworth, SE London. Billy Little, 35, a Glaswegian, was jailed for lfie in June 1999. Stephen “Tosh” McCuish, 31, from Dover, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 12 years for conspiracy to rob. Cathal Hughes, 23, was jailed for 2 years for conspiracy to rob. Charlene Newman, 19, was also convicted of conspiracy to steal. The trial at the Old Bailey heard that Bearder had been tricked into believing he was going to take part in a “threesome” with two teenage girls, one of whom was Newman.
Aug 9 – Amelia Rennie, 79, Catholic widow, battered to death at home in Tile Hill, Coventry. Matthew Garlick, 23, from Hillfields, Coventry, was jailed for life in Nov 1998. It was a bungled burglary.
Aug 7 – Gary Lovelock, 29, stabbed at a house in Adamsdown, Cardiff. His girlfriend Kelly Ford, 21, was convicted of manslaughter and given two years’ probation in June 1999. She claimed it was an accident.
Aug 6 – John Young, 42, from Edinburgh, was killed in Minto’s bar in Leith, Edinburgh. Peter Christensen, 24, was jailed for life in Dec 1998. The trial heard that Young called Christensen a “nonce”.
Aug – Richard Balding, 52, stabbed outside his home in Wollaton, Nottingham. Marvin Kitchiner, 21, a neighbour, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter in Feb 1999.
Aug 3 – Tonette Concordia, 53, widow from the Philippines, stabbed in her flat above the Tasty Thai restaurant in Lillie Road, Fulham. Unsolved.
Aug 3 – Andrew Gardner, 36, Royal Mail manager from Irby, The Wirral, shot at a house in Ellesmere, Shropshire. Another Royal Mail manager, Pat Tranter, 53, from Chester, survived. James Robinson, 26, a postman and gun club member, was jailed for life (18 years) in July 1999. The trial at Stafford CC heard that Mr Gardner was investigating reports of missing mail. A third investigator Neil Roberts, overpowered Robinson, and held him until police arrived.
Aug 2 – Patricia Poston, 55, alcoholic, was strangled at home in Middleton-on-Sea, Bognor, West Sussex. Her husband Arthur Poston, 65, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and given a hospital order in April 1999.
Aug 2 – Patricia Stewart, 25, stabbed in the street near her home in Hulme, Manchester. Lloyd Shirley, 19, was detained during HM Pleasure in Sep 1999.
Aug 1 – Prince Martin, 32, shot dead in Peaches nightclub in New Cross, SE London. Unsolved.
Aug 1 – Gary Spiers, 29, a Glaswegian, was battered to death at his flat in Stoke Newington, NE London. Miles George, 27, was jailed for 8 years for manslaughter in April 1999. He had taken “base” speed (amphetamines) and hit him with a crash helmet.
Aug 1 – Peter Harvey, 26, and his brother Brian Harvey, 31, were stabbed to death in Churchills snooker hall in Walthamstow, NE London. Warren Bowen, 37, who was high on cocaine and booze, was jailed for 14 years for manslaughter in March 1999.
July 1998
July 30 – Andros Aeroporos, 32, a Cypriot gangster, was shot 25 times outside the Show Palace nightclub in Limassol, Cyprus. Olena Kulyk, 19, a Ukrainian prostitute, survived. It is widely believed the rival Fanieros clan were responsible. Aeroporos had been acquitted in June 1998 of the attempted murder of Antonis Fanieros. His brothers Charalambos, 35, and Panicos, 25, were also acquitted. Unsolved.
July 29 – John Burton, 33, accountant, was punched and stabbed near Slough railway station. Cameron MacCuish, 18, and a 15-year-old from Langley, were acquitted of murder but convicted of wounding in April 1999. The trial at Reading CC heard Mr Burton had gone out for a quiet drink with a friend, Barrie Willan, and the youths tried to rob him of his cigarettes.
July 24 – Rosie White, 42, mother of three, was crushed under a hydraulic seed harrow at Higher Brynne Farm, near Roche, Cornwall. Her husband John White, 47, a farmer, was acquitted in Feb 2000. The trial at Truro CC heard she was tricked into climbing underneath. He was having an affair with Jackie Ould, the wife of a neighbouring farmer.
July 23 – Jean Trigg, 26, from Salford, and her son Anthony Trigg, 5, died in a house fire in Clacton, Essex. Christine Wroe, 36, and her three children survived. Unsolved.
July 22 – Julie Webb, 52, died of head injuries after being attacked while walking her dog in Kennel Lane, Sandiway, near Northwich, Cheshire. Unsolved.
July 21 – Wilbourne “Herbie” Williams, 56, a retired transport worker and Victim Support volunteer, was stabbed as he got off a 185 bus on Vauxhall Bridge, south London. Martin Gibbs, 45, a drunken bus passenger, was jailed for life (9 years) in March 1999.
July 19 – John Nutter, 68, died of a heart attack after being beaten by intruders at home in Pudsey, West Yorkshire. Michael Wardle, 24, and Dean Studley, 24, were jailed for 10 years for manslaughter in Oct 1999. The trial at Leeds CC heard they stole £300 and two watches.
July 19 – William Thompson, 64, suffered head injuries at a house on the Shankill in Belfast. A man, aged 18, was charged.
July 16 – Michael Grogan, 72, a retired showbusiness manager, was killed at home in Wimbledon, SW London. Joao Amare, 26, a Portuguese former paratrooper, was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter. A second man, Filipe Abreu Afonso, remains at large.
July 13 – Kathleen Peter, 48, a nursery nurse, was bludgeoned to death at home in Newport-on-Tay, Fife. Robert Rodger, 23, a burglar from Brechin, was jailed for life (15 years) in Jan 1998. Stan Thomson, from Dundee, was acquitted but jailed for 5 years for theft.
July 12 – Jason, 8, Mark, 9, and Richard Quinn, 11, Catholic brothers, died in an arson attack on their home on the Carnany estate in Ballymoney, County Antrim. Garfield Gilmour, 24, a local Protestant, was jailed for life in Oct 1999. At his trial in Coleraine he claimed he was merely the getaway driver for a UVF gangled by Johnny McKay and brothers Raymond and Ivan Parke who had a grudge against the boys’ uncle, Colm Quinn. The attack came at the height of sectarian tensions. The Quinns were almost the only Catholics on the Carnany estate.
July 5 – Patrick O’Dowd, 26, was stabbed in Barrhead, Glasgow. Stephen Burns, 22, was jailed for life in Jan 1999. The trial at Paisley High Court heard he had asked Burns to leave a party because he was drunk.
July 5 – Irene Silverman, 82, millionaires and former Radio City dancer, abducted from her home in Manhattan, New York. Body never found. Sante Kimes, 65, was jailed for 120 years and her son Ken Kimes, 25, was jailed for 125 years. In June 1998, with her son Kenny, Kimes perpetrated a scheme whereby she would assume the identity of their landlady, 82-year-old socialite Irene Silverman, and then appropriate ownership of her $7.7 million Manhattan mansion. Despite the fact Silverman’s body was never found, both mother and son were convicted of murder in 2000, in no small part because of the discovery of Kimes’ notebooks detailing the crime and notes written by Silverman, who was extremely suspicious of the pair. During the trial for the Kadzin murder Kenneth Kimes confessed that after his mother had used a stun gun on the sleeping Silverman, he strangled her, stuffed her corpse into a bag and deposited it in a dumpster in Hoboken, New Jersey. Ken Kimes was also jailed for life in 2004 in California for this murder – David Kazdin had allowed Kimes to use his name on the deed of a home in Las Vegas that was actually occupied by Kenneth Sr. and Sante Kimes in the 1970s. Several years later, Sante Kimes convinced a notary to forge Kazdin’s signature on an application for a loan of $280,000, with the house as collateral. When Kazdin discovered the forgery and threatened to expose Kimes she ordered him killed. Kenneth Jr. murdered Kazdin by shooting him in the back of the head. According to another accomplice’s later testimony, all three participated in disposing of the evidence. Kazdin’s body was found in a dumpster near Los Angeles airport in March 1998. The murder weapon was never recovered, having been disassembled and dropped into a storm sewer.
Between July 4 and Jule 20 – Selma Ferreira Queiroz, 18, and nine other women, were killed in the Parque do Estado public park in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Francisco de Assis Pereira, 30, a motorcycle messenger, dubbed “The Maniac Of The Park”, fled to Paraguay but was captured in Aug 1998 and jailed for 268 years.
July 4 – Mervyn Peoples, 32, from Londonderry, was attacked outside the LEL Club in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. Scott Minor, 32, from St Ives, was acquitted in 1999.
July 3 – Angela Talman, 30, kicked and stamped to death in a basement flat in College Terrace, Brighton. Her boyfriend John Crowley, 43, survived with serious injuries. Her former boyfriend Daniel Cox, 22, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and jailed for 6 years in June 1999. The trial at Lewes CC heard that Talman had been two-timing him.
July 3 – William “Wasy” Paul, 49, a drug dealer and former UVF man, from Glastry Gardens, Bangor, was shot on the Kilcooley estate in Bangor, County Down. Frankie “Pigface” Curry, a UVF man, who is believed to have killed him, was shot dead himself in March 1999. John McCormick, 54, a car mechanic, was charged with withholding information.
July 2 – Jozsef Tamas Boros, 42, nightclub and restaurant owner, was blown up along with three passers-by by a car bomb in the centre of Budapest. Boros was also a police informant who had grassed up Hungarian criminals linked with the Russian Solnstevskaya mafia over illegal sales of oil and petrol. He was apparently phoned on his mobile as he drove past the bomb, which was placed in a Polski Fiat car in Budapest’s Aranykéz utca. 25 people were also injured. In 2013 a man identified only as Tamas P was charged with the murder. He hired Jozef Rohác, a Slovak, to kill Boros, a key witness in the mafia-style fraud trial. Rohac is also suspected of killing Janos Fenyoe (see Feb 98). In 2016 Jozef Rohac and Tamas Portik were jailed for life for the bombing. They were both Slovaks and may have been acting on the orders of Slovakian President Meciar.
June 1998
June 30 – Eric Fraschet, 33, a French comedy actor and stuntman, was stabbed on a Paris-bound train at St Andre-le-Gaz, near Grenoble, France. Paul Birch, 42, a businessman from Twickenham, SW London and an England football fan, was sent to a mental hospital in Paris in 1999. He was never charged. A court hearing heard he thought Fraschet was an Argentinian who was smirking at him after Argentina beat England in 1998 World Cup match in St Etienne. He later approached the Daily Mail, claiming the authorities were making him out to be insane.
June 29 – Julie Jones, 32, a prostitute from Ancoats, was battered about the face and head and suffered internal injuries. Her naked body was dumped in a disused market (Old Smithfield) in Shudehill, central Manchester. It was discovered on July 3. The killer may also have killed Helen Sage, 22, a prostitute from Rusholme, who vanished in Aug 1998. Unsolved.
June – Gerrit Jan Ulrich, a German child pornographer who lived in Zandvoort, Holland, was killed in Pisa, Italy. He is believed to have been killed by Robert Van Der Plancken, a Belgian paedophile who was living in Prague and had links with notorious British paedophile Warwick Spinks. Ulrich was allegedly killed for “having said too much” to police and the investigation group Morkhoven.
June 28 – Daniel Ridgwell, 18, from Bracknell, was punched at a BP petrol station in Brooklands, near Lancing, West Sussex as he queued to buy a can of drink. A 17 year old was arrested.
June 27 – Frank Arkell, 68, a former Labor MP and former Lord Mayor of Wollongong, was killed at his flat in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Tie pins were stuck in his eyes. Mark Mala Valera, 19, a former dishwasher at Planet Hollywood in Sydney, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2000 and was jailed for life with no parole. He was also responsible for killing David O’Hearne, 60, a shopkeeper, who was disembowelled and sexually mutilated in Wollongong on June 13, 1998, and Trevor Parkin, 37, a convicted sex offender, who was disembowelled and sexually mutilated in Sydney in Dec 1997. Arkell and Parkin were members of a paedophile ring, led by former Mayor, Tony Bevan, who died of cancer in 1991. At his trial Valera claimed his father Jack Van Krevel sexually abused him. In 2001 Valera’s friend Keith Schreiber was jailed for life but he is eligible for parole in 2012. Van Krevel’s daughter Belinda was jailed for 6 years for killing Valera’s father.
June 25 – Avril Johnson, 30, a DJ known as DJ Miss Irie sister of reggae star Tippa Irie, was raped and shot in the head in front of her two children (aged 7, and 18 months) at home in Brockwell Park, Brixton. Her husband Kirk had his throat cut but survived. Tony Rowbotham, 28, aka Hyrone Hart, and Kurt “Pepe” Roberts, 19, were jailed for life in Nov 1999. Kishon Blackburn, 21, was jailed for 9 years for rape. Hart was also convicted of murdering trainee plasterer Patrick Ferguson, 34. A jury at the Old Bailey could not reach a verdict on whether Hart and Roberts murdered mother-of -three Michelle Carby, 35, who was tied up and shot through the head at her home in Stratford, London, while her children slept upstairs, on 29 June. That case was left on file.Hart and Roberts were both from Jamaica and visiting on tourist visas. They face deportation. Adrian Francis, 20, from Birmingham, was sentenced to 18 months (suspended for two years) for manslaughter because he was the police informer who grassed up Hart. He is confined to a wheelchair after being shot in 1995.Hart claims he is a victim of a miscarriage of justice – http://www.mojuk.org.uk/WMAI/hyronehart.htm
June 22 – Sinead Kelly, 21, a drug addict and prostitute from Santry, was stabbed near the Grand Canal in Dublin. Another prostitute was attacked with an iron bar 24 hours earlier. It is thought she was killed by a drug dealer she owed money to. Unsolved.
June 23 – Tobore Prince Oji, 35, stabbed at a flat in Brockley, SE London. His common law wife Velma Smith, 39, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter in Jan 1999.
June 22 – Louis Wade, 40, stabbed outside Upton Park football ground in West Ham. A boy aged 16 was arrested. Unsolved.
June 21 – Simon McCaskill, 57, a retired Navy commander, was stabbed at home in Edinburgh. His wife Catherine, aka Kit Dallas, the Edinburgh Evening News agony aunt, was disfigured but survived. Their son Kenneth McCaskill, 26, was sent to Carstairs Special Hospital in Oct 1998. He “thought he was Lucifer”.
June 21 – Jason Elliott, 27, was stabbed in the neck at home in Harwich, Essex. Gary Strunkey, 36, was jailed for 2 years for manslaughter in Jan 1999.
June 20 – Claire Hart, 13, vanished on her way to Dane Valley High School in Eaton, near Congleton, Cheshire. She was strangled and shot with an airgun before being dumped in the river Dane. Craig Smith, 19, an unemployed fettler, was jailed for life in May 1999.
June 16 – Leonard Harris, 73, was beaten to death during a robbery at his flat in East Finchley, north London. His wife Gertrude survived. Five weeks later Rose Seferian, 83, was killed during another burglary in Kensington. Michael Weir was convicted of Harris’s murder in 1999 but his conviction was quashed on appeal. Connections between the two deaths were not made at the time, after police failed to match Weir’s palm print to one recovered from Mr Harris’s flat in East Finchley, north London. In 2019 Michael Weir, by then 53, was retried under the so-called double jeopardy law when new forensic evidence came to light. He was jailed for life (30 years). Prosecutors believe Weir is “the first convicted man to be convicted twice”.
June 14 – Kadamba Simmons, 24, a model and actress who had dated Noel Gallagher and Naseem Hamed, was strangled with a ligature in the shower at her flat in Islington, N London. Yaniv Malka, 21, her Israeli boyfriend, tried to throw himself off a 5th floor ledge of the building but was talked down. He was jailed for life in March 1999. He told the trial at the Old Bailey that it was a suicide pact.
She made her film debut posthumously in 2000 in The Wonderland Experience.
June 14 – Vincent “Beanie” Bean, 37, unemployed, was shot in the head at an empty shop in Easton, Bristol, during a card school. Raymond “Smiley” Falconer, 36, a bungling robber, was jailed for life in June 1999. He had lost money in a game of cards and planned to rob it back.
June 12 – Frank Steele, 19, unemployed, was stabbed outside Mystiques nightclub in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Anthony McGovern, 21, was jailed for life. Darren Cash, 17, was jailed for 7 years for manslaughter.
June 12 – Reginald Infante, 14, was shot dead in a drive-by shooting in Fairfield, California. They had been watching a softball game and were walking towards a restaurant. The killer was a white man in a Honda Prelude car. Reginald’s friends, who were with him were unharmed. It is not known what the motive was but the victim was not associated with gangs. Unsolved.
June 10 – Gary Harper, 42, father of two, was kicked and stamped to death in Pollokshields, Glasgow on the night of Scotland v Brazil World Cup match. He had to be identified by dental records. James McGinlay, 21, and Craig Barnes, 18, were jailed for life. Mark Cadder, 19, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter. Paul McCabe, 16, and Gary Richford, 16, were both acquitted.
June 9 – John Robinson, who was celebrating his 67th birthday, was attacked when he confronted vandals attacking his fence in Yardley Wood, Birmingham. Lee Quaid, 16, was cleared of manslaughter but jailed for 6 months for violent disorder.
June 9 – Sylvia Wilson, 60, was strangled in her bed in Kingsbury, NW London. Brian Sweeney, 26, a burglar from Hendon, was jailed for life in Feb 1999.
June 7 – James Byrd, 48, a disabled black man from Jasper, Texas, was kidnapped, chained to a pick-up truck and dragged through east Texas. His head came off during the journey. John “Possum” King, 24, and Russell Brewer, 31, white supremacists, were sentenced to death in Feb 1999. Shawn Berry, 24, was jailed for life. Brewer was executed in September 2011. On the eve of his execution he told a TV station: “As far as any regrets, no, I have no regrets. No, I’d do it all over again, to tell you the truth.” King remains on Death Row.
June 5 – Wesley Neailey, 11, raped, strangled and hit with a monkey wrench after being abducted from outside his home in the West End of Newcastle. His body was found near Healey in rural Northumberland in July 1998. Dominic McKilligan, 18, a music student from Bournemouth and a convicted paedophile, was jailed for life (20 years) in July 1999. He had been released from a young offenders’ institution 9 months earlier for gross indecent assault on four boys. He is due for release in 2018.
June 3 – William Bodle, 45, battered in a squat in Bradley Road, Bournemouth. David McMahon, 33, was jailed for life in Feb 1999.
June 3 – David Colly, 48, who was serving 30 months in prison for drug dealing, was attacked in the TV lounge of C Wing at HMP Wayland, Norfolk and died of a brain haemorrhage. Leon Van Brown, 29, admitted manslaughter in Sep 1998 and was jailed for 18 months. The trial at Norwich CC heard there had been a gang fight earlier.
Between Jan and June 1998 – Eddie Wilcox, 64, from Ryde, Isle of Wight, was pushed off a cliff at Brading Down, Isle of Wight. Chris Thomas, 32, from Newport, Isle of Wight, was jailed for life in July 1999. The trial at Winchester CC heard that Thomas was a child abuse victim and claimed Wilcox was a paedophile.
May 1998
May – Natalie Clubb, 25, prostitute and heroin addict from Hull, was stabbed 7 times and her dismembered body was dumped near Great Calvert pumping station in Sutton-upon-Hull, where the remains (a head, two arms and a leg) were discovered in July. Her boyfriend Darren Adams, 37, a junkie, was jailed for life in Feb 2000. Michael Larvin, 35, was jailed for 6 years for disposing of body parts. A key witness, Neil Pattison (cellhouse snitch), hanged himself at HMP Holme House in May 2000. He was awaiting trial for the murder of Ada Johnson, 80, in Billen Grange, Hull. The trial at Sheffield CC heard that Clubb’s prostitution paid for their heroin habit and he killed her when she threatened to leave him.
May 31 – John Knocker, 22, a Catholic drug dealer from Belfast, was shot outside the Glengannon Hotel near Cookstown, County Tyrone. A trial in April 2010 heard the killer was Frankie “Studs” Lanigan, a former member of the INLA. Gregory Fox, 26, was jailed for three-and-a-half years for assisting an offender. Nuala Delaney, 20, was jailed for two years. Lanigan was arrested in Dublin in 2013 and was extradited in 2019. In May 2020 he went on trial in Belfast and was convicted of murder and jailed for life. The trial judge, Mr Justice Horner, said there was “overwhelming” evidence that he shot Mr Knocker to prove “who was the boss” in the car park of the hotel. Lanigan had fled to the Republic of Ireland where he lived under an assumed name, Ciaran McCrory, in west Dublin, while working as a barber. He was eventually unmasked in a covert operation by Gardaí, who picked up a coffee cup discarded by him from which they recovered his DNA profile.
May 31 – Lauren Carhart, 12, was set on fire on waste ground in Moss Bank, Crumpsall, Manchester. Aaron Nicholls, 17, was jailed for life. He told the trial in Manchester CC it was an accident.
May 30 – Hayley Morgan, 20, a prostitute, died of a heroin overdose but had a plastic bag on her head, and was dumped in an alley in Hull. An open verdict was later recorded.
May – Several babies were killed in a pit village in Illies near Lille, France. Patrick Lefranc, 35, and Didier Lefranc, 31, were accused of raping their sister Patricia Lefranc, 27, and killing her babies. They were also accused of treating their father Paul Lefranc, 67, a former miner, “like a dog” and making him sleeping outside in a rabbit hutch.
May 25 – Maureen Kent, 28, a pub landlady and mother of four, was run down by a car in the car park of the Shoulder of Mutton pub in Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, after she tried to stop the theft of a charity box from the pub. She died in hospital on June 3. Chris Youd, 28, from Penkhull, Staffordshire, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter and banned from driving for 8 years. His girlfriend Kerry Day, 30, was acquitted on the judge’s directions.
May 23 – Sergeant Kent Kincaid, 40, shot dead while off-duty in Houston, Texas. He confronted youths who threw something at his car, cracking the windscreen. One of them shot him. Anthony Hynes was sentenced to death. He got a stay of execution in 2012 but remains on Death Row. He featured in a BBC documentary in March 2014.
May 23 – Carmel Fenech, 16, went missing after a court hearing at Camberwell magistrates court in London with a man. Carmel, who was also known as Carmel Pendry, was a crack cocaine addict who had been living in Broadfield, Crawley, West Sussex. She had grown up in Peckham but her family moved to Crawley to try and get her away from drugs. She was reported missing five weeks after she was last seen but police did not open a murder investigation until 2002. She was half-Maltese.
May 22 – Sharon Sweeney, 44, a former rock singer, was hit 10 times with a hammer, stabbed in the throat and strangled with a pair of tights in her basement flat in Islington, N London. Her boyfriend Phillip Nobbs, 49, from Norwich, was jailed for life in April 1999. He had been released from a life sentence after killing his mother-in-law in 1972.
May 20 – Stephen Mills, 35, a suspected burglar, was stabbed and beaten in Collyhurst, Manchester. Michael Barratt, 36, and Yvonne Brodie were jailed for 15 months for violent disorder. Natalie Hannant, 26, was jailed for 8 months. Ann Brodie, 29, was jailed for 6 months. The trial in May 1999 heard they were vigilantes.
May 20 – Roy Parsons, 22, was beaten up outside a country club in Bricket Wood, near St Albans. Kevin Barry, 19, from Hoddesdon, was acquitted at St Albans CC in 1999.
May 19 – Catherine McKinlay was killed with a spade and a knife at home in Easterhouse, Glasgow. Her husband John McKinlay, 53, was jailed for life for murder in July 1999. At the trial in Glasgow High Court he claimed he was provoked into killing his wife after allegedly discovering her in bed having sex with their son, John, 22.
May – Andrew Taylor, 18, a father of two, was killed in a fight at a barbecue in Weoley Castle, Birmingham. Andrew Ford, 36, the host of the barbecue, was jailed for 3 years and 9 months for manslaughter in Dec 1998. The trial at Birmingham CC heard that a row broke out over how to treat an ankle injury!
May 15 – Gianni Vincenzo, 29, was stabbed to death outside the Water Rats pub in Battersea, SW London. Arnat Boonprasit, 27, a schizophrenic, was sent to Broadmoor in Nov 1998 after being convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility).
May 15 – Alan Bell, 51, was beaten over the head with a claw hammer at a homeless hostel in Corby, Northamptonshire. Michael Alderdice and William Gilmore were both jailed for life in May 2000.
May 14 – Russell Crooks, 17, a landscape gardening student from Walderslade, vanished after a disco at Hadlow College in Kent and was later found in a nearby copse. Neil Sayers, 18, a fellow student, from Gillingham, was jailed for life in April 1999 and Graham Wallis, 17, from Selsdon, near Croydon, was detained during HM Pleasure. The trial at Maidstone CC heard that Crooks “got on their nerves” and they frequently bullied him. Wallis confessed and gave evidence against Sayers.
May 14 – Lisa Dodgson, 25, her daughter Amy Louise, 2, and another daughter Rose, 9 months, died in a fire at home in Denton Burn, Newcastle. Emma Cater, 16, a babysitter, died of her injuries shortly afterwards. Alan Ray, 24, from Scotswood, was jailed for life in Feb 2000. Gary Cornish, 17, was acquitted but was jailed for perverting the course of justice, as was Patrick Graham, 28. Another suspect, Albert Erskine, 21, has since died. The trial at Newcastle CC heard Ray set the fire after Ms Dodgson rejected his romantic advances.
May 13 – Lorna Fernie-Davidson, 20, was “savagely beaten” at her flat in Folkestone, Kent. Her boyfriend Mark Sibbons, 34, was jailed for life in March 1999. The trial at Canterbury CC heard he killed her after she had sex with his friend Neil Westhead.
May 12 – Georgina McCarthy, 29, who was born in Israel, was strangled at her home in Parc Mellan, Penzance, Cornwall. Her 18 month old son Adam was taken. The boy’s father Paul Russell, 33, was jailed for life in June 1999.
May 11 – Intiaz Hussein Sayed Shah, 43, died of head injuries at his flat in Inkerman House, Newtown, Birmingham. Anthony Brown, 54, was acquitted in June 2000 after the prosecution offered no evidence.
May 10 – Isabel Brown, 74, hit on the head with a frying pan after intervening in a dispute outside a neighbour’s home in Croydon. Her neighbour Brian Mendoza, 32, went on trial at the Old Bailey.
May 9 – Lynne Hobson, 47, stabbed at home in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Her husband Ray Hobson, 48, a sales executive, hanged himself while on remand in HMP Horwood, Bristol.
May 7 – Vicky Fletcher, 21, a nurse at Pontefract General Infirmary, was shot outside the Castlefields pub in Castleford, West Yorkshire. Dr Tom Shanks, 47, an anaesthetist at the hospital, was arrested after a brief siege at a school in King’s Heath, Birmingham. He was jailed for life for murder in April 2000 after a retrial. The trial heard they were having an affair. He admitted manslaughter but had denied murder.
May 5 – Peter Tang, 50, a widower with a young daughter, was asphyxiated in the Patchbrook tropical fish shop where he worked in Pimlico, central London. Steven O’Driscoll, 19, unvemployed from the Lairdale estate in Herne Hill, was jailed for life in Nov 1998.
May 4 – Matthew Waggot, 17, was punched outside the post office in Shillingstone, Dorset. He hit the pavement with “catastrophic consequences”. A boy, aged 16, was jailed for 15 months for manslaughter in Aug 1998. He was never publicly identified at the trial at Winchester CC.
May 4 – Mark Ogden, 22, stabbed with a 9 inch knife at a flat in Torquay, but was found in the street behind the Odeon cinema. James Dawson, 18, was jailed for life in Dec 1998.
May 3 – Lianne Singleton, 18, was strangled, beaten with a monkey wrench and then dismembered in Oldham. Her remains were found three days later behind a house in Hollins Road. Her head was in a holdall nearby. Paul Stowers, 29, was jailed for life in Dec 1998. He suffered from a personality disorder and was high on drink and drugs when he met her in a pub with his girlfriend, Lindsey Duncan. He killed her while his girlfriend was at work. She was completely unaware.
May 3 – Georgina O’Donnell, an innocent bystander, was shot during a fight in the Henry Cecil pub in Limerick, Ireland. His wife Angela was unhurt. Mark Cronin, 31, from Limerick, was jailed for life in Dublin in Dec 2000.
May 2 – Robin Wood, 47, a car dealer, was shot on the doorstep of his home in Kempton Avenue, Northolt. The killer was a white man aged 25-35, 5ft 7 inches tall and with fair hair. His partner Kath Pribisevic answered it to find to a man calling himself Terry and asking to speak with Mr Wood. A £20,000 reward was offered last year. Unsolved.
May 1 – Colin Devlin, 23, was killed at home in Kimberley Street, off the Ormeau Road in Belfast. His girlfriend Lisa Shields, 23, and the mother of his two children, was jailed for 2 and a half years for manslaughter in April 1999 and given 12 months probation. She had claimed self-defence.
April 1998
April 29 -Arlene Fraser, 33, vanished from her home in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland. Her husband Nat Fraser was jailed for life in 2003. Two other men Hector Dick and Glenn Lucas were acquitted. Fraser was cleared on appeal in 2011 but was jailed for life again in 2012. His second trial was recorded and televised in July 2013 in a C4 documentary, The Murder Trial.
April 29 – Brian Watt, 22, a heroin dealer, was beaten with a metal bar and a baseball bat and buried in Muirshiel Country Park in Scotland. Matthew McCready, 21, Kenneth Elliott, 21, and Francis Molloy, 22, all from Greenock, went on trial in August 1998 at Kilmarnick High Court.
April 29 – Sally Bond, 33, her daughter Grace, 10, and son Fraser, 7, were killed at home in Grimsby. Her common law husband Alex Lumsden, 46, a Glasgow-born joiner, killed himself a few hours later.
April 28 – Phillip Clarke, 41, was stabbed at home in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. His girlfriend Francesca Coffey, 31, was acquitted in Nov 1998.
April 28 – Janet Johnson, 27, was battered to death with a blunt instrument and found beside a railway line in Collyhurst, Manchester. Her trousers were wrapped around her neck. Martin Ward, 20, from Clayton, was acquitted of murder in Dec 1999. He had been in the pub with her earlier.
April 28 – Esmail “Ali” Hussein, 23, homeless, was stabbed 13 times and found naked in a water-filled quarry in Swithland, near Leicester. Stephen Marriott, 26, was jailed for life (20 years) and Gary Smith, 32, was jailed for life (18 years) in April 1999. The trial at Nottingham CC heard Marriott confessed to his girlfriend Siobhan Yorke. She said he was killed because they thought he had grassed on their plans to rob a jewellers’ shop.
April – Stuart Jones, was beheaded with a Stanley knife at a flat in Ogmore Vale, Bridgend, Wales. Nikki Mitchell, 27, was jailed for life. His cousin Lee Evans, 24, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and given a hospital order. Jones was accused of stealing some loose change.
April 27 – Tom Locard, 34, from Belfast, was killed, wrapped in plastic sheeting and dumped in Dromad, County Louth, Ireland. He was a member of a drug smuggling gang and a Garda informant. Unsolved.
April 27 – Brian Jackson, 43, was killed in Avenham, near Preston, Lancashire. David Simpson, 25, was jailed for life in 1999.
April 27 – Angela Pearce, 18, a schizophrenic, was beaten, tortured and robbed in a council flat between April 9 and 27 and then buried in a shallow grave in a disused cemetery in Mabgate, Leeds. Claire Latif, 19, and Mark Francom, 16, were both jailed for life. Chris Bevis, 18, Nolene Harker, 17, and Meina Latif, 16, were detained during HM Pleasure. Andrew Gregory, 18, was a key prosecution witness who told the trial at Leeds CC in April 1999 that the gang laughed and joked as they tortured her.
April 20 – John O’Kane, 19, stabbed in Motherwell, Scotland. Stuart Quinn, 25, from Cambuslang, was jailed for 2 years and 9 months for assault. A murder charge against Patrick Brown, 20, was found not proven.
April 17 – Kathy Linaker, 33, stabbed at home in Penketh, Warrington. Her husband’s lover Jenny Cupit, 24, was jailed for life in Jan 1999. Her husband Chris Linaker probably gave evidence at the trial at Chester CC.
April 13 – Rajwinder Bassi Kaur, 32, a heavily pregnant Punjabi Sikh, was stabbed on Vaisakhi (Sikh holy day) in tenement flat in Glasgow. Gurmit Bassi, 33, was jailed for life in Dec 1998 along with Chris Jones, 25, a hitman who was paid £1,000. At the trial in Glasgow High Court Bassi tried to blame her husband Harbhej Singh, 34. They were rival wives.
April 12 – Nigel Thompson, 37, a doorman, minder and minor drug dealer, was killed after a fight between white and Asian drug gangs in Firth Park, Sheffield. Imtiaz “Ronnie” Mohammed, 19, was jailed for 3 years and 9 months for manslaughter in July 1999. Ifzal “Reggie” Mohammed was convicted of violent disorder and given community service. Tahir Mohammed, 20, and Adil Khan, 18, were also convicted of violent disorder.
April 11 – Mark Ashworth, 21, died of head injuries after being attacked in Bolton after a night out. Stephen Entwhistle, 22, Anthony Beech, 21, and Melissa Partington, 18, were accused of murder. The trial heard one of Ashworth’s friends had bumped into one of the other group, sparking a row.
April 10 – Faud Abdi, 19, a Somali from Newport, Wales, died after a stone was thrown threw his windscreen as he sat in a car in Butetown, Cardiff. Mohammed Ibrahim, 22, from St Mellons, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter in Dec 1998.
April 9 – Patrick Skehan, 68, a farmer, was bounded by his hands and legs, hung upside down from a banister, doused with petrol and set on fire at home in Killaloe, County Limerick, Ireland. Mark Cronin, 31, was jailed for life (15 years). Willie Campion, 31, was also jailed for life.
April 9 – Anthony Harrison, 63, a retired MOD civil servant, was stabbed at his home in The Avenue, Andover, Hampshire as he enjoyed lunch with his wife Jennifer, 61, who survived. Chris Moffatt, 26, a schizophrenic former patient at Parklands Psychiatric Hospital in Basingstoke, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) in Dec 1998 and was sent to Broadmoor indefinitely. The trial heard he walked into the house through the back door.
April 8 – Carlos Bennett, 66, stabbed with an 8 inch kitchen knife at home in Moss Side, Manchester. Dean Perry, 32, a (white) burglar, was jailed for life (16 years) in October 1998. Mr Bennett confronted him after he broke in.
April 8 – Edgar Fernandes, 37, librarian and tourist from Camden, North London, was killed in a budget hotel in Istanbul and his body dumped in the Bosphorus. Mohamed Abdel Monem Abbas Aly, an Egyptian, stole his passport and credit card and fled to Malta. Malta refused to extradite him because of Turkey’s death penalty so he was sent back to Egypt. It is believed they shared a room because the hotel was over-booked. They were otherwise strangers.
April 5 – Nick Centi, 27, a bank worker from Whalley Range, was stabbed near a taxi rank in centre of Manchester. Marc Wilson, 22, and Colin Blundell were charged with murder and went on trial in Jan 2000. There was a hung jury and a retrial.
April 3 – Martin Leaver, 36, a council worker, was found with head injuries outside the Chicago Rock Café in Wolverhampton. Eric Sanderson, 35, a nightclub doorman from Wednesfield, was jailed for 18 months for manslaughter in Jan 1999. He was the brother of Olympic gold medallist Tessa Sanderson.
April – Litton “Slice” Hamilton, 32, petty crook, stabbed and left in a derelict bungalow in Wood Green, north London. Richard “Fiend” Gilbert, 29, fled to Bristol but was arrested and jailed for life in Nov 1999. Laura Ellis, 30, from Tottenham, was also jailed for life.
April – Sajjad Mahmood, 18, was found in a pond near an Asda supermarket in Accrington, Lancashire. Karl Barton, 21, was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter. Wayne Kelly, 22, and James Butler, 20, were both jailed for 6 years. Dean Lynch was jailed for 18 months. The trial heard they were cannabis dealers.
April 2 – Jason Henderson, 22, was stabbed in the back at his flat in Launceston, Cornwall. His fiancé Tara Fell, 18, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and was jailed for 4 years in Sep 1999. The trial at Truro CC heard they had a stormy relationship and were splitting up and dividing tapes and CDs at the time.
April 1 – Konstantin Povoloski, a Russian restaurateur, was shot outside his Tractor restaurant in Pattaya, Thailand. Hardo Kerz, 29, an Estonian contract killer who had been paid $5,000, was jailed for life in April 1998. Povoloski’s business partner Yanoz Hook was also charged. He allegedly paid Kerz.
April 1 – Michelle Lock, 28, bludgeoned with a pipe cutter at home in Wimborne Road, Kinson, Bournemouth. Her next door neighbour Simon Coombe, 27, was jailed for life in March 1999.
April – Julie Paterson, 32, alcoholic, was found in a binliner in Darlington on May 16. Her head, arms and legs were missing. David Harker, 23, was jailed for life (14 years) in Feb 1999. The trial at Teesside CC heard that he cooked and ate her leg with some cheese and garlic. He was sent to HMP Wakefield’s notorious Cage.
March 1998
March – Sylvia Fleming, 17, a pregnant care worker, was asphyxiated and then dismembered. Her remains were found beneath a house in Mullaghmore, Omagh, County Tyrone, in May 1998. Her former boyfriend Stephen Scott, 26, a part-time fireman, was jailed for life in March 2000. Paul Rigby, 19, admitted helping to dispose of the body. At the trial at Antrim CC Scott claimed she died during a sex game after being tied up, gagged, blindfolded and injected with insulin and Temazepam.
Between March 1997 and March 1998 – six people, including three security guards and two members of the Polish mafia, were killed in a crime spree in Dusseldorf, Germany. Norman Volker Franz, 28, a prison escapee, and his wife Sandra Franz, 21, fled to Portugal and were captured on the Algarve in Oct 1999. But he broke out of his cell in Lisbon before he could be extradited and remains a fugitive.
March – Tina Entwhistle-Deleg, 30, a newlywed, was stabbed at a wedding party in Port Jervis, New York. Her husband Luis Deleg, 27, was jailed for 20 years to life in Jan 1999. He is now in Sing Sing prison. The trial heard that he was drunk and they argued when he accused her of flirting with his cousin. They had only been married for 10 hours.
March 31 – Chris Alder, 38, a black former soldier from Hull, died in Queen’s Gardens police station after being involved in a fight at The Waterfront nightclub in Hull. Jason Paul, 27, was charged with GBH but the case collapsed. He was later paid £30,000 in damages by the police. PC Nigel “Tudor” Dawson, Sergeant John Dunn and constables Matthew Barr, Neil Blakey and Mark Ellerington were subsequently charged with manslaughter and misconduct in a public office but the case collapsed in 2002. PC Dawson died in Spain in Dec 2013.
March 28 – Matthew Fox, 24, a Fulham fan from Purley, Surrey, was beaten to death in an alley outside Priestfield Stadium, Gillingham. Barry Cullen, 30, a Gillingham fan, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter in Oct 1998. The trial at Maidstone CC heard there was fight before a Gillingham v Fulham game but Cullen punched Fox only once.
March 27 – Janine Waterworth, 21, was stabbed in an alley in Oldham. Paul O’Hara, 27, was jailed for life in Nov 1998.
March 24 – Olivia Perkins, 2, was discovered dead in a cottage at Box, near Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire. Janette Firman, 41, was convicted of manslaughter and given 3 years probation.
March 23 – Leon Bickersteth, 30, was shot dead at home in Wortley, Leeds. Abdul Rehman, 32, was jailed for life in Oct 1999.
March 22 –Isobel Brett was killed at home in Sandwich, Kent. Her husband Graham Brett was jailed for life in Feb 1999.
March 21 – Rudolph Pryce, 44, died of head injuries at his flat in Radford, Nottingham. His son Jason Pryce, 15, was jailed for life in Jan 1999.
March 21 – Christine Nytsch, 11, was raped and strangled on her way home from swimming in Cloppenburg, Germany. Ronny Rieken, 30, a former barge hand, was jailed for life in Nov 1998. He is also believed to have killed Ulrike Everts, 13, who was abducted near Jeddeloh, Germany in June 1996.
March 20 – Rukshana Naz, 19, pregnant mother of two from Derby, was garrotted and found in a field at Denby Dale, near Huddersfield on April 1. Her mother Shakheela Naz, 44, and her brother Shazad Naz, 21, were both jailed for life in May 1999. Her brother Iftikhar Naz, 17, was acquitted. The trial at Nottingham CC heard she was killed for bringing shame on the family for getting pregnant with her lover’s child while married.
March – Gilbert Wynter, 37, an underworld enforcer from Tottenham, vanished after being lured to a south London nightclub. Wynter had been acquitted of killing Claude Moseley in 1994. He worked for the Adams family but may have been killed by them. Body never found.
March 20 – Richard O’Donnell, 17, was punched, kicked and knifed on the New Farm Loch housing estate in Kilmarnock. Marc Harkness, 21; Steven Harkness, 18 and Thomas Lelewell, 19, were all jailed for life. Barry Walker, 18, was jailed for 2 years for assault.
March 20 – Kerry Jaworska, 18, a care assistant, was beaten and strangled with a dressing gown cord in the bedroom of her home in Haddington, Lothian. Her younger sister Stephanie Jaworska, 15, was jailed for life (6 years) in Sep 1998. Her younger brother Ryan Jaworska, 13, was acquitted. The trial heard that Stephanie killed Kerry because she was “bossy”. The trial heard that they were in the custody of their father and Kerry played the role of their absent mother. Stephanie stole £60 from her sister’s bank account and spent it on trousers and cigarettes. The judge described her as “pure badness”.
March 19 – Phillip Lee, 55, a gay married barman, was stabbed at Otterspool Promenade, a notorious cottaging spot in south Liverpool. The case remained unsolved until 1999 when Roy Kristensen, 43, admitted to killing Lee while being questioned about a robbery. He refused to repeat the confession on tape but forensic fibre evidence – linking the victim to Kristensen’s car – led to his conviction in 2004. Kristensen was jailed for life (22 years).
March 17 – Kazushi Hamano, 40, a fisherman, was strangled and his body cut in two with a saw and dumped on a beach in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. His wife, Kikue Hamano, 37, was charged with murder.
March 15 – Michael Stone, 25, was killed after a funeral in Whelley, Wigan. His father Ray Stone, 46, was acquitted on the judge’s directions in Jan 1999.
March 15 – David Keys, 23, a former Ulster Defence Regiment turned LVF drug dealer, who was on remand for the murder of two men (one Catholic and one Protestant) in a bar in Poyntzpass, was tortured, strangled and hanged in the LVF wing of the Maze prison near Belfast. Robin King, 33, the LVF officer commanding in the Maze, and Rod Phillips, 35, also LVF, were both acquitted in March 2000. Chris McMillan, 24, was convicted of GBH. David Patterson turned Queen’s evidence. The trial at Belfast CC heard that the LVF thought Keys was about to grass up others involved in the Poyntzpass killings.
March 14 – Nadia Roccia, 20, strangled with a scarf in Castellucio dei Sauri, near Foggia, Italy. Mariena Sica, 20, and Anna Maria Botticelli, 20, were both jailed for life in Feb 2000. The killers faked a suicide note which said she was a lesbian. The case was dubbed the “Italian Twin Peaks” murder.
March 13 – Yvonne Killian, 22, law clerk at Bromley court, strangled with her own tights at home in Erith, Kent. Her boyfriend Joe Scudder was working a night shift at a local factory. Karl Stirk, 26, was jailed for life in Jan 1999 after being arrested in Dundee. The trial heard his girlfriend had rejected him. He stole a £300 PlayStation and tried to set fire to her body. Yvonne’s father David had been murdered in 1981.
March 12 – Roy Eccles, 55, a retired electrical engineer, and his wife Judith Eccles, 49, originally from Bedford, were stabbed with a knife and pitchfork at their home in Kaminarata on Cephallonia, Greece. Their boat was found abandoned near the ferry port of Sami. Edward Elmazai, 19, and Lambro Pappa, 22, Albanian farm workers, were both jailed for life in Jan 1999.
March 11 – Janos Fenyoe, Jewish Hungarian media mogul (head of VICO media group), was shot as he waited in his black Mercedes at traffic lights in Budapest. He defected to the US in 1987 but returned in the 1990s and owned 12 magazines and a daily newspaper. His pregnant wife Judit was a former model. There were rumours of Mossad involvement. Njazi Aqifi, a Kosovo-Albanian, was arrested in Aug 1998 on the Yugoslav border. But the main suspect is Jozef Rohac aka Potkan (born Sep 1956), a Slovak hitman and explosives specialist. He is believed to have committed numerous hits in Slovakia and Hungary, including the assassination of Robert Remias. In 1984 Rohac was jailed for 15 years in communist Czechoslovakia for kidnapping Deputy Minister Minister of Health and attempting to take him out of the country. He later became the first person to escape from Ilava prison. He led the Leopoldov prison mutiny in 1989. He was released in 1990 under an amnesty by President Vaclav Havel. In 2011 he was arrested in Slovakia and awaits extradition to Hungary.
March 11 – Gary Edwards, 40, died in a brawl at the Village Inn in South Ockenden, Essex. A man aged 51 suffered severe head injuries but survived. Jason Bolger, 21, was jailed for life in Feb 1999. His brother Brian Bolger, 26, was convicted of manslaughter. Craig Wicks was acquitted.
March 9 – Terry Spence, 37, divorcee and father of five, was shot outside the home of his lover Jane Shepherd in Poplar, east London. Unsolved.
March 7 – Nikos Sotiropoulos, 67, vice chairman of the Greek Union of Insurance Companies, was shot dead in front his wife and mother-in-law in Saronida, a suburb of Athens. Two contract killers were responsible. They are thought to have been working for insurance companies he closed down. Unsolved.
March 7 – David Young, 33, from Askern, near Doncaster, was punched in the head, fell and died outside the Eden pub in Doncaster. A man walked into a police station to confess. No more details available.
March 6 – Eri Katsuragawa, 15, schoolgirl, was strangled with a pillowcase as she slept in Aichi, 185 miles west of Tokyo. Her boyfriend, aged 19, admitted killing her. He said he “wanted to possess her”. She had been due to graduate from high school a few days later.
March 6 – Alison Park, 37, died of head injuries at home in Blackpool. Her husband Geoff Park, 49, was jailed for 12 months for manslaughter in Dec 1998.
March 6 – Paul Rothwell, 24, drug user and dealer, was shot dead when he opened the door of his home in Blackburn. Kenneth Hartley, 26, a former friend and fellow dealer, was jailed for life in Feb 1999.
March 6 – Four supervisors were shot dead at the headquarters of the Connecticut state lottery. Matthew Beck, a disgruntled accountant, claimed they were cheating. He later shot himself.
March 5 – Susan Craven, 54, was killed and her head was found encased in concrete in the garage of their home in Burncross, Sheffield in April 1998. Her common law husband Kenneth Peatfield, 49, was jailed for life (18 years) in Feb 1999. The trial at Sheffield CC heard he wanted her out of the way so he could move in his teenage lover, Faith Warner. Peatfield had been convicted in September 1984 of soliciting to murder and was jailed for 10 years. He had paid two men to kill his wife and 10 year old daughter, but the men went to the police. While in prison, the applicant met Alan Craven, a wealthy but illiterate car scrap dealer. On their release in 1990, the applicant started an affair with Craven’s wife Susan.
March 5 – Kirsty Carver, 22, civilian computer operator with Humberside Police, vanished from her home in Hessle, Hull. Her car was found abandoned in a country lane with the keys in the ignition. Her body was later found at Spurn Point. Craig Belcher, 23, a petrol station attendant from Hessle, was jailed for life in Feb 1999.
March 4 – Elsie “Viva” Freeman, 70, a recluse, was tied up and bludgeoned to death at her home in Impington, near Cambridge. Her body was discovered three days later. It is thought she was killed by a burglar. Unsolved.
March 3 – Kathleen Geldart, 46, former wife of a magistrate, was bludgeoned to death at home in Haughton, County Durham. Her son Simon Geldart, 18, was detained indefinitely under HM Pleasure in Feb 1999. The trial at Teesside CC heard they rowed because he wanted to borrow her car.
March 2 – Maggie Reid, 42, mother of five, had her throat cut and was dumped in a skip in New Town, Edinburgh. Her husband Thomas Reid, 42, was charged with murder. She had apparently jilted him for a prison inmate.
Feb 1998
Feb – Jenjira Ploy-Angusriri, 22, medical student, choked to death in a Bangkok hotel, was then dissected with scalpels and flushed down the toilets over three hours. Her skeleton was dumped in a river. Her boyfriend, Serm Sakhonrat, 23, a medical student at Mahidol University, was jailed for life in March 2000. He avoided the death sentence by pleading guilty. In 2011 he was given a royal pardon and released from prison.
Jan and Feb – Four store clerks were shot dead in the space of two months in Budapest, Hungary. Mihaly Dezsi, 20, was arrested.
Feb 28 – Margo Lafferty, 27, a petite blonde prostitute, was strangled in a dark alley in Glasgow’s red light district. Brian Donnelly, 19, from Drumchapel, was jailed for life in Oct 1998. At his trial he admitted having sex with her but denied killing her. The trial heard she had tried to rob one of her punters a week earlier. Donnelly’s conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in Nov 2000 because judge misdirected the jury. He went on trial again in 2001 and was again jailed for life. He claimed at trial that the murder was committed by a construction worker from Scarborough.
Feb 28 – John Fitzgerald, 49, a pub landlord, was stabbed 20 times and bludgeoned with a wine bottle at the Richmond Springs pub in Clifton, Bristol. He was robbed of £1,300 in bar takings. Michael Eifinger, 25, a German barman, fled to Spain but was deported after he appeared on Crimewatch. He was jailed for life in Sep 1999 and was later deported to serve his sentence in Germany. Mr Fitzgerald’s widow Lucia moved back to Ireland.
Feb 28 – John Bennett, 26, a petty crook from Barmulloch, was stabbed and beaten to death in Drumchapel, Glasgow. Ian McAteer, 36, Donald McPhail, 38, and Robert Burker, 32, were acquitted in Aug 1998.
Feb 24 – Yong Yai Loon, 22, a Malaysian Chinese waiter, was stabbed in Lyle Street, Chinatown, central London. Quang Bui, Chi Tran, and Cuong Dang, were all jailed for life in March 1999. They were members of a Vietnamese gang.
Feb – Edmund Cronin, 65, a drunk, was beaten up at his home in Aston, Birmingham. Gary Turner, 30, a fellow alcoholic, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter.
Feb 20 – Robert Jones, 46, was beaten to death with a spanner and a crowbar at his flat in Mannamead, Plymouth. His drinking buddies Brian Baker, 58, and Stephen Horrill, 41, were both jailed for life in July 1999.
Feb – Kulwinder Singh Soor, a doorman, was run over by a car outside the Dove pub in Evingston, Leicester. Narender Lidar, 31, from Thurnby Lodge, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter in Dec 1998.
Feb – Roy Chivers, 50, from Kent, was stabbed at the Aberdare Country Club near Nairobi, Kenya. Peter Gachau and Simon Wairimu were acquitted in Sep 1998 but sentenced to death for another murder.
Feb 17 – Margaret Campbell, 78, spinster and former Wren, was beaten to death at her flat in Craigton, Glasgow. John McGeown, 39, a thief, was jailed for life in July 1998. She had no money to steal.
Feb 16 – Ian Godley, 37, a computer programmer and former soldier from Exeter, died in an arson attack on his flat in Newmilns, near Kilmarnock, Scotland. Two boys, aged 11 and 14, were charged with murder but the case was later dropped. Ian’s mother, Molly, continues to campaign for justice.
Feb 15 – Emma Jo Romans, 23, newlywed, was beaten to death at home in Barry, south Wales. Her husband Kevin Romans, 28, a builder, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 15 years in Sep 1998. The trial heard that he had survived a suicide pact. His father had committed suicide years earlier.
Feb 14 – Tyler Cummings, 30, an American, was shot 6 times in bed at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His wife Helen Cummings, 32, a nurse from Preston, Lancashire, was acquitted of murder, convicted of a lesser charge and given probation. She returned to Britain. The trial heard he was unfaithful and was killed on Valentine’s Day.
Feb 14 – Zanab Bi, 44, and her children Nazir Parveen, 16, and Tanveer Hussain, 18, killed at a house in Thornbury, Bradford. Her husband Jhangir Hussain, 42, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) in Jan 1999 and was given an indefinite hospital order.
Feb 11 – Janos Fenyo, a media mogul, was shot dead at traffic lights in Budapest, Hungary. A Slovak man, Josef Rohac, was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 for the murder. In 2019 the former head of Hungary’s swimming federation, Tamas Gyarfas, went on trial accused of ordering the death of Janos Fenyo. He said at the start of his trial Tuesday that he had nothing to admit related to the killing. He says violence isn’t in his nature. Prosecutors believe Gyarfas paid intermediaries to arrange the killing because of personal and business conflicts with Fenyo. Gyarfas rejected a plea deal that would have included 12 years in prison.
Feb 10 – Peter McNeil, 40, aka James Lawson, a car dealer and supergrass, was shot when he answered the door of his safe house in Hook, near Basingstoke. James Clelland, 41, of Crondall, near Fleet, Hampshire, was acquitted at Winchester CC in March 1999. The trial was told that McNeil gave evidence which led to the conviction of four members of the Giacolone mafia family from Detroit in 1988. But the trial heard the motive for Clelland was that McNeil had been having an affair with Clelland’s former common law wife. The trial was told that Clelland had hired a hit man. McNeil’s bodyguard, former professional boxer Sven Hamer, was unhurt.
Feb 3 – John Simpson, 24, from the Gorbals, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Pollok, Glasgow. Andrew Donlan, 29, from Paisley, was acquitted in Aug 1998. At the trial Donlan claimed his brother William was responsible. Simpson had survived an assassination attempt on New Year’s Eve.
Feb 2 – James Casey, 22, student nurse, was raped, strangled and drowned after a party in a nightclub in Motherwell, Scotland. Her was found in the river Calder. George Copeland, 37, a gay hotel porter, was jailed for life (12 years) in June 1998.
Feb 1 – Two members of The Outcasts motorbike gang – Malcolm St Clair, 36, a New Zealand-born motorbike courier, from Catford, and David “Flipper” Armstrong, 32, from Walthamstow, were stabbed at a Rockers’ Reunion motorbike rally at Battersea Arts Centre in London where 1960s singer Joe Brown was playing. A third man was seriously injured. Ronald “Gut” Wait, 44, a Hells Angel, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 15 years for GBH. He was wielding an axe. Charges were dropped against Barry Hollingsworth, 37, and Ray Woodward, 35. The killings happened during a fight involving 20 people from Hells Angels and The Outcasts which involved hammers, axes and knives. The police later raided Hells Angels chapter houses in Kent, Reading, Bedfordshire, Wolverhampton and Newcastle.
Jan 1998
Jan 30 – Qi Yuande was stabbed to death with daggers and cleavers in Xiangcheng city, Henan Province, China. His wife Li Guiying survived. Their neighbour Qi Xueshan and his murderous gang fled the town the same day. They had attacked the couple because they feared Li – a low-level government official – would report them to the Chinese government. Li managed to track down one of the gang’s mobile numbers in 2011. In 2015 Qi and the others were finally jailed for life. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/477625/Chinese-wife-witnesses-husband-murder-killers-jailed
Jan – Carla Thompson, 57, a devout Christian, was battered to death outside her home in Tulse Hill, south London. Agnes Erume, 60, survived. They both had nooses tied around their necks. Daniel Joseph, 18, an unemployed lunatic, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and was given an indefinite hospital order.
Jan 27 – Dorothy Young, 53, teacher, was killed at a beauty spot on Dartmoor, Devon. Her husband Richard Young, 53, an architect from Launceston, Cornwall, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1999 and was sent to the Butler Clinic in Dawlish without limit of time.
Jan 27 – Spencer Dowbella, 30, was beaten to death with a sock full of snooker balls at his home in Ely, Cardiff. Robert Morgan, 18, was jailed for 8 years for manslaughter. Dowbella had lent £100 to Morgan’s sister Tracy to buy drugs. There ensued a row.
Jan 26 – Beryl “Dornie” O’Connor, 75, was strangled in her top floor flat in Holmesdale Gardens, Hastings, which was then set on fire. Graham Fisher, 25, confessed to the crime while in Broadmoor in 2009. He admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) in Sep 2010 and was jailed for 21 years. He also admitted killing Clare Letchford, 40, who died after an arson attack on her flat in Cornwallis Gardens on Jan 17, 1998. The two addresses were only 100 yards apart.
Jan 25 – Kate Maloney, 19, was found in a field near Black Dam roundabout beside the A30 at Basingstoke. Her boyfriend Michael Hill, 33, a fork lift truck driver, was jailed for life in Oct 1998. They had spent the night together at The Lamb pub and Mad Hatters nightclub. He claimed he left the pub early but CCTV showed him with her still at the club at 2am.
Jan 24 – Marsha Wray, 38, nurse, vanished after dropping her children off at Hookstone primary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Her Metro car was later found abandoned. Scotton Wood was searched in March 1999. Suspicion fell on her husband Colin Wray but he was never charged. In 2013 it was announced that a cold case review would be performed to see if there were any links with the disappearance of Claudia Lawrence in York in 2009.
Jan 24 – Jimmy Harmon, 30, mechanic and part-time pub doorman at the Robin Hood pub, vanished from his girlfriend’s home in Romford, Essex. He is believed to have gone to see a man called Andy. £20,000 reward offered. Unsolved.
Jan – Edwin Cox, 64, a child molester, was thrown off cliffs in the Isle of Wight. His body was never found. Chris Thomas, 22, a labourer from Newport, Isle of Wight, was jailed for life in July 1999 after a retrial. Thomas claimed Cox molested him as a child.
Jan 18 – Fergal McCusker, 28,Catholic builder from Sunnyside Park, was shot outside Fairhill youth club in Maghera, County Londonderry by three LVF loyalists (their faces painted orange) in revenge for the murder of LVF leader Billy Wright in Dec 1997. McCusker had a girlfriend in America. Unsolved.
Jan 17 – Betty Leywood, 80, died of a fractured skull at home in Stoke Newington, NE London. A boy, aged 16, was charged with murder.
Jan 17 – Fabio Tollis, 16, and Chiara Marino, 19, had throats cut and were dumped in a hole in woods near Milan, Italy. Nicola Sapone and Paolo Leoni was jailed for life in 2005. Andrea Volpe was jailed for 30 years. Pietro Guerrieri was jailed for 16 years. Mario Maccione was jailed for 15 years. Marco Zampollo, Eros Monterosso and Elisabetta Ballarin, received sentences between 24 and 29 years. They were all members of the Beasts Of Satan death metal band and Satanists. Volpe’s former girlfriend, Mariangela Pezzotta, 27, was also murdered by the group in 2004.
Jan 17 – Jonathan Abell, 22, stabbed in the head, chest and neck in Bestwood, Nottingham. Brian Wade, 52, from Nottingham, was jailed for life in Nov 1998.
Jan 16 – Steve Petley, 21, from Beanhill, was stabbed on Peartree Bridge in Milton Keynes. Three men were arrested. Unsolved.
Jan 12 – Eamonn O’Reilly, 22, drug dealer from Ballymun, was shot in the Tower Inn, Finglas, Dublin. David Thomas, 36, was acquitted in July 2000. The trial was told of a feud between the Thomas and O’Reilly families.
Jan 10 – Philip Box, 29, father of three, punched outside a chip shop in Lower Gornal, West Midlands. David Jones, 20, was jailed for 39 months for manslaughter in Dec 1998. Mark Hale, 20 and Chris Allsop, 20, were both acquitted at Birmingham CC.
Jan 10 – Rachel Long, 20, stabbed with a cake knife at a fight involving 40 people outside The Volunteer pub in Grove, near Wantage, Oxfordshire. Her boyfriend Mark Parker, 20, survived. Matthew Smith, 30, from Abingdon, was jailed for life. The trial at Oxford CC in July 1998 heard that Smith had drunk 10 pints of snakebite before gatecrashing Anouska Lipscombe’s 21st birthday party and attacking Anouska’s father with a wine bottle.
Jan 6 – Norah Levelle, mother of three, stabbed at her maisonette in Leighton Buzzard. Her boyfriend Rodney Brown, 48, a comic and singer from Liverpool, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) but was jailed for 9 years. He worked in nightclubs in the north of England.
Jan 4 – Michael Robertson, 25, stabbed after breaking into his girlfriend’s flat in Tollcross, Glasgow. Thomas McKay, 29, a student from Tranmere, Merseyside, was acquitted on the grounds of self-defence.
Jan – Leonard Harris, 79, retired taxi driver, beaten up during a burglary in north London. Michael Weir, 33, went on trial at the Old Bailey in 1999 but was acquitted. The judge ruled that DNA evidence was not admissible.
Jan 2 – Hannah Deterville, 15, from Paddington, west London, was killed and her mutilated body found wrapped in tarpaulin in bushes at Horsenden Hill, Greenford, Middlesex. She was a pupil at Thomas Moore School in Chelsea but it is thought she may have been working as a prostitute and may have been picked up on the Harrow Road. The body was found by a gay man who made an anonymous tip-off to the Gay & Lesbian Switchboard on Jan 24. The prime suspect is David Smith, who was jailed for life for the murder of prostitute Amanda Walker. DCI Norman McKinlay said the M.O. of the killer was the same but there was not enough evidence to charge Smith.
Jan 2 – Rachel Searle, 16, student and mother of 18 month old Brandon, strangled with telephone wire, burned and dumped in a lake at Bedfont, near Staines where body was found a week later. Ben Allen, 19, a heroin user from Weybridge, was jailed for life in Sep 1998. Ricky Chilton, 17, from Feltham, was given a combination order for assisting an offender. The trial heard Allen “felt rejected by her”.
Jan 1 – Kazia Thomas, 19, from Bow, east London, was found on the ramp to a factory in Hackney, east London, near the Powerhouse nightclub. Unsolved.
Jan 1 – Romano Abban, 31, stabbed in the heart in Mitcham, south London. Her lover Barbara Hughes, 39, a lesbian traffic warden, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter. The trial in 1999 heard that Hughes became jealous after Abban danced with a man.
Jan 1 – Craig Flanagan, an Australian living in London, was stabbed outside the Penny Farthing pub in Edinburgh. Unsolved.
Jan 1 – Ben Smart, 21, and Olivia Hope, 17, had been celebrating New Year at Furneaux Lodge in Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. After the party they accepted an offer from a stranger to stay on board “his yacht”. They were last seen around 4am. They were reported missing the following day. Their remains have never been found. Scott Watson, then aged 26, was charged with murder, jailed for life (17 years). He maintains his innocence.
Dec 31 – Peter Priestley, 43, was stabbed at home in Clayton, Bradford. His girlfriend Beverley Taylor, 40, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter in May 1998.
Dec 31 – Susan Hooton, 36, was stabbed and, while still alive, thrown out the window of a 12th storey flat in Burrow Court flats in Sneinton, Nottingham. Paul Hufton, 41, was jailed for life in July 1998.
Dec 30 – Chris Hartley, 17, an unemployed fairground worker from Burnley, was killed and his headless body was found in a bin outside the New Central Hotel in Blackpool. Stuart Diamond, 20, a former Pleasure Beach worker who became a drug addict, was jailed for life in Jan 1999. He claimed drug dealers had framed him. The judge said he should never be freed.
Dec 29 – Gerald Fitzsimmons, 42, a beggar, from Belfast, was beaten up at a bedsit in Maida Vale, north London. He died in hospital on Jan 22, 1998. John Long, 23, an Irish labourer from County Mayo, was jailed for life in March 1999. The trial heard Long shared the bedsit with Fitzsimmons and attacked him after he refused to fill in a false benefit claim form or give him the proceeds of begging. Long also attacked John Cunningham, 17, after he brought home lamb chops instead of pork chops.
Dec 29 – Jeffrey Leigh, 64, a widower from Bangor, North Wales, died of head injuries at his new home in Mount Nugent, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland. Martin Williams, 18, from Wales, was arrested.
Dec 28 – Deborah Steel, 37, former landlady of the Royal Standard pub in Ely, Cambridgeshire, vanished. She has never been seen since. In Sep 2014 police arrested a 70 year old man on suspicion of murder and searched a house in Longfields, Ely.
Dec 27 –
Billy “King Rat” Wright, 37, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), was shot five times in the yard of HMP Maze, near Belfast, as he was preparing to go to the visiting room. Chris “Crip” McWilliams, 35, John Kennaway, 35, and John Glennon, 32, who were all INLA prisoners, were jailed for life in Oct 1998. All three were later freed (in 2000) under the Good Friday Agreement. The trial at Downpatrick CC heard Wright was serving a jail term for threatening a woman witness. McWilliams was serving life for murdering a Belfast bar manager and Kennaway had plotted to kill a Northern Ireland Tory.
They climbed over a wall from the INLA yard into the LVF yard and used guns which had been smuggled into the jail. The Billy Wright Inquiry found no evidence of collusion in his killing. It has been rumoured that Wright was a government agent. McWilliams died of cancer in 2008, aged 44. Kennaway, who was arrested again, choked himself to death in an apparent suicide in HMP Maghaberry in 2007.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-billy-wright-inquiry-report
Dec 25 – Thomas Hunter, 42, Glasgow-born, was stabbed with a kitchen knife at home in Darwen, Lancashire. Margaret Copeland, 28, a mother of two, was jailed for life in July 1998. She claimed during the trial at Preston CC that he had sexually abused her.
Dec 25 – Joanne Tulip, 29, was raped and stabbed 60 times at her home in Stamfordham, Northumberland. Steven Ling, a farm worker who was in his 20s at the time, was jailed for life (20 years) in Dec 1998 after admitting murder. A charge of rape was left on file. The tariff was later cut to 18 years. In 2022 the then justice secretary Dominic Raab rejected a request to transfer Ling to a lower security open prison, overruling a recommendation made by the Parole Board. Ling was due to have a public parole hearing in 2023. He was eventually recommended for parole by the Parole Board in September 2024.
Dec 23 – Anthony Morgan, 39, stabbed 15 times in Tuebrook, Liverpool. Goerge Tryphonos, 26, was jailed for life in July 1998. They got into a row after Tryphonos called Morgan’s girlfriend “fat” in some holiday snaps.
Dec 23 – Tanya Shorthouse, 27, a navy dockyard cleaner, was stabbed 53 times at her home in Hayden Grove, St Budeaux, Plymouth. Her former boyfriend Stephen Eastel, 30, was jailed for life (14 years) in May 1999. She had met a new boyfriend, a Navy chief petty officer on a submarine, and Eastel refused to accept it. He threatened her and she had a panic button installed in her home. She pushed the button on the night he broke in, through a downstairs bathroom window, but she was dead when police arrived. Her 8 year old son was in the house at the time of her killing. At his trial Eastel lied and claimed she wanted a threesome. In 2009 Eastel helped prevent a prison kitchen fire at HMP Kingston in Portsmouth. It was therefore decided to cut his tariff. He was due to be released in 2011.
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Murderer-s-jail-term-cut-preventing-blaze/story-11383361-detail/story.html#axzz2vYMgwfD1
Dec 22 – Lisa Blunt, 23, mother of four from Bestwood Park, Nottingham, was hit 10 times and found a few days later wrapped in carpet, soaked in petrol and set on fire on waste ground in Bulwell, Nottingham. Her common-law husband Vincent Shilton, 29, a factory worker, was jailed for 8 years for manslaughter in Nov 1998. He had gone on TV to make an appeal and claimed she vanished during a Christmas shopping trip. It emerged at trial that she was killed during a drunken row.
Dec 21 – Sean O’Toole, 34, was shot in the crowded PJ’s Moon & Sixpence pub in Birmingham city centre. Philip O’Brien, 32, was wounded. Nelson Forest, a cannabis dealer, was jailed for life in Dec 1998.
Dec 18 – Roderick Aitken, 38, and his wife Anne-Marie Aitken, 38, were last seen at a supermarket in Bearsden, Glasgow. They were killed at a farm in Little Blairlusk and dumped on land at Crosbie Mains Farms, West Kilbride, Scotland. Ian Meikhleham, 29, and John Parker, 27, were both jailed for life (20 years). Both were farmers and cannabis dealers. Aitken and Meikleham were partners in the drugs trade but fell out.
Dec 15 – Raymond Hampson, 39, died of head injuries outside the Bees Knees pub in Accrington, Lancashire. Steven Taylor, 23, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter in Jan 1999.
Dec 10 – John Brosnan, 50, from Leamington Spa, died of head injuries and found in the boot of a burning Ford Mondeo in Beoley, near Redditch, Worcestershire. Joe Fryers, 35, and David Alcock, 34, from Birmingham, were jailed for life in Dec 1998. It was a gangland feud.
Dec 7 – Tony Waters, 44, convicted drug dealer, kicked and stamped to death outside The East Ender pub in Hendon, Sunderland. Ernest Bewick, 43, a former professional boxer from Roker, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter (on the grounds of provocation). The trial at Newcastle CC in 1999 heard there was a power struggle for control of the city’s pubs. Bewick ran a firm of doormen who refused to allow drugs in. Waters was in the Warden Law gang, who wanted to peddle drugs. Bewick was released from prison in Jan 2001.
In the months leading up to Dec – Enrique Benavent, and three others, were murdered, dismembered and found in the garden of his house in Castellon, Spain. Emilio Pellicer, 64, a Spanish businessman and drug smuggler with interests in Bolivia, was arrested at Madrid airport.
Dec – David Kirk, 21, a Scottish university student, died of head injuries after being attacked outside a nightclub in Blackpool. Richard Bradley, 33, from Layton, Lancashire, was charged but no evidence was offered in May 1998 and he was formally found not guilty at Preston CC. Bradley’s girlfriend Melissa Charrington was charged with perverting the course of justice but was later freed.
Dec – Sharron Lynch, 22, prostitute from St Helens, was found dead in a warehouse in Liverpool. John Flanagan, 27, a homeless Big Issue seller, was jailed for life in the summer of 1998.
Dec – John Haselden, a car dealer from Newton-le-Willows, was shot in the head in the car park of Whiston Hospital in Liverpool. Stephen Lawler, 32, was believed to be responsible but was himself later shot dead.
November 1997
Nov 30 – Thomas Hall, 90, a war veteran, was beaten, tied to a chair and gagged at his home in Heaton, Newcastle. In June 1999 Gary Thompson, 32, from Rye Hill, Newcastle, was jailed for life for the pensioner’s murder. He was also convicted of conspiracy to rob the retired civil servant and robbery. John Trattles, 41, from Denton Burn, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 4 years for conspiracy to rob. Paul Dees, 28, from Lemington, was also acquitted of murder but jailed for 2 and a half years for conspiracy to rob. Geoffrey Smith, 39, from Lemington, was jailed for 18 months and Christopher Dale, 36, from Benwell, was jailed for 2 years. Alan Sidney, 30, from Newbiggin Hall, was convicted of handling property stolen in the robbery and given 200 hours community service.David Clark, 29, was cleared of all charges. The trial heard Mr Hall was tricked into opening his door.He was struck on the chest during the attack, his shoulder was dislocated and he also suffered a small stroke.He died 11 days later in hospital from pneumonia triggered by the assault.
Nov 30 – Shane Thompson, 19, from St Ann’s, received fatal injuries after being beaten outside the Two In The Bush pub in Nottingham. He died in hospital 18 hours later. Thompson and his fellow gang members had been hunting for members of the rival Meadows Posse but were attacked themselves. Six members of the Meadows Posse – including Tyrone Conie, 22, Chris Joseph, 18, Aaron Benwell, 17, and Makhan Dayil, 18 – all went on trial in Nov 1998 but the prosecution dropped the case midway through and all were acquitted. Afterwards graffiti appeared in Nottingham bragging about the victory for the Meadows Posse.
Nov 29 – Jonathan Osborne, 33, was stabbed in Ely, Cardiff. David Sultana, 42, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter in July 12998. He was also breaching a suspended sentence for assaulting a policeman and handling stolen guns.
Nov 28 – John Brown, 36, was stabbed in Stoke Newington, NE London. Gregor Schmading was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter in Nov 1998.
Nov 28 – Evelyn King, 88, died of a heart attack after a break-in at her home in Highfields, Leicester. Jason Dalrymple, 26, from Leicester, was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter in Sep 1998.
Nov – Edmund Moore, 77, was killed at his home in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. Jonathan Hudson, 33, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter in Dec 1998.
Nov 27 – Samantha Murphy, 28, was strangled in the street in Harwich, Essex. Her boyfriend Alan Royall, 50, was jailed for life. He claimed she died as part of a botched suicide pact.
Nov 27 – Glynn Snowden, 29, was stabbed in the stomach in Penzance, Cornwall. Paul Bolitho-Crane-Taylor, 36, from Newlyn, was jailed for 7 years for manslaughter in July 1998. Julian Madden, 27, was acquitted of perverting the course of justice at Truro CC.
Nov 26 – Michael O’Flaherty, 58, a drunk, was killed at his flat in Kidbrooke, SE London. Mark Lambert, 34, was jailed for 8 years for manslaughter in June 1998. The trial heard that they had a row after Lambert, who was also drunk, won an arm wrestle.
Nov 25 – Alex Maddison, 58, stabbed at his flat in Mount Pleasant, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. A neighbour, Scott Shepherd, 26, was jailed for life in July 1998.
Nov 24 – Tracy Wylde, 21, a single mother, heroin addict and prostitute, was found at home in Barmulloch, Glasgow. She had been picked up in the city’s red light district in a dark blue Ford Escort at 2.5am. She was last seen at Drugs Crisis Centre at 3.05am. She was seen on CCTV with a well-dressed man in a white jacket at 3.20am. There is DNA evidence. Unsolved.
Nov 23 – Mark Ayton, 19, apprentice, kicked to death in an affluent suburb of Balerno, Edinburgh, because of his English accent. Iain Wheldon, 17; Graham Purves, 18, and Ross Gravestock, 16, were convicted of culpable homicide in May 1998 and jailed for 4 years each. They were released in Nov 1999, after only two years in jail.
Nov 23 – Aiyse Sullivan, 19, from Exeter, was battered to death with a metal bar at her flat in Rotherhithe, SE London. The flat was later blown up with gas. Her boyfriend Shane Bath, 30, was jailed for life in May 1998.
Nov 21 – Jodie Lynn Bordeaux, 28, shot dead in the lounge of their home in Powhattan, Kansas. Her husband Shawn, 31, who was in the room, was unhurt. The shot came in from outside their small farmhouse on the outskirts of the Kickapoo Indian reservation and the weapon was used was an AK-47 rifle. Mr and Mrs Bordeaux worked at the reservation’s Golden Eagle Casino although neither were Kickapoo. Mrs Bordeaux was pregnant at the time. Mr Bordeaux called the murdered baby Jordan. The case is unsolved.
Nov – Rita Riddlesworth, 51, buried under the patio of their home in Bracknell, Berkshire. Her lover Paul Beecham, 55, shot himself afterwards. He had been released from Broadmoor in 1985 after being convicted of killing his parents and grandparents in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in 1969.
Nov 19 – Paul Hainey, 21, a plumber, from Shortroods, was shot in the chest and back in the street in Houston, near Paisley, Scotland. Stephen Bryson, 32, was acquitted in May 1998. The trial at Glasgow High Court was told that Bryson was a drug dealer and Hainey had told a friend he was going to by hundreds of Temazepam capsules. David Wingate, 38, was believed to have been involved but he was shot dead in Dec 1998.
Nov 18 – James Hutton, 44, from Bishopbriggs, was bludgeoned with concrete blocks and dumped in the garden of a house in Milton, Glasgow. Brian Abercromby, 33, from Govan, was jailed for life in March 1998. He was the brother of former St Mirren footballer Billy Abercromby. His cousin’s wife was married to Hutton.
Nov 18 – Farah Khan, 18, strangled at home in Windsor, Berkshire. Her husband Imran Khan, 20, a bodybuilder, was jailed for life.
Nov 18 – George Bromley Sr, 33, was shot dead at home in Valescourt Road, West Derby, Liverpool. Charles Seiga, 58, a former restaurateur, was acquitted in Oct 1998. The trial heard that Bromley was a major player in the Liverpool nightclub scene. His son George Jr, fell out with Liverpool footballer Steven Gerrard in 2005. Seiga was later kidnapped and tortured. Two men – Alan Lea and Brian Airey – went on trial for those crimes. It was widely rumoured that Joey Owens was the man responsible for Bromley’s murder but in 2007 he told the Liverpool Echo he was not responsible.
Nov – Thomas Calnan, 69, a retired insurance agent, was hit 33 times with a hammer and covered with creosote at his home in Forest Hill, south London. Sharon Johnston, 33, a prostitute from Peckham, was jailed for life in Jan 1999. The trial heard that he was a bondage fetishist who paid her to come round. But she stole his Volvo and a camcorder while high on crack and brandy.
Nov 16 – Stephen McLaughlin, 22, who was of Irish origin, was attacked with a knife and wooden clubs by a group of 15 men yards from his girlfriend’s home in Preston. His family switched off his life support machine. Zia Khan was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter in Nov 1999. Javed Khan was jailed for 5 years. Asif Khan was detained in a young offenders institution for 4 years. Asad Ali was jailed for 2 years for violent disorder. Mehboob Ali, Manwar Khan, Amer Akhtar, Saiah Rahman and Nadim Afzal were all acquitted. The trial at Preston CC heard it was a feud between two gangs of drug dealers, one Asian and one Irish.
Nov 15 – Peter West, 58, a divorcee and country music fan, was found in bed in Corby, Northamptonshire with his feet cut off. He had been dead for some time. A 60 year old woman – never named – was cautioned for failing to notify the authorities of his death. The post mortem could not ascertain death but it was apparent the feet had been cut off after he died.
Nov 15 – Kate Bushell, 14, a devout Christian schoolgirl, was sexually assaulted and had her throat slashed while walking a neighbour’s dog in Exwick, near Exeter. Unsolved.
Nov 14 – John Fitzgerald, 33, from Partington, was dumped in a field in Greater Manchester. James Chard, 18, was jailed for life in Aug 1998. Robert Jones, 19, was detained during HM Pleasure.
Nov 13 – Mark Adams, 28, from Sneinton, Nottingham, was kicked, punched and thrown in the Nottingham-Beeston Canal. Steven Bennett, 18, from The Meadows, was jailed for life (6 years) for manslaughter in Oct 1998. He had 18 previous convictions.
Nov 12 – Susan Idden, 35, from Tyneside, strangled and stripped and found in Tower Gardens park, Skegness, Lincolnshire. Robert Hewson, 39, unemployed, was jailed for life in March 1998. The trial at Lincoln CC heard that she was staying in the town to look after her sick mother.
Nov 12 – Gracia Morton, 41, Argentinian-born violinist and mother of one, vanished from her home in Iverna Court, Kensington, west London. Her body has never been found but is thought to have been buried in Oxfordshire. Her estranged husband Jonathan Morton went on trial in 2005 but hung jury. He was acquitted of murder at the trial and jailed for 7 years for manslaughter. He was 67 at the time. The police have begged him to say where he buried her body for the sake of their 4 year old daughter.
Nov 11 – Kieran McParland, 48, died of facial injuries at his home in Randolph Gardens, Kilburn, NW London. John Nevin, 37, was given three years’ probation for manslaughter.
Nov 11 – Kenneth Bygrave, 46, died of head wounds in Moorland Road, Brixton. Unsolved.
Nov 11 – Marcus Charles, 23, drug dealer, shot dead on the Church End estate in Willesden, NW London. Dean “Bobby” Roberts, a Yardie hitman, was responsible but was shot dead in 1999.
Nov 10 – Rudolf “Rudy” King, 22, drug dealer, shot outside a sports shop in Willesden, NW London. Marcus Charles, 23, drug dealer, was thought responsible. He was shot dead in revenge the following day. King was killed in revenge for the murder of Meshack Walsh.
Nov 10 – Belinda Harte, 20, mother of a 3 year old girl, was shot at home in Newry, County Down. David Conway, 27, a drug dealer, was jailed for life in April 1999. Kevin Winters, 22, went on trial in 1999 but the jury was hung. At his retrial he was acquitted but jailed for 12 months for supplying the gun. Conway claimed he had the gun because of threats from the IRA. He claimed she was shot by accident after a struggle.
Nov 4 – Stephen Savva, from Halewood, was shot dead in the Kebab House Greek Restaurant and Taverna in Liverpool. Bobby Chambi, 41, from Huyton, was jailed for life in June 1998. Chambi has been to the police that morning and told them he was going to shoot Mr Savva. Chambi had borrowed £20,000 and was hiding it from HMRC to avoid paying tax and VAT.
Nov 3 – Patrick Kelly was killed at the personality disorder unit at Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside. Gary Nuttall, 30, a fellow patient, was acquitted of murder but detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
Nov 2 – Stephanie Lynch, 23, strangled at home in Southport, Merseyside. Her boyfriend Cornelius O’Hale, 21, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter. They had a 2 year old son together.
Nov 1 – Sheba Naz Malik, 25, killed at home in Shipcote, Gateshead. Her husband Farouk Iqbal, 29, was jailed for life in July 1998. The couple’s marriage had been arranged in Pakistan. Her 2 month old baby was found outside in the cold.
October 1997
Oct 31 – Jacqueline King, 51, from Sherborne, Dorset, was stabbed at Troutbeck, near Penrith, Cumbria. John Legros, 56, from Workington, killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning (in a car).
Oct 28 – Rajmikant Patel, 22, co-owner of a pizza shop in Lewisham, was killed in the restaurant, dismembered and dumped in Bradford. His burnt-out car was found in Bradford. His business partner and co-owner, Ali Shah, 32, was jailed for life in Sep 1998. His cousins Asghar Shah, 17, was jailed for 15 months for perverting the course of justice. His twin brother Akbar Shah, 17, was acquitted.
Oct – Leigh Shaw, 37, a West Ham fan, was attacked outside the Valley social club in Whitehawk, Brighton. Ryan Bish, 23, was acquitted of murder at Lewes CC.#
Oct 28 – Fiona Barnes, 28, stabbed with a steak knife at home in Kirkbampton, near Carlisle. Her jilted boyfriend Michael Parker, 34, a fireman, was jailed for life in June 1998.
Oct 26 – David Seymour, 30, from Checkendon, Oxfordshire, stabbed at Oscar’s nightclub in Reading. Robert Jackson, 30, survived. Peter John, 34, a car valet from Reading, was acquitted on a technicality in June 1998. The trial heard that Mr John, who was black, was racially abused.
Oct 25 – Glenn Greer, 28, a drug dealer and loyalist paramilitary, was killed when a bomb blew up under his car on the Kilcooley estate in Bangor, County Down. It is believed he may have been killed by fellow loyalist Frankie Curry, who was later killed. Unsolved.
Oct 25 – Samantha Class, 29, a prostitute, heroin addict and mother of three, was abducted from the Walker Street red light district of Hull, beaten, strangled and thrown into the river Humber. Gary Allen, 25, was acquitted of murder in Jan 2000 at Sheffield CC.
Oct 24 – WPC Nina Mackay, 25, was stabbed as she tried to arrest a man for breach of bail in Stratford, east London. Magdi Elgizouli, 30, a Somalian, was given an indefinite hospital order in April 1998. WPC Mackay had taken off her knifeproof vest earlier.
Oct 20 – Peter Lewis, 26, politics graduate and care worker, was stabbed during a drunken sex game at a flat in East Reach, near Taunton, Somerset. His girlfriend Justine Cummings, 26, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and sent to Broadmoor. Lewis was the son of the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. He had been handcuffed and was wearing only pants.
Oct 20 – Lauren Creed, 5, was punched in the stomach, suffering a split liver, at her home on RAF Coltishall, Norfolk. Her mother Sharon Creed, a senior aircraftsman, was jailed for 5 years for child cruelty in Dec 1998. Creed’s boyfriend Graham Sate, 25, a merchant seaman who had been in jail for attempted murder, was jailed for life.
Oct 19 – Jane Leedham, 36, a former model from Telford, was stabbed at her boyfriend’s house in Parkside, Stafford. Her boyfriend Duncan Billson, 31, a physicist, survived. Her husband Andrew Leedham, 47, a machine operator from Manchester, was jailed for life in Nov 1998. Leedham met both men met through the lonely hearts column of the Shropshire Star newspaper. Leedham claimed he was “not conscious” during the frenzied attack.
Oct 14 – John Murphy, 59, killed at a flat in Villa Road, Lozells, Birmingham. James O’Brien, 29, was jailed for life in July 1998. David Miles, 39, was acquitted.
Oct 13 – Parvez Masih, 30, alcoholic Punjabi father of one with a wife in the West Midlands, was tortured with a screwdriver, hit with a blunt instrument and then dumped in a freezer in the basement of a lodging house in Bedford, where he was found three days later. He had been robbed of £99 and tortured to get hold of his PIN number. Robert McPhail, 17, from Dunoon, Scotland, and Phillip Noell, 24, from Liverpool, were both jailed for life at St Albans CC in July 1998. Noell’s girlfriend Claire McGeachey, 18, from Scotland, was acquitted. She was the mother of Noell’s son.
Oct 13 – William Everest, 52, a security guard and suspected paedophile, was beaten up on the doorstep of his home in Walthamstow, NE London. He died in Whipps Cross Hospital of multiple organ failure. Chris Broome, 28, was jailed for life in May 1998. Broome’s girlfriend Jennifer Walker, 33, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 2 years for manslaughter. Darren Christy, 29, was acquitted of all charges. The trial heard that Everest was tortured with knives, a baseball bat and bottles and scalded with boiling water. He was accused of sexually interfering with a young girl and had the word NONCE cut into his chest.
Oct 10 – Lyndsey Powell, 17, was stabbed at home in Bebington, near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. No-one was charged and an inquest in July 1998 ruled it an accidental death. It heard that she had been “fooling around with knives”.
Oct 5 – Matthias Hintze, 20, a German soldier, was kidnapped and left to die in an underground pit in a wood near Lake Muritz in Mecklenburg, Germany. Sergeri Serov, 37, a lawyer, and Vyatcheslav Orlov, 27, a lorry driver, were both jailed for 14 and a half years in Potsdam in 1999. They were Russians who seized Hintze from outside his wealthy parents’ home in Geltrow, near Berlin, and demanded a £350,000 ransom. Four handovers failed and they abandoned him to his fate. Serov escaped from jail in Nov 1998 while awaiting trial but was recaptured in Berlin. In Nov 2001 they were also jailed for 15 years (maximum penalty allowable in Germany) for kidnapping computer dealer Alexander Galius, 50, who has not been seen since his disappearance in June 1997.
Oct 3 – Simon Speakman, 27, from Macclesfield, died of head injuries after a row over some chips outside Café Spice in Whitworth Street, Manchester. Steven Hughes, 22, from Chorlton, was stabbed in Oxford Road, Manchester, a short time later. Dale Grant, 31, from Ardwick, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter in July 1998. Gavin Murphy, 20, was acquitted of robbery in July 1998 but jailed for malicious wounding. Lee Cunningham had a murder charge against him discharged.
Oct 1 – Neil Robertson, 44, from Kew, a drugs “godfather” who was on the run from Spanish police since 1993, fell from a block of flats in Brentford, west London. He was a friend of Glasgow’s infamous Paul Ferris. A coroner returned an open verdict. Police believed he killed himself. Friends think a rival drug dealer pushed him.
Oct 1 – Mary Woodham, stabbed in bed in Pearl, Mississippi. Christina Menefee and Lydia Dew, both students at Pearl High School, were shot. Seven others were injured. Luke Woodham, 16, was jailed for life in June 1998 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Grant Boyette, 19, was jailed for 5 years for being an accessory. Woodham led a Satanic group called The Kroth. Also in the group were Wes Brownell, 16, Donald Brooks, 17, Allen Shaw, 16, and Justin Sledge, 16. Charges against Shaw, Brooks, and Brownell were dropped. Menefee was his former girlfriend. Woodham will be eligible for parole in 2046.
September 1997
Sep 30 – Sharon Metcalfe, 39, mother of three, stabbed 65 times and collapsed outside her home in Coundon, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham. Dennis Hamilton, 17, a homeless burglar and friend of her son Richard, 18, was convicted of murder and detained during HM Pleasure in Jan 1999.
Sep 27 – Connor Kingston, 11 months old, died at Winstay Hotel in Ilfracombe, Devon (temporary accommodation). His mother Tina Kingston, 28, was jailed for 6 months for manslaughter in 1998. His father Dean Kingston, 31, was acquitted at Exeter CC.
Sep 23 – Graham Clarke, 40, stabbed at his home in Farncombe, near Godalming, Surrey. His wife Diane Clarke, 41, was convicted of manslaughter in 1998 and put on probation for 3 years.
Sep 20 – Angela Steemson, 27, mother of three, strangled at home in Bloxwich, West Midlands. Her husband Darren Steemson, 29, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and jailed for 5 years at Stafford CC.
Sep 19 – Freddy Tello (aka Alfredo Enrique Tello, Jr) was killed and set on fire in Maryland. Samuel Sheinbein and Aaron Needle, 17, were arrested. Needle hanged himself in jail before his trial. Sheinbein fled to Israel and was eventually extradited and jailed for 24 years. He was later sent back to serve his sentence in Israel. In Feb 2014 he was shot dead by Israeli special forces after opening fire on prison guards at Rimonim prison near Tel Aviv.
Sep 17 – Charles Griffith, 56; David Moore, 30; Leonard Filyaw, 31; and Sheryl Wood, 27, were shot dead at a lawnmower engine factory in Aiken, South Carolina. Three others were injured. Arthur Wise, 43, an ex-con who had been fired, was apprehended by a SWAT team after being shot and injured by police. He was sentenced to death in Feb 2001. He was executed by lethal injection in Nov 2005.
Sep 16 – Elizabeth Baxter, 77, was raped, beaten and strangled in her flat in Plaistow, NE London. Steven Hector, 42, a warehouseman, was jailed for life in June 1998. The trial heard that Hector owed her £200. He had broken up with his married lover, Janet Evans, a few days earlier.
Sep 15 – Kevin Taylor, 23, stabbed at a flat in Lisvarna Heights, west Belfast by a gang of thugs claiming to be from the IRA. In 1999 Danny McGurk, 30, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter. Kevin Nellis, 20, got 5 and a half years for manslaughter. Barry Broadman, 30, and Paul Lynn, 20, got 3 and a half years for GBH. Paul Clarke, 19, was jailed for 4 and a half years for manslaughter. In 2004 Francis McColgan, 30, was also charged with murder. McGurk himself was murdered by the Real IRA at his home in Ross Road, off the Falls Road, in 2003.
Sep 14 – Ronald Hinkson, 32, a graphic designer from Kentish Town, north London, was stabbed outside the Barzaar pub in Colindale during a brawl. It is widely believed his killers were part of the notorious Adams family gang. Unsolved.
Sep 13 – Ray Clifford, 44, millionaire scrap dealer, shot in the head at his scrapyard in the village of Lidsing, near Chatham, Kent. It is thought to have been a contract killing linked to drugs. Unsolved.
Sep 13 – Didier Beneforti, 23, and Cathy Gilgemann, 19, a French couple, were shot as they slept in their vehicle in a layby on the motorway near Tilburg, Holland. She was raped. K Salah, 34, was jailed for life. A el-Beidhany was jailed for 13 years. D Tammoh, an Iraqi, was jailed for 11 years. O Khalil was jailed for 9 years.
Sep 11 – Alistair McGill, 36, an alcoholic originally from Ayr, was attacked at his home in Richmond, SW London. He died four days later. Drug addicts Nicholas Ashby, 32, David Stallford, 22, and Tony “Bonesey” Laghaney, 31, from Northern Ireland, were all jailed for 6 years for manslaughter in June 1998. The trial heard he had owed one of them £4.
Sep 8 – A couple, aged 55, were shot in Premery, central France. Their son Thierry Sigaud, 31, was convicted of murder. He was angry after his mother cut his hair in readiness for a carnival but he did not like the haircut.
Sep 7 – Roberto Villegas, 38, Argentinian polo player, was shot dead at Ashland Farm in Fauquier County, Virginia, US. His lover Susan Cummings, 35, daughter of international arms dealer Sam Cummings, admitted voluntary manslaughter and was jailed for 60 days in May 1998. She only served 51 days. Her father was an ex-CIA agent who owns France-based Interarms Inc. The trial heard they room over his womanising.
Sep 5 – Rachel Barraclough, 18, factory worker, from Bradford, sexually assaulted and stabbed 4 times with a long knife as she walked along river towpath in Heath Common, near Wakefield, after a night out with friends. Stephen Hughes, 46, a chef, was jailed for life in Sep 1998. He was the father of her boyfriend Karl Hughes, 21, and had tricked her into meeting. She was a churchgoer.
August 1997
Aug 30 – Paramjit Singh, 34, from Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, was shot in the head and dumped in a layby near the A19 near Thirsk, North Yorkshire. His workmate Sukwinder Sandhu, 22, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 6 years for manslaughter in Oct 1998. Paramjit Singh Sahal, 40, and Rasham Singh Kleir were charged with perverting the course of justice. Sandhu claimed at trial that Singh threatened him with a gun and raped him.
Aug 29 – Darrell Aybie, was killed in Harvey’s pub in Luton. Spencer O’Shaughnessy, 22, fled to Ireland via Nelson, Lancashire. In Nov 1998 he was jailed for life.
Aug 29 – Jeffrey “Max” Hunter, 22, a British law student, from Banstead, Surrey, was shot on a deserted road in Israel. His girlfriend Charlotte Gibb, from Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, survived. Daniel Okev, 45, a taxi driver and former Israeli army major, admitted murder and was sent to a psychiatric hospital for 20 years. He was paroled in 2010 from Ma’asiyahu prison. It was said he had been involved in an Israeli army death squad in the 1980s.
Aug 28 – Ann-Marie O’Kane, 22, a graduate in Spanish, strangled in her flat in Rydale, Wallsend, Tyneside. Frazer Loughlin, 28, a workmate at Fisher Foods, was jailed for life in March 1998. The trial at Newcastle CC heard him say “a voice came into his head” after they had sex.
Aug – Sandie Bowen, 53, a mother of two, vanished from Llandogo, near Monmouth, Gwent. Her husband Michael Bowen, 52, a forestry worker, was jailed for life in May 1998.
Aug 26 – Majid Khan, 15, and his sister Anum, 8, died in Mount Vernon Hospital after suffering burns in an arson attack at home in Cowley, Oxford. Mohammed Nawaz, 21, and his brother Haq Nawaz, 31, Haroon Sherif, 21, Alan Swanton, 18, and Thomas Liedl, 18, were all jailed for life for murder. The jury at Birmingham CC could not reach a verdict on Riaz Munshi. She was later jailed for 12 years for manslaughter. Her sister Fiaz was charged with murder in October 2013 after she returned from Pakistan. The fire was believed to be linked to a family feud.
Aug – Eliza “Betty” Brown, 84, died of a head injury after being attacked at home in Finchley, north London. Francis Dickinson, 32, a Scouse junkie, was jailed for 17 years for manslaughter in May 1998.
Aug 24 – Ruth Romains, 47, stabbed at a house in Wash Common, near Newbury, Berkshire. Her parents John Deakin, 72, and Gladys Deakin, 73, were seriously injured but survived. Her husband Chris Romains, 39, was jailed for life in Feb 1998.
Aug 23 – Carole Leach, 37, divorced teacher from Bath, was beaten with an Indian rain stick at home in the village of Rock Sound on Eleuthera island in Bahamas. Michael Saunders, 40, a Bahamian, was acquitted on the judge’s directions in Nov 2003.
Aug 21 –
Thomas Marshall, 12, vanished from his home in Happisburgh, Norfolk, was strangled with a necklace and dumped 50 miles away in a layby at Rowdham Heath, near Thetford, the following day.
Kevan Roberts, 51, a homosexual shopkeeper from Eccles-on-Sea, was jailed for life in Nov 1999. The trial heard that Thomas was a “streetwise schoolboy who was offering sexual favours in return for money and cigarettes”. Roberts was having a relationship with his married (male) cousin at the time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/553957.stm
Aug 18 – Warren “Lucky” Wilson, 32, a drug dealer and police informant from East Ham, was shot 4 times in the head as he sat in a car outside a nightclub in Bedford. Trevor Clouden, 37, was acquitted at the Old Bailey in Nov 2000. Clouden had been arrested in New York and extradited to the UK. His brother John gave evidence against him. Wilson’s ex-girlfriend came from Bedford.
Aug – Patricia Granger, 25, young mother with a mental age of 10, killed and dumped on wasteground in Sheffield. Michael Arliss, 31, was charged with murder but hanged himself in HMP Doncaster on March 24, 1998 before coming to trial. Arliss, hanged himself with a bed sheet tied to bars in his cell after watching a film with other prisoners. The Chamber, a rented film, featured a man facing execution in an American prison after failing to clear his name for a murder he did not commit.
Aug 15 – Barrington White, 37, shot in the chest in Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, SE London. Unsolved.
Aug 15 – Carl Doyle, 29, and his wife Catherine, 24, stabbed at their home in Ballintober, near Roscommon, Republic of Ireland. Mark Nash, 27, who was arrested in Galway, was jailed for life in August 1998. He was the boyfriend of Mrs Doyle’s sister Sarah Jane. The couple’s young children slept through the murders. Nash was the son of an Irish prostitute and a Jamaican father. It is thought he may also have killed Sylvia Shields, 59, and Mary Callinan, 61, were repeatedly stabbed and mutilated at their home in the grounds of Grangegorman Hospital in north Dublin on March 6, 1997. The Garda charged heroin addict Dean Lyons, 24, with those murders but later dropped the charges. Lyons died of an overdose in Manchester in Dec 2000.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/14/humanrights.world
Aug 13 – Des Moonan, a convicted paedophile, was beaten and strangled in Newtownards Road, Belfast. His flatmate Darren Stewart, 28, was jailed for life in April 1999. Two other men, Peter Davies, 28, and Martin Chappell, 38, were acquitted. Stewart’s conviction was later quashed on appeal.
http://www.courtsni.gov.uk/en-gb/judicial%20decisions/publishedbyyear/documents/2000/2000%20nic%203182/j_j_nice3182.htm
Aug 13 – Trudie Holland-Smith, 32, stabbed in the hallway of her home in Worcester Park, south London. Her husband Nicholas Smith, 32, was jailed for life in July 1998.
Aug 8 – Derek Sweet, 26, was beaten to death in the street in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland. Terry Collins, 22, from Kirkcaldy, and Kabasele Kubalu, 22, from Methil, were jailed for life in Dec 1997. John Watson, 19, from Kirkcaldy, was detained for life in a young offenders’ institution. Stuart Collins, 17, was jailed for 10 years. Sweet’s uncle was Darryl Sweet, the drummer with the band Nazareth.
Aug 8 – Costin Tucker, 41, father of six, shot in Highfields, Leicester. David Dowe, from Rushey Mead, Shaun Bailey, 29, and Osran Samuel, 29, were charged with murder but charges were dropped in 1998. Samuel, aka Hamsa Latif, had a reputation as a local Muslim vigilante. He fled abroad to Pakistan, Afghanistan and then Nigeria where he was found in 2000 and deported. In April 2001 he was jailed for life (18 years) for murder. The trial heard that Tucker was shot as he bought cigarettes after he refuse to reveal the whereabouts of his son, who was wanted by Samuel for disrupting a party.
Aug 7 –
Jamie Robe, 17, beaten to death with a snooker cue and a cricket stump after being chased near the Surrey Docks pub on the Osprey estate in Rotherhithe, SE London. His skull was fractured in three places, jaw dislocated and liver and kidney ruptured. James Pearce, 17, Aaron Cole, 17, and David Huggins, 16, were all jailed for life in July 1999. Steven Plank, 18, and a youth, who was 15 at the time, were both acquitted. The trial heard it began as a slanging match in a kebab shop involving two youths and a blonde girl in a miniskirt.
Local Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes helped to pierce the “wall of silence” from witnesses. Around 20 witnesses had to be rehoused for their own protection. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/452581.stm
Aug 6 – Sasha Davies, 3, was thrown from a seventh floor balcony in Kilburn, north London. Her grandfather Anthony Volney, 59, was jailed for life in June 1998.
Aug – Rita Sibley, 49, strangled, mutilated and set on fire at home in West Drayton, Middlesex. Her son Chay Sibley, 26, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and was sent to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely in May 1998. He was a schizophrenic who had been taking drugs.
Aug 5 – The body of Gloria Covington, 45, prostitute, was found by a nine-year-old boy in a playground in Amarillo, Texas. She had been stabbed. Another prostitute, Linda Jackson, 35, who witnessed the murder was later murdered. The boy, Dorien Thomas, also mysterious vanished a year later. The case is unsolved.
Aug 5 – Michael Pollard, 62, a pastor at Emmanuel Evangelical Church in Baildon, West Yorkshire, was attacked by robbers in a layby near Nyiregyhaza, Hungary while on a mercy mission to Romania. His wife, Sovalleare, 55, survived with a broken jaw. Istvan Dudas, 19, was jailed for 11 years in June 1998. Attila Bilecz, 22, was jailed for 7 years and Laszlo Mester, 22, was jailed for 6 years. The trial heard they posed as bogus policemen.
Aug 2 – Peter Halliday, 67, a loner and vagrant from Musselburgh, died of head and neck injuries and was washed up at Embleton Way, near Alnwick, Northumberland. John Earle, 31, was jailed for life at Newcastle CC in Aug 1998. Stephen Williams, 38, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 2 years for perverting the course of justice.
Aug 1 – Harry Downing, 64, a retired butcher, died of head injuries after being attacked in the hallway of his home in Clifton, Nottingham. Glyn Jones, 25, a burglar, was arrested in Derby and jailed for life in May 1998.
Aug 1 – Dillon Hill, 5, shot in the head as he tried to protect his stepfather John Bates, 28, in Daubhill, Bolton, Greater Manchester. Paul Seddon, 27, was jailed for life (25 years) in Oct 1998. David Hargreaves, 24, was jailed for 18 years for conspiracy to murder, Craig Hollinrake, 25, was jailed for 16 years for conspiracy and Brian Roper, 22, was acquitted. The trial at Preston CC heard that Bates was a heroin addict and a drug dealer and Dillon’s mother Jane Hull had a conviction for allowing a house in Blackburn to be used for dealing drugs. Bates was killed for refusing to deal drugs for Hargreaves’ gang.
Aug 1 – April Rock, 33, was beaten, chased, doused in petrol and set on fire at her home in Spalding, Lincolnshire. She died after 15 hours in hospital. Her children, aged 2 and 4, were in the house at the time. Her estranged husband Thomas Rock, 30, was jailed for life in March 1998. He had joked about “having been to a barbecue”.
July 1997
July 31 – George Dean, 74, was stabbed at a launderette in Kilburn, NW London. Unsolved.
July – Munir Hajir Ahmed, 56, a landlord, was found in the boot of a car in Gateshead, Tyneside. Chris Larsen, 32, one of his tenants, was jailed for life in July 1998.
July 28 – Bulent Giritli, 24, a heroin dealer, was shot at a gaming club in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, north London. Mustafa Sungur, 34, was jailed for life in March 1998. Hidar Aksakal and Aleksakar Darman were both acquitted. The trial heard he was shot because he owed £54,000 to the Turkish mafia He was lured to a cafe in Lordship Lane where he was shot twice in the head at close range in a yard at the back of the premises. The reported drug dealer had failed to meet a deadline payment of £54,000 for three kilos of heroin in a deal which was in partnership with criminals based in Glasgow. Giritli, who was based in London, had been working with Mustafa Sungur and two other Turkish men through his partner in Scotland. There was already previous ‘bad blood’ after a previous deal had gone wrong after Giritli had received drugs but had not paid.Bulent Giritli was summoned to Glasgow and undertook to pay the £54,000. The trial heard Scottish gangster Paul Ferris, months before the murder, was paid by another Glasgow villain named Eric the Greek to come to London to recover £40,000 from Giritli for the previous debt. But Ferris was not able to recover the money for Eric the Greek because he could not track Giritli down. Sungur and his co-defendants gave a final deadline to Giritli when he was summoned to the Tottenham cafe, killing him when he was unable to pay. Sungur disposed of the Browning firearm, another pistol and a silence in the River Lea in Hackney Marshes, east London. Ferris, who was serving time for arms dealing by the time of trial, was forced to attend the proceedings after being called by the defendant’s barrister.
July – Lee Hunt, 29, died of head injuries in Paddock Wood, Kent. Steven Bothwell, 19, a motorist, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter at Canterbury CC.
July – Gentjan Jahaj, a farmer, was shot dead in the village of Bejar in Albania. His killer Hektor Mahmutaj, 42, fled to UK in a lorry in December 1997. Majmutaj, who lived in Liverpool, was convicted of Mr Jahaj’s murder in his absence in April 2000. He was sentenced to 25 years and Albania sought his extradition. A Home Office spokeswoman was unable to explain why Mahmutaj was not deported in 2003 when he first came to the attention of the criminal justice system as an illegal immigrant. He is currently on the run.
July 29 – Christopher Williams, 23, a taxi driver, was stabbed as he chased intruders who broke into his home in Nantyffylon, south Wales, as his pregnant girlfriend Melanie Hicks, and his baby, slept. Alan Naylor, 27; Wyndham Thomas, 20; and Chris Chislett, 18, all from Croeserw, near Bridgend, were all jailed for life in the spring of 1998. They had been drinking cider.
July 28 – Mohammed Nazir, 55, was shot in his home in Hull Close, Slough, Berkshire. His son Mahmood Khan, 19, was shot in the leg but survived. Two masked men were responsible. The killing came against the backdrop of a feud between the Chalvey Boys, a Muslim gang, and the Sheri Punjab, a Sikh gang. Unsolved.
July 27 – Janet O’Donaghue, 36, a former Ulster Defence Regiment Greenfinch, was strangled in bed at home in Armagh city after a night out. Her boyfriend David Porter confessed to killing her and was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter in Sep 1998.
July – Bernadette Martin, 18, a Catholic, was shot at her Protestant boyfriend’s home in Aghalee, County Antrim. Trevor McKeown, 37, a Loyalist Volunteer Force member and brother of a loyalist supergrass, was jailed for life in June 1998 but freed under the Good Friday Agreement.
July 26 – James Morgan, 16, a Catholic from Castlewellan, was killed and dumped in a water hole near his home in County Down. Norman Coopey, 26, a Loyalist Volunteer Force member, was jailed for life in Jan 1999 but released in May 2000 under the Good Friday Agreement.
July 26 – Yusef Goksel, 48, a factory manager from Barkingside, was shot as he tried to stop an armed robbery (wages snatch) at KFA clothing factory in Hackney, east London. A thin black man with a goatie beard got away with £20,000. Unsolved.
July 23 – Eddie Robinson, 46, an antiques dealer, was stabbed at the Old England pub and staggered to a neighbour’s house in Clayton-le-Moors, near Accrington, Lancashire. His nephew Simon Robinson, 22, was charged with murder.
July 21 – Marc Lane-Martin, 30, a researcher for the UCW trade union, was stabbed in the heart by a mugger as he left a fish and chip shop in Du Cane Road, White City, west London. Delroy Snuggs, 19, was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter in May 1998. The trial heard that Lane-Martin gave a passer-by a description of his attacker before collapsing.
July 21 – Raj Posleay, 28, from Wolverhampton, died of head injuries during an attack on a fun day and was dumped in a boating lake at Walsall Arboretum in West Midlands. Mark Jackson, 26, his wife Deborah, 29, Mohammed Khan, 27, and Kulwarn Chagger, 24, went on trial at Stafford CC in Jan 1999. There were hung juries. Their trial at Oxford CC collapsed and all went free.
July 18 – Jodine Brown, 17, was drugged, beaten and strangled in her bedroom in West Heath, Birmingham. Her decomposing body was found covered in a duvet on her bedroom floor. Her mother Eileen made the grisly discovery when she returned home from a four-day break. Unsolved.
July 18 – Scott Simpson, 9, went missing near his home in Powis Circle, Aberdeen, after playing football. In Nov 1997 Steven Leisk, 34, was jailed for life (25 years) for strangling the boy. The trial heard he also abused two other boys.He was attacked in HMP Peterhead in 1999. His tariff was cut to 15 years in 2002. Leisk served in the army in the Falklands as a medical orderly.
July 17 – Eliza Ward, 18, restaurant manageress, stabbed with a boning knife in the kitchen of the Café Society restaurant in Belfast. Her boss, Rene Scott Lea, 53, survived. Gerard Stewart, 22, a kitchen porter who was drunk, was jailed for life in March 1999.
July 15 – Gianni Versace, 52, world famous Italian fashion designer, was shot twice in the head outside his beachfront villa in South Beach, Miami, Florida. Andrew Cunanan, 27, a male prostitute from San Diego, was responsible. He shot himself on his houseboat in Miami nine days later after an intense manhunt. He was also responsible for the murder of two former lovers in Minneapolis – Jeff Trail, 28, an engineer, and David Madson, 33, a lecturer; property developer Lee Miglin, 72, in Chicago; and cemetery caretaker William Reese, 45, who was robbed of his pick-up truck in Pennsville, New Jersey.
July 13 – Albert Newman, 52, alcoholic tramp, suffered multiple injuries after being attacked in Walthamstow, NE London. Paul Ereira, 25, a cleaner, was jailed for life in May 1998. The trial heard that Ereira was drunk and was outraged when Newman tried to push him off his bicycle as he went to buy some cigarettes. He punched and kicked him and was seen jumping up and down on his body.
July 10 – Garid Chand, 69, his wife Swarn Kaur, 64, and their son Harkesh Kumar, 38, were battered to death with a claw hammer at home in Handsworth, Birmingham. Mr Chand’s son, Rajesh Dass, 24, who was unemployed, then hit himself over the head with a hammer. In April 1998 he was jailed for life. He was seriously hurt when he hurled himself off a fourth floor balcony at HMP Winson Green. The trial heard the bodies were found by Rajesh’s father, Prittam, who was Harkesh’s brother.
July 9 – Clifford Angol, drug dealer and ex-con, from Paddington, shot 6 times in his BMW outside the Warwick Castle pub in Notting Hill, west London. The killer drove off in a yellow car. Angol had stolen a Rolex watch and £2,000 worth of marijuana from other Yardies. Unsolved.
July 3 – Rechard Sajee, 30, a postman, shot at home in south Woodford, Essex. His wife Farah Sajee, 31, and her lover Yusuf Ali, 50, were both jailed for life in June 1999.
July – Garnett Paul “GP” Johnson, who was black, was decapitated and set on fire in a trailer park near Independence, Virginia, US. Emmett Cressell, a white labourer, 38, was jailed for life in Jan 1999. Louis Ceparano, 43, who was also white, struck a deal to avoid the death penalty and was also jailed for life in Nov 1998.
July 1 – Carl MacDonald, 32, from Heath Town, Wolverhampton, was beaten to death in a street fight in Bilston, West Midlands. A 17 year old from Cheltenham was charged.
June 1997
June – Diane Lavigne, a prison guard, was shot and killed while driving home from work in Quebec, Canada. In September 1997 another prison guard, Pierre Rondeau was killed when the prison bus he was driving was ambushed. Robert Corriveau was also working on that bus and escaped injury.
Maurice “Mom” Boucher, 45, leader of the Hells Angels in Quebec, was jailed for life (25 years) in 2002. Also convicted was Stephane Gagne, 28, a hitman, who also got life. Boucher was involved in a fierce war with The Rock Machine biker gang. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mom-boucher-guilty-of-murder-1.335015
June – Michael Hunt was shot dead through a door in Brixton. Aaron Charles, 14, survived. Unsolved.
June 28 – Tony Davies, 64, battered, stabbed and garrotted at his home in Salford, Manchester. Unsolved.
June 28 – Timmy Rattigan, 49, roofer and criminal, from Drimnagh, was shot dead as he filled in a betting slip at Jack Gamble’s betting ship in Dublin. He is thought to have been killed by a hitman, possibly working for the INLA. Unsolved.
June 28 – A woman’s headless torso was found in Lakeview, Long Island, New York, near to Hempstead Lake State Park.The rest of the body has never been found.The woman had a heart-shaped peach tattoo with a bite taken out of it and two drips falling from the core on her left breast, which resulted in her nickname – the girl with the peach tattoo. She was never identified and no-one was ever charged with her murder.
June 24 – Kevin Chetwynd, 3, and his brother Christopher, 11 months, were abducted from home in Yeading, west London. Kevin’s body has never been found. Their father John Chetwynd, 43, jumped to his death from Beachy Head with Christopher in his arms. The baby died. He had earlier beaten his Vietnamese wife Thi Le, 37, with a baseball bat but she survived. When she recovered consciousness police broke the news of the children’s deaths.
June 24 – Kraig Trickett, 10, and his brother Graham, 14, died after their house in Redditch, Worcestershire, was set on fire. Stan Hale, 25, from Birmingham, and his nephew Roger Morgan, 24, were both jailed for life in June 1998. Morgan’s girlfriend, Karen Porter, 22, was jailed for 2 years for perverting the course of justice and Hale’s girlfriend Rebecca Casey, 20, was jailed for 12 months for the same offence. The trial at Worcester CC heard they were killed in revenge after Kraig “grassed” on Hale about a stolen bicycle. The boys’ parents, Brian and Mandy, later moved to Gosport, Hampshire.
June 24 – Chris Crowther, 28, a market trader who was homeless, and Chris Readman, 25, were stabbed in the doorway of Simply Sausages, a shop in Berwick Street, Soho, central London. James Heslin, 31, a barman who worked at the Claghan pub in Berwick Street, was jailed for life in April 1998. Crowther had beaten up Heslin in a street fight a few days before. Heslin told colleagues he had “done society a favour”. The killings were witnessed by a 20 year old French tourist. When asked why he did not kill her, Heslin said “women are a thing of beauty”.
June 24 – Angela Thomson, 17, was decapitated in the garden of a house in Irvine, Strathclyde. Brian Fairnie, 34, was unfit to plead and was sent to Carstairs mental hospital indefinitely. He believed she was possessed by evil spirits. He also assaulted his ex-wife.
June 23 – Maggie Sil, 36, and her children Emma, 6, and Mark, 5, were stabbed to death at home in Greenford, west London. Her husband Mick Sil, 38, a rugby-playing accountant, killed himself before he could be arrested.
? – Peter Kema Jr., known as “Peter Boy,” 6, vanished from his home in Hilo, Hawaii. His father Peter Kema Sr. told the authorities he took his son to Oahu and gave him to a longtime family friend. But in May 2016 Peter and his wife Jaylin Kema were charged with second-degree murder charges. Their daughter Devalynn, told a psychologist in 1998, when she was five, that she saw Peter Boy dead in a box, but she also said she thought he was alive.
June 23 – Suzanne Rarity, 7, was tortured and beaten in the bedroom of her home in Smalldale Avenue, Moss Side, Manchester. Her mother’s boyfriend, Paul Gaye, 32, a heroin addict, was jailed for life (20 years) in April 1998. He claimed Suzanne’s mother was responsible. Gaye died in prison in 2004. The trial heard he attacked her because he thought she had lied about having had a wash. She had her hair ripped out and suffered 100 injuries.
June 22 – Kevin Bennett, 25, was beaten to death with baseball bats and then driven over by a car in Walker, Newcastle. Brian Moulding, 25; James Aikenhead, 26, and Derek Lawson, 18, were all jailed for life in May 1998. Robert Moulding was charged with assisting an offender but the case was left to lie on file. Bennett had stood up for a neighbour who was being attacked in a dispute over money.
June 21 – Martin White, 18, stabbed with a 12 inch kitchen knife as he sat in the back of a taxi outside Dollars nightclub in Glossop, Derbyshire. Timothy Croker, 24, was jailed for 9 years for manslaughter in March 1998. His cousin Samuel Hutchinson, 19, was jailed for 8 years. The trial at Manchester CC heard there had been a row between White and Hutchinson over a girl, Deena Kelleher, and White gave Hutchinson a bloody nose. White told friend: “Get me an ambulance, I’m a goner.”
June 17 – David Richards, 45, was kicked and stamped to death at his home in east Oxford. Robert Horrex, 33, from Cowley, Oxford, was jailed for life in April 1998. The trial heard that Horrex was angry that Richards had been violent to a woman friend.
June 15 – Kenny Rowe, 27, from Peckham, was shot as he sat in a parked BMW in Clapton, east London. His 19 year old girlfriend underwent surgery but survived. The killers were two men on a motorbike. Unsolved.
June 12 – Christine Maguire, 46, a prostitute, was stabbed and set alight with her own perfume at home in Bulwell, Nottingham. Byron Smith, 31, a crack user, was jailed for life in March 1998. The trial at Nottingham CC heard Smith smelt of perfume – Caprice brand – when he came home and was forced to confess by his girlfriend.
June 10 – George Pugh, 56, unemployed, was stabbed in a basement flat in Kilburn, NW London. Unsolved.
June 10 – Linda Howell, 41, her son Otis, 5, and daughter Victoria, 2, died in a fire at their terraced house in Tameside, Manchester. Her neighbours Marc Williams, 23, and Stephen Daniels, 19, were both jailed for life in 1998.
June – Allison McGarrigle, 39, was killed and dumped in the sea off Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. Charles O’Neill, 47, a paedophile, was jailed for life (30 years) and his boyfriend William Lauchlan, 33, was jailed for life (26 years). She was killed when she threatened to expose their abuse of a young boy. Ms McGarrigle was only reported missing in Feb 1998.
June 9 – Elizabeth Pinhorn, 96, was attacked in the stairwell of a block of flats in Herne Hill, south London and mugged of £25. She died on June 27. A black man in his late 20s was seen running off. Unsolved.
June 7 – Jean Darkes, 45, died of head injuries at her home in Feltham, Middlesex. Her brother, Peter Smith, 39, was jailed for life in March 1998.
June 6 – A newborn baby was suffiocated in the toilet at a senior prom dance in Lacey Township, Aberdeen, New Jersey. Her mother, Melissa Drexler, 18, a high school student, was jailed for 15 years for aggravated manslaughter in Oct 1998. But she was released from prison in 2001.
June 6 – Neil Mason, 32, a plasterer from Gresley, died in a fight outside Bud’s Bar in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Romany Lee, 21, of Horninglow, near Burton-on-Trent, admitted manslaughter and was jailed for 3 years. His brother Mark Lee, 26, a former professional boxer, was jailed for a year for ABH.
June 3 – Anthony “Dread” Baker, 41, a clothing worker, was shot outside The Control Tower take-away restaurant in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton. The gunmen, who were stealing jewellery from the restaurant owner, were never caught. Baker tried to stop them by using a saucepan lid. David Rashid Abu-Neigh (formerly Richard Wallace), 36, was jailed for life (16 years) at the Central Criminal Court on 1 July 1998 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. the defendant, armed with a loaded automatic pistol (not recovered), entered the rear part of the premises by an open door. He held the gun to the head of one of the four occupants, holding him round the neck with his other arm and demanded jewellery and money. The deceased, who was standing at the cooking range, took a large cooking pot lid and, using it as a shield, went towards the defendant. There was a brief struggle before the defendant shot him and then fired a second shot, both hitting the deceased in the head. The defendant then ran back to a mini cab he had been using to drive around the area and ordered the driver to drive off.
June 1 – PC Greg Taylor, an off duty RUC officer, was beaten and kicked to death outside Kelly’s pub in Ballymoney, County Antrim by a loyalist mob angered by the banning of an Orangemen’s march through Dunloy. Shane Brown and Trevor McLaughlin, both 25, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Dec 1998 and were jailed for four years each. But both were released from prison in 1999. Mark McIntyre, 27, and Samuel Coulter, 30, were cleared of all charges. Leslie Henry, 30, a policeman’s son and Alistair Stevenson, 30, a process worker, were jailed for life for murder but were also released early under the Good Friday Agreement from UDA wing of the Maze prison in 2000.
June – Jocelyn Harris, 37, died of head and back injuries. Her body was found on the patio of her house in Beckenham, Kent. Her husband Dr Vivian Harris, 51, a gynaecologist, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and was jailed for 6 years in March 1998. He had served in the Territorial Army and his wife had been having an affair and wanted a divorce. They had two children, aged 9 and 6. He had made it look as if she had jumped out of a window but had actually hit her with a hammer.
May 1997
May 31 – William Alexander, 49, who walked with the aid of two sticks, was stabbed in bed in Bootle, Merseyside. His son Lee Alexander, 26, was jailed for life. He was burgling his father’s house.
May 30 – Wei Yi Lam, 30, aka Janet, hit over the head with a plank of wood, wrapped in cellophane and buried in the garden of a Chinese restaurant in Polegate, East Sussex. Her body was discovered on June 11. Her husband Tze Ha Tai, 32, was jailed for life in Jan 1998. He had been having an affair with her sister Maggie.
May 30 – Henrietta Leane, 62, died of smoke inhalation after an explosion and fire at her flat in Cricklewood, north London. Her son Paul Leane, 34, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and was sent to a psychiatric unit indefinitely. He suffered from a personality disorder and was trying to commit suicide.
May 29 – Regina Fleury, 43, a British expat originally from Worthing but living in Spain, was strangled in her room at the Hotel Oasis in Delhi’s old quarter. Prime suspect was Vijay Giri, 25, but he was never caught. He was a toyboy lover who romanced and then robbed her.
May 28 – Sherrice Iverson, 7, raped, strangled and then left propped up on a toilet seat in the toilet of the Primadonna casino in Primm, Nevada. Jeremy Strohmeyer, 18, a student from Long Beach, California, was jailed for life with no possibility of parole in August 1998. He claimed he did it in a drunken and drugged haze. Her mother Yolanda Manuel called him a “demon”. Sherrice’s father Leroy, 57, had been gambling at the casino and learned of her death when he asked for a six-pack of beer.
May – Stuart Greenwood, 46, stabbed in a drunken row at a flat in Keighley, West Yorkshire. His girlfriend Susan Stokoe, 43, was acquitted of murder in May 1998 but jailed for 5 years for manslaughter at Bradford CC.
May 26 – Jun Hase, 11, was decapitated near his school in Kobe, Japan. A 14-year-old boy referred to as Seito Sakakibara (not his real name) was sent to a mental institution for at least 11 years in October 1997. He also killed Ayaka Yamashita, 10, earlier in the year. A message – Try to catch me – was written in red pen and put in Jun’s mouth. He also wrote: “This is the beginning of the game. A bloody judgement is needed for my years of great bitterness.” The boy was released in 2004, aged 21. In 2000 the Japanese government reduced the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14.
May 25 – Christine Hayes, 43, suffocated in woods near her home in Singleton, near Ashford, Kent. Her common law husband Martin Potts, 39, was jailed for life in June 1998.
May 24 –
Michael McMorrow, 44, an alcoholic estate agent, was stabbed 35 times, disembowelled and had his nose and hand cut off in Strawberry Fields, Central Park, New York. Daphne Abdela, 15, and her boyfriend Chris Vasquez, 15, were both jailed for 10 years for first degree manslaughter. Abdela’s adopted father was a millionaire food executive. She was released after only six years in jail.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/baby-faced-central-park-killer-daphne-abdela-suing-car-crash-injuries-article-1.417455
May 23 – Ian Proctor, 26, stabbed in an alley in Teignmouth, Devon. Lee Allen, 23, was jailed for life in 1998.
May 23 – Janet Pitman, 75, an acute rheumatoid arthritis sufferer, was shot at her home, Priory Farm in Charlton Mackrell, near Yeovil, Somerset. Her son Peter Pitman, 46, was given a 9 months suspected sentence for aiding and abetting suicide,
May 22 –
Katerina Koneva, 12, Macedonian schoolgirl, was strangled at home in Hammersmith, west London, after school. Andrzej Kunowski, 46, a convicted rapist and paedophile from Poland, was jailed for life in 2003. He was an illegal immigrant. Her parents Trajce and Zakalina ironically moved to UK from Macedonia to escape ethnic violence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3586357.stm
May 21 – Abdul Samad, 25, hacked to death with knives and meat cleavers as he delivered a curry to Solicitor General Lord Falconer’s house in Alwyne Road, Islington, north London. Moyur Meah, 30, from Canning Town, Gulam Rasul, 39, from Bow, and Codris Ali, 30, from Bow, were all charged with murder but no evidence was offered by the prosecution. But in March 2012 Mohiuddin Bablu, 37, was jailed for life (18 years) for the murder. He had been extradited from Bangladesh. The trial heard he was killed after refused to get involved in a dispute between Bengali gangs in north London. In 2016 Foyjur Rahman, 44, was extradited from the US. He awaits trial
May 21 – Kenneth Hallam, 48, died of head injuries after being attacked in the utility room of his home in Wombwell, Barnsley. Darren Green, 24, was jailed for life in 1998.
May 20 – Gerald Hales, 61, a jeweller, was stabbed 34 times as he tried to stop a break-in at his shop in Cowbridge, South Glamorgan. A passer-by, Joseph Gatt, 28, survived. Orlando Sir, 27, from Brighton, Charles Frayne, 19, from Llanrumney, and Dallas Lee, 26, from Pontypridd, were all jailed for life in March 1998. Lee hanged himself in prison in May 1998. Sir had only just been released after serving nine years for armed robbery. Frayne was only the getaway driver and his supporters insist that he should not have been convicted of murder.
May 17 – Kingsley “Popcorn” Iyasara, 16, shot on the roof of a 5 storey block of flats on the Carlton Lodge estate in Finsbury Park, north London. Peter James, 17, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter. Corey Wright, 17, was jailed for 5 years. Damien Gager, 19, Menelik Robinson, 18, Sean Deckon, 18, and Tshikedi Duggan, 17, were all jailed for 4 years.
May 10 – Jason Foster, 25, stabbed in the street in Highbury, north London. A man was charged.
May 9 – Marta Russo, 22, law student, shot as she walked through La Spainza university in Rome in broad daylight. Giovanni Scattone was jailed for 7 years for manslaughter. Fellow academic Salvatore Ferraro was jailed for 4 years for aiding and abetting him.
May 5 – Jamie Lavis, 8, from Openshaw, vanished after getting a bus in Manchester. His remains were found at Reddish Vale golf club near Stockport. Darren Vickers, 27, a bus driver, was jailed for life (25 years) in April 1999. The trial at Manchester CC heard Vickers probably sexually abused the boy. He even befriended the family afterwards. The judge described him as “truly wicked”.
May 3 – Emily Salvini, 7, died in an arson attack on her home in Caversham, Reading at 5am. Her brother Zach, 2, and mother Katie survived. Mrs Salvini was separated from the children’s fatrher Marco Salvini but they were described as the “best of friends”. Despite a £10,000 reward, it remains unsolved.
May 1 – Kristin Lisk, 15, and her sister Kati Lisk, 12, were abducted from their front garden in Spotsylvania, near Richmond, Virginia, were killed and dumped in a river where they were found five days later. Richard Evonitz, 38, was eventually identified as the killer but shot himself after being surrounded by police in Sarasota, Florida in June 2002. He had also killed 16-year-old Sofia Silva, who was abducted from her front yard near Loriella Park in Spotsylvania County in Sep 1996. Her body was found a month later in a creek. Evonitz would also have killed 15-year-old Kara Robinson who was abducted from her home in Columbia, South Carolina, in June 2002. She was raped but escaped and eventually led policeto Evonitz. She is now a police officer.
May 1 – Donald Hamerton, 54, from Spixworth, near Norwich, was stabbed and drowned in the North Sea. The body was washed up at Winterton, near Great Yarmouth on 28 May. His common law wife was originally suspected but later cleared. It was a ruled a suicide. Hamerton, who was originally from London, had a conviction for manslaughter.
May 1 – Ralph Sprott, 34, firefighter who was also involved in the underworld, was shot dead at a bus stop in Clydebank, Scotland. John Ferrier, 36, and James Dunn, 33, went on trial in October 1997 but the case against them was not proven. The trial heard Sprott had beaten up Ferrier and called him a grass. Ferrier was accused of paying Dunn £10,000 to shoot Sprott.
May 1 – Mary Rutter, 55, was found in the gutted garage of her home in Porthill, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Her son Mark Rutter, 26, was jailed for life in July 1998.
May – Elva Aggiano, 46, stabbed 12 times at her home in Old Crosby, near Scunthorpe. She was with her nine year old son. Her husband, Bruno Aggiano, 56, a Sicilian-born quality inspector, was detained indefinitely at Rampton Hospital after being convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility).
April 1997
April 30 – Mark Daly, 24, was struck over the head with a sharp instrument in Streatham, south London. He died in hospital five days later. Unsolved.
April – Nicholas Boyd, 43, taxi driver, stabbed outside his home in Highgate, north London. His neighbour Tolga Kurter, 20, a schizophrenic, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and sent to Rampton Hospital in Dec 1997.
April 28 – Simon Dury, a soldier in the 2nd Battalion Light Infantry, was found with serious injuries in Bugle, Cornwall. David Orchard, 39, from Bugle, was jailed for 30 months for manslaughter in Feb 1998.
April 27 – Tammy Williams, 23, a Navy Wren originally from Leicester, was asphyxiated at a flat in Plymouth. Stephen Smith, 30, a 7ft tall epileptic, was jailed for life in Nov 1998. He claims he blacked out and could not remember killing her.
April 26 – Mark Spence, 21, an unemployed painter and decorator, was shot in The Place To Be Caribbean café in Kensal Rise, NW London. Two other men were seriousl injured. Three black gunmen escaped in a Ford Transit van. Unsolved.
April 26 – Rachel McGrath, 27, a judge’s daughter, was stabbed in the neck in the car park of the Victoria pub in Bramhall, near Stockport. Nicholas Burton, 27, from New Mills, Derbyshire, was jailed for life in March 1998. He confessed in jail to fellow inmate Paul Parkinson but claimed to be insane. The trial at Liverpool CC heard Rachel had been picking up her boyfriend Kevin Forster from the pub. He tried to rob her and she resisted. He had also kidnapped Debbie Van Gerko, 17, outside a newsagents in Gatley, Manchester, and held her captive for 11 hours. Mr Justice Morland said he should never be freed.
April 25 – Marvin Love, 19, a DJ from Tottenham, was abducted off the street in Tottenham, shot dead and dumped in bushes in Enfield. Wayne Scotland, 25, and his brother Shane, 23, was jailed for life in Dec 1998. He was killed for siding with a rival drugs gang.
April 23 – Devon Dawson, a Jamaican drug dealer, was shot outside the Green Man pub in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton. Unsolved.
April 22 – Desmond Howells, 59, stabbed at home on the Holly Bush estate in Whitchurch, Cardiff. He died a month later. In Feb 1998 John Garwood, 35, from Tremorfa, was jailed for life for murder and robbey. Phillip Trott, 23, from Rumney, was jailed for 30 months for robbery. The trial at Cardiff CC heard Howells was pinned down on the bed and had his throat slashed.
April 22 – Valentin Sych, 60, the head of the Russian ice hockey federation, was shot outside his dacha near Moscow. Vyacheslav Pchelintsev, who was paid £16,000 to carry out the murder, was jailed for 16 years in spring 1999. Alexander Artemyev, 42, a former ice hockey referee, was jailed for 4 years. Four others were also jailed.One theory about Sych’s death was that he had refused to share the proceeds from sales of Russian players to the wealthy NHL in America.
April 21 – Gerard Moore, 45, taxi driver, was punched outside the Dog and Partridge pub in Hall Green, Birmingham by one of a group of men after a dispute over a fare. He died three days later. Unsolved.
April 19 – Alan Downes, 38, taxi driver and father of seven, was stabbed in the heart in Ashmore Park, Wednesfield, West Midlands. His wife Jayne Downes, 32, was acquitted in Oct 1998. The trial at Stafford CC heard that he often beat her up.
April 18 – Carol Fyfe, 36, a devout Catholic pub landlady, was stabbed and tortured in the bedroom above the Prince Arthur pub in Kentish Town, north London. Greg Mills, 27, an Australian barman, was jailed for life in July 1998. He stole £2,500 from her after secreting himself in the pub after closing time. He fled to Colorado, US but was traced through Interpol website and extradited.
April 14 – Natalie Rhee, 25, a merchant bank employee, died in a fire at a guest house in Llanrwst, Snowdonia, Wales. Her Korean husband Jong Rhee, 24, was jailed for life in April 1998. The trial at Chester CC heard that he was an inveterate gambler who had blown their life savings and took out £150,000 life insurance on her life 10 days earlier.
April 12 – Carol Anne Jackson, 50, antiques dealer, was tied up and beaten to death at her cottage in Wooburn Green, near High Wycombe. She was registered disabled. Unsolved.
April 12 – Justin Kemp, 26, father of four, beaten to death in Cardiff. Jonathan Foley, 21, from Fairwater, Cardiff, was jailed for life in Nov 1997. The trial heard that Kemp had stolen Foley’s van.
April 12 – Stephen Stewart, 32, was savagely beaten in Childs Way, Milton Keynes. Unsolved?
April 11 – George Tripp, 27, law graduate from Didsbury, was found in the Rochdale canal in Manchester. Colin MdDonald, 26, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter in Oct 1997. Charges were dropped against a 14 year old boy.
April 11 – Perry Phillips, 5, stabbed at home in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. His 9 year old brother survived. Their mother Jenny Phillips was charged.
April – Jane Joseph, 28, was attacked with a hammer as she slept at their home in Feltham, west London. Her husband Trevor Joseph, 31, a chef, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and was detained in a mental hospital in May 1998.
April 8 – Richard Palmer, 41, from Melksham, was killed in the garden of a friend’s home in Melksham, Wiltshire. His drinking buddy Darren Hobbs, 31, was jailed for life in July 1998. His 16-year-old girlfriend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was given 200 hours community service for assisting an offender. She lied to protect him.
April 7 – Meshack Walsh, 26, shot outside Trendz nightclub in Homerton, east London. His brother Leon was seriously injured but survived. Rudi King, 22, a Jamaican, who was thought responsible, was shot dead in Nov 1997.
April 3 – Jo Jung-pil, 22, a (male) college student, was stabbed to death in the toilet of a McDonald’s restaurant in Itaewon, an entertainment district in Seoul, South Korea. Arthur John Patterson, 17, the son of an American military contractor, was arrested and his Korean-American friend, Edward Lee, was initially indicted on a murder charge, while they treated Patterson as an accomplice and indicted him on lesser charges, including destruction of evidence. Prosecutors did not offer a motive for the killing except to say the two friends were challenging each other to kill a man with a pocketknife. In the subsequent trial Patterson was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He was released in 1998 in an annual government amnesty. Lee was sentenced to 20 years in prison. But in 1998, in a retrial ordered by the Supreme Court, Lee was acquitted for lack of evidence. In 1999, while prosecutors were reinvestigating the case, Patterson, by then the prime suspect, left South Korea because the government had failed to renew his travel ban. The case public memory of the case was reawakened in 2009 after the release of a popular movie based on the killing, as well as local television programs that exposed the bungling of the investigation. Patterson was finally extradited in 2011 and went on trial in 2015.
April 2 – Ocbu Benslimani, 24, killed in north London. Lamouri Mezine, 24, unemployed, was jailed for life in March 1998.
March 1997
March – Beatrice Hughes, 93, originally from Wales, died after someone stamped on her head at her flat in Rayners Lane, NW London. She died a month later. William McDonagh, 35, a crack addict burglar, from Harrow, was jailed for life in Jan 1998.
March 31 – Robert McDonagh, 42, a married man with 3 children, was stabbed in Shoreditch, east London. Colin Phillips, 31, a black window cleaner from the Coalville estate in Islington, was jailed for 3 years for manslaughter. McDonagh’s best friend Kevin Roberts, 28, was jailed for 2 months for refusing to testify. He was having an affair with McDonagh’s wife Jackie. The trial heard that McDonagh had racially abused Phillips.
March 31 – Ian McLaughlin, 30, stabbed through the heart during a mugging in an alley in Normanton, Derby. Darminder Singh Cheema was jailed for life for murder. Kalvir Singh Cheema and Kevin Dinsa were jailed for 30 months for robbery.
March 30 – Deborah Thomas, 37, poet, beaten to death in the converted loft a house in Brighton, which was then set on fire. Samson Gower, 18, was jailed for life in Sep 1998.
March 28 – Colin Burgess, 26, died of head injuries after being attacked opposite the Queens Hotel in Saltburn, Teesside. Wayne McMullen, 19, and Gary Fulton, 20, were both acquitted at Leeds CC in Feb 1999. The trial heard that Burgess was angry that they were calling his wife Melanie a prostitute.
March 28 – Hal Mulligan, 15, stabbed in a fairground in Wallsend, Tyneside. Arthur Milor, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was jailed for 9 years for manslaughter in Nov 1997. He was released early but stabbed Stuart Duncans, 22, in Nov 2002 in a copycat attack. He was later jailed for life.
March 27 – Mary Lewis, 90, widow, sexually assaulted and stabbed at home in Leominster, Herefordshire. Simeon Small, 20, from Telford, was jailed for life in Jan 1998.
March 24 – Danny “Scarface” Roff, 36, a wheelchair-bound gangster, shot 5 times in his Mercedes outside his house in Bromley, Kent. Roff is suspected of killing Great Train Robber Charlie Wilson in Spain in 1988 and may have been killed in revenge. The killer was heavily built, with brown or ginger hair and wearing a cartoon tie. He drove off in a white Escort van. Unsolved.
March 23 – Carlo Picornie, 35, a hard-core Ajax Amsterdam hooligan with the F-Side firm, was clubbed to death on wasteland near Amsterdam during a pre-arranged fight, known as the Battle of Beverwijk. Two Feyenoord fans – one of whom was identified as Leonardo P, were jailed for 4 years each. He was a member of FIIIR hooligan gang.
March 23 – Nigel Fraser, 24, stabbed in the heart at home in St Ann’s, Nottingham. His wife Jane Fraser, 27, was given probation after being convicted of manslaughter in May 1998. The trial at Nottingham CC heard that he was a violent glue sniffer and she “had enough of it all”.
March 22 – Sarah Bateman, 88, was punched and strangled with plastic curtain wire at her home in Halesowen, West Midlands. Michael Baxter, 29, was jailed for life in June 1998 at Stafford CC.
March 18 – Astley McTaggart, 37, a bankrupt car dealer and property developer, was shot in the head with a sawn-off shotgun in the hallway of his home in Amherst Park, Stoke Newington, NE London. Unsolved.
March 17 – Michael Stevenson, 43, a security guard, was kicked to death outside the Holy Family Parish Club in Langley, Berkshire. Andrew Strain, 20, Darren Nagle, 21, and Paul Hoolan, 23, were charged with murder but charges later dropped.
March 16 – Guy Everton, was killed in Fulham, west London. Brian Jales, 34, from Fulham, was acquitted in Dec 1997.
March 14 – Stephen O’Neill, 22, from Stechford, shot in an amusement arcade in Small Heath, Birmingham. Unsolved.
March 12 – Michael Josey, 54, killed in an alley in Mevagissey, Cornwall. Rickie Tregaskes, 30, was jailed for life at Truro CC in July 1999.
March 12 – Eleni Sokell, 31, mother of one, stabbed 7 times and hit 31 times with a hammer in bed at her bedsit in Paignton, Devon. Her husband Dean Sokell, 26, a chef, was jailed for life in Sep 1998. At his trial at Exeter CC he admitted murder on the basis that he had woken up to find he was hitting Eleni with a claw hammer – but then, while awake, carried on and finally stabbed her to silence the screams.
March 11 – Ian Marshall, 48, a shopkeeper with a wife and two daughters, was shot 3 times at his off licence on the Racecourse estate in Sale, Greater Manchester. David Ashberry, 19, from Middleton, was jailed for life in Dec 1997. Tony Watt, 26, was jailed for 13 years for attempted robbery. He had earlier chased Watt away with a machete but was killed as he tried to protect his father-in-law Bill Holroyd.
March 10 – Norman Lindsay, 26, from Brixton, was shot in the chest during a private party at the Imperial Garden nightclub in Camberwell, SE London. Three others were injured. George “Sky” Koporo, 24, went on the run and fled to Holland. He was shot dead in Amsterdam in March 2003. Koporo was 6ft 7ins tall, hence his nickname.
March 8 – Zeus King, 19, from Chorlton, was shot in the head as he ran from a Seat car parked in Longsight, Manchester. Leon Johnson was charged with murder but charge was dropped when a key witness, Sharone White, 18, refused to testify. She was jailed for 2 months for contempt. The court heard King, the son of 1970s pop star Marcel King, was thought to have been taking part in an ambush of rival drug dealers when he was shot by his friend, Johnson, in a “friendly fire” incident. Johnson was jailed for 5 years for drug dealing.
March 8 – Barry Reynolds, 24, hit with a blunt instrument outside Linford Film Studios nightclub in Battersea, south London. The club, which specialised in rave/house music, lost its licence in April 1997. Unsolved.
March 5 – Michel Mathieu was shot dead in Deauville, Quebec, Canada. A week later Sylvain Reed was killed in Sherbrooke. On Aug 12, 2001 Robert Leger was killed in Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley. Five Hells Angels – Sylvain Vachon and his brother François; Yvon Vallières Tanguay; Claude Berger and Christian Ménard – were arrested in 2009 and charged with murder as part of Operation SharQc. But the case against them was dismissed in 2015 after Quebec Superior Court Justice James Brunton criticised the time it had taken to disclose evidence. All five were freed.
March 5 – Anthony Traynor, 18, stabbed outside Sharks nightclub in Huyton, Liverpool. Alan Hodgson was jailed for life (15 years) in Nov 1997. Traynor had been trying to stop another lad being assaulted by Hodgson.
March 4 – Martin Higgins, 39, originally from Limerick, killed in a fight in White Hart Lane, Tottenham. Lee Roberts, 26, from Forest Gate, was jailed for life in March 1998. No evidence was offered against Brian Mulroy, 27, from Potters Bar. Higgins had been drinking in the White Hart tavern.
March 1 – Robyn Browne, 23, a transsexual prostitute, was stabbed to death at his flat in Gosfield Street, Soho, London. James Hopkins, from Leeds, was jailed for life (17 years) in Jan 2009. He caught by DNA on his palm print. DJ and TV presenter Nicky Campbell was among those DNA tested during the investigation. Browne was born James Browne but was undergoing sex change treatment.
February 1997
Feb 28 – Janice Cartwright-Gilbert, 38, stabbed and battered to death in her caravan in Wilden, Bedfordshire, which was then set alight. Justin Plummer, 29, a burglar from Bedfordshire, was jailed for life in Nov 1998.
February 15 – Billie-Jo Jenkins, 13, battered with a tent pole as she painted the back door of her foster parents’ home in Hastings, East Sussex. Her foster father Sion Jenkins, 39, a deputy headmaster, was jailed for life in 1998. He won a retrial after questions raised about the blood spatter evidence. Two subsequent juries were unable to reach verdicts and in 2006 CPS dropped the case and he walked free. His wife Lois divorced him and moved to Tasmania. Jenkins has remarried, to a millionairess, and studied criminology at Portsmouth University.
Feb 12 – Peggy Merlin, 20, and her sister Amelie, 17; Isabelle Lamotte, 20, and her sister Audrey Lamotte-Rufin, 17, sexually assaulted and murdered while in fancy dress at a festival and buried on a beach at Dannes, near Boulogne, France. Jean-Louis Jourdain, 37, and his brother Jean-Michel Jourdain, 34, scrap metal merchants, were both jailed for life in Oct 2000. Jean-Michel was a convicted rapist and Jean-Louis was a convicted murderer who served 11 years in jail for strangling a teenager. Prosecutor Luc Frenis described them as “the Siamese twins of horror”.
Feb 11 – Samuel Mugalu, 20, stabbed at home in New Cross, SE London while playing cards with his brother. Several men armed with iron bars and knives broke in. Steven Mutsoke, 20, Sheldon Nelson, 22, and Henry Mukasa, 17, were all jailed for life. Wayne Henry, 16, was detained during HM Pleasure. Tesfah Boswell, 18, was jailed for 2 years. Jaffari Masagazi, 19, Isaac Kabyanga, 20, and Leroy Kraku, 21 were all acquitted.
Feb – Michael McMonagle, 31, was killed in a house near his home in Garthamlock, Glasgow. Robert McIntosh, 37, went on the run.
Feb – Ian Brown, 27, decorator, shot in Colburn, near Catterick, North Yorkshire. Noel Parker, 36, was jailed for life. The trial at Teesside CC heard that Parker mistakenly thought Brown was his girlfriend’s lover.
Feb – Tristan Dale, 19, stabbed outside a chip shop in Gorse Hill, Swindon. Ricky Greenwood, 21, a schizophrenic, was sent to Ravenswood secure unit indefinitely.
Feb – Reginald Witt, 61, thrown from his sixth floor balcony in south London. Robert Jeffrey, 53, a paranoid psychotic, was found unfit to stand trial in June 1997 and sent to a mental hospital. He had also stabbed to death William Maxwell, 67, at his home.
Feb 11 – James Ward, 4, dumped behind flats in Castlemilk, Glasgow.James Reid, 59, was jailed for life. The trial heard that James had left his great-grandmother’s house to walk 50 yards to his great-aunt’s house for a sweet. Reid, who was drunk, hit him over the head with a hammer and strangled him before dumping his body by the bins. He had drunk six litres of sherry in the two days before the murder. Reid died of natural causes in HMP Dumfries in Nov 2011
Feb 11 –
Barry Evans, 52, former star of TV sitcom
Mind Your Language, turned taxi driver – found dead in the lounge of his home in Claybrooke Magna, Leicestershire. James Leadbitter, 18, was initially charged with stealing his car and attempted murder but the charges were dropped in 1998. The coroner returned an open verdict. The inquest heard Evans had drank a large amount of whiskey and aspirins.
http://www.viola123.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/barryevanscoronersreport.htm
Feb 10 – Christopher Castle, from Catford, was stabbed in Chelmsford, Essex. Martin Cross, 35, unemployed, from Chelmsford, and Paul Sargent, from Harlow, were both jailed for life in Feb 1998. Sargent was the former leader of the far-right Combat 18 group.
Feb 10 – Kevin Muhyddin, 45, the gay son of the Lord Mayor of Bath – killed in his flat in St James’s Square, Bath. The flat was then set on fire. Mark Shillibier, 25, from Plymouth, was acquitted at Bristol CC in Oct 1998. In 1999 he tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered Rebecca Storrs, 18, in South Wales.
Feb 10 – Diane Elliott, 44, died of head injuries at home in Wallsend, Tyneside. Her husband, Thomas Elliott, took an overdose and was taken to hospital. He was later convicted of manslaughter and given three years’ probation.
Feb 9 – Charles Potter, 43, stabbed at his home in Dartford, Kent. Michael Clulow, 22, was jailed for life in July 1998. Jeffrey Waterman, 25, was jailed for 8 years for manslaughter. Jane Putland, 27, was charged with perverting the course of justice.
Feb 9 – Stuart Atyeo, 25, shot 3 times as he got into his lover’s car in Moorland, near Bridgwater, Somerset. Nigel Saunders, 29, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 9 years. The trial at Bristol CC in 1998 heard Atyeo’s lover, Catherine, was the ex-wife of Saunders.
Feb 9 – Six people, including his parents Helen and Neville, aged 60, and neighbour Hank Van Der Wetering, 51 – shot dead in Roraimu, New Zealand – Stephen Anderson, 22, a schizophrenic, was sent to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely.
Feb 8 – John Kennedy, 31, stabbed in Wapping, E London. John – brother of Jade Jones from the boy band Damage – died following a fight at the Railway Arms pub, in Sutton Street E1, at around 05:50. John, a self-employed electrician and a keen footballer who played for a local team, had been out the night before his death with friends. They visited several pubs, arriving at the Railway Arms around 03:00hrs. £20k reward offered in 2013. An anonymous witness came forward in Dec 2013. Unsolved.
Feb 4 – Matthew Eappen, 8 months old – shaken to death at his parents’ home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.
Louise Woodward, 19, an au pair from Elton, near Chester, UK, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years in October 1997. She was freed on appeal and later convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 279 days. As she had spent that time on remand she was freed immediately. She returned to the UK and trained as a lawyer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/woodward/107375.stm
Feb 4 – David Stutchbery, 49, stabbed at a house in Densole, Folkestone, Kent. Mary Hertz, 36, an Avon lady, claimed self-defence and was never charged. It later emerged the knife which inflicted the fatal wound was Stutchbery’s and the incident took place at her house, suggesting that he intended to harm her.
Feb 2 – Alexander Solonik, 37, former KGB officer and prolific contract killer who once escaped from jail in Moscow – strangled and hacked to pieces, with remains left in a suitcase in the suburb of Varibobi, Athens, Greece. His girlfriend, Svetlana Kotova, was also killed. In 2011 Sergei Butorin, a boss of the Orekhovo gang (Russian mafia) was jailed for life in Russia for the Solonik killing and almost 30 other murders. Marat Polyansky was jailed for 22 years. Two other men, Vladimir Seliserov and Andrei Gusev, were arrested in Greece but never convicted.
Feb 1 – Stuart Gaskell, from Bacup, Lancashire, shot by a gang while working in Cape Town, South Africa. Morne Bosch, 26, and Winston Blaauw, 27, were acquitted of murder but convicted of robbery. Quinton Marinus, 25, was acquitted of robbery. Hilton Scott, 24, was not considered fit for trial. The trial in June 1998 heard Mr Gaskell’s wife Estelle had just heard she was pregnant shortly before he was murdered. Marinus later became a leading member of South Africa’s notorious 28s gang.
January 1997
Late Jan – Barbara Morgan, bludgeoned with a table leg at her home in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire. Her drunken son Tyrone Morgan, 17, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter in Dec 1997.
Jan 30 – Amanda Tanner, 19, pregnant – stabbed 40 times in her flat in Barton Hill, Bristol. George McIvor, 31, a heroin dealer, was jailed for life in 1998. The trial at Bristol CC heard Amanda was the girlfriend of McIvor’s fellow dealer Gary Gould.
Jan 30 – Mary Roberts, 39, postal worker, stabbed in her flat in Hove, E Sussex. Her ex-boyfriend and father of her child, Edward Lawrence, 29, was jailed for life in Dec 1997. Lewes CC heard that the 2 year old daughter was in the flat at the time.
Jan 28 – Frederick Spicer, 29, died of head injuries after a fight at the Ship and Anchor pub in Dagenham, E London. Unsolved.
Jan 28 – Michael Tachie-Menson, 19, a musician, was set on fire in Silver Street, Edmonton, N London. Mario Pereira, 25, was jailed for life in 1999. Ozguy Cevat, 24, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 14 years. Charalambos Constantinou, 26, was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter.
Jan 26 – Isabelle Gray, 82, spinster, sexually assaulted and beaten – in the kitchen of her home in Killingbeck, Leeds (she had lived there her whole life). It is thought her killer may have been posing as a bogus official to trick his way into her house. Unsolved.
Jan 26 – Philip Gray, 24, labourer, stabbed in Hoglands Park, Southampton, after an argument over a dog. Stuart O’Neil, 31, was acquitted in Oct 1997.
Jan 25 – Janice Crompton, 59, arts teacher, died of head injuries and then dumped in a pick-up truck at a farm in South Molton, Devon. Clifford Harris, 62, killed himself by jumping into a river. His wife Margaret Harris, 60, moved to Australia. Mrs Crompton’s estranged husband was living in Cyprus at the time.
Jan 25 – José Luis Cabezas, photographer, was assassinated in the seaside resort of Pinamar, Argentina, when he covered the summer season for Noticias magazine.His corpse was found inside his car, his hands cuffed behind his back and two shots on his head.It was after he took the first public photos of businessman Alfredo Yabran, the subject of a journalistic investigation into the alleged involvement in cases of political corruption. Yabrán was investigated as the mastermind of the crime, but committed suicide on May 20, 1998, without trial. His homicide became the worst attack on freedom of expression in democracy and had enormous repercussions at the international level. Twenty years after the incident, none of those responsible is imprisoned and the claim for justice remains in force. Yabran was an associate of President Menem.
Jan 24 – Kyra Blench, 2, died of a ruptured colon at home in The Meadows, Nottingham. Darren Byron, 26, the partner of Kyra’s mother, was jailed for life in 1998. The trial at Nottingham CC heard that he “took pleasure in her pain” and also assaulted 3 other children.
Jan – Geoffrey Carver, 19, beaten to death at his home in a tower block in Eltham, SE London. Andrew Gibbins, 28, was jailed for life in 1998.
Jan 24 – Lucy Marshall, 82, raped and stabbed at home in Cowdenbeath, Fife. David Millar, 14, was jailed for life at Edinburgh High Court in 1997. He had been drinking Buckfast wine.
Jan 24 – Carl Rickard, 14, slashed with a 17 inch machete outside his school, Kidbrooke Secondary, in Eltham, SE London. Nathan Brown, 15, leader of the Golden Snakes gang from nearby Thomas Tallis School, was detained under HM Pleasure for manslaughter. Six other gang members were jailed for GBH.
Jan 23 – Elsie Norwood, 83, frail, diabetic, half blind – strangled, battered and astabbed at home on Grahame Park estate in West Hendon, London. Michael Whittle, 36, was jailed for life in 1998. At his trial he used an alibi that he was visiting a prostitute in Soho at the time.
Jan 19 – Katherin Newton, 29, mother of 3, stabbed at home in St Helens, Merseyside. Her boyfriend Phillip Fraser, 37, was jailed for life at Liverpool CC.
Jan – Ian Brown, 46, alcoholic, stabbed 50 times during a drunken row in Streatham, S London. His brother, Paul Brown, 42, was jailed for life. It emerged at the trial at the Old Bailey in July 1997 that Ian had helped his brother to dispose of his baby, Louise, in 1985 after she was born with Down’s Syndrome and was murdered.
Jan 17 – Caroline Burningham, 29, pregnant sales assistant, beaten and kicked in the front seat of her Vauxhall Astra car outside her home in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. Wayne Licorish, 31, an “acquaintance” from Wellingborough, was sent to Broadmoor in May 1998. He was suffering from schizophrenia.
Jan 13 – Brandon Hale, 48, prolific gambler and money launderer, shot in the head in Queen’s Wood in Highgate, N London. He reportedly gambled away £100,000 belonging to a gang of criminals. Unsolved.
Jan 12 – Alistair Rattray, 53, father of four, stabbed at home at Ore, near Hastings, E Sussex, and hidden under the sofa. Robert Mault, 23, a drug addict, was jailed for life at Lewes CC in 1998. The trial heard Mault, who was homeless and had been allowed to stay on Rattray’s sofa, went on a shopping spree with Rattray’s credit cards. He claimed Rattray tried to sexually assault him.
Jan 11 – Zoe Evans, 9, asphyxiated at home in Warminster, Wiltshire, and then dumped in countryside, where it was found on Feb 26. Her stepfather Miles “Taff” Evans, 23, was jailed for life at Bristol CC in 1998. He had appeared at a TV press conference and made a tearful appeal for her to come. Classic case of crocodile tears.
Jan 10 – Pat Coulton, 52, nursing home assistant, stabbed in the grounds of Lynwood nursing home in Sunningdale, Berkshire. Her husband Michael Coulton, a policeman in Surrey Police royal protection squad, was jailed for life in 1998. The couple were apparently involved in wife-swapping.
Jan 10 – Keith Forster, 50, chef/businessman, attacked with a meat cleaver at home in Steventon End, near Saffron Walden, Essex. It is thought he was killed by a loanshark. Unsolved.
Jan 8 – Tina Longworth, 29, businesswoman, found hanged at home in Southport, Merseyside. Her husband, Paul Longworth, a sailing club commodore, was jailed for life in 1998.
Jan 5 – Tracy Corless, killed at home in Bacup, Lancashire. Her husband, Shaun Corless, 39, was jailed for 9 years for manslaughter. The trial at Preston CC heard that his children tried to stop him.
Jan 3 – Michael Corbett, 29, drug addict, beaten to death in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. Leon Seale-Edwards, 16, and an 18-year-old man, were acquitted of murder in 1997.
In 2007 Seale-Edwards, by then 27 and a member of the Longsight Crew, was jailed for life for stockpiling and supplying weapons to gangsters in Manchester
Jan 3 – Guydance Dacres, 16, shot at a party in Chimes nightclub in Clapton, E London. Fabian Fatinikun, 20, and Anthony Bourne, 19, were acquitted at the Old Bailey.
Jan 1 – Nicola Dixon, 17, found in the back garden of a vicar’s house in Trinity Hill, Sutton Coldfield with massive head injuries. Colin Waite, 36, was jailed for life at B’ham CC in 2004.
1996
December 1996
Dec 31 – Paul Hopkins, 31, stabbed in the stairwell of flats on the Kinsman estate in Bodmin, Cornwall. Christopher Fitzgerald, 32, was jailed for life at Truro CC in March 1998.
Dec 31 – Wilf Mann, 90, retired cobbler, kicked to death at his home in Ushaw Moor, County Durham. Paul Newman, 25, who had been released from prison a few weeks before, was jailed for life at Newcastle CC in Feb 1998.
Dec 30 – Rachel Garrett, 29, stabbed at her home in Coventry. Her common-law husband, and father of her son Louis, Stuart Blakie-O’Brien, 28, was jailed for 3 and a half years for manslaughter.
Dec 26 – Jon–Benet Ramsey, 6, a child beauty pageant winner, strangled in the basement of her parents’ 15-bedroom home in Boulder, Colorado. A kidnapper was initially suspected because a ransom note demanding $118,000 was found in her bedroom. But later suspicion fell on her parents John, a millionaire, and Patsy, a former beauty queen, after doubts emerged about the note and also about the lack of tracks in the snow outside. Unsolved.
Dec – Terrence Allamby, 43, a Yardie drugs baron, was shot dead at his flat in Reading. Howie Patterson was jailed for life in May 1997. Errington “Timo” Marks, 35, was acquitted. Allamby’s henchman, Henroy “Fly” Dryden told the trial at Reading CC that Marks told Patterson to “wet him” (kill him in Jamaican slang).
? – Greg Smith, an Irishman – kicked and punched in Dover, Kent. Barry Fox, 22, and his brother Stewart Fox, 21, were jailed for 3 years 4 months and 4 years respectively.
Dec 26 – Belinda Pereira, 26, prostitute, killed in Dublin. Unsolved.
Dec 26 – John Carty, 27, stabbed in Albert Road, Southsea. Simon Dawe, 23, killed himself in prison while awaiting trial in May 1997.
Dec 25 – Michelle Bone-Knell, 34, and her son Damian, 18 months, died in a house fire in Bushbury, Wolverhampton. Her daughter Chantel, 2, survived. Her next door neighbour Anthony Watkins, 29, was acquitted of murder at Stafford CC in Feb 1998. His baby twin sons had died in a house fire in 1993. The trial heard that he accused her of being a noisy neighbour.
Dec 24 – John Geraghty, 50, beaten to death at home in Aldershot. Graham Parker, 24, unemployed, was jailed for life in Nov 1997.
Dec 23 – Sophie Toscan du Plantier, 38, French TV producer, beaten with a poker at her home in Schull, County Cork, Ireland. Ian Bailey, 41, a freelance journalist who lived nearby, was suspected of the murder but was never charged. He was writing about the case and wrote an exclusive about how the murder weapon was a poker. Bailey later completed a law degree. In 2012 the Irish Supreme Court rejected an attempted by France for him to be extradited to stand trial in France. Unsolved.
Dec 22 – Paul Sims, 18, found on a railway line in Northwood, NW London. Gary Ross, 26, from Watford, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter at Inner London Crown Court.
Dec 21 – Kayleigh Ward, 9, abducted after she went to buy chips from a shop in Chester. Body found in Feb 1997 in the River Dee, across the border in Wales. John O’Shaughnessy, 30, pleaded guilty and was jailed for life (30 yrs min) at Mold CC in Dec 97.
Dec 20 – Russell Christie, 34, drug dealer and brother of athlete Linford Christie, stabbed with his own army knife in Westbourne Park Road, Notting Hill. Simon “Wolfie” Williams, 32, drug user, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter after being acquitted of murder. The trial at the Old Bailey in Dec 1997 heard Williams bought £20 worth of crack but Christie took it and ate it.
Dec 12 – Yvonne Gilford, 55, Australian nurse, stabbed, hit with a hammer and smothered in her room at King Fahd Medical Centre in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Deborah Parry, 41, a nurse from Alton, Hampshire, was sentenced to death. Lucille McLauchlan, 33, from Dundee, was jailed for 8 years and sentenced to 500 lashes. Both sentences were commuted to time served in 1998 and both were deported back to their UK. The trial had heard Gilford was in a lesbian relationship with Parry, something she later denied.
Dec 12 – Doug Freeman, 34, father of 3, beaten to death outside Vogue nightclub in Stevenage. Colin Shaw, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter.
Dec 11 – Alice Rye, 74, tied up, sexually assaulted, tortured and stabbed in the eyes at home in Spital, Merseyside. Kevin Morrison, 59, a police informant, came forward and claimed another man had given him items after robbing her. The man claimed he had stabbed her in the eyes to make the police look for a “nut”. Morrison was jailed for life (18 years minimum) in 1999. DNA evidence contributed to his conviction as he had stolen Alice’s knickers. He stole a necklace and a watch.
Dec 10 – Richard Watson, 55, millionaire computer businessman, shot at the gate of his home in East Grinstead, Sussex. His wife, Linda, 43, and daughter Amanda London-Williams, 22, were charged with murder but the case was dropped due to lack of evidence on the eve of the trial. Mr Watson had been attacked two weeks earlier by two men. Ballistics evidence suggested he was shot from the balcony of the house. In 2003 Sussex Police named hitman Paul Jones, from East Grinstead, as a prime suspect, but he was never charged. He had already been jailed for 17 years at the Old Bailey for blasting builder Ernie Bloom, 57, with a shotgun in a bungled £100 contract killing. Unsolved.
Dec 5 – Servan Kabadi, 27, from Shepherds Bush – killed in west London. Jamal Karimi, 40, student, was jailed for 7 years for manslaughter.
Dec – Delroy Nedrick, father of two, killed in late night street fight in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Andrew Middleton, 23; David Coulson, 21; Phillip Smith, 23; and Craig Bauer, 25, were jailed for life at Stafford CC in March 1998. Four other men were acquitted.
Dec 3 – Alan Curtis, 34, part-time musician, was beaten to death in the street in Skerton as he walked home from a gig at the Crown Inn in Lancaster. Peter Thomas, 20, and Darrel Lee Rae, 18, soldiers with the King’s Own Border Regiment, were jailed for life (15 years minimum) in 1997 and released in 2012. He was attacked with his own electric guitar.
December 1 – Lee Harvey, 25, unemployed bus driver, was stabbed in the neck and had his throat cut as he drove down country lanes near Alvechurch, Worcestershire. His girlfriend Tracie Andrews, 28, a former model, claimed he was the victim of a road rage attack. But it later emerged that she had killed him after a row. She was jailed for life in 1997 with a 14 year tariff. She was released in July 2011.
Dec 1 – Janet McGhee, 48, shot at her home in Kimberley, near Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Her estranged husband Thomas McGhee, 53, was jailed for life in 1998. They were involved in a custody battle over their 3 year old daughter.
Dec 1 – Dennis Cockerill, 50, father of 5, headbutted and beaten up outside a Chinese restaurant in High Green, Sheffield. Lee Denton, 23, unemployed, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 4 years. He had served 3 years in jail for raping Cockerill’s mother Hilda, 64.
November 1996
Nov 30 – Chris Lombard, 30, bouncer, was shot outside The Island nightclub in Ilford, E London. His colleague, Albert St Hilaire, 40, survived. The killer had been thrown out earlier after refusing to let himself be searched. Unsolved.
Nov 29 – Toni Paynter, 18, shot dead in front of her 2 children in a car park at the Pentagon Centre in Chatham, Kent. Her boyfriend, Barry Robinson, 21, shot himself in the same car park a few minutes later.
Nov 25 – Nelson Asu, 24, gay model – found in a packing trunk at his home in Toxteth, Liverpool. Carl Alker, 18, was detained under HM Pleasure in July 1997.
Nov 25 – Beth Robinson, 17, killed near her home in Wonastow, near Monmouth, Wales. Daniel Riches, 21, was jailed for life at Newport CC in 1997.
Nov 20 – Kenneth Speakman, 84, retired army officer and gun collector, handcuffed and then strangled at his home in Ramsgate, Kent. Anthony Swindells, 39, burglar from Broadstairs, was jailed for life in Jan 1999 with a 9 year concurrent sentence for robbery and possession of firearms. The trial at Maidstone CC heard Swindells stole 12 handguns, including wartime Lugers.
Nov 20 – Lisa Fuell, 28, pastry chef, suffocated and found in the bath at home in Kiln Close, Harlington, west London. Joseph Beck, 33, a former soldier and convicted rapist, was jailed for life in 2000. He had been living rough. She is believed to have invited him home after meeting him on the Tube.
Nov – Richard and Naoma Wendorf, killed at Eustis, near Orlando, Florida. Rod Ferrell, 17, the leader of a teenage vampire cult, was sentenced to death. In 1999 the Florida Supreme Court commuted his sentence to life without parole (due to his age).
Nov 22 – Ian Taylor, 28, drug dealer from Arnold, Nottinghamshire – shot 4 times. Body found buried near Wakefield in the north of England in 2001. John Allan, 42, from Woodthorpe, was jailed for life in 2003 for his murder. They had both been due to go on trial in 1997, accused of conspiracy to supply ecstasy and other drugs. Allan was already in jail for 19 years for drugs offences and trying to illegally influence a jury. Allan probably feared his co-defendant would grass him up.
Nov 17 – Gary Chick, 40, bouncer at Tom Pepper’s nightclub – beaten up outside club in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Paul Rowley, 28, was acquitted in December 1999.
Nov 10 – Sergei Trakhirov and 13 others – killed by a bomb at Kotlyavskoe cemetery in Moscow. Valeri Radchikov was jailed for 13 years in 2000. Radchikov, who had lost his legs in Afghanistan, was fighting with Trakhirov for control of the lucrative RFIVA Red Army Afghan veterans’ fund. Radchikov’s conviction was overturned and he died in a car crash in 2001. His accomplices, Mikhail Smurov and Andrei Anokhin were jailed for 15 and 10 years respectively but their convictions were quashed.
Nov – Emma Cowdrey, 26, shot at home in Rotherwick, near Hook, Hampshire. Her husband Paul Cowdrey, 38, was jailed for life in 1997.
Nov 25 – Suzanne Annis, 27, nurse, drugged and raped in a nursing home attached to Brompton Hospital in SW London. Her colleague, Kevin Cobb, 37, was jailed for life in 2000.
Nov 16 – Vera Holland, 47, mother of 3 – abducted, stripped and strangled. Her body set on fire in Arbourfield, Berkshire. Unsolved.
Nov – An unnamed child – dumped in a bin at a motel near University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. The child’s mother Amy Grossberg, 19, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 2 years. The child’s father Brian Peterson, 19, was jailed for 2 years.
Nov 13 – Dominic Murphy, 44, farm equipment salesman, shot in the head at a farm in Drumaness, County Down. Ignatius Gribbon, 36, a digger driver, was jailed for life (minimum of 13 years) in 1998. The trial heard Murphy was having an affair with Gribbon’s wife Angela.
Nov 12 – Richard Breitbarth, 48, businessman, was shot dead at his home in Whippany, New Jersey. He was the president of Biophase Systems, a vitamin and food supplement company. Some people described him as arrogant and dishonest and his business partner Daniel George was involved in a tax fraud. Unsolved.
Nov 10 – Mohammed Akram, 38, taxi driver, shot in the head and dumped in a wood in Carrington, Manchester. Unsolved.
Nov – Joanne Lawson, 38, multiple sclerosis sufferer, who was wheelchair bound – set on fire at her home in Southall, west London. Her husband Raymond Lawson, 53, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 8 years. The trial at Lincoln CC in July 1997 heard that she had whispered “murder” on her deathbed.
Nov 9 – Christopher Scott-Strother, 50, stabbed at his flat in Oakley Square, Camden, north London. Charles Allen, 18, was acquitted at the Old Bailey in Dec 1997. Ergin Yilmaz, 15, fled to Turkey. The trial heard that Scott-Strother, a devotee of the Old Roman Catholic Church, was a homosexual paedophile how had stolen around £1m of religious artefacts. Yilmaz apparently killed him after he made sexual advances.
Nov 8 – Adrian Kaminsky, 28, from Salford – strangled and found in the boot of a car which was followed from Manchester to East Yorkshire. His hands were cut off. His lover Mikhail Gallatinov, 22, a convicted paedophile from Moston, was jailed for life in Dec 1997. Gallatinov had told an undercover policeman what he planned to do but police were outside when he handcuffed and strangled Kaminsky.
Nov 7 – Jan Polak, 67, alcoholic Polish immigrant – punched at his home in Chiswick. Edward Adler, 23, unemployed, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 5 years.
Nov 6 – Sandra Austin, 52, shop worker, stabbed at home in Uphill, Lincoln. Her estranged husband Geoffrey Austin, 53, was jailed for life in 1997. The trial heard he claimed he was ill with food poisoning on the night of the murder. She was having an affair with a “toyboy”.
Nov 5 – Robert Casey, a schizophrenic drug dealer – shot in a car in Kensington, Liverpool. Les Jackson, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 7 years in 1998. He was the father of Casey’s ex-girlfriend, Lynette.
Nov 4 – James Hancox, 28, and his American girlfriend Rhoda Priere, 30, shot in a trailer park in Pahrumph, Nevada. Her former boyfriend Theodore Widdowes later shot himself dead in a Las Vegas hotel room.
Nov – Woman, 20, was killed in a house in Newsome, Huddersfield. Her two-year-old daughter was found alive and well in the house. The woman was killed by her former boyfriend Paul Peart, 25, who had been released from prison two days earlier. He immediately committed suicide.
Nov 1 – David Younes, 32, stabbed in the street in North Kenton, Newcastle. Unsolved.
Nov – Tony Edwards, 62, a retired publican, beaten about the head as he walked home from the pub in Newlyn, Cornwall. He died in hospital in December. A drunken French fisherman was arrested but never charged. The Breton vessel Martholod Breizh was the only French boat in the port on the night. An inquest heard that one of the fisherman Gaeten Paille, from Brittany,told French police: “I could have punched the man, but I assure you I do not remember.”
October 1996
Oct 31 – Natalie Wood, 6, strangled after a row at home in Fenham, Newcastle. Her mother Melanie Jaichard, 23, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) at Newcastle CC in Nov 97 and was given an indefinite hospital order.
Oct 30 – Julie Smailes, 27, sales manager with US computer firm – strangled and stabbed 40 times at her home in Leadgate, County Durham. The house was then set on fire. John Thompson, 27, a local drug dealer, is definitely thought to have been involved. He hanged himself in August 1998. His friend Darren Willis, 26, was initially charged with murder but charges were dropped in 2002.
Oct 28 – Thomas Stewart, 35, UVF commander, shot near his home in Ballysillan, Belfast. Stewart had been stood down by the UVF after he committed a £50,000 armed robbery. He was ordered to get out of N Ireland by the UVF. Unsolved.
Oct 27 – Karen Tomlinson, 22, prostitute – battered and strangled at her flat in Albany Street, Hull. Steven Price, 34, from Leicester, was convicted of manslaughter at Sheffield CC in 1999 and jailed for 10 years.
Oct 20 – Anthony Savage, 16, from Woolwich – died of head injuries after a brawl in Eltham, SE London. Lee Stubington, 18, and two juveniles, were charged with murder and went on trial at the Old Bailey in Sep 1997.
Oct 19 – Jeremy Debonnaire, 45, terminally ill glazier, tied up and shot at his home in Bearsted, near Maidstone, Kent. William Hammell, 35, a burglar, and Clive Sands, 26, were charged but charges were dropped in April 1997 due to insufficient evidence.
Oct 16 – Lesley Fox, 29, pregnant – raped and strangled at her flat in Darlington. Norman Bowen-Jones, 17, was jailed for life at Durham CC in Nov 1997. Timothy Dunn, 15, from Newton Aycliffe, was detained under HM Pleasure.
Oct 13 – Joe Smales, 85, from Rochdale, killed outside his brother Bert’s home in Wakefield. Bert survived. Paul Maxwell, 33, and his brother Daniel Mansell, 28, robbers from Manchester, were jailed for life at Leeds CC in Feb 1998
. It emerged that
Maxwell was a police informer. In 2009 Mansell’s conviction was quashed. In 2011, the Supreme Court delivered withering criticism of West Yorkshire Police when it ruled Mr Mansell’s brother – Paul Maxwell – should face a re-trial after his conviction for the Smales murder had also been quashed. Maxwell subsequently pleaded guilty.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/decided-cases/docs/UKSC_2010_0003_Judgment.pdf
Oct – Paul Craig, 34, who was crippled with arthritis, was beaten to death in Hampton, Middlesex. Derek Passmore, 42, was jailed for life (14 years) but his tariff was reduced on appeal to 11. The trial heard how he killed Mr Craig because he believed he was dating his ex-girlfriend. Passmore absconded from HMP Ford in Sussex in summer of 2013. He remains on the run.
Oct 9 – Geoffrey Leeming, 63, a former soldier, stabbed in the garage of his home in Haxby, York, while his wife watched Coronation Street. In 1998 Charges were dropped against his wife Jackie Leeming, 55; his daughter Jayne Leeming, 30; and his son Stephen Leeming, 32. In April 1999 the four appeared in court on fraud charges, involving the family company, Leeming Drains, which were discovered by detectives during the murder inquiry. These included false applications for mortgages, loans and benefits.Mrs Leeming, Stephen Leeming and accountant Malcolm Herbert admitted the charges and were each sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years.Jayne Leeming was jointly charged with fraudulent trading, of which she was found not guilty. Jackie Leeming died of cancer in 2005.
Oct 8 – Stephen Sweet, 18, stabbed in Ashington, Northumberland. Martin McLan, 18, was convicted of manslaughter and detained for 5 years in 1997.
Oct – Ivan Milasinovich, 45, cabinet maker, hit over the head as he tried to break up a fight in Mansfield, Notts. Stephen Tighe, 19, and Carl Mercer, 23, were jailed for life in 1997. Darren Dermody, 16 ,was detained during HM Pleasure. He appealed for early release in 2001.
Oct 7 – Megan Ford, 54, school cleaner, pushed down steps and found at bottom of railway embankment near her home in Bridgend, Wales. Her secret lover Brian Dolan was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 15 months. He pushed her during a row.
Oct 6 – Paul Smith, 38, died in a fire at his flat in Croydon, south London. In October 2017 his flatmate Richard Curtin, then 50, walked into a police station and confessed to starting the fire. In March 2018 he was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter.
Oct 6 – Pamela Stevenson, 31, strangled at home with a vacuum cleaner flex in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Her live-in lover, Gary Scullion, was charged but the case was later dropped.
Oct 5 – Geraldine Montgomery, 68, was raped and murdered in Davison, Michigan. Her body was found in the trunk of her car in her garage. Jason Ryan, by then 37, went on trial in 2015. His lawyers say his DNA was not found at the crime scene and blamed an inept and shoddy investigation. But he was convicted of murder. Jamie Peterson was convicted of the crimes in 1998 and sentenced to life without parole. He was released in September 2014 after DNA tests showed he didn’t attack Montgomery.
Oct 4 – Sarah Hajney, 16 and Jennifer Bolduc, 16, High School cheerleaders, abducted, raped and dismembered in Dryden, New York state. John Andrews, 31, a factory worker, hanged himself in jail in Nov 1996 while awaiting trial.
Oct – Zoe Simpson, 24, mother of two, vanished from home in Manchester. Remains found in a scrapyard in Stoke. Her boyfriend Karl Richardson, 34, was arrested but released. Unsolved.
Oct 4 – Eric “Shaka” Brant, stabbed in his car outside The Fridge nightclub in Brixton. Unsolved.
Oct 3 – Gary McDonagh, 16, attacked with a machete and dumped in undergrowth in Cannock, Staffordshire. His brother William McDonagh, 30, and his sister-in-law, Noreen McDonagh, 27, were jailed for life in 1997. The trial at Stafford CC heard that Gary had been accused of child abuse.
Oct 1 – Richard Robertson, 32, stabbed and had throat cut in a van in Whitleigh, Plymouth. Paul Best, 30, from St Budeaux, was jailed for life in July 1997. The trial heard Best’s mistress, Annie, was married to Robertson.
Oct 1 – Julia Fairbanks-Smith, 37, and her daughter Emma, 4, stabbed at a remote farm. Johannes Bruintjes; Dawid Ruiters; Andre Solomons and Charles Adams were jailed in 1999 for 50 years each.
Oct – Susan Clark, 30, stabbed with a steak knife at home in Hailsham, East Sussex. Her bankrupt husband Anthony Clark, 33, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 7 years. The trial at Lewes CC heard he snapped during Sunday lunch and stabbed her 16 times after she told him she had a lover.
September 1996
Sep – Terence Donnelly, 37, stabbed 7 times and hidden under floorboards of a house in Greenock, Scotland. Body was found on Oct 10. Alan Napier, 43, was jailed for life in Feb 1997. He had claimed self-defence.
Sep 25 – Claire Hampson, hit with a hammer and buried in March, Cambridgeshire. Her husband, David Hampson, 39, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter. The trial at Northampton CC heard she was a nagging wife.
Sep 20 – Michael Adams, 47, killed at his flat in Colwyn Bay, north Wales. James Kearns, 59, from Rhyl, was acquitted of manslaughter.
Sep 15 – Jacqueline Hill, 45, stabbed in Maindy, Newport, Gwent. Her boyfriend Richard Hoare, 30, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 11 years. The trial in May 1997 heard he was drunk and killed her after she burnt his Sunday dinner.
Sep 14 – Ahmet Cimen, 43, Turkish national, shot and thrown out of a car in Winchmore Hill, north London. Attilla Ozildrim, 36, was charged with conspiracy to murder but charges were dropped in Sep 1997 due to insufficient evidence. The murder is believed to have been linked to an Amsterdam heroin deal.
Sep 14 – John McNee, stabbed in Forestfields, Nottingham. Michael Claven, 33, admitted manslaughter and was jailed for 6 years.
Sep 13 – Martin McCusker, 46, loner, stabbed on seafront in Southend, Essex. Robert Copeland, 32, an alcoholic chef, was jailed for life at Chelmsford CC. Richard Jones, 19, was acquitted.
Sep 13 – Lawrence Dabbs, 74, retired millionaire businessman, was found in a fume filled car in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. A neighbour John Hart, 37, was suspected after he inherited £1.4m in Dabbs’ will but charges were dropped and Mr Hart said the “finger of suspicion” had made his life “unbearable”.
Sep 13 – Sara Lucas, 38, strangled in Bisley, Surrey. Her boyfriend, Steve O’Callaghan, 42, admitted manslaughter and was jailed for 3 years. The judge accepted he was suffering from a “severe adjustment disorder” after discovering she had a secret lover.
Sep 13 – Edwin Jones, 44, paramedic from Ammanford – suffered facial injuries and left underneath railway arches in Swansea. Christian Taylor, 23, was jailed for life in April 1997. Mr Jones was gay.
Sep 11 – Rigaletta Nikac, 31, who was pregnant, and her father Mark, 58 – shot outside their home in Mount Pleasant, New York. Her former lover Joseph Rukaj, 38, who had won $17m in the NY state lottery in 1990, was jailed for 20 years to Life in March 1998. He claimed he had to shoot his way out of an “ambush” after her family confronted him.
Sep 10 – Peter Colleran, 49, beaten to death at home in Liverpool. His stepson Brian Schumacher, 36, a former Olympic boxer from Vauxhall, Liverpool, was jailed for life in May 1997.
Sep – Matthew Tilbury, 23, beaten with a baseball bat at Sheepcote Valley landfill site, near Brighton, where he worked. Jamie Cooper, 20, was jailed for life at Lewes CC with a minimum of 12 years. Mr Tilbury had been trying to stop a fight. The other man involved, Simon Ferguson, 26, went missing.
Sep 9 – Scott Ferguson, 16, stabbed to death in Paisley, Scotland. William McDermott, 15, was sent to a secure school without time limit in Jan 1997.
Sep 7 – Jane Crowe, 32, mother of 2, tied up in a cupboard and strangled at home in Norwich. Paul Miles, 34, her former boyfriend, a French Legionnaire, was jailed for life in 1997. The trial heard she was killed after she “belittled” him – she said her son, James, 4, was more of a man than he was. Her children, James and Emily, 5, were on holiday in Wales with her estranged husband Tony at the time. Miles returned to steal a cash card and went on the run. He was captured in Preston.
Sep 6 – Brian Hagland, 28, postman from London, tourist – was beaten to death on Bondi Beach, Sydney, as he walked with his fiancée Connie Casey. Aaron Martin, 22, was acquitted of murder but convicted of maliciously inflicting GBH and jailed for 2 years and 3 months. Sean Cushman, 23, was convicted of being an accessory. The sentences were so lenient that it was brought up in the New South Wales Parliament:
Sep 4 – Three women – their body parts were found in the deep freeze at a restaurant in Brussels, Belgium. Ghassan Bou Ziab, 40, a Lebanese restaurateur, and his brother Helmi, 32, were charged with murder.
Sep 3 – Andrew Poynton, 22, English literature student from Stockport – beaten up in the street in Manchester. Wayne Paley, 23, from Beswick, was convicted of manslaughter in 1999 and jailed for 2 and a half years.He had claimed self-defence.
Sep 2 – Jill Robinson, 54, stabbed in the kitchen of her home in Burbage, Leicestershire. Her husband, William Robinson, 58, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter.
Sep 1 – Mark Sayer, 22, unemployed bouncer and former schoolboy boxer (who once fought Naseem Hamed) – shot outside his home in Dormanstown, Redcar, Teesside. Carl Henderson, 26, from Bracknell, and Edwin Winter, 24, from Blyth, were jailed for life in 1997. Zarin Sharif, 33, was jailed for 20 years for conspiracy to murder. Joseph Marshall, 39, was jailed for 6 years for conspiracy to possess a firearm. Andrew Monarch, 24, and Anthony Robinson, 23, went on the run. Monarch was extradited from Spain in 2008 and acquitted of conspiracy to murder later that year.
August 1996
Aug – Gillian Bayne, 18, was killed and dumped in a well near Sterling, St Phillip, Barbados. The prime suspect, Cheris “Neil” Ince was arrested but released. He was arrested again in 2015 in connection with the murders of Marcelle Smith, 75, and Pearlene Hall.
Aug 31 – Glenmore Cascoe, 24, stabbed and hit with a piece of wood after being chased along a railway line at Gypsy Hill, south London. Sebastian Hudson, 24, was jailed for life for murder and his brother Pavel, 23, was jailed for 4 and a half years for manslaughter. The trial in 1997 heard Cascoe had groped Hudson’s girlfriend Samantha Crossingham. Hudson had confronted him and Cascoe had beaten him up with a baseball bat.
Aug 30 – Colin Maltby, 62, former miner and convicted bigamist, killed outside his home in Scunthorpe. His wife, Marjorie Maltby, 27, was convicted of manslaughter at Lincoln CC and given a hospital order.
Aug 25 – Caroline Glachan, 14, from Bonhill, was killed and dumped in the river Leven near Dumbarton, Scotland. In 2021 three people were charged with murder. They are Robert O’Brien, 44, Andrew Kelly and Donna Brand, both 43, who were teenagers at the time of the murder. Prosecutors claim O’Brien assaulted Caroline by punching, slapping her face and by placing his hands around her neck and compressing her throat several times between June and August 1996. It is claimed the three accused, “whilst acting together”, arranged to meet Caroline at a nearby bridge assaulted, shouted and swore at her and repeatedly punched and kicked her in the head and body. Prosecutors claim the trio threw bricks or “similar instruments” causing blunt force injuries to be inflicted to her head and body. Caroline was a pupil at Our Lady and St Patrick’s High School in Dumbarton and her friend Joanne Menzies was one of the last people to see Caroline at shops near her home at 23:54 on 24 August. She was last seen at about 00:15 when she walked down Dillichip Loan towards Dillichip Bridge, known locally as the Black Bridge – which no longer exists – and then on to the river tow path.
Aug 23 – Louise Campbell, 48, mother of 4, stabbed in an upstairs bedroom of her home in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks. Her husband, Hamilton Campbell, 40, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) at Reading CC in May 1997 and given an indefinite hospital order.
Aug 23 – Paul Hemingway, 49, unemployed, battered around the head at his flat in Normanton, West Yorkshire. The killer is believed to have also killed on Herbert in Wakefield in 1995. Unsolved.
Aug – Leonard Fulbirg, 49, Geordie womaniser from Bradford – killed and dismembered. Body parts dumped in a layby at Oxenhope Moor, West Yorkshire where they were found in March 1997. Graham Haylett, 40, and Tracey Cameron, 40, were jailed for life at Leeds CC in 2006. The trial heard Fulbirg had been having an affair with Cameron while Haylett was in prison. Fulbirg had fathered 12 children and was a convicted paedophile.
Aug 22 – Robert Tewdwr Moss, 34, freelance journalist, tied up, gagged, kicked, punched and robbed at his flat in Paddington, W London. He suffocated. Darren Garner aka Abdul Aziz, 21, and Rondell Pereira, 19, were jailed for life in July 1997. The trial at the Old Bailey heard Moss was killed because he was gay. He had been writing about travel in Syria when he died.
Aug 17 – Wayne Randall, 32, stabbed in Shirehampton, Bristol, as he tried to break up a fight. Ashley Dixon, 19, from Redland, was jailed for life for murder in Nov 1997.
Aug 15 – Lucy Burchell, 16, schoolgirl/prostitute, from Cannock – dumped near the Tower Ballroom in Edgbaston, Birmingham, after taking unusually pure dose of heroin. Her body was found on Aug 20. Tahir Khan, 26, and Rungzabe Khan, 24, from Hodge Hill, were charged with murder but in June 1997 a judge ordered the charges be replaced with manslaughter charges and both men were jailed for 10 years.
Aug 15 – Angela Hunter, 18, asphyxiated and dumped in Bonnybridge, near Falkirk. Peter Schroder, 29, her casual boyfriend, a drug addict from Rotherham, was jailed for life in Feb 1997. He was also convicted of cruelty to a toddler. Schroder was dubbed The Goodnight Killer.
Aug – Rashaad Staggie, joint leader of the Hard Livings gang – attacked by a mob in Salt River, Cape Town. Ozeer Booley and Abdus Saleem Ebrahim were charged with murder but charges were dropped in Feb 1998. Ebrahim was leader of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), a Muslim-dominated gang of anti-drugs vigilantes. In 2002 Ebrahim was jailed for 7 years for unconnected violence. Rashaad’s brother, Rashied, was the other leader of Hard Livings. In 2004 he was jailed for 13 years for burglary from the Faure police armoury. He is due to be paroled in September 2013.
Summer – Jan Juri Slivinski, 35, a Lithuanian circus acrobat from Hamilton, Scotland – killed at his home in Benidorm, Spain. Roy Davies, 48, a Scottish gangster from Wolverhampton, was arrested in connection with his killing. Davies was his partner in a satellite TV installation business. In Dec 1999 Davies vanished from Fontcalent prison in Spain after £10,000 bail fee.
Aug 13 – Reverend Chris Gray, stabbed in the churchyard of his church in Anfield, Liverpool. Terence Storey, 31, a burglar, was jailed for life at Preston CC in Oct 1997.
Aug 12 – Gillian, who lived in Kirtons, St Philip, went missing on August 12, 1996. Four days later police recovered her badly decomposed body from a 70-foot well at nearby Groves Plantation. She was 18 years old having attained that milestone on July 16, 1996.
Aug 12 – Jonathan “Beefy” Busson, 16, stabbed in Cheltenham. Wesley Keel, 19, was jailed for life in July 1997. The trial at Bristol CC heard Keel resented the fact that Busson fancied his sister.
Aug 10 – Rachel Thacker, 22, Salford University graduate from Cannock, beaten, stripped, mutilated and burned after being picked up while drunk outside the George and Dragon pub in Ardwick, Manchester. Duncan Bermingham, 32, a drug dealer and unemployed taxi driver who posed as a minicab driver, was jailed for life in Oct 1997 with a minimum of 20 years. He had borrowed a friend’s red Ford Sierra to pick her up and killed her when she refused his sexual advances.
August 8 – Nenad Gajanovic, 35, was shot dead near a red VW Golf in Dümmerlohausen, near Oldenburg, Germany. The victim, known as Gajo, was from the former Yugoslavia. He was living in Hamburg and was involved in criminal circles and was known to law enforcement for his involvement in burglaries in northern Germany. He was staying in a hotel in Oldenburg at the time of his murder, where he was presumably in hiding. A fresh appeal was made by Europol in September 2024. Unsolved.
Aug 8 – Ossie Clark, 54, 1960s fashion guru. The bankrupt drug addict was found in his dingy bedsit in Notting Hill. His Italian boyfriend Diego Cogolato, 29, a former soldier, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 6 years.
Aug 7 – Sarah Bottomley, 14, from Uppingham – buried naked in a field of wheat at Edmondthorpe, Leicestershire. Her stepfather Nigel Rawlings, 33, was jailed for life in Nov 1997. He had bought her jeans and taken her to the cinema and then had sex with her and killed her. He tried to set fire to the body and his car was seen returning to the scene. The body was found on Aug 19.
Aug 6 – Ronald Smith, 49, died of head injuries outside his home in Frankley, Birmingham. Dean Fox, 21; Adam Power, 22; Simon Caveney, 23 and Wayne Graham, 24, all went on trial at Birmingham CC in Nov 1997. The trial heard Mr Smith was killed after he went to protect his Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs Bill and Ben.
Aug 5 – Robert Bull, 59, grocer and Tory activist – killed at home near Norwich. His son Nicholas Bull, 28, was detained indefinitely in a mental hospital.
Aug 1 – Trude Espas, 20, found on the Grande Beach, near Geiranger, Norway. Suggestions her killer may have been Briton Tony Bromwich, aka the Costa Killer in Spain. Unsolved.
July 1996
July 28 – Alisha Johnson, 19, vanished in Alexandria, Virginia. A week later part of her leg was found 50 miles away on the lawn of a house in Marshall in Fauquier County but it was not connected to her disappearance until four years later. She was killed after going out to buy some hair gel at a corner shop. Her ister Sonya Johnson, 27, was murdered in 2002 by a man she was living with and Sonya’s daughter Sade, two, died in 1998 after being scalded in a bathtub by a carer.
July 28 –Ömer Lütfü Topal, 56, a Turkish businessman who was known as the “casino king” because of his gambling empire but also made money as a heroin smuggler, was shot with an AK-47 in Istanbul. Abdullah Catli’s fingerprint was found on the barrel of one of the guns. Ayhan Carkin and two other policemen were acquitted for lack of evidence. He left behind 100 trillion lira ($1bn). Twenty two of his companies were passed onto his son Murat Topal, daughter Elif Topal, and first wife Safiye Belli. His second wife, Birsu Hilal Altıntaş, inherited a few cars, companies, and properties too. Catli was killed in the notorious Susurluk car crash in November 1996. Also killed was his beauty queen girlfriend Gonca Us. Sedat Bucak, an MP, survived.
July 26 – Phyliss Minney, 48, hit 17 times with a claw hammer at her home in Wokingham, Berkshire. Two of her children, Paul, 11, and Phyllis, 13, survived, as did a 13-year-old friend of her daughter’s, Vicky Hatfield, although she was brain damaged. Her son-in-law Dale Mandley, 32, from Northampton, was jailed for life at Reading CC in April 1997 with a 10 year minimum tariff. The judge said he was a “desperately dangerous man”. The trial heard he had cut telephone wires to the house.
July 25 – Dwight Williamson, 31, killed at home in West Dulwich, south London. His girlfriend, Jackie Cox, 278, was acquitted in April 1997.
July 22 – Anthony Winship, 52, stabbed on The Meadows estate in Nottingham. His son, Peter Winship, 20, was convicted of manslaughter and received a hospital order.
July 22 – Stephen Taylor, 19, killed outside Nickleby’s nightclub in West Bromwich. Adrian Houldey, 24, a bouncer turned boxer, was charged but charges were discharged at Stafford CC and he walked free.
July 20 – Michael Hay, 24, drug dealer – shot in Primrose Hill Street, Hillfields, Coventry. Unsolved.
July 18 – Caroline Dickinson, 14, from Launceston, Cornwall – raped and suffocated in her bed in a youth hostel in Pleine-Fougeres, Normandy, France. Francisco Montes, from Gijon, Spain, was jailed for life in 2004. Montes was an itinerant drifter who committed sex crimes as far away as Florida.
July 10 – Thomas McLoughlin, 60, a mental patient, who walked out of hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex, and was picked up in a lay-by on the A22. Paul Aldridge, 20, was jailed for life (16 years). He had stolen a van from his employer in East Grinstead. Aldridge was on his way to visit a friend, Michael Bruce, in Clapham, south London. Aldridge thought (wrongly) that the deceased was in possession of money. When they arrived at the flat Aldridge and his friend decided to rob him. He was threatened and punched. He was then taken and put in the back of the van. There, while Aldridge drove the van, Bruce beat the deceased and made him strip. When it became clear that he had no money, Bruce kicked and stamped on him, causing 42 separate fractures of his ribs. Finally, Aldridge hit him on his head with a branch. They then dumped the body where it was found next morning. Both defendants have previous convictions, mostly for burglary, but Bruce had convictions for robbery and affray. In the trial judge’s view, both defendants were evil and dangerous. They were described by witnesses as laughing and boasting about what they had done to this helpless and elderly man. Aldridge appealed but his minimum term was increased to 17 years. He is almost certainly now free.
July – Manduf Salih, 31, beaten to death at squat in Wood Green, north London. His twin brother Sayed Salih, 31, was jailed for life. The trial at the Old Bailey heard he had harboured a grudge for 14 years.
July 9 – Lin Russell, 45, and her daughter Megan, 6 – battered with a hammer in a frenzied attack in a lane on Goodnestone Park estate, near Canterbury, Kent. Michael Stone, 37, from Gillingham, Kent, was jailed for life at Maidstone CC in Oct 1998. Lin’s other daughter Josie, who was 9, barely survived her wounds. The trial heard Stone was a psychopathic drug addict. But his supporters continue to maintain that he was innocent and was convicted on the basis of cellmate confessions which they insist were fabricated.
July 8 – Nicola Parsons, 18, care assistant – raped and asphyxiated in a hut in Stoke, Plymouth. Andrew McKinlay, 23, was jailed for life in 1997. He was caught by DNA tests of 800 men.
July 8 – Jade Matthews, 9, from Bootle, beaten to death and dumped on railway sidings in Bridle Road, Liverpool. Brian Smith, 13, was detained under HM Pleasure. The trial heard he killed her after she fell over and he feared he would get the blame.
July 7 – Katrina Taylor, 19, stabbed in the chest in a churchyard in Dyke Road, Brighton. Simon Williams, 24, and his sister Nescha, 21, were acquitted at Lewes CC in June 1997. She was convicted of false imprisonment. Fergal Scollan, 21, and Trevor Smith, 23, both from Cricklewood, were jailed for life. But their convictions were quashed and they were granted a retrial in 2000, at which they were both acquitted. It has since been claimed the murder was linked to a fraud scam in nearby Peacehaven.
July 6 – Darryl Cowles, 35, hit 7 times with a hammer in the garden of a house in Brownhills, Walsall. Andrew Reeves, who was 32 in 1996, was jailed for life in Nov 2008 with a minimum tariff of 12 years.
July 5 – Emily Mutch, 77, raped and murdered at her flat in Garnethill, Glasgow. Tom Galloway, 42, was jailed for life (minimum of 20 years) in Jan 1999. He stole her wedding ring.
June 1996
June 24 – Jackie Gallagher, 26, part-time prostitute from Paisley – abducted from Bothwell Street (red light district) in Glasgow and dumped in Bowling, Dunbartonshire. George Johnstone, 43, from Erskine, went on trial in 2004 but the case against him was not proven.
June 20 – Ronald Platt, 51, killed and dumped in the sea. His body was dredged up by a trawler off Teignmouth, Devon. Albert Walker, 52, aka David Davis, from Woodham Walter, Essex, was jailed for life at Chelmsford CC in 1998. Walker, who was believed to be Canadian, posed as Platt and had to kill him when the real Platt turned up from Canada.
June – Simon Tang, 28, businessman and owner of a Chinese takeaway – beaten and robbed in Carrickfergus, County Antrim. In 2013 charges of murder were dropped against Paul Allen, 39, and George Robinson, 36. Charges of perverting the course of justice were also dropped against Jacqueline Scanlon, 34, and Leanne Wilson, 35.
June – Catherine Dale, 42, killed at home in Gosport. Body not found until Nov 1996. Her husband was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter.
June 26 – Kathleen Skoof, 37, strangled after a night out at the Tower nightclub in Hull. Her husband David Skoof, 48, was jailed for life in 1997. The trial at Sheffield CC heard he was jealous of her relationship with her sisters.
June – Tracey Saint, 25, stabbed 18 times at her home in Paddock Wood, Kent. Ex-boyfriend Alan Rendell, 44, from Tunbridge Wells, was jailed for life in 1997. He later mutilated himself with a knife.
June 26 – Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist, shot dead as she sat in her car at traffic lights at Naas, near Dublin. Paul Ward, 32, was jailed for life in 1998. Brian Meehan, 32, was jailed for life. John Gilligan, who allegedly masterminded the killing, was acquitted. But he was later jailed for 28 years for drugs offences. Eugene “Dutchy” Holland, who was rumoured to be the gunman, was never convicted but died in HMP Parkhurst in 2009, where he was serving an 8 year term for an unrelated crime.
June 22 – Karina Holmer, 20, a Swedish nanny, sexually assaulted, tortured and strangled after coming out of a nightclub in Dover, Massachusetts, US. Her upper torso was later discovered in a garbage container. Unsolved.
June 22 – Jill Williams, killed at home in Mitcham, south London. Michael Foster, 33, and Dennis McCarthy, 29, were accused of murder.
June 22 – Johph and Kornelia Ploch, elderly Poles (he was a concentration camp survivor)- killed at home in Fulham. Robert Savicki, 22, and Mariosz Mackza, 29, were jailed for life. Rafal Gutarwicki, 23, was acquitted.
June 22 – Adil Butt, 25, killed in a flat in Beaumont Leys, Leicester. His friend Bradley Sears-Prince, 23, was jailed for life in 1997. The trial at Nottingham CC heard that Butt had dared to criticise England players during the England v Spain game in Euro 96.
June 15– Robert O’Donohue, 19, kicked and beaten to death and stripped in a park in Coatbridge, Scotland. Paul Mowat, 20, Peter Davidson, 20, and Martin McGlinchey, 20, were detained for life in a young offenders’ institution. Shaun Burns, 17, Muir McLaughlin, 17, and Ryan Renicks, 16, were detained without time limit. All six were convicted of murder. Shaun Reilly, 17, was jailed for six months for assault. The killers were all released before 2014.
June 15 – Janet Murgatroyd, 20, clerk at Lancashire Police HQ in Preston, battered and stripped and dumped in river Ribble in Preston. Andrew Greenwood, 25, from Penwortham, was charged but charges were dropped in 1999. He was tried again in 2003 and convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 8 years. 11 months later that conviction was overturned. Greenwood had confessed to police but now claims he was mentally ill at the time and that is why he made a false confession.
June 15 – Kathleen Dolman, 32, killed at home in Perry Barr, Birmingham. Her common law husband, Stuart Reece, 32, went on trial at Birmingham CC in June 1997.
June 14 – Andrew Steventon, 18, Aston University student – hit on the head with a bottle outside the Faculty and Firkin pub in Gosta Green, Birmingham. Royston Worrell, 20, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 54 months.
June 13 – Angie Dodge was raped and stabbed to death in Idaho Falls, Idaho, US. Chris Tapp, 20, was jailed for life for her rape and murder but his conviction was later quashed. In 2019 Brian Dripps, 53, of Caldwell, Idaho, was charged with murder. He awaits trial in June 2021.
June – Harjit Singh Luther, 40, from Ilford, battered with a hockey stick and then dumped in a shallow grave at Little Abshott Farm, Warsash, Hampshire. Body was found by farmer while ploughing the field. Baljeet Singh Rai, 26, was jailed for life in June 1998 and ordered to be deported to India at the end of his sentence. Manjit Kaur Rai, 34, from Southampton, was acquitted. The trial at Winchester CC heard Luther was Mrs Rai’s lover and Singh Rai feared he would be deported if she divorced him.
June – Habib Saliba, 46, assistant director of UBS, stabbed 26 times at his home in Fulham. Samantha Enoch, 20, a prostitute, was jailed for life in April 1997. Ronald Tamplin, 27, was acquitted. The trial at the Old Bailey heard that Enoch visited Syrian-born Saliba regularly for sex. But she regularly stole jewellery from his house and he was considering prosecuting her for theft.
June 10 – Shirley Brown, 46, bound, sexually assaulted and strangled at her home in Wigan. Stuart Hulse, 37, was jailed for life.
June 10 – Samiel Boon, 59, stabbed in the bathroom of his home in Cheltenham. His son, Malcolm Boon, 29, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 5 years.
June 9 – Melanie Hall, 25, went missing from a nightclub in Bath. Her body parts were found near the M5 near Bristol in 2009. Unsolved.
June 7 – John O’Brien, 35, stabbed at a bus stop in Digbeth, Birmingham. John O’Reilly, 26, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 7 years.
June 6 – William Pigg, 30, stabbed at home in Hampton, SW London. John Reid, 54, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 7 years.
June 6– Devon Routier, six, and his brother Damon, five, were stabbed as they slept on the ground floor of the family’s home in Rowlett, a suburb east of Dallas. Devon was stabbed twice in the chest with such force that the knife almost went all the way through his body; Damon was stabbed half a dozen or more times in the back. Their mother Darlie Routier, who was 26, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. In Dec 2020 she was still on Death Row and protesting her innocence. Darlee, who was also sleeping downstairs, had two slice wounds in her right forearm and one in her left shoulder, and her throat had been cut. Doctors said she survived only because the knife stopped two millimeters short of her carotid artery. She claimed she was awakened by Damon’s cries of “Mommy! Mommy!” Darlie’s husband, Darin, who was sleeping upstairs with their infant son, Drake, came downstairs after hearing his wife’s screams and began administering CPR to Devon. By then, she said, the assailant had disappeared.
June 5 – Anthony Dye senior, 32, was shot dead at the Spring House Barbecue restaurant he owned in Commerce, Georgia. The killer was a sniper who fired from some distance away. The victim was black and he had been receiving a number of threatening calls from someone purporting to be from the Ku Klux Klan, who objected to a black entrepreneur in the area. A reward of $8,500 has been offered. Unsolved.
June – Robert O’Donohue, 19, kicked, stripped and pelted with rocks in Coatbridge, Scotland. Paul Mowat, Peter Davidson and Martin McGlinchey, all 20, were convicted in Glasgow and jailed for life. The trial in October 1996 heard O’Donohoe was attacked after he touched a girl’s bottom outside a nightclub.
Between May 94 – June 1996 – Ray Smith, 48, convicted murder, wrapped in plastic and put under floorboards at Bewsey, near Warrington. Simon Barnes, 27, and Christopher Tatlock, 27, were jailed for life. Smith was released from prison in 1994. The house was rented by Nacro for former inmates.
May 1996
May 25 – Kelvin Noon, 24, Plymouth Argyle supporter – killed in a fight with Darlington fans outside Wembley Stadium before play-off final. Peter Johnson, 30, also a Plymouth fan, was acquitted of manslaughter on the grounds of self-defence. The trial at the Old Bailey heard Johnson, who had been drinking, thought Noon was a rival (ie from Darlington).
May 25 – Dessie McCleery, 37, killed in INLA feud, shot in Chicago Pizza Pie Factory in Belfast. Brendan Gallagher, 31, from Lenadoon, was acquitted in Nov 1997.
May 24 – John Dunne, 28, Irish traveller – shot on waste ground at Erdington, Birmingham. Walter Lee, 47, another traveller, went on trial at Birmingham CC in June 1997.
May 23 – Marcus Mitchell, 44, a British businessman from Surrey, was shot in the head in the town of De Haan in northern Belgium. Hilde Van Acker, who was 33 at the time, and her French boyfriend Jean-Claude Lacote fled to South Africa. Lacote became an editor on a reality TV crime show called Duty Calls, which was aired from 2000-2003. He was arrested in 2007 on suspicion of defrauding an Irish businessman but escaped from jail in Johannesburg in mysterious circumstances while awaiting trial. Van Acker was reportedly involved in the jailbreak. The pair then fled South Africa and vanished. They were eventually were arrested in December 2019 in the Ivory Coast and extradited back to Belgium. They had changed their names to Stephane Lacote and Marlene Lacote Vacker in order to avoid detection. They had been convicted in absentia of the murder and jailed for life. At their trial in 2011 prosecutors said Mitchell had borrowed money in the hope of making a lucrative business deal with Lacote and was murdered when he realised he had been cheated. The trial heard the couple had taken a ferry to the UK the day after the murder and that identity documents belonging to Mitchell were found on a beach at Lymington in Hampshire two days later.
May 22 – Mark Rennie, 27, was shot in Ferguslie Park, Paisley, Scotland. It was part of a drug war. Unsolved.
May 20 – Stephen Cole, 37, former Liverpool reserve footballer and security consultant – hacked and beaten to death by a 30-strong gang in the Farmers Arms in Fazakerly, Liverpool. John Riley, 45 and Robert McCarthy, bouncers from Kirkby, were jailed for life in Nov 1997. Raymond Navarro was jailed for 10 years for GBH.
May 20 – Stephen Cameron, 21, from Swanley – stabbed on a slip road off the M25 in Kent. Kenneth Noye, 50, gangster, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in April 2000. He had been extradited from Spain in 1999. Mr Cameron was the victim of a road rage attack. He was killed in front of his girlfriend, Danielle Cable, who became a key witness. Noye was acquitted of murdering a detective, John Fordham, in 1986. On that occasion he stabbed a police officer who was in his garden investigating a bullion robbery.
May 20 – Hitesh Parmar, 19, stabbed in Silver Jubilee Park, Kingsbury, NW London. Nadeem Janjua, 20, from Northolt, and Mifta Chodhury, from Sudbury, were jailed for life in 1997. Mayur Divecha, 20, was acquitted. The trial heard Janjua was a rapped who wrote a song after the killing, including lyrics: “It’s too easy to kill someone, but the pain after is immense.”
May 16 – Joanne Eddison, 15, went missing on way home from school. Body found 2 months later on a railway line near her home in Charlton, S London. Liam Tovell, 15, was jailed for 7 years for manslaughter. He claimed he accidentally hit her with a snooker cue.
May 16 – Eileen Maskall, 88, beaten, stabbed and sexually assaulted at her home in Leytonstone, E London. Michael Shearon, 48, drink and drug abuser from Glasgow, was jailed for life (20 years minimum) in Oct 1997.
May – Benjamin Worae, 35, Ghanaian – shot in the face in a street in north London. Lee Gardiner, a self-styled gangster, was jailed for life in Feb 1997. Mr Worae was shot after his car collided with Gardiner’s. Another man, Kwame Davies, survived.
May 16 – John Marshall, 35, car dealer and salvage operator from Brentwood, Essex – shot in the head and chest and dumped in his Range Rover in Sydenham, Kent. Killer left £5,000 in the car. May be linked to Rettendon murders the previous year. Unsolved.
May 15 – Gareth Brooks, 29, killed with an axe in his bedsit in Plymouth. Adrian Hill, 31, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and was jailed for life (minimum of 12 years).
May 15 – Erwin Harina, 26, and his girlfriend Jocelyn Dumpor, Filipino couple – killed at a house in Labuan, Malaysia. Ian Miller, 46, a British expat, and Rikason Piblani, 34, were suspected but charges were dropped. The bodies were not found until June 14.
May 13 – Linda Vockins, 34, PR manager from Windsor – raped and beaten to death in Puerto Galera, Mindoro, Philippines. Three local men were charged.
May 12 – Tyrone France, 31, from Newport – his dismembered body was found in Wentwood Forest, near Newport, Gwent. Dylan Watkins, 1, and Simon Spring, 23, from Newport, were both jailed for life in 1997. The trial heard the murder was drug-related.
May – Richard Uter, 25, crack dealer, shot dead in Borough Road, Southwark, after an abortive crack deal. Michael Ormsby, 23, crack dealer from Brockley, was jailed for life in 1997. He claimed he was at his flat at the time but cellsite evidence showed his mobile was at the scene.
May 11 – Paul McKenzie, 22, from Birmingham – shot outside a house in Far Town, Huddersfield, where a blues party was being held. Gavin Nicholas, 25, from Huddersfield, was acquitted at Leeds CC in July 1997.
May 10 – 7 Vietnamese cigarette smugglers – six of them were shot in a 9th floor flat at 3 Marchwitzastrasse in the Marzahn district of Berlin. The seventh was found on a bridleway. Le Duy Bao, a Vietnamese gangster known as “The Merciful” was jailed for life. Also arrested was Fan Vam Tiehn, who was captured in Moscow.
May 10 – Wayne Allsop, 27, stabbed outside his home in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. Stuart Alfree, 27, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 6 and a half years. Paul Ellis, 35, was jailed for 4 and a half years.
May 8 – Dorothy Wood, 94, frail and profoundly deaf – suffocated with a pillow at home in Far Town, Huddersfield. Mark Dallagher, 25, a burglar was jailed for life at Leeds CC in Dec 1996. Dallagher was convicted on the basis of “earprint” evidence. Expert witness, Cornelius Van Der Lugt, testified that Dallagher’s ear had been pressed against the window of the house. In 2004 he was cleared, after a retrial, after it emerged from DNA tests that the earprint did not belong to him.
May – Johana Czardebon, German tourist – shot dead at The County Hotel in Bedford. Alvin Black, 36, an armed robber, from Bedford, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 1997. His accomplices, Karlton Campbell, 20, Robert Skyers, 20 and Sidney Thompson, were charged with conspiracy to rob.
May 7 – Balvir Kaur Johal, 25, and her sister Charanjit Kaur Johal, 26, beaten to death at home in Smethwick, West Midlands. Balvir’s husband Khajan Singh Johal, 27, was jailed for life at Stafford CC in March 1998.
May 6 – Helen Martin, 18, from Maesteg – hit with a wheelbrace and dumped in woods at Witches Fell, near Symonds Yat, Herefordshire. David Willoway, 31, from Bridgend, was jailed for life at Cardiff CC. He met her at a disco in Maesteg, South Wales.
May 5 – Terry Good, 12; his brother Patrick, 6; and sisters Alison, 10 and Nicola, 8 – died in fire at home in Sholing, Southampton. Their uncle, Frederick Hayworth, 59, was jailed for life at Winchester CC in May 1997. He bore a grudge against his ex-wife (their aunt).
May – Shawn Keegan, 19, transvestite; Thomas aka Deanna Wilkinson, 31, transsexual prostitute; and Brenda Ludgate, 25, prostitute – shot in a 2 hour spree over the Victoria Day weekend in Toronto, Canada. Marcello Palma, 33, was convicted of first degree murder and jailed for life (25 years minimum).
May 2 – Norman Harvey, 68, injected with a needle full of insulin in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Susan Shickle, 36, a drug addict and alcoholic, was jailed for life. The trial at Oxford CC heard Mr Harvey was accused of being a child molester.
May 2 – Fiona Ovis, 28, and boyfriend William Crompton, 18 – stabbed in a bungalow in the countryside in Llandridnod Wells, Powys. Ovis’ former boyfriend Andrew Cole, 26, was jailed for life in Jan 1997. Cole, who himself suffered stab injuries, had recorded them having sex.
May 1 – Owen Graham, 49, shot dead in a betting shop in Toxteth, Liverpool. His stepson Eugene Weaver was cleared of murdering Clay Benjamin in 2000. Unsolved.
April 1996
Apr 30 – Louise Allen, 13, killed as she tried to break up a fight outside a funfair in Corby. Two girls, both aged 13, were convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 2 years each.
Apr 28 – 35 people (32 shot, three burned alive in a guest house) in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia. Martin Bryant, 28, a blonde haired surfer who was seen laughing during the massacre. He was jailed for life in Nov 1996 and sent to Risdon prison.
Apr 27 – John Yates, 33, stabbed outside his home in Rochdale. Christopher Allen, 21, was jailed for life in 1997. The trial in Manchester heard Yates was having an affair with Melanie Dann, who was Allen’s girlfriend.
Apr 26 – Tsoye Abimbola, 15, stabbed through the heart on street in Kilburn, NW London. Damien Holder, 17, was jailed for life in March 1997. The trial at the Old Bailey heard he was killed in a row over cigarette papers.
Apr 26 – Ruth Hunt, 58, former prison counsellor at HMP Channings Wood – raped, strangled and suffocated at her home in St Leonards, Exeter. Tony Hallett, 39, a former soldier and convicted rapist from Stevenage, was jailed for life in Feb 1997. He tracked her down after the break-up of his relationship.
Apr 24 (body found on May 20) – Anthony Richards, 26, Reading University graduate, film animator, drug dealer from Bristol – killed with a drug overdose and buried in a shallow grave in woods at Tytherington, near Thornbury, Bristol. Bikers Simon Phillips, 28, from Leicester, and Christopher Evans, 26, from Bristol, were jailed for life at Bristol CC in 1998. They robbed him of £2,000 in cash.
Apr – Anthony “Tony The Greek” Constantinou, drugs baron – shot in Café Loco bar in Manchester. Unsolved.
April 16 – Kelly Bates, 17, graphic designer – tortured for 4 weeks (eyes gouged out) and drowned. Her naked body was found in a bedroom of a house in Gorton, Manchester. James Smith, 49, unemployed, was jailed for life in Nov 1997.
Apr 15 – Barrington Walker, 32, hacked to death with a machete outside Marcus Garvey Community Centre in Nottingham. Alrich Hamilton, 24, and Christopher Kyle, 25, were jailed for life (minimum of 14 years). Walker was a local “hard man” who served 4 years for gang-related crime in West Bromwich.
Apr 14 – Mustafa Zarif, 32, from Kyrenia, northern Cyprus – garrotted and left in a shallow grave in Nineacres Wood in Essendon, Hertfordshire. Arkin Izzigil, 25, and Tan Onabasi, 21, were charged with murder and went on trial in July 1997. The trial heard Zarif had arrived in the UK in April 1995 and where he became well known in north London’s Turkish community. Police believed that he was introduced to his three killers after becoming involved in the heroin trade with a fourth man, Dervish Sehitoglu. Together Zarif, and his accused killers Mustafa Kuni, Arkin Izzigil and Tan Onbasi, resided on the Sandlings Estate in Wood Green, north London.In the run up to Zarif’s body being unearthed Sehitoglu was found in control of 40 kilos of heroin and arrested by police officers. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, however, upon appeal, Sehitoglu’s sentence was reduced to eight years. In what is a rare occurrence amongst Turkish organised criminals, he also began talking to detectives. He told them Mustafa Kuni was “very big” in the heroin trade, conducting much of his business from a coffee shop in Philip Lane, Tottenham, north London. He went on to tell detectives that he had regularly handled as much as 250 kilos of heroin at a time with Kuni and that he was present when Zarif was murdered and his body dumped.
Sehitoglu became the chief prosecution witness in the murder trial, and maintained that while he was present at the murder, he was completely unaware the defendants had homicide on their minds. Without his evidence Kuni, Izzigil and Onbasi might never have been brought to trial. He placed the murder date at December 15, 1995, four months before the body was exhumed. Zarif was picked up in a car that evening on the pretence that they were going out for a meal. Instead, with Izzigil at the wheel and Zarif in the front passenger seat, they drove north when Kuni was seen to put some sort of wire around Zarif’s neck. Onbasi produced a gun as Izzigil stopped the car and Zarif was forced out and strangled until he was motionless. The shallow grave was already prepared. Putting forward a motive, Sehitoglu told the court that Zarif had made threats against Kuni and planned to rob him. Sehitoglu denied making the allegations to get his sentence further reduced.
Kuni moved to Northern Cyprus, beyond jurisdiction – the United Kingdom had no extradition treaty with Northern Cyprus. Meanwhile, Arkin Izzigil and Tan Onbasi were cleared of murder. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict following two expensive trials at the Old Bailey which required jurors to be given round the clock police protection. On the third occasion the Crown offered no evidence.
Apr – Scott McMullins, 20, killed by a gang of 20 on the Marquess estate in Islington, north London. Two teenagers were jailed for life in Nov 1996. A witness who gave evidence at the trial at the Old Bailey was forced out of her council house. Islington Council was accused of not helping her.
Apr 12 – Andrew Bentley, 26, gangster and father of two – shot in the head outside the Flying Pizza restaurant in Sheffield. Killer rumoured to have fled to Spain. Unsolved.
Apr 7 – Margaret Bremner, 78, killed at her home in Leslie, Fife. Kevin Ward, 17, was jailed for life in Edinburgh in Sep 1996. His parents Patrick and Margaret had tried to protect him.
Apr 6 (Easter Sunday) – Stevan Popovic, 75, motorist who stopped to get directions in Chapeltown, Leeds. He was beaten up and died of a heart attack. Clive Jones, 25, from Gipton, was jailed for life in June 1997. The trial at Leeds CC heard Mr Popovic was a Serbian “Chetnik”, who was picking up an old friend, Nicola Modrag, from a nearby hotel but got lost. Jones stole £50 in cash, a watch and a wedding ring.
Easter – Michael Hulse, 37, from Bolton – killed in a fight in Tenerife. Richard Fletcher and Jimmy Brandwood, both from Bolton, were charged with murder.
Apr 5 – Jonathan Reid, 51, scientist – killed at his flat in Plumstead, SE London. Vic Boreman, 29; Michael Byrne, 27, and his brother Malcolm, 28, were jailed for life. The trial at the Old Bailey heard Mr Reid was killed simply because his wife Mabel was black.
Apr 3 – Leo Gaskill, 23, killed outside a church in Bexhill, East Sussex. He was killed in a row over a piece of cheese. Sean Donoher, 31, was jailed for manslaughter but was released in 2001. He then carried out a string of violent armed robberies in Brighton, was convicted and sent back to jail.
Apr 2 – Alain Hay, 48, French gangster, and his wife Angela, originally from Portsmouth. The bodies were found in the boot of their Mercedes at the bottom of a canal in Niffer, Alsace, France, on 20 May. Charles Cretello, 46, a restaurant owner, was jailed for life in 2003. The trial heard he stole 500,000 francs from them. They had withdrawn £65,000 from a bank in Le Havre.
Apr 2 – Gawen Whalley, 23, British tourist, stabbed in suburb of Matraville in Sydney, Australia. Richard Soriano, 18, was jailed for 4 and a half years. A boy, aged 13, was jailed for 7 years.
April – Fevzi Demir, 35, the owner of a takeaway restaurant, was killed and encased in concrete at the rear of the BMT fast food restaurant in Maldon, Essex. In Oct 1998 at Chelmsford CC Vedat Kayretli, 35, was jailed for 8 years for manslaughter. His wife Serena was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter. Charges were dropped against Orkhan Baydar, 29. Mr and Mrs Kayretli were released on appeal in June 2000 after doubts emerged about the post mortem by pathologist Paula Lannas.The prosecution had alleged that Kayretli had an affair with Fevzi Demir and claimed her husband stabbed him after finding out about it. But in June 2000 the court of appeal heard that while Lannas gave the cause of death as stabbing, she failed to spot a potentially fatal skull fracture.
March 1996
Mar 26 – Christopher Langford, 38 and his identical twin Anthony, unemployed – beaten over the head and found in Regent Canal in Islington, north London. David Dillon, 37, a drinking pal, was jailed for life in 1997. He told a friend “Don’t worry about the twins, they’ve gone for a long swim.”
Mar 26 – Pat Pearce, 51, stabbed 30 times in bed at home in Corby. Her daughter Michelle Pearce, 27, was jailed for life at Nottingham CC in July 1997. Pearce is also suspected of killing her ex-boyfriend, David Anderson, 28, in 1990.
Mar 26 – Lee McCabe, 21, factory worker – stabbed when he tried to stop a youth slapping a girl in Camberwell, south London. Unsolved.
Mar 26 – Minesh Nagreecha, 24, stabbed 12 times at his home in Hemel Hempstead. House then set on fire. Sarfraz Khan, was jailed for life in Dec 1997. His co-accused, Mr Graham, was acquitted. The trial heard Khan stole a video recorder.
Mar 24 – Claire Hergest, 21, young mum, drowned in the bath of her flat in Trier Way, Gloucester as her toddler slept nearby. Barrington Moses, 31, a former probationary constable with West Midlands Police, was jailed for life at Bristol CC in March 1997. Claire’s mother was killed in exactly the same way 19 years earlier.
Mar 23 – Michelle Lander, 34, and Gary Stephenson, 23, stabbed to death in a house in West Molesey, Surrey. Nicholas Butler, 29, unemployed, was jailed for life in March 1997.
Mar 18 – Lawrence Haggerty, 15, Celtic youth footballer – beaten to death at his home in Larbert, near Falkirk, Scotland. House set on fire. Brian Beattie, 33, a convicted burglar and arsonist, was jailed for life (15 years minimum) in Edinburgh in 1998. At his trial Beattie claimed the victim’s younger brother Dennis was responsible.
March 17 – Andre “Angel” Melendez, 24, was a drug dealer and member of the ‘Club Kids’ who worked at The Limelight nightclub in New York.After the bar was closed by federal agents when an investigation found that Peter Gatien was allowing drugs to be sold there, Melendez was fired. Shortly thereafter, he moved into club promoter Michael Alig’s apartment. Alig and his friend Robert “Freeze” Riggs murdered Melendez after an argument in Alig’s apartment over many things including a long-standing drug debt. Alig has claimed many times that he was so high on drugs that the events are quite cloudy. After Melendez’s death, Alig and Riggs did not know what to do with the body. They initially left it in the bathtub which they filled with ice. After a few days, the body began to decompose and became odorous. After discussing what to do with Melendez’s body and who should do it, Riggs bought knives and a box. In exchange for ten bags of heroin Alig agreed to dismember Melendez’s body. He cut the legs off, put them in a garbage bag and stuffed the rest into a box. Afterwards, he and Riggs threw the box into the Hudson River. In the weeks following Melendez’s disappearance, Alig allegedly told “anyone who would listen” that he and Riggs had killed him. Most people did not believe Alig and thought his “confession” was a ploy to get attention. Alig was jailed in 1997 and released in 2014. Riggs was released in 2010.
Mar 17 – Tom Nevin, 54, IRA man, killed in Jack White’s Inn in County Wexford, Ireland. His wife Catherine Nevin, 49, was jailed for life for murder in 2000. The trial in Dublin heard she was having an affair with a judge.
Mar 17 – John Doran, 60, factory worker, beaten to death with a skittles trophy at his home in Parkend Road, Gloucester. The killer set fire to the flat. Unsolved.
Mar 16 – Rhodri Williams, 14, and his brother Steffan Williams, 11 – stabbed at home in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire. Their French-born mother Isabelle Williams, 41, stabbed herself to death. She had been suffering from severe depression.
Mar 13 – Victoria Clydesdale; Emma Crozier; Melissa Currie; Charlotte Dunn; Kevin Hassell; Ross Irvine; David Kerr; Mhairi McBeath; Emily Morton; Brett McKinnon; John Petrie; Abigail McLennan; Sophie North; Joanna Ross; Hannah Scott and Megan Turner, all aged 5, and their teacher Gwenne Mayor, 44 – gunned down in the gym at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, Scotland. Thomas Hamilton, 43, an unemployed former DIY shop boss, shot himself dead. It later emerged that he bore a grudge against the school and the Boy Scouts. The incident led to a complete ban on handguns in the UK.
Mar 10 – Tahir Ali, 20, student working part-time as a waiter, was kicked and punched to death outside the Khyber restaurant in Idle, Bradford. Matthew Mitchell, 26, was jailed for life (14 years minimum). His brother Frank Mitchell, 30, was jailed for 2 years for wounding with intent.
Mar 9 – Karen Skipper, 34, drowned after having hands tied together and being thrown into the river in Fairwater, Cardiff, as she walked her dogs. Her ex husband Phillip Skipper was jailed for life in Feb 97.
Mar 8 – David Spencer, 41, punched, kicked and stamped 150 times in Darwen, Lancashire. His neighbour Daniel Holden, 33, was jailed for life at Liverpool CC in 1997. The trial heard they had a dispute over a leather jacket.
Mar 7 – Danny Marlow, 35, taxi driver – run down by stolen car in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Timothy Harris, 34, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 5 years. Peter Marsh, 52, of Barrow-upon-Soar, was jailed for 4 years for conspiracy. The trial at Nottingham CC heard Marsh asked Harris to put the frighteners on Marlow over an unpaid £40 snooker debt.
Mar 3 – Christopher Lloyd, 4, poisoned with salt in his fizzy drinks over 10 day period – died at home in Parkfield, Wolverhampton after suffering vomiting and diarrhoea. His mother Caroline Lloyd, 24, jailed for life at Oxford CC in March 1997. She was suffering from Munchausen’s by proxy. Her husband Stuart was unaware of what she was doing.
Mar 3 – Abdeladim Gahbiche, 16, stabbed 39 times at a flat in Gournay-sur-Marne, Paris. Veronique Herbert, 20, was jailed for 15 years in 1998 and Sebastien Paindavoine, 19, was jailed for 12 years. The trial heard the victim was lured to his death by Herbert. The couple were obsessed by the film Natural Born Killers.
Mar – Yvonne Williams, 32, found face down in a stream at Wythall, Worcestershire. Her husband Jack Williams, 38, from Redditch, was jailed for life at Wolverhampton CC.
February 1996
Feb 29 – Junior Carter, 27, illegal immigrant from Jamaica – shot outside Feed The Nation Caribbean takeaway in Winson Green, Birmingham. He was involved in murder of Timothy Thomas in Lozells in June 1995. Unsolved.
Between late Feb and March 3 – Hans Otto Detmering; Claudia Cecchetti; Umberto Marchior; Paolo Vecchiolini; Tullio Melchiori; and Guerrino Botte, carabinieri – shot in the town of Merano in the Alto Adige, northern Italy. Ferdinand Gamper, 39, a German-speaking farm labourer who had far-right views, was responsible. He killed himself after a shootout with the carabinieri on March 5.
Feb 27 – John Hyden, 41, lawyer from Edinburgh – shot dead at the Nevski Palace Hotel in St Petersburg, Russia. It is believed he was shot by mistake. The real target was a local gangster, Vladimir Gavrilenkov. Unsolved.
Feb – Danny Westmacott, 16, trainee chef, stabbed outside McDonald’s in Edmonton, north London. Noel Sayles, 16; and Jason Honeyghan, 17, were jailed for life at the Old Bailey. The court heard Westmacott had earlier beaten Sayles in a fight and Sayles returned with a knife. There was a children’s party going on in McD’s at the time.
Feb 24 – Ian Gamble, 16, stabbed as he walked through the grounds of Barnard Castle, County Durham. A 15-year-old boy, who was never named, was acquitted in 1997. The trial heard there had been a fight between rival schools.
Feb 18 – Stephen Maskell, 32, killed in a massive brawl in the centre of Rugby, Warwickshire, involving 20 people. Simon Ebanks, 24, was jailed for life for murder at Birmingham CC and Bernard Reed, 24, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter. Ironically Mr Maskell was about to go backpacking around the world and had spent the evening at a farewell party.
Feb 17 – Stephen Worthington, beaten about the head with a concrete post and dumped on a track in Darlaston, Wolverhampton. His cousin Jason Doughty, 23, was jailed for life at Stafford CC. It is thought they were involved in a love triangle with a girl.
Feb – Derek Fisher, 46, stabbed 43 times and mutilated at his flat in Ipswich, which was set on fire. Darren Newland, 28, who was homeless, and Mark Keegan, 28, were both jailed for life in July 1997. The victim was homosexual and the motive may have simply been homophobia.
Feb 9 – Peter Swales, 36, pub landlord – beaten to death with a baseball bat in a road rage assault at 3am at Fitzwilliam, near Wakefield. Charges were dropped against a local man, named Knowles, in Nov 1999.
Feb 12 – Jeannette Broadhead, 23, strangled and found floating in a lake in Heaton Park in Rusholme, Manchester. Stephen Roe, 23, was jailed for life.
Feb – Peter Tooley, killed in flat above the pub they ran in Bradford. His wife Marjorie Tooley, 53, was convicted of manslaughter and given a 3 year probation order. The trial at Leeds CC heard she had been a battered wife for 8 years.
Feb 11 – Lee Kinch, 14, stabbed in a park in Huyton, Liverpool. Leo Gavan, 36, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and given an indefinite hospital order. The trial at Liverpool CC in 1997 heard Gavan only had one arm and was being taunted by Kinch and his friends.
Feb 11 – Elayne Parry, 33, beauty lecturer at Dudley College – killed at her home in Chadsmoor, Cannock, Staffs. Her husband Richard Parry, 43, was convicted of manslaughter at Wolverhampton CC and jailed for 6 years.
Feb 11 – Velda McKelvie, 27, battered and stabbed at home in Corby, Northamptonshire. The house was then set on fire and her son Adam, 3, was left with horrific burns. He died in April 1997. Her other sons Tommy, 10, and Sean, 6, escaped injury. Andrew Callow, 24, a textile worker, was jailed for life at Nottingham CC in June 1997. The trial heard he had been having an affair with her. His mother, Marilyn Bowie, insists he is innocent and has offered £10,000 for evidence which would clear him.
http://velda-mckelvie.gonetoosoon.org/
Feb 10 – Mohammed Sardar, shopkeeper, and his son Mohammed Ahmed Sardar – killed in their shop in Whalley Range, Manchester. Atif Iqbal, 22, was jailed for life for murder. Arif Iqbal, 24, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter. Asif Iqbal, 19, was acquitted.
Feb 10 – Jason Wharton, 24, DJ from Sparkbrook – shot in the face during a robbery as he sat in a car outside a blues party in Hockley Hill, Birmingham. Verran Myles, 23, was jailed for life at Leicester CC. Michael Christie, 24, was jailed for 14 years for attempted murder. Leon Brown, 19, was jailed for 6 years for conspiracy to rob. Leon Bell, 21, was also jailed for 6 years, Terry
Smithen, 22, got 6 years, and Ezekial Osbourne, 18, was jailed for 5 years. The same gang – members of the infamous Johnson Crew – are believed to have attacked Christopher Nicholas, aka President Sas, on Jan 21.
Feb 10 – Liam Wallace, 4, battered to death at his mother’s flat in Regis House (tower block) in Oldbury, West Midlands. His mother, Jane Hulse, 25, and her boyfriend Phillip Tong, 18, were convicted of manslaughter at Stafford CC in June 1997. Hulse was jailed for 5 years. Tong was detained during HM Pleasure.
Feb 7 – Glenda Hoskins, 45, strangled and drowned in the bath of her home at Port Solent, near Portsmouth. Her boyfriend Victor Farrant, 48, was jailed for life at Winchester CC in Jan 1998.
Feb 7 – David Buddin, 41, manager of Sainsburys supermarket in Poole – killed at home in Bournemouth. His lover, James Morley, 32, hanged himself at HMP Winchester while on remand in April 1996.
Feb 7 – A fight broke out between two groups of men from Southall and Cranford in west London. Harminder Singh Jhaghra was stabbed in the arm and bled to death. Kiranjit Uppal, 18, f;ed to India and remained on the run until 2013 when he was arrested on his arrival back at Heathrow airport. In October 2014 he was jailed for life (16 years). He was also found guilty of grievous bodily harm in connection with an incident which occurred on the same day, prior to the murder and was sentenced to five-years to run concurrently. The trial heard that around 4pm the Cranford group – who included friends of Uppal – were attacked by a gang from Southall. Plans were made for a revenge attack and at 8.45pm the Cranford group went to Southall and attacked a 15-year-old boy. Amarjit Lochab, 17, and Charandeep Dhariwal, 19, were convicted for assaulting the boy. Lochab received four and a half years imprisonment in a Young Offenders Institute and Dhariwal was sentenced to three years in a Young Offenders Institute. After that attack calls were made to Jhaghra by the Southall gang and he arrived. The Southall gang were then ambushed by the Cranford gang and Jhaghra was fatally attacked.
Feb 5 – David Morris, 47, from Wall Heath, shot in the chest at Miners Arms pub in Brierley Hill, West Midlands. Colin Yates, 42, a barman, was acquitted after a retrial.
Feb 4 – Judith Wells, 43, shot at point blank range in Stamford Hill, north London. Her husband, businessman David Wells, 49, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 5 years.
January 1996
Jan 31 – Bobby Jones, 20, stabbed in the neck in a wood in Alexandra Park, Hastings. Drug-related. Unsolved.
Jan 31 – Darren Duncan, 22, shot as he sat in a VW Golf outside the Black and White Café in St Paul’s, Bristol. Joel Burke, 23, was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of provocation and jailed for 12 years. Mark Morris, 24, was acquitted. Duncan’s brother, Michael, was shot in the leg.
Jan 31 – Lynn Oxtoby, 30, stabbed 51 times with a chisel at her home in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire. Her mother Eveline Oxtoby, 61, was tortured and stabbed. Lynn’s boyfriend Robert Rich, 48, a former RAF technician, went on trial at Leeds CC in March 1997 but the trial collapsed. Rich claimed he had no recollection of the events surrounding the killings. He was retried at Sheffield CC in Dec 1997 and jailed for life. The trial heard a 999 call was made by the victims during the attack.
Jan 27 – Mother Superior Edna Mary Cardozo and Sister Mary Julien Fortin, both in their late 60s, were stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a convent in Waterville, Maine, USA. Two others, Sister Patricia Keane, 68, and Sister Mary Anna DiGiacomo, 72, were injured. Mark Bechard, 37, a manic depressive, was acquitted of murder in 1999 by reason of insanity and sent to an institution for the criminally insane.
Jan 25 – George Romaniuk, 45, from South Norwood – killed while walking his dog in woods near Lindfield, West Sussex. Julian Slater, 25, from Crawley and Jason Patrick, 25, from Haywards Heath, were convicted of manslaughter at Lewes CC and jailed for 6 years each.
Jan 24 – Peter Taylor, 48, was stabbed 30 times in the bedroom of his home in Holloway, north London. His girlfriend, Ulster-born former prostitute Mary Kelly, 37, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and sent to Rampton Hospital indefinitely. Her trial at the Old Bailey in June 1997 heard that she had also cut his eyeballs out.
Jan 21 – Joyce Quinn, 44, shopkeeper, raped and killed at her grocer’s shop in Milltown, County Kildare, Ireland. Kenneth O’Reilly, 22, an unemployed butcher, was jailed for life.
Jan 20 – Paddy Daly, 69, farmer – attacked and thrown down a well on his 120 acre dairy farm at Kilcummin, near Killarney, Republic of Ireland. His brother Sean Daly, 70, was responsible but died in 2000. His nephew Eugene, 21, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 11 years, reduced on appeal to 6.
Between Jan 15 and 23 – Tommy Casey, 68, retired farmer – tied up and left for dead on kitchen floor of his farmhouse at Oranbeg, near Oranmore, County Galway, Ireland. Patrick O’Connor, 37, a convicted thief who was extradited from UK, was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter.
Jan 13 – Amber Hagerman, 9, was abducted from a street near her grandparents’ home in Arlington, Texas. She was driven off in a black pick-up truck. Her body was found four days later in a drainage ditch. Her throat had been slashed. Witnesses saw her being abducted and called 911 but it was too late. This case led to the launch of the Amber Alert system in the US.
Jan 12 – Angela Hayes, 33, unemployed singer from Bolton – sexually assaulted and strangled and dumped in a layby on the A666 at Belmont, near Darwen, Lancashire. Her boyfriend Steven Penn, 37, was jailed for life at Manchester CC.
Jan 11 – Kanwal Preet Kaur, 28, strangled at her home in Manor Park, Slough. Her husband Gurdail Singh Garg, 30, confessed and was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter.
Jan 5 – Steven Burton, 20, a Scotsman – stabbed at a flat in Cowley Road, Oxford. Richard Miell, 21, homeless, was acquitted.
Jan 3 – Carol Rice, 28, chairman of parent-teacher association and mother of two – killed at her home in Branscombe, Devon. Her alcoholic husband Leon Rice, 30, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for three years. At his trial he claimed he had been sexually abused as a child and was hallucinating that she was her abuser.
Jan 2 – Lorraine Carter, 19, Avon lady, strangled at a house in Daybrook, Nottingham. Glen Linley, 40, from The Meadows, Nottingham, was jailed for life in Jan 1997.
Jan 2 – Michael Sutherland, 31, stabbed outside a house in Hull. Unsolved.
Jan 2 – Anthony Erskine, 19, beaten up in the front garden of his home on the Clopton estate in Stratford-upon-Avon as he protected his father, Harry, who was being abused by yobs. Mark Hemmens, 20, and Damian Collins, 15, were jailed for life at Birmingham CC.
Jan 1 – Michael McMahon, 37, was killed outside the Hare and Hounds pub in Chesterfield. Peter Tetlow, 41, was acquitted at Nottingham CC in April 1996.
Jan 1 – Evon “Bangy” Berry, 37, caretaker – shot in the neck in St Paul’s, Bristol. Errol Jones, 22 from Manchester; Derek Jones, 22; and Gary Nelson, 23, both from Wolverhampton, were jailed for life at Bristol CC in July 1997. The trial heard how Mr Berry was shot as he backed away saying “Peace, peace”. He had tried to rescue Victor “Squeaky” Dinnall and Geert Leeuwerink, who were being pistol whipped during a street robbery. A retrial was ordered in 1999 because conviction was unsafe. Derek Jones and Nelson were acquitted at Winchester CC in 2000 but got 10 years for attempted murder of Mr Dinnall.
1995
December 1995
Between Dec 26 and Jan 10, 1996 – Alan Holmes, 53, a civilian garage mechanic at Kentish Town police station – tied up, tortured (for his PIN number) and left to die in his flat in Camden Town, north London. The killers took £1,000 from his account. Gangrene from wounds in his hands led to a fatal blood clot. Mr Holmes was a law graduate from Belfast and suffered from multiple sclerosis.
Dec 31 – Suzanne Beswick, 22, medical secretary from Tipton – strangled near the Vine pub in Wombourne, West Midlands. Christopher Tune, 24, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 4 years at Stafford CC in May 96.
Dec 31 – Frederick Barnett, 70, battered and stabbed at home in Hull. Michael Beadle, 24, was jailed for life in Nov 97. He died in jail in March 1998. Three other men were freed on appeal in Nov 98.
Dec 30 – Raymond Pitt, 20, from Levenshulme – shot in a car outside the West Indian Social Club in Moss Side, Manchester. Shay Cole, 23, was acquitted at Manchester CC in Nov 96. Owen Roche, 23, had been cleared at magistrates court. A 17 year old who was also shot survived.
? – A 35-year-old man stabbed to death in Wellington, New Zealand. His neighbour Phillip John Smith, 22, was jailed for life in 1996. He had been convicted of sexually assaulted his neighbour’s son over a three-year period. After being released on bail he found the family’s new address and went into the boy’s room. His father was killed when he tried to protect him. Smith was released on day release in 2014 and fled to Brazil. He was recaptured in a hostel in the bohemian Santa Teresa neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. He faces extradition.
Dec 29 – Trevor Hamilton, 37, armed robber and drug dealer – shot in Handsworth, Birmingham. The killer broke down his front door and demanded jewellery before shooting him. Unsolved.
Dec 26 – Leonard Tall, 28, died of head injuries outside a social club in Plymouth. Peter Turner, 21, and his brother Paul Turner, 23, were both convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 4 and a half years each.
Dec 25 – Louise Smith, 18, raped and strangled as she walked home in Chipping Sodbury, Somerset, from a party at Spiral’s nightclub in nearby Yate on Christmas Eve. Her body was found at Barnhill quarry in Feb 1996. David Frost, 21, a civil engineer, was finally caught by police and jailed for life at Bristol CC in Feb 1998, having pleaded guilty at the last minute. The court heard he denied raping her but admitted strangling her after having sex. He was caught after 4,500 men were DNA tested. He had gone to live in South Africa but gave a DNA sample to South African police.
Dec – Thomas McGregor, 65, stabbed in Netto supermarket, Bordesley Green, Birmingham. Shahid Iqbal, 23, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and jailed for life. He was suffering from a serious mental disorder when he ran amok in the shop.
Dec 25 – Mark Bye, 23, stabbed in the head and neck outside his parents’ pub, The Nelson, in Cowley, Oxford. Jeremy Pollard, aged 15, was jailed for life in June 1996.
Dec 24 – Celine Figard, 19, French student – picked up while hitch-hiking at Chieveley services near Newbury, Berkshire. Dumped near Worcester. Stewart Morgan, 36, a lorry driver from Parkstone, Dorset, was jailed for life in Oct 96. The trial at Worcester CC heard she was raped, strangled and left in his cab for 10 days.
December 20 – Ubong Ekaette, 18, student from Deptford – stabbed on a footbridge near Vauxhall station in south London. Unsolved.
Dec 16 – Mhairi Julyan, 16, sexually assaulted, punched, kicked and strangled as she walked home in Kilmarnock, Scotland after watching Sleeping Beauty pantomime. Gavin McGuire, 37, a convicted rapist from Saltcoats, was jailed for life (minimum of 30 years) in May 96.
? -Simon Lockett, 24, former soldier, drug addict – stabbed at his ex-girlfriend’s flat in Burnley. Wayne Taylor, 20, was jailed for life at Preston CC. Kath Norwood, 26, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 7 years. The trial in Oct 96 heard Lockett’s entrails were found in a fridge. Taylor planned to feed them to his pet ferret.
Dec 12 – Daniella White, 28, a prostitute and crack addict, originally from Walsall – her naked, mangled body was found on a railway line in Blisworth, near Northampton. Philip McKenna, 48, a freelance lorry driver from Northampton, was jailed for life at Northampton CC in Oct 97.
Dec – Michael Earridge, 15, stabbed at his home in Walworth, south London. David McCallum, 20, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and sent to Broadmoor. His trial heard he was obsessed with the Devil.
Dec 10 – John Killick, 60, supermarket security guard – hit by an iron bar and stabbed outside Asda in Scunthorpe. A man was charged with murder but acquitted.
Dec 5 – Philip Lawrence, headmaster – stabbed as he tried to stop a scuffle outside Maida Vale School in west London. Learco Chindamo, 15, was jailed for life in Oct 96. The trial at the Old Bailey heard he was a member of a street gang called Woo Sang Wu, which was modelled on the Triads. He was released from prison in 2010, after serving 15 years. He was accused of robbing a man at a cash machine in Nov 2010 but was acquitted.
Dec 5 – Peter Cork, 20, mechanic, shot dead at the The Joiners’ Arms in Bethnal Green, E London. Mr Cork’s father Christopher was a City of London police officer. Unsolved.
Dec 5 – Maureen Comfort, 43, killed at her home in Lincoln Green in Leeds city centre but her body was only discovered – in a cupboard – by her niece Senga Bailey on 8 January 1996. Her killers Christopher Moody and William Kerr were both jailed for life (14 years) in 1998. They had both lodged with her. Kerr was released to a halfway house in Hull in January 2015 but absconded in March. He was recaptured in April.
Dec 3 – Gordon Miller, 37, insurance accounts manager from Oxford – battered and left naked in St John’s Gardens, Liverpool (a well known cottaging spot for gay men). John Thomas, 16, and Alun O’Brien, 24, both from Liverpool, had charges against them dropped by CPS in Sep 96. Miller had a girlfriend and was not known as a homosexual.
November 1995
Nov – Christine Jenkinson, 42, strangled and left naked on the roof of the Trinity wine bar in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Philip Bird, 28, was jailed for life at Stafford CC.
Nov – Khadya Anwar, 50, blind mother of five – killed in the kitchen of her home in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. Tahir Hussain, 23, from Leeds, was acquitted of her murder in Nov 96.
Nov – Ian Grant, a bouncer and amateur boxer from New Zealand – killed and dumped on waste ground near his home in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge. Robert Blake, 31, and Jason O’Dell, 29, went on trial for his murder at Norwich CC in Feb 2000. They were both acquitted. But Blake, who changed his name to Blake Tracey, jailed for 22 years for the attempted murder of police dog handler Pc John Griffiths who was stabbed in Histon Road, Cambridge, in 2004. O’Dell was jailed for three years in 2006 for beating up his girlfriend Patricia Nesbitt.
Nov 30 – Paul Ogbuehi, 23, shot in Toxteth, Liverpool after an argument. Unsolved.
Nov 26 – Ali Abuzeid, 54, Libyan dissident, stabbed to death in his shop in Ladbroke Grove, west London. Unsolved.
Nov – Tressel “Chisel” Foster, 30, shopkeeper, shot dead in his car in Brixton. He was a witness in the Wayne Hutchinson case (see Dec 94). Believed to have been killed by two gunmen from Posse 28. Unsolved.
Nov – Alan Anderson, 39, stabbed in a flat in Sulgrave, Washington, Wearside. Gary Evans, 33, best friend and flat mate, was acquitted at his trial in July 1997.
Nov 16 – Linda Sobek, 27, model – raped and buried in the Angeles Forest in California, US. Photographer Charles Rathbun, 39, was jailed for life in Nov 96. At his trial he claimed he accidentally ran her over during a photoshoot.
Nov 16 – Debra Evans, 28, who was heavily pregnant, her daughter Samantha, 10, and son Joshua, 7 – stabbed in their apartment in Addison, Illinois. The baby was then torn from the womb. Her cousin Jackie Williams, 31, was sentenced to death in 1999 along with her boyfriend Fedell Caffey, who was an ex-boyfriend of Evans’. Evans’ son Jordan, 2, was left unharmed. Jordan and the baby boy were brought up by their grandparents.
Nov 5 – Derek Palmart, 45, dance hall doorman from Feltham – shot as he got into his car in Kilburn, NW London. Unsolved.
October 1995
Oct 11 – John Trant, 71, and his wife Vivian, 58; and their daughter Sophie Aderdour, 32, and her daughter Amina, 16 months old – stabbed at their home, 22 Dagmar Terrace in Islington, north London. Sophie’s husband Ibrahim Aderdour, 37, fled to his native Morocco but was arrested in Holland on Christmas Day 1998. He was extradited to the UK and jailed for life in March 2000. At his trial he tried to blame a Turkish drugs syndicate which he owed money to and claimed they had framed him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/677021.stm
Oct – Jackie Smitherman, 38, stabbed at home in Devizes, Wiltshire. Her stepfather and lover John Smitherman, 48, then gassed himself.
Oct 1 – Femi Ayoola, 27, shot in the head outside Granaries nightclub in Croydon, south London. Robert Brown, 38, a bouncer, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 1996. Ayoola had been abusing Brown.
Oct – John Dawson, 56, father of three from Nottingham – abducted, tied to a tree in north Leicestershire and strangled. James Stemp, 18, unemployed and homeless, was jailed for life in July 1996. The trial heard Dawson had simply stopped to ask for directions.
September 1995
Sep 30 – Emma Cartwright, 14, killed in the bedroom of her home in Kingswinford, Dudley, West Midlands. Her father Andrew Cartwright, 40, was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and jailed for 3 years.
Sep 25 – John Witts, 26, heroin addict – stabbed at his mother’s home in Miners Walk, Cinderford, Gloucestershire. His brother Damian Witts was convicted of manslaughter and detained indefinitely in a mental hospital. The trial at Bristol CC heard they had rowed about drugs.
Sep 24 – 15 people shot dead by Eric Borel, 16, a neo-Nazi student in the town of Cuers, near Toulon, France. Borel shot himself under a cypress tree as the police closed in. Victims were – Yves Bichet, Eric Borel’s stepfather; Marie-Jeanne Parenti, Eric Borel’s mother; Jean-Yves Bichet, 11, Eric Borel’s half brother; Alan Guillemette, 17, a friend of Eric Borel; Marius Boudon, 59; Andrée Coletta, 65; Rodolphe Incorvala, 59; Jeanne Laugiero, 68; Mohammed Maarad, 41; Pierre Marigliano, 68; Pascal Mostacchi, 15; Denise Otto, 77; Mario Pagani, 81; André Touret, 62 and Ginette Vialette, 48.
Sep 20 – Mandy Cross, 26, shot dead in New Street, Gloucester. Her father Walter Cross, 62, was arrested but starved himself to death in prison, dying in Feb 1996.
Sep – Michael O’Hara, 39, bar owner from Wakefield – battered to death at his bar (Stevie’s Bar) in Los Cristianos, Tenerife. His lover and business partner Jackie Ambler, 34, was jailed for 27 years in 1998 for the murder. She hired two men to kill him. Gary Holmes, 33, from Littlehampton, Sussex, and Stanley Stewart, also 33, from Clackmannan, were both jailed for 28 years. The trial heard she had plotted the murder and promised to pay the two men £54,000 to kill Mr O’Hara with whom she ran the bar.
Sep 19 – Nigel Lightfoot, 60, solicitor – stabbed on the doorstep of his luxury home in Bursledon, Southampton. John Vine, 38, a solicitor’s clerk, was jailed for life at Winchester CC in Jun 1996. The trial heard he had been sacked seven years before from Lamport Bassitt solicitors and became obsessive.
Sep 15 – Harold Petrie, 46, president of the Loco Works Social Club in Inverurie, Scotland – stabbed as he tried to stop a robbery at the club. Brian Parkinson, 28, an RAF corporal at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, was jailed for life in 1996. His brother, David, was a former barman at the club. He was jailed for 4 years for robbery.
Sep 14 – Nathan Beale, 10, strangled at his home in Wareham, Dorset. Her mother Tara Maguire, 25, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and given an indefinite hospital order.
Sep 13 – Naomi Smith, 15, sexually assaulted, throat slashed at Ansley Common, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Her body was found under a slide in a playground. Edwin Hopkins, 19, who lived nearby, was jailed for life in Jan 1997. He had popped out to a local shop, killed her and then came back to play Trivial Pursuit with his family.
http://www.britishmurders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=7974&name=Edwin%20Hopkins
Sep 13 – Lawrence Dabbs, 74, wealthy retired concrete contractor – killed at his home in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. It is thought his death may have been linked to the £1.4m he left in his will. Unsolved.
Sep 12 – Tim Nalty, 33, drug dealer and police informer from West Midlands – shot in bed as he slept with his wife Dawn in Shortstown, Bedford. Alvin Black, 39, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2001. The trial heard that the motive was revenge for his informing activities. Black was involved in the rave scene in Luton.
Sep 10 – John Dann, 27, shot dead in Toxteth, Liverpool. His friend Richard Southern, 28, was jailed for life in Jul 1997. The trial at Liverpool CC heard Southern had become fed up of Dann’s continuous practical jokes and lured him from Lancaster to his death.
Sep 10 – Sandra Lee, 40, mother of two, strangled in a room at the Berwick Hotel in Lowesmoor, Worcester. Kenneth Price, 45, a lodger, was jailed for life in Jun 96.
Sep 9 – Anthony Moore, 32, stabbed at a pub in Toxteth, Liverpool. Unsolved.
Sep 8 – Sallyann John, 23, a prostitute, vanished in Swindon, Wiltshire. She was treated as a missing persons inquiry until 2014. Three men, aged 50 and 52, were arrested in September 2015. Specialist officers conducted a three-day search of Ms John’s last-known address in Kimmeridge Close, in the Nythe area of Swindon. Her body has never been found.
Sep 6 – Rachel Lean, 18, from Buxton, Norfolk – stabbed. Her body was found near RAF Coltishall in Norfolk, where her father worked. Maria Hnatiuk, 27, from Bristol, was jailed for life at Norwich CC in Nov 96. The trial heard that Hnatiuk’s lover, Ian Wells, forced her to become bisexual and engaged in kinky sex but eventually left her. She promised to kill 3 people to get him back. Rachel had just passed her A levels. Hnatiuk’s minimum tariff was set at 14 years, so she was eligible for parole in 2009. At the time of her conviction Hnatiuk was very beautiful.
Sep 4 – Wayne Livett, 16, stabbed with a commando knife in Gypsy Hill, south London. Lee Wallace, 16, was convicted of murder and detained under HM Pleasure. The trial at the Old Bailey in 1996 heard that Livett was attacked simply because he was tall – 6 foot 3 inches – and Wallace was trying to impress friends. They were complete strangers.
Sep 3 – Gill O’Dowd, 32, stabbed at her home in Tring, Hertfordshire days after her wedding anniversary. Her husband Gerald O’Dowd, 31, a bricklayer and boxer, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) at St Albans CC in Dec 95 and sent to a mental hospital. He is singer Boy George’s brother.
Sep – Francis Martin – killed in Legend’s nightclub in the Old Kent Road, SE London. Unsolved.
Sep – Jenny Day, 44, killed when Fiat Punto crashed near Swansea. Her husband Robin Day, 48, a butcher, was jailed for life in Nov 96. He had been driving the car.
Sep 2 – Michael Dooher, 19, battered with an iron bar in Chasetown, Staffordshire. Mushtaq Khan, 26, the manager of a pizza shop, was convicted of manslaughter at Wolverhampton CC and jailed for 2 and a half years.
August 1995
Aug 31 – Eve Howells, 48, religious education teacher – battered with a hammer on the sofa of her home in Dalton, near Huddersfield. Her husband David Howells, 47 was jailed for life; her sons Glenn Howells, 15; and John Howells, 14, were detained under HM Pleasure. The trial at Leeds CC in 1997 heard she was a domineering and provocative woman.
Aug 31 – Tina Owen, 35, had her throat slashed on the doorstep of her home in Porth, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. Ian Cornish, 32, was jailed for life at Cardiff CC in 96.
Aug 27 (died on Aug 30) – Mark Sharp, 39, motorist – stabbed in road rage incident in High Town Road, Luton. Abdul Tajid and Rejan Uddin were jailed for life for murder at Luton CC in July 1996 but were later freed on appeal. Jomir Miah, Abdul Shahid and Forid Miah were acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 4 years each.Abdul Abedin, 31, fled to Bangladesh and charges against him were eventually dropped in 2004.
Aug 26 – Jacqui Moore, 37, divorcee – whipped to death at her flat in Broomhill, near Amble, Northumberland. Stephen Cowell, 25, was charged with murder. Ms Moore hosted regular drink ansd drugs parties.
Aug 25 – Frank Hannon, 40, publican, shot outside the Rose and Crown pub in Kentish Town, north London, after he tried to kick a man out of his pub. The man, who was drunk, got a gun from his car which was parked nearby. Unsolved.
Aug 22 – Nicky “Sailor” Murphy, 26, crack dealer, shot in the head in Quinney Crescent, Moss Side, Manchester. Another man was wounded. Murphy survived being shot in the head three years earlier. His brother, Carl, was wounded three weeks later. Unsolved.
Aug 10 – Marjorie Roberts, 34, prostitute – dumped in the river Clyde near Jamaica Bridge in Glasgow. Unsolved. Possible victim of serial killer.
Aug – Gwendoline Smith, 43, stabbed 43 times with a bowie knife at home in Derby. Her 11 year old son David survived. Her other son Anthony Smith, 24, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) at Nottm CC in Mar 96 and detained indefinitely at Rampton.
Aug – Private Andrew Green, 19, soldier – stabbed in Peacock Avenue, Wednesfield, West Midlands. Colin Critchlow, 23, a love rival, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 66 months at Northampton CC. Private Green was having an affair with Critchlow’s girlfriend Joanne Rudge.
Aug 20 – Deirdre Kivlin, 24, bludgeoned with a brick in the stairwell of a block of flats in Newington, Edinburgh. Scott Ballantyne, 26, a glue-sniffing drifter, walked free after the case was not proven at Edinburgh HC in Feb 96.
Aug 19 – Betty Jakovic, 66, charity worker – stabbed and strangled at her home in Dudley, West Midlands. Darren Leech, 29, a former lodger, was jailed for life (16 years min) at Stafford CC in July 1996. The trial heard he was burgling the house and she recognised him.
Aug 19 – Paul Collins, 23, a Northern Irish builder – killed in a kebab shop in south London. Raymond Ridley, 30, from Leicester went on trial at the Old Bailey in Sep 96.
Aug 14 – Tony Sullivan, 46, stabbed outside Lola’s nightclub in Forest Gate, east London. A man was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 10 years.
Aug 12 – Vikki Thompson, 30, mother of 2, hit over the head with a rock in a field at Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Mark Weston, 21, an unemployed handyman, was acquitted at Oxford CC in Nov 96. But after the double jeopardy rule was charged he was tried again at Reading CC in 2010 and this time convicted of murder and jailed for life with a 13 year minimum tariff. The trial heard how he chased and killed Mrs Thompson because he realised she had caught him masturbating while watching her as she walked her dog. In 1997 he even got legal aid to sue the police for wrongful arrest and prosecution.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338202/Double-jeopardy-justice-After-15-years-historic-retrial-finds-loner-guilty-young-mothers-murder.html
Aug 6 – John Sawers, 36, killed in Springburn, Glasgow. His wife Christine Sawers, 33, was charged with murder but charges were dropped. Her brother John Halfpenny, 19, was acquitted at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Aug 6 – Brian McVicar, 20 – attacked in Clydebank. His friend, Edward Brown, 17, was seriously injured. Three youths were arrested. Unsolved.
Aug 6 – Raymond Morgan, 25, from Islington – stabbed outside a pub in Highgate, north London. Marc Mazure, 20, from Muswell Hill, was jailed for life in Jul 96. The trial at the Old Bailey heard it was a case of mistaken identity. Mazure thought he was Curtis Hunt, an alleged drug dealer.
Aug 6 – Alex Donnelly, 29, Celtic fan – stabbed near a block of flats in Springburn, Glasgow. James Wilson, 17, was jailed for life in Aug 96. The trial heard he killed Donnelly because he refused to give him a cigarette. Wilson had taken Temazepam capsules and drunk alcohol on the night of the murder.
Aug 5 – William Downie, 39, stabbed in Possil, Glasgow. Stephen Shepherd, 26, from Cessnock, was charged with murder.
Aug 5 – John McFarlane, 46, killed in Easterhouse, Glasgow. Unsolved.
Aug 4 – James Boyce, 26, soldier – killed in Thornliebank, south Glasgow. Unsolved.
Aug – Louise Sellers, 15, battered and strangled at Billinge Hospital in Lancashire. Darren Ashurst, 21, was eventually caught and jailed for life at Manchester CC in Oct 2000. He was caught by DNA from a cigarette left at the scene. He placed a red rose at the site on the anniversary of the murder every year.
Aug – Mark Spicer, 18, electrocuted after falling onto a live rail during a fight in Raynes Park, south London. His friend Lee McLean, 22, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 4 years.
Aug 11 – Simon Purdy, 20, stabbed at Boar’s Hill in Oxfordshire. His lover Derek Morgan, 28, was jailed for life at Oxford CC.
Aug 6 – Laura Rodriguez, 37, prostitute and mother of 2 – stabbed in the neck in her flat in Hove, East Sussex. Austin Rogerson, 36, a steward at Sussex Cricket Club, was jailed for life at Lewes CC.
Aug 5 – Mary Morris, 84, killed at home in Woking. Her son Kenneth Morris, 51, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 5 years.
Aug 5 – Joanne Tregembo, 19, travel agency clerk – tortured, beaten and stabbed at Oxwich Bay, Swansea. Adam Fury, 21, a former soldier, was jailed for life in 1996. Fury had ironically been suing the Army for bullying.
Aug – Edna Condi, 74, killed by a concrete block thrown from the 11th floor of a tower block in Kirkstalls, Leeds. A boy, aged 11, was convicted of manslaughter in May 96 and given a 3 year supervision order.
Aug 3 – Darren Fawns, 13, beaten over the head and dumped on the Massereene golf course in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Unsolved. Unsolved.
Aug 2 – Michelle Kernoll, 22, Jamaican – stabbed in his room at the Sea Shell Hotel in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Alexander Von Starck, 28, a German tourist, was jailed for life for murder in Oct 1996. The trial heard he cut her heart out and cut off her breasts. He had been taking cocaine. Lawyers foer her son Tavani sought financial damages from Von Starck. In Nov 2002 he died in prison, apparently through self-inflicted stab wounds.
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Summer – Ratilal Patel, 67, newsagent – beaten to death with a can of carrots at his corner shop in Wimbledon. Leon Renolds, 18, was jailed for life in Jun 96.
July 1995
Jul – Christopher Gee, 39, father of two daughters – clubbed at his home in Redland, Bristol. He died of his injuries a year later. Terry Latimer, 32, a vagrant and burglar, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 8 years.
Jul 30 – Alex Pilkington, 18, from West Bridgford near Nottingham – stabbed during a National Mountain Bike Rally at Eastnor Castle, near Ledbury, Herefordshire. Jason Mardi, 18, from Tewkesbury, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 5 years.
Jul – Paul Bradshaw, 42, catering worker – battered to death in a park in Boscombe, Dorset. Colin Wake, 24, and David Johnson, 23, were jailed for life at Winchester CC in 1998. Their motive was simple homophobia. Both had been drinking.
Jul 30 – Robert Gee, 12; Paul Barker, 13 – sexually assaulted, stabbed and strangled at Eastham Rake, The Wirral. Steven Heaney, 36, a factory worker and former army cadet commander, was jailed for life in Feb 1996. The trial heard the boys were on their way back from a fishing trip when Heaney, a homosexual, ambushed them. After killing them he played dominoes in the pub and bought a lottery ticket.
Jul 30 – Sophie Hook, 7, from Winsford, Cheshire – abducted from a tent in the back garden of her uncle’s house in Llandudno, north Wales. She was dumped in the sea. Howard “Mad Howard” Hughes, 32, paedophile from Colwyn Bay, was jailed for life at Chester CC in Jun 96. The judge imposed a whole life tariff.
Jul 25 – Christopher Smith, 37, child rapist from Walsall – kicked to death in his cell in HMP Long Lartin, Worcestershire. Inmates Richard Thompson, 33, and David Amani, 38, were jailed for life in 1999. Smith had been serving a nine year sentence.
Jul 15 – Carol Tucker, 52, strangled and drowned in the river Lark in Suffolk. Her husband Squadron Leader Nick Tucker, 46, was jailed for life (11 years minimum) in Nov 97. The trial at Norwich CC heard he was having an affair with a 21-year-old Serbian woman, Dijana Dudukovic, and faked a car accident. Tucker was freed in 2008 and set up home in Thetford with his new girlfriend Jenny Peacock.
Jul 15 – Moelwyn Davies, 56, battered over the head on a footpath in Kidderminster. Dean Stanley, 28, and Rolf Dalton, 29, were both jailed for life at Worcester CC.
Jul 14 – Monica Jepson, 68, sexually assaulted and strangled at the Grange nursing home in Edgbaston, Birmingham. Heroin addict John Cook, 30, was jailed for life in 2002.
Jul 12 – Karen Floyd, 27, shot with an airgun at her home in Bradville, Milton Keynes. Her husband Robert Floyd, 27, was charged with murder.
Jul – Lionel Jeffrey, 50, from Slough, shot dead in a side street in Kensington, London by two black youths. Motive was apparently robbery. Ironically Jeffrey had served two separate 14 year sentences for armed robbery. Unsolved.
Jul 11 – Deborah Brackhahn-Hughes, 32; and stepsons James, 7, and Matthew, 6, strangled and then laid out with rosary beads at their home in Hemsby, Norfolk. Her husband Martn Hughes, 37, was convicted of the boys’ murder and his wife’s manslaughter and was jailed for life (13 years minimum). He absconded from Sudbury open prison in Derbyshire in 2007 and then committed suicide in his car.
Jul 10 – Marcus Babu, 29, stabbed outside his home in Blackbird Leys, Oxford. The killer sped off in a car. Unsolved.
Jul – Teresa Shepherd, 24, from Worksop, Notts, killed and body never found. Peter Turner, 24, was jailed for life.
July – Megumi Aoki, an 11 year old girl, who was having a bath, died in a fire in the Higashi-Sumiyoshi ward of Osaka, Japan. Her mother Keiko Aoki, 31, and her husband Tatsuhiro Boku, 29, were jailed for life. They were found guilty of setting their house on fire in a bid to kill the girl and collect on the life insurance. Aoki and Boku reportedly confessed to the crimes during their interrogations, but they both pleaded not guilty at their trial. They were released from Oita prison in 2015.
June 1995
Jun – Simon Nicholls, 31, merchant banker – abused, spat at, robbed and kicked in the head at Leigh-on-Sea railway station in Essex. Alan King, 23, from Billericay, and Matthew Lucas, 22, from Basildon, were jailed for life in April 96.
Jun 26 – Sujad Khan, 28, shot as he watched TV in Crawley, West Sussex. His father Mushtaq Khan, 58, from Brighton, was jailed for 5 years for manslaughter. He then suffered a brain haemorrhage. The trial heard Sujad was shot for disobeying his father. His brother, Zia, 25, survived.
Jun 22 – Timothy “Ganja Lips” Thomas, shot in a robbery in Lozells, Birmingham. Shaka Powell, 23, from Peckham, and Rohan Gordon, 19, from Wood Green were acquitted of murder. Gordon was later jailed for life for the murder of Craig Thoms in 2007.
Jun – Leona McGovern, 22, prostitute – dumped in Washington Street, Glasgow. Unsolved.
Jun 20 – Susan Hearmon, 24, and her daughters Kylie Lowell, 6, and Julie-Anne Lowell, 4, died in a house fire in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Darren Carr, 24, a lodger, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and sent to a secure hospital.
June 15 – Tasleem Begum, 20, hit by a car in Bradford. Her brother-in-law Shabir Hussain, 30, was jailed for life at Leeds CC. The trial heard she had fled an arranged marriage.
Jun 8 – Caroline Byrne, 24, model – thrown from a cliff called The Gap, near Watsons Bay, Australia. Her boyfriend Gordon Wood, a chauffeur, was jailed for life in 2008.
June – Maureen Stepan, 18, prostitute – strangled at her flat in Bradford’s red light district. George Naylor, 51, from Whitley Bay, jailed for life in Jan 99 with a minimum tariff of 20 years. He had only just been released from prison after killing Deborah Kershaw, another prostitute, in 1985. Prior to killing Kershaw, he had also served time in jail for raping a 61-year-old woman. Both his victims were killed by means of “burking” (strangulation using the forearm, as practiced by Burke & Hare).
Jun – Jayne Welch, 21, stabbed 60 times in a caravan near Aldershot, Hampshire. Her estranged boyfriend Stephen Hudson, 32, was jailed for life in Feb 96. The caravan belonged to Hudson’s sister.
Jun 3 – Mark Shilling, 17, printshop manager, stabbed in the street in Clapham, south London. Antonia Jones, 17, an art student was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 1 year. The trial at the Old Bailey heard Shilling had bullied Jones at primary school and began intimidating her again years later.
Jun 2 – Robert Hogarth, 32, doorman at the Cavern club – stabbed in toilet at Garlands nightclub in Liverpool. Bouncers Steven Okonkwo, 24, and Robert Hughes, 29, were charged with murder. Keith Foster, 35, survived the attack.
June 1 – Steven Anderson, 31, shot in the stomach in the street in Clapham, south London. The killer stole his stereo. Unsolved.
June – Jane Harrison, 32, – disappeared from Wood Green shopping centre. Her lover Kevin Docherty, 39, claimed she had gone off with another man and even faked phone calls from her. In 2013 Docherty was found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 18 years. The body of the mother of two boys has never been found. The prosecution said she was a devoted mother to Ryan and Taylor and it would be inconceivable that she would not contact them if she was still alive.
May 1995
May 30 – Ronald Mellor, 38, stabbed in a block of flats in Hastings. Unsolved.
May 28 – David Stedman, 68, retired policeman from Gosport who moved to Leicester in 1989 – his home in Beaumont Leys, Leicester, was set on fire. His neighbours Richard Saunders, 26 and Dean Saunders, 20, were jailed for life in July 1996. Carole Hill was acquitted of murder but got 2 years for reckless endangerment. The trial heard he staggered naked from the blazing house and died 13 hours later. The trial heard he was accused of being a noisy neighbour.
May 26 – Louise Crowe, 23, from New Zealand – stabbed in the street in Wood Lane, Highgate, north London. Anthony Roach, 24, a schizophrenic Rastafarian, was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility in Feb 1996 and sent to a secure hospital indefinitely.
May 26 – Susan Cameron, 18, care assistant – stabbed 150 times with 4 kitchen knives at her flat in Hither Green, south London. Her boyfriend Darren Sawyer, 22, who was a crack addict, was jailed for life in Dec 1995.
May 26 – Jaswant “Jazz” Sandhu, 28, market trader from Wolverhampton – shot in the marketplace in Blackwood, Gwent. Mohammed “Bobby” Basharat, 25, another market trader from Oldham, fled to Pakistan. It was believed to be a row over some t-shirts. Unsolved.
May 22 – Ashley Stevens, 14, killed in a fight in the playground of a school in Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales. A 14 year old boy nicknamed “Titch” who cannot be named for legal reasons was convicted of manslaughter and freed on a 2 year supervision order. The trial heard the fight broke out after Stevens, who was 6ft 2ins, ridiculed the boy about his height – he was 5ft tall. The victim’s family were outraged by the sentence.
May 21 – Thomas Disley, 39, shot 5 times with a machine gun in West Kirby, The Wirral, Merseyside. Mervyn Mullin, 49, was jailed for life (7 years minimum) for manslaughter at Liverpool CC in Feb 1996. The trial heard that Mullin, a soldier and former Ulster veteran, had been dumped by Jeannette Gibbon, 17, an army cadet who he had been having an affair with since she was 13, and Disley was her new boyfriend. The trial heard that Gibbon was being treated for drug dependency.
May 21 – Paul Forster, 22, shot in the stomach in Wallasey, Wirral, Merseyside. Believed to be drug related. Unsolved.
May 21 – Brenda Horrod, 60, battered with a hammer at her home in Hickling, Norfolk. Her husband Peter Horrod, 62, was jailed for life in Dec 1995. The trial heard Mrs Horrod was suffering from a brain tumour.
May 20 – Janet Swanson, 14, schoolgirl who was in the care of Leeds social services – sexually assaulted and strangled with anorak cord behind a DIY store in Killingbeck, Leeds. David McVeigh, 15, who was originally from Northern Ireland, was convicted of murder in Nov 1996 and detained during HM Pleasure. At the trial McVeigh claimed his father – who was living with Janet’s mother, Hazel Swanson, asked him: “Can’t you get rid of her for me?” His father was never charged and there is no suggestion he did say those words.
May 15 – Timothy Marshall, 25, Australian – killed outside Oscar’s nightclub in Greenford, NW London. Robert Kingsbury, 24, from Luton, was charged with murder but the case was discontinued by the CPS.
May 10 – Sabrina Brett, 17, prostitute – murdered at flat in Milton Keynes and dumped in Grand Union Canal at Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire. Ian Foster, 28, pimp, from Luton, was tried at Northampton CC on April 1996 but acquitted on the judge’s directions. His mother’s home in Hockwell Ring was shot at and he moved to the US to avoid the wrath of the Luton Irish (Sabrina was from that community. Unsolved.
May 10 – Cheung To, 25, and Lam Fei, 23 – killed in a house in Glasgow Road, Plaistow, east London. Killed by Triads. Unsolved.
May 10 – Jane Windridge, 78, stripped and battered at her flat in Chelmsley Wood, Birmingham. Barrie Compton, 51, who posed as a bogus official to gain entry, was jailed for life in Oct 1996. He killed her for her jewellery, not realising it was worthless costume jewellery. She was also mutilated.
May 8 – Eric Cobourne, 50, church caretaker – beaten up outside a church in Cyncoed, Cardiff. Andrew Groom, 19; David Vodden, 19; and David Willey, 19 – were convicted of manslaughter and jailed for between 18 months and 2 years. Cobourne actually died of natural causes after the attack.
May – Victoria Odususi, 36, wife of a Nigerian Airlines official – shot at home in Stockwell, south London. Richard Humphrey, a psychopath, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Aug 1996.
May – Halina Szymczuk, 48, spinster, killed at home in Ashington, Northumberland. Her neighbour Richard Stoker, 60, was sent to Rampton Hospital indefinitely. The trial in Newcastle in March 1996 heard he had killed his mother-in-law, Mary Wilson, in 1976 and been released in 1987.
May – Barbara Weaver – shot at home in West Midlands. Her husband Geoffrey Weaver, 56, was convicted of manslaughter at Stafford CC and jailed for 2 years. The trial heard she was shot as she tried to prevent him killing himself.
May 10 – Anne Saxton, 90, killed at her home in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Paul Butcher, 30, was jailed for life at Leeds CC in 1996.
May 5 – Simon Shannon, 27, artist and son of a vicar – battered, throttled and had his throat cut at his flat in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Terence Smith, 36, was convicted of murder at Chelmsford CC in Oct 1997. Harry Groves, 17, was also convicted. He had tried to hang himself while in custody. Both were jailed for life but appealed. The trial heard Shannon was homosexual, which may have been relevant. Smith admitted to being bisexual.
May 3 – Anzoe Akbari, 56, tied up, beaten, stabbed with scissors and had his throat slashed at his flat in Wood Green, north London. Spencer Faulkner, 23, a painter and decorator, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in March 1998. He was given a 12 year sentence on top for stabbing a male nurse. The trial heard that Mr Akbari was an obsessively tidy homosexual and Faulkner, who was abused as a child, hated gay people.
May 2 – Derek Ashton, 43, battered about the head at his home in Blackpool. Unsolved.
May 1 – Janice Symons, 59, landlady – mutilated at her lodging house in Leicester. Richard Burton, 32, psychopathic lodger, was detained indefinitely under mental health act at Rampton for her manslaughter.
May 1 – Robert Huggins, 34, factory worker – found in a field near Craigs Quarry on the outskirts of Kirkliston, Lothian, Scotland. Unsolved.
May 1 – David Ungi, 35, drug dealer – shot 5 times as he drove through Toxteth, Liverpool. The murder was part of a feud over drug dealing proceeds at the city’s Cheers bar, which was firebombed the following day. Ungi was a cousin of Colin Fitzgibbon, who was shot on Valentine’s Day. Johnny Phillips was suspected of ordering the killing of Ungi but he died of a heart attack in 1996. He had been beaten by Ungi in a street fight in March. Others linked to the feud (on Phillips’ side) were Mark Osu, Spencer Benjamin, Ricardo Ro and Phillip Glennon but they were never charged. Osu’s brother Jason Osu was shot and injured in Wavertree in Nov 2012.
April 1995
Apr 29 – Chris Kiefer, 34, stabbed in his front garden in Reading, Berkshire. Gabriel McGuire, 62, was jailed for life in 1996.
Apr – Muriel Viner, 76, killed at her home in Corfe Mullen, Dorset. Her schizophrenic son Robert Viner, 42, later killed himself with a drug overdose.
Apr 19 – Haldi Mohammed, 48, Iranian-born divorcee – her mutilated body was found in the living room at her home in Golders Green, north London. Unsolved.
Apr 18 – PC Phillip Walters, 28, shot at a flat in Ilford, east London, after he was called to a domestic row. Ray Lee, 28, an illegal immigrant from Jamaica who worked as a warehouseman, was convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey and jailed for 18 years. He is thought to have been released in 2007. Anthony Clayton, 33, from Willesden, was acquitted. The trial heard they had been hired by a girl to beat up a former boyfriend who lived at the flat. Police were called and Lee shot PC Walters.
Apr 17 – Paul O’Connor, 32, market trader – stabbed at the Elephant’s Head pub in Camden Town, N London. Unsolved.
Apr – Marcia Lawes, 24, trainee beautician – raped and stabbed 18 times in her flat in Brixton. Delroy “Epsy” Denton, 35, Yardie and police informer. Jailed for life at the Old Bailey in July 1996. The judge recommended he be deported to Jamaica on completion of the sentence. He is thought to have killed 7 women in Jamaica. Marcia’s family sued the police and Home Office.
Apr 15 – Naginder Singh Bharj, 48, British Aerospace engineer – killed at his flat in Whitfield Street, Gloucester. David Workman, 18, a blind beggar, was jailed for life at Bristol CC in July 1996. Mr Bharj had raped a 14 year old boy but never been charged. At his trial Workman claimed a Scottish friend, Joe Carroll, was responsible. Workman was high on drink and drugs at the time.
Apr 14 – Terry Farrimond, 26, nightclub doorman – shot as he cycled through Swinton, Manchester. Three men in a Jeep were involved. Unsolved.
Apr 12 – Gerald Lowe, 32, South African tourist – killed in Singapore. John Scripps, 35, a British expat who was on the run from HMP The Mount in Hertfordshire, was convicted of murder in Singapore in Nov 1995 and was hanged on 19 April 1996 in Changi jail. He also killed Sheila Damude, 49, her son Darin, 22, and Timothy McDowall, 28 in Phuket, Thailand.
Apr – Marie-Paul Cotils – killed in a bar in Hainault, Belgium. Maurice Hincq was jailed for 20 years in March 1998. He claimed he was under the influence of Prozac.
Apr 11 – Mark Hattersley – stabbed in Edgeley, Stockport. Peter Beedell, 24, from Adswood, Stockport, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 8 years in May 1996.
April 11 – Janet Brown, 51, the wife of a wealthy scientist (working for Glaxo) was found dead at her home in Radnage, Buckinghamshire. She was naked, handcuffed, and had been bludgeoned. She may have interrupted burglar and was killed because she recognised him. Unsolved.
Apr 10 – Gillian Montgomery, 53, multiple sclerosis sufferer – stabbed and beaten at her home in St Leonards, East Sussex. Hakan Yagiz, Turkish drug addict, fled to Turkey but was convicted in Istanbul in May 1999 and sentenced to 36 years hard labour. He stole £100 and a Dictaphone and left the taps running in the house.
Apr 9 – James McHugh, 45, shot 3 times in the Ashfield lounge bar in Possil Park, Glasgow. Thomas McGovern, 28, was charged with murder but charges were dropped in Sep 1995 and he was cleared. Unsolved.
Apr 9 – Paul Nixon, 35, Crystal Palace fan – hit with concrete block and then run over by a coach during clash between football supporters outside the New Fulbrook pub in Walsall just before FA Cup semi final at Villa Park in Birmingham. Manchester United fans Neil Spence, 29; his brother Ian Spence, 28; Steven Rimmer, 20; were charged with manslaughter but charges were dropped at a committal hearing in 1996. Charges were also dropped against United fans Paul Withers, 36; Floyd Crowther; Raymond Curtis and Barry Nelson. The court heard there was bad feeling between the two clubs after the Eric Cantona kung-fu kick incident at Selhurst Park in January 1995. United won the game but lost in the final to Everton.
Apr 8 – Alana Link, 53, killed at home in Birmingham but dumped in a field near Driffield, East Yorkshire. Her husband, Martin Link, 53, killed himself by drinking anti-freeze.
Apr 5 – Douglas Borrill, 29, stabbed in head and chest on the doorstep of his newsagent’s shop in Derby. Joseph Jenkinson was jailed for lfie.
Apr – “Mad Mick” Briggs, 40, former convict, shot at the Raggalds Inn pub in Queensbury, Bradford. John Spalding, 39, a former paratrooper, and Morgan Duffy, 29, were both jailed for life in Dec 1996. Their trial heard that they were in dispute with the publican, David Baines, who survived the shooting. Also injured was John Paisley, from Halifax.
Apr 3 – Michael Olymbious, 40, Greek property dealer – shot in the head in Walworth, south London. There has been speculation he was killed by the Ukrainian mafia or that it was the “Curse of Brink’s Mat”. Unsolved.
Apr 2 – Catherine Boot, 37, Zimbabwean who worked at Burger King – dismembered and dumped in a pond near Guildford, Surrey. Her psychotic neighbour, Jason Baldwin, 28, a slaughterhouse worker, admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and was sent to Broadmoor.
Apr 1 – Michael McMurtry, 53, strangled and stabbed. Dumped on a beach in Hayling Island, Hampshire. His neighbour Tim Slater, 28, an unemployed fisherman, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and sent to Broadmoor in Nov 1995. He hanged himself there in Nov 1998. The nurse who found him, Stuart Townson, committed suicide shortly afterwards.
March 1995
March – Pradeep Jain, builder, shot dead outside his bungalow in Juhu, Mumbai, India. Abu Salem, a top Mumbai gangster, fled to Portugal but was extradited in 2005. He was convicted in Feb 2015. The trial heard Jain had refused to give up a huge property to Salem.
Salem was also accused of involvement in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts. In June 2012 Salem was shot at in Taloja Central jail in Navi Mumbai allegedly by gangster Devendra Jagtap alias JD, an accused in the murder of advocate Shahid Azmi who had represented a 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused.
March 31 – Selena Quintanilla-Perez, 23, a rising Latino superstar, was murdered by her fan club manager in a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her death was met with widespread shock and disbelief by her fans. In 1993, Selena, as she was known, won a Grammy for her album Selena Live and was widely expected to break through into the US mainstream. Selena was known as the Queen of Tejano Music and also as the “Tejano Madonna”, was shot dead at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas. Yolande Saldivar, 35, was convicted of murder and jailed for life with the possibility of parole after 30 years. Quintanilla has discovered that Saldívar had embezzled more than $30,000 via forged cheques from both the Selena fan club and her boutiques. Saldivar was arrested after a 9-hour siege at the hotel. The murder weapon went missing after the trial. It was later found in a box of office supplies at the home of court reporter Sandra Oballe, who said she did not realise she had the weapon. It was later broken up and thrown into Corpus Christi Bay.
Mar 30 – Nasreen Akhtar, 29, mother of four – strangled at home in Oxford as she springcleaned. Hakim Khan, 32, a taxi driver, was acquitted of murder at Oxford CC in Dec 1995. Mrs Akhtar’s body was discovered by her daughter Nazreen, 11.
March 29 – Deanna Cremin, 17, was sexually assaulted and strangled behind an apartment complex in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her boyfriend had walked her part of the way home and then said he left her. He remained under suspicion but there were also suspicions about a serial sex offender who was living in the town at the time. The case is unsolved.
Mar 29 – Leonard Kinsley, 59, a Wild West fan, was hit 12 times over the head in Salford. A man called Dervan, from Oldham, was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court. His brother lived in the flat above Mr Kinsley and a dispute broke out between the neighbours.
Mar 27 – Maurizio Gucci, 46, grandson of the firm’s founder – shot outside his office in Via Palestro, Milan. His ex-wife Patrizia Martinelli, 49, was jailed for 29 years in 1997. Also jailed were Giuseppina Auriemma, a clairvoyant – who got 25 years; Ivano Savioli, 40, a night porter, who got 26 years; Benedetto Ceraulo, 35, the gunman, who got 29 years; and Orazio Cicula, 58, the getaway driver, who got 26 years.
Mar 24 – Sharon Hall, 24, stabbed in a block of flats in Paisley Close, Stoke-on-Trent. Jason Rigby, 24, was charged with murder but hanged himself in HMP Winson Green a week later.
Mar 22 – Brian Cochrane, 31 – shot in Glenora Drive, Paisley, Scotland. Gerald Egan, 24, from Barrhead, and Charles Melvin, 30, from Glasgow, went on trial accused of his murder but the charges were not proven. Melvin vanished in 2000 and his wife Margaret believed he had been murdered. The murder of Mr Cochrane was believed to be due to a gang war.
Mar 22 – Tony Hemsworth, 51, electrician from Barrow (worked at GEC) – strangled in the bath at a hotel in China. He was working for GEC Alsthom on the CEPA-Slipform Shajiao C power project near Guangzhou. Unsolved.
Mar 20 – 13 people died and 50 were injured when sarin gas was let off on the Tokyo subway by members of a cult called Aum Shinrikyo, led by Shoko Asahara. Asahara has been sentenced to death. Also responsible were Ikuo Hayashi, whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, Tomomitsu Niimi, who was sentenced to death, Kenichi Hirose, who has been sentenced to death, Toru Toyoda, who was sentenced to death, Masato Yokoyama, who was sentenced to death, Kiyotaka Tonozaki, who was jailed for life, Katsuya Takahashi, who was arrested in 2012 and awaits trial.
Mar 20 – Malcolm Murray, 45, run over by a Ford Transit van after a pub fight in Orpington, Kent. Sam Ripley, 33, landscape gardener, was jailed for life in April 1996. Mr Murray died after being airlifted to a hospital in Leeds.
Mar 20 – Leslie Cook, 35, Hell’s Angel – stabbed in The Tumbler pub in Hayes, west London. Sid McFarlane, 36, was jailed for life (15 years min) at Old Bailey in Nov 95. Cook had been jailed in 1980 for shooting PC Philip Olds, who was left crippled. He was released from jail in 1989.
March 9 – Scott Amedure, 32, was shot dead at his home in a trailer park in Lake Orion, Michigan. Jonathan Schmitz was convicted of second degree murder and jailed for 25-50 years but was released in 2017. Mr Amedure, who was gay, had confronted Mr Schmitz on the Jenny Jones Show on TV and told him about his crush on him. Schmitz was said to be mortified and embarrassed and later killed him in anger. Mr Amedure’s family later sued Warner Brothers and won $29 million but the case was overturned on appeal.
Mar 1 – David Ewin, 38, criminal – shot during police operation in Castelnau, Barnes, SW London (died on 16 Mar). PC Patrick Hodgson was acquitted of murder after a retrial in Dec 1996. Ewin, who was on day release from prison, was driving a stolen car and had stopped to buy cigarettes from a shop but the Flying Squad from Barnes were trailing him and apparently thought he was about to rob the shop. He drove off and an armed officer shot him as he clung to the bonnet of the car.
February 1995
Feb 20 – Jonathan Copley, 7, and Rachel Rooney, 15, stabbed with scissors at the little boy’s home in Bradford. Tariq Rehman, 34, was jailed for life in March 1996. He was Rachel Rooney’s mother’s lover and the trial heard the killings were done to cover up a sex attack by him on Rachel.
Feb 19 – Shaqir Khan, 27, beaten to death at a house in Bradford. Nicola Iqbal, 15, was raped and buried under the floorboards of the house. Mohammed Ayub, 41, a friend of Khan’s and lover of Susan Iqbal (Nicola’s mother) was jailed for life at Leeds CC in Oct 1996.
Feb 15 – Ciaran Malone, 5, killed at home in Caragh, County Kildare, Ireland. Jerome Kavanagh, 22, a babysitter, was jailed for life in 1996.
Feb – Barry Trigwell, 44, private detective – was battered with a blunt instrument at home in Walmley, near Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. His wife Ethel Trigwell, 43, was jailed for life in 1996. She died of cancer in a hospice in 2007, having been released from prison shortly before her death. The South African hitmen she hired, Paul Ras and Loren Sundkvist, were jailed for life in 2003.
Feb 6 – Mary Smith, 71, a widow – raped and beaten to death in Gravesend, Kent. Unsolved.
Feb 4 – Andrew Odju, 30, drug addict – killed at his home in Maida Vale, west London. His brother Michael Odju, 28, was convicted of manslaughter and given a suspended sentence.
Feb 3 – David Beesley, 28, Kwik Save supermarket manager – shot in the head at his store in West Didsbury, Manchester. Richard Allen, 32, a crack addict, was jailed for life in 1998. The trial heard Mr Beesley was not due to work that day.
Feb 1 – Jayna Hopps, 23, pregnant mum – battered to death in an empty shop in Preston Grange, North Shields. Her boyfriend Anthony Gordon, 17, was jailed for life at Newcastle CC in 1996. He had killed her after finding out she was pregnant with his child (he was engaged to another girl). He was released from Sudbury open prison in 2007 and met a local girl in Burton-upon-Trent. She went to the local paper after finding out of his past.
January 1995
Jan 31 – Julie Norman, 32, bank clerk – killed at her flat in Southend. Unsolved
Jan 30 – Luigia Fiori, 68, mother of five – sexually assaulted and strangled at her home in Wembley. Richard Reid, 22, was jailed for life in July 1995.
Jan – Kevin Ricketts, 16, college student from Birmingham – body never found. Allan Giles, 40, labourer from Birmingham, was jailed for life in July 1997.
Jan 26 – Tarsem Singh Purewal, 61, editor of Des Pardes newspaper – shot at their office in Southall, west London. Believed to have been linked to politics in the Punjab, India. Unsolved.
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Jan 24 – Antonio “Tony” Marrocco, 48, car trader, beaten to death with a wrench; and colleague Paul Sandham, 29, stabbed 40 times at TM Motors in Morecambe, Lancashire. Terry Clifton, 26, was jailed for life in Jan 1997 at Preston CC. He refused to attend the trial, which heard that he believed they had ripped him off over a car he sold them.
Jan – Mohammed Najib, 27, stabbed in his car in Gipton, Leeds. Two boys, aged 19 and 15, were charged.
Jan 18 – Claire Hood, 15, schoolgirl who was playing truant – sexually assaulted and killed in Cath Cobb Woods in St Mellons, Cardiff. Neil Owen, 19, a computer studies student, was jailed for life at Cardiff CC in Nov 1996. Owen tried to claim at trial that he left her alive and well after having consensual sex.
Jan 15 – Thomas Kane, 34, killed in the bath of his home in Nottingham. Malcolm Rainey, 51, was convicted of manslaughter at Nottm CC and jailed for 5 years. A 23-year-old man was also convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 2 years and 3 months.
Jan 13 – Andrew Knowles, 26, stabbed in the lift at Briarsdale Court, a block of flats in Gipton, Leeds. Clive Spink, 51, was jailed for life in March 1996.
Jan 10 – Suschita Jungblot, 20, Swiss au pair – sexually assaulted and killed in an alley behind Ritzy’s nightclub in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Darren Smith, 28, a sex offender who was on leave from prison, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Dec 1995.
Jan 9 – Gavin Duffy, 26, cable layer – stabbed in Harehills, Leeds. Unsolved.
Jan – Sandra James, 39, poisoned with horse drug Immobilon at her home in Winshill, Burton-on-Trent. Her husband Ryan James, 41, a vet, was jailed for life in Sep 1995. He had been having an affair.
Jan 5 – Jason Davies, 23, killed at a house in Worcester. His housemate Barry Gibson, 25, was jailed for life in March 1996. The victim was the stepson of a West Midlands Police officer. The trial heard the pair had been watching a TV programme about serial killers.
Jan 1 – Colin McIntyre, 35, stabbed 17 times with a diver’s knife in Duston, Northampton. Mark Baldwin, 19, was acquitted of murder at Northampton CC in July 1995.
Jan 1 – Alan Bennetta, 36, judo expert and violent father of three – stabbed with a carving knife at his home in Llangellnor, Mid Glamorgan. His son, Simon Bennetta, 18, was acquitted of manslaughter. The trial in June 1995 heard he had been trying to protect his mother from more abuse.
Jan 1 – Thomas Oakes, 14, poisoned at his home in Deane, Bolton. His father James Oakes, 34, killed himself.
January – Diana Goldsmith, 44, mother of three – went missing after taking her 3 children to school in Sevenoaks, Kent. Her body was only found in March 1997. Her former common-law husband, power shower inventor and millionaire Derek Goldsmith, 62, from Mottingham, SE London, was acquitted at Maidstone CC in May 1999. Ian Colligan, 35, hanged himself while on remand in HMP Belmarsh in Nov 1997. Michael Fitzpatrick, 34, was jailed for 17 years for conspiracy to murder. Michael Danaher, 28, was convicted of kidnapping and jailed for 6 years.
? – Inger Dohr, 86, a German millionairess, and her son Rolf Hesse, 56, were bludgeoned to death and dumped down a well in Calonge, northern Spain. Their bodies were discovered in 1998. Gregory Cook, a Briton, and Patrick Leuycky, a Belgian, were arrested in May 1999 and accused of stealing £200,000 from them. They were later released. Unsolved.
1994
December 1994
Dec 30 – Arlene Hoffman, 57, was killed with a hunting arrow at her condominium home in Laguna Niguel, California. The arrow was retrieved by the killer. She had been due to start a job the following day as personal secretary to Jim Silva, the newly-elected Orange County supervisor. She had once testified against an eminent doctor and campaign contributor who was indicted for embezzling government money. Unsolved.
Dec 30 – Amina Khatun, 24, was stabbed and beaten to death at her home in Washington, Wearside. Her brother Syed Fokrul Islam, 30, from Darlington, was charged but charges were dropped in 1996. It is thought it was an honour killing within the Bangladeshi community. Unsolved.
Dec 30 – Judy Newell, 35, and her 5 children – died in fire in flat on Longfield estate in Bermondsey, SE London. Scott Vowls, 24, a barman and former lodger, was jailed for life x 6 at Old Bailey in March 1996. Trial heard he bore a grudge against her brother Lee.
Dec 24 – Margaret Witcombe, killed at her home in Abertillery, Gwent. Her ex-husband Philip Manning, 42, was convicted of murder and jailed for life at Cardiff CC in July 1995. He had been arrested in London a few days after the murder, with a nail bomb strapped to his chest. He had just been released from jail on parole. Her new boyfriend, Neil Jones, survived the attack.
Dec – Lee Ann Nichols and Shannon Lowney , receptionists, shot in abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi, 24, a hairdresser and anti-abortion activist, was jailed for life. He committed suicide in 1996.
Dec 27 – Shabir Khan, 32, taxi driver – stabbed in a taxi rank in Market Hill, Luton. Suleman Khan, 36, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter. Alqub Hussein, 25, was acquitted. Charges were dropped against Aurangzeb Kiani, 46. The trial heard it was a feud between rival Kashmiri families.
Dec 26 – Dr Joan Francisco, 27, gynaecologist originally from St Lucia – strangled at her maisonette in St John’s Wood, north London. Her former boyfriend, Tony Diedrick, 37, a computer studies graduate, was jailed for life in 1999. The family later brought a civil action against him.
Dec 26 – Anthony Kelman, bouncer, 30, shot outside a nightclub in Brixton. Wayne Hutchinson, 21, was jailed for life in Feb 1996 after being convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility). He was also convicted of killing shop assistant Margaret Hatton, 41, who was stabbed to death in a late night store in Brixton. Hutchinson was on leave from a mental hospital at the time. The trial heard he thought he was a “tiger in the jungle” and also shot two of his friends. He is in Broadmoor.
Dec 25 – Justin Spencer, 21, was beaten to death in a bedsit in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Alan Gardner, 19, was jailed for life after a retrial.
Dec 24 – Tracey Mertens, 31, kidnapped from Nechells, Birmingham and dumped near Eaton, Cheshire. She had moved to Rochdale. Drugs connection. Unsolved.
Dec 21 – Stephen Cuddy, 24, drama student – attacked in Liverpool. Keithley Pinney, 33, a schizophrenic drifter from Coventry, was jailed for life in Nov 1995 and sent to Broadmoor.
Dec 20 – Ruth Raines, 73 , killed at her home in Malton, North Yorkshire. Her former employee, Timothy Veasey, 32, was charged with murder but hanged himself in HMP Wolds.
Dec 15 – Bruce Mitchell, 33, builder – stabbed outside his home in Broomfield, Chelmsford, Essex. His neighbour Alan Kelly, 33, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 10 years for manslaughter.
Dec 14 – Nicola Payne, 18, vanished as she crossed a piece of wasteland known as The Black Pad in Coventry, between her boyfriend’s home and that of her parents. In 2015 Nigel Barwell and his brother-in-law, Thomas O’Reilly, both 51, were found not guilty by a unanimous jury at Birmingham Crown Court. Ms Payne had a seven-month old son Owen. Her body has never been found. The crime is still being actively investigated by Nicola’s family.
Dec 14 – Shirley Wilson, 61; Arthur Wilson, 65; and Bob Mitchell, 55 were stabbed in the village of Bramford, near Ipswich. Jason Mitchell, 24, a schizophrenic, was jailed for life at Ipswich CC.
Dec – Andrew Cuttress, 15, stabbed on a playing field in Coseley, West Midlands. Mark Parker, 20, from Walsall, was jailed for 2 years at Stafford CC in 1996.
Dec 12 – Dr Michael Meenaghan, 33, DNA profiling expert at Oxford University – shot in the kitchen of his home in Blackbird Leys, Oxford. Had the hallmarks of a contract killing. Unsolved.
Dec 10 – Margarita Zamorano, 22, Spanish exchange student – stabbed 22 times at her home in Canley, Coventry. Fernando Garrido, 25, Warwick University student, was jailed for life in Nov 1995. He became obsessed with her. After the murder he fled to Manchester and confessed to a Catholic priest.
Dec 5 – Wayne Garwood, 28, amateur footballer – beaten to death at the back of a Chinese takeaway in Thetford, Norfolk. Gary Sinclair, 22, a private in the 1st Scottish Highlanders, was jailed for life at Norwich CC in 1995. He served 13 years. Sinclair’s father, Angus, was convicted of the 1977 World’s End murders in Edinburgh.
Dec 3 – John Sheppard, 66, manager of John Horwood bookmakers’ in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was stabbed to death at around 5pm after all the other staff had left for the day and John was alone in the premises. The motive was robbery. John was repeatedly stabbed, believed to be with a knife, and was hit on the head, believed to be with a hammer. His body was discovered at 6.30pm. A £20,000 reward was offered in 2014 after it was revealed that fresh forensic evidence had been found. Another appeal was made in 2019. Unsolved.
Dec 1 – Grant Noble, the son of former Manchester United player Bobby Noble – killed outside the Station pub in Sale, Manchester (Sean Wilding survived). Simon Fell, 33, was jailed for life in March 1996. Fell also shot dead Christopher Adshead, 19, in Trafford Park, Manchester, because he had witnessed the murder.
Dec 1 – Susan Hanso, 34, from Luton – stabbed at Warboys Kennels and Cattery in Cambridgeshire. Her estranged lover Kevin Boswell, 48, was jailed for life in 1995. Her parents Ruth and Paul were injured as they tried to stop him.
November 1994
? – Steven Burt, 25, a farm worker, vanished after his family claimed he went to work on a pig farm. His mummified body was found in a sleeping bag in Fen Meadow Park, Woodbridge, Suffolk. His father Tony Burt, 61, an accountant, was convicted of failing to carry out a proper burial in June 2000 after an open verdict at the inquest at Ipswich. The inquest heard that the family lived in squalor and Burt drank heavily after losing his job at GRE.
Nov 30 – Mohan Singh Kullah, 60, shopkeeper – beaten with a brick outside his shop in Cimla, near Neath, Wales. Stephen May, 23, was jailed for life in Oct 1995. Grant Watkins, 22, and Ian Thomas, 20, were both jailed for 8 years. The trial at Cardiff CC heard they were racists.
Nov 29 – Rikki Neave, 6 – stripped and strangled, spread-eagled in a supposedly sacrificial position. Dumped naked in scrubland off Eye Road, Welland, Peterborough. Her mother Ruth Neave, 27, a drug addict – was acquitted of murder at Northampton CC in Oct 1996 but was jailed for 7 years for cruelty. She was freed in 2000 and moved to Cambridge. In 2020 James Watson, 38, was charged with Rikki’s murder. He was 13 at the time of the murder.
Nov 22 – Audrey Fisher, 48 – stabbed in the garden of her home in Kiln Green, Berkshire. Stuart Williamson, 27, was sent to Broadmoor in 1995.
Nov 22 – Ethsham ul Haq Ghaffor, 26, taxi driver – shot in Gedling, Nottingham. Several people arrested but not charged. Unsolved.
Nov 20 – Michael Walkling, from Penge – beaten up outside a nightclub in south Londno. Mark Colleary, 22, student, and Francis O’Donnell, 20, labourer, were both acquitted of manslaughter and jailed for 2 months for affray.
Nov 20 – Pamela Booth, 48, a grandmother, was killed at her flat in Hull. Andrew Jackson, 23, was jailed for life in 1996.
Nov 18 – Martin “The General” Cahill, 45, legendary criminal – shot dead outside his home in Ranelagh, Dublin. He had just got into his car. He is thought to have been killd by the IRA, acting through a north London gang. Brendan Gleeson starred as Cahill in a film.
Nov 17 – Connie Mannion, 55, strangled at her flat in Headington, Oxford. Michael Bennett, 40, a vagrant from Bath, was jailed for life. She had allowed him to stay at her home.
Nov 16 – Walter Hinton, a gay man, was killed at his house in Jacksonville, Florida. A 40-pound concrete block was dropped on his victim’s head while he slept, fracturing his face and jaw. A rag was then put in his mouth and he was smothered to death. Gary Bowles also killed John Roberts, 59, and Albert Morris, 38, in similar fashion in March and May 1994. Bowles told investigators he targeted the men because they were gay. He said that he had used his body since he was a teenager to get food, shelter and money and began “hustling gays,” although he hated having sex with them. Bowles pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death in 1996 and was executed by lethal injection, aged 57, in August 2019. The authorities believe Bowles also killed Milton Bradley, 72, in Savannah, Georgia, Alverson Carter Jr, 47, in Atlanta and David Jarman, 38 in Maryland in 1994 in much the same manner as the Florida murders.
Nov 16 – Brian Phillips, 62, trombonist – found in lovers’ lane at Frodsham, Cheshire. His lover Pollyanna Peate, 34, a euphonium player, was acquitted of manslaughter at Chester CC in Dec 1995. The trial heard he may have died of a heart attack as they had sex. She was married and had been conducting a secret affair with her colleague in a brass band.
Nov 16 – David Rayner, international cyclist – hit his head on the kerb outside Maestro’s nightclub in Bradford after being thrown out. Steven Johnson, 29, a bouncer, was cleared of manslaughter in Dec 1995.
Nov 15 – Amelia McAllister, 21, stabbed at home in East Kilbride, Scotland. Her boyfriend, Ian Gray, survived. Robert Brown, 25, was charged with murder.
Nov 14 – Angela Dawson, 52, died of head injuries at her home in Mixenden, Halifax. Her son, Stuart Dawson, 22, was jailed for life.
Nov 13 – Barry Bailey, 42, taxi driver – suffered 80% burns outside his home in Walton, Liverpool. Four men were arrested but not charged. Unsolved.
Nov 10 – Salma Ali Ahmed, 21, stabbed at home in Holloway, north London. Her husband Eidarus Sharif Musse, 22, was jailed for life in July 1995.
Nov 10 – Duncan Clarke, 34, from Manchester – stabbed at the baggage franchise in Littlewoods shop, Cardiff. Karl Hughes, 19, a skinhead from the Rhondda, was jailed for life in May 1995.
Nov 8 – Martin Edwards – strangled in Liverpool. Unsolved.
Nov 7 – Lindsay Jo Rimer, 14 – abducted after going to buy cereal. Her body was found in the Rochdale Canal near her home in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, five months later. Unsolved.
Nov 6 – Andrew Cook, 33, market trader – beaten and stabbed in the throat at home in Downside Walk, Northolt, NW London. Brett Evans, 26, from Hayes, was jailed for life, as was Jonathan Caffrey, 23, an Irishman living in Northolt. Caffrey was given a 12 year minimum tariff and was later deported to serve his sentence in Portlaoise prison in Ireland. The trial heard Cook was attacked for spreading rumours about Evans’ girlfriend.
Nov 5 – Geoffrey Nadin, 47 – stabbed in his bedroom in Currier Lane, Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. Robert Harrison, 27, drug addict burglar, jailed for life in June 1995.
Nov 4 – Mary Povey, 64 – stabbed at home in Denton, near Gravesend, Kent. Her son Ray Sinclair, 33, a schizophrenic, was convicted of manslaughter and detained indefinitely in a mental hospital.
Nov 1 – Nayntara Ali, 11, schoolgirl – disappeared on her way to school, punched to death and rolled up in a carpet in a disused yard in Forest Gate, east London. Her parents have since moved to Pakistan. Unsolved.
Nov 1 – John Penfold, 21, cashier from Chessington, Surrey – stabbed in Woolworths shop in Teddington, west London. Ian Kay, 27, from Bracknell, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in July 1995 and given a minimum tariff of 22 years.
October 1994
Halloween – Tony Bagley, 7, was wearing a skeleton costume and trick-or-treating with his sister, mother, and aunt early on Halloween night in 1994 on the north side of Las Vegas. A man in a hooded sweat suit leaped out of nowhere and fired at the family before hopping in a getaway car, which peeled away with its lights off. Bullets hit Tony’s sister in the liver, his aunt in the leg, and his mother in the chest, but they all survived. Tony did not. His biological father, who reportedly never commented to the police on Tony’s death, was arrested a few years later for an unrelated street shooting. Tony’s murder remains unsolved.
Oct 31 – Marjorie Marshall, 50, wife of National Trust adviser – stabbed at her home in The Damsels, Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Her son John Marshall, 19, was convicted of manslaughter at Bristol CC in Oct 1995 and given three years’ probation. The court heard he had been depressed at the time.
Oct 28 – Lauren Williamson, 44, factory worker from Bordon – strangled in a layby near Greatham, Hampshire. Her workmate Lee Tyson, 18, from Whitehill, was jailed for life at Winchester Crown Court in Sep 1995. The trial heard how he killed her, while drunk, after she gave him a lift home from a works party in Petersfield. After killing her he put her body in the passenger seat and drove off, but collided with a car driven by Elsie Wiggins, 74, who died later in hospital.
Oct – Daniel Handley, 9, from Beckton, east London. He was abducted and taken to a minicab office in Camberwell, south London where he was abused. He was then killed in a layby near Junction 14 of the M4 before being dumped at Bradley Stoke North, near Bristol. The human remains were discovered on 27 March 1995 when foxed uncovered his shallow grave. Timothy Morss, 32, a cab driver from Bristol, and his gay lover Brett Tyler, 30, a florist, were jailed for life at the Old Bailey in May 1996. They were given minimum tariffs of 50 years. They had fled to the Philippines after the murder but returned before the body was found.
Oct – Mary Odegbami, 27, killed in a house in East Ham, London. Her decomposing body was not found until March 1995. She had been tied up and starved for 14 days. Her fiancé, Nicholas Sogunro, 26, the leader of a small religious cult, was convicted of manslaughter and false imprisonment and jailed for 6 years in Dec 1995. His follower, Thomas Macaulay, 25, was acquitted of manslaughter but jailed for 18 months for false imprisonment. The trial at the Old Bailey heard that they were trying to “drive her demons out”.
Oct – Michael McCaffery, 46, caretaker – at his flat in Kensington. Andrew Bull, 21, a rent boy, was jailed for life in Sep 1995.
Oct 25 – Joseph Collins, 36, who was disabled – stabbed 18 times at his home in Islington. His stepson Martin Mursell, 28, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Jan 1996. He had been released from Rampton Hospital prematurely.
Oct 23 – Patricia Harrison – killed at her home in Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire. Her jilted husband Stephen Harrison, 46, was jailed for life in Dec 1995. The trial heard how she had run off with her lesbian lover.
Oct 22 – Graham Bowen, 23 – stabbed on wasteground at Digbeth, Birmingham. Paul Ellis, 31, owner of a wine bar, was convicted of unlawful wounding and jailed for 21 months.
Oct 19 – Tony Mullins, 37, father of 3, stabbed at the Oliver Cromwell pub in Nechells, Birmingham. John Hughes, 30, a nightclub bouncer, was charged with murder and went on trial in March 1996.
Oct 23 – Gladys Parker, 85, widow – died in hospital 6 weeks after being attacked at her home in Chard, Somerset. Unsolved.
Oct 21 – Michael McCormack, 59, and John Ogden, 34, shot dead outside the Prince of Wales pub in Balham, S London. It is thought to have been a case of mistaken identity. Unsolved despite a £20,000 reward in 2004.
Oct 20 – Jason Connors, 22, shot, and Sean Farrelly, 24, stabbed – in the Star Gazer pub in Selsey, West Sussex during a karaoke night. Michael Murray, 31, was jailed for life (18 years minimum) and his nephew Sean Reardon, 20, was also jailed for life. Patrick Reardon, 63, was convicted of a lesser offence and jailed for 3 years.
Oct 17 – Silje Marie Redegaard, 5 – hit with a stone and trampled to death in a pond in woods near her home in Trondheim, Norway. Two boys, aged six, admitted the offence but were too young to be prosecuted. They were freed to go back to their kindergarten. They have never been named.
Oct 16 – Rachel Kyvetos, 24 – strangled and buried in garden of house in Trinant, near Crumlin, Gwent. Her ex-husband Anthony Tilling, 24, was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and sent to Ashworth mental hospital in Liverpool. The trial heard Kyvetos had fallen in love with a Greek waiter while on holiday, like in the film Shirley Valentine. Tilling was later freed.
Oct 15 – Mandy Wix, 26, prostitute – killed in bedroom at Bartram Avenue, Braintree, Essex. Unsolved.
Oct 14 – Raymond Ennis, 28, taxi driver – stabbed in Clapham, South London. Orlett Ellis, 30, survived. Wayne Mowat, 21, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 5 years. Kehinde Adenekan, 18, was acquitted. The Old Bailey trial in 1995 heard Mr Ennis was attacked after he tooted his horn at Mowat’s girlfriend.
October 11 – Kathleen Hempsall, 40, part-time midwife – stabbed 30 times at home in Lincoln. Alan Poulter, 20, a robber, was jailed for life in Oct 1997. Perry Calvert, 20, was acquitted at the same trial in Nottingham CC.
Oct 10 – Jim Cunningham, 19 months old – died in fire at home in Seacroft, Leeds. His father Michael Cunningham, 25, and mother Mandy McKenna, 21, set the fire in a bid to get rehoused but the fire got out of control. Cunningham was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 7 years in Feb 1996. McKenna was jailed for 5 years.
Oct – Nicholas Brazil – shot dead at The Pelican pub in Notting Hill, west London. Frank Lazar, a Hungarian, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey.
Oct 10 – Claire Barrie, 20, lab technician – attacked at home in Bridgehill, near Consett, County Durham. Her mother’s ex-boyfriend, Richard Wilkinson, 42, was jailed for life in Nov 1995. The trial heard he blamed her for him breaking up with her mother.
Oct 8 – Christine Graham, 20 – fell from 9th floor of a tower block in Nechells, Birmingham. Her ex-boyfriend Michael Nelson, 27, was acquitted at Birmingham CC in 1995.
Oct 7 – Adrian “Duffus” Harrison, 19, from Brixton – shot outside the Walmer Castle pub in Camberwell, south London. Unsolved.
Oct 5 – Susan Crawford, 33, mother of four – stabbed in Brixton. Her boyfriend Michael Folkes, 32, aka Lukewarm Luke, was sent to Broadmoor indefinitely in April 1995. He was a former mental patient who had been released from Bethlem Hospital in Croydon in 1993.
Oct 4 – Guy Jacob, Laurent Gerard and Thierry Memard, police officers, and Amadou Dialoo, a taxi driver – shot in Paris.
Audry Maupin, 23, died in the shoot-out. His girlfriend Florence Rey, 19, a philosophy student was jailed for 20 years at a trial in Paris in Sep 1998. She was released from jail in 2009.
Abdelhakim Dekhar was jailed for four years for supplying the gun. He was said to be the third member of the gang but he claimed to be an Algerian secret agent trying to infiltrate the French far left. After being released from jail he went to live in England for several years. In November 2013 he hit the headlines again when he went on a gun rampage, firing at Liberation newspaper, a French TV station and a French bank in the centre of Paris. He was later arrested after a huge manhunt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25036807
Oct 1 – Alex Scott, 34, top racehorse trainer – shot at the Oak Stables he ran at Chieveley, near Newmarket. William O’Brien, 58, former chief groom at the stables, was jailed for life at Norwich CC in July 1995. The trial heard O’Brien lost his temper after falling out with his boss.
September 1994
Sep 30 – Norman Manning, 26, robber from Birmingham, stabbed 12 times outside his cell in HMP Long Lartin. Fellow inmate Frederick Lowe, 41, from Aberdeen, was jailed for life at Birmingham CC in July 1996. Bruce Knowles, 28, was acquitted. The trial heard it was a row over a piano lesson.
Sep – Steven Helwich, 18 – stabbed in a nightclub in Douglas, Isle of Man. Charles “Chucky” McCluskey, from Scotland, was jailed for life in 1995
Sep 28 – Hussein Abdi Hassan, 30, thrown off a landing in Liverpool. Unsolved.
Sep 27 – Caroline Williams, 29, stage manager – stabbed in neck with a screwdriver at her luxury flat at Surrey Quays, south London. Richard Whyte, 22, a homeless schizophrenic, was detained indefinitely at Broadmoor in early 1996. Her husband was in Plymouth at the time.
Sep 26 – Julie Pacey, 38, nursery nurse – sexually assaulted in the downstairs bathroom of home in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Unsolved.
Sep – Oliver Henry, 19, assaulted with a beer bottle outside a pub in Camberley, Surrey. A man was charged but acquitted on grounds of self-defence.
Sep 25 – Charlie Collins, 72, convicted sex offender, and his son Steven Collins, 37, attacked with an axe at their home in Kingsbridge, Devon, which was then set on fire. James Proctor, 16, claimed self-defence, saying Collins Sr tried to assault him. Convicted of murder at Plymouth CC in Dec 1995 and detained at HM Pleasure.
September 25 – Derek Sheerin, 24, was strangled with a belt and dumped on waste ground near the Celtic Social Club in London Road, Glasgow. Philip Morrison, 40, from Northern Ireland, went on trial in 2017 but was acquitted on the judge’s directions. Morrison’s DNA was found on the belt but the trial heard this could have occurred through secondary transfer, as the two men were staying in the same house and sharing clothes.
Sep 22 – Keith Jones, 37, stabbed in Liverpool. Unsolved.
Sep 20 – Linda Torney and her two children, John Torney junior, 13, and Emma, 11 – shot at family home in Cookstown, County Tyrone. Her husband John Torney, 39, a Royal Ulster Constabulary police officer, was jailed for life (20 yrs min) in March 1996. The trial heard he was having an affair with a colleague, Ailsa Millar. Torney continues to deny murder and claims his son killed his mother and sister and then shot himself. Torney is currently in HMP Maghaberry.
Sep – Hassan Bilgi, 46, Turkish Cypriot heroin dealer from London – tied up, shot and dumped in a field at High Halstow, near Rochester, Kent. Had no connection with Medway towns. Unsolved.
Sep 16 – Louise Jensen, 23, Danish tour guide – abducted near Ayia Napa, Cyprus, after her moped collided with their Jeep. She was raped, beaten about the head with the spade and buried in a remote part of the island. Allan “The Cube” Ford, 27; Geoff Pernell, 24 and Justin “Binny” Fowler, 28, soldiers with the Royal Green Jackets, were jailed for life with no parole at Larnaca in March 1996. Their sentences were reduced to 25 years in 1998 but they were deported to the UK in 2006 and later released from prison.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4792915.stm
Ford is from Birmingham; Pernell from Oldbury and Fowler from Falmouth, Cornwall.
Sep 15 – Julia Giannetto, 34, mother of a young child – stabbed and battered at her flat in Clifton, Bristol. Her husband Robert Giannetto, 39, was jailed for life at Bristol CC in 1995.
Sep 11 – Wilburn Clarke, 31, stabbed outside a crack den in Denbigh Street, Bristol. Luther Richards, 25, from Wolverhampton, went on trial at Bristol CC in July 1995.
Sep 10 – Carol Wardell, 38, assistant manageress of Woolwich Building Society in Nuneaton – killed at her home in Meriden, West Midlands and dumped in a layby near Coventry. Her husband Gordon Wardell, was jailed for life at Oxford CC in Dec 1995. He went through a TV charade by claiming they had been attacked at home by a gang of robbers who tied him up and stole £15,000 from the building society where she worked. The trial heard that Mrs Wardell had found out he had been visiting prostitutes.
Sep 9 – Elaine Gorman, 52, killed at her flat in Camberwell, S London. Unsolved.
Sep 8 – Glenroy “Pee Wee” Amoo, 25, from Leicester – shot in the neck as he slept with his girlfriend in Braunstone Firth. He died 94 days later. Chris Farrell, 26, and Chris Dalrymple, 23, were jailed for life at Leicester CC in April 1996 with Farrell getting a 15 years minimum tariff and Dalrymple 18 years. The trial heard Dalrymple was determined to gain revenge on Amoo, who he felt had humiliated him several times.
Sep 5 – Peter Dunphy, 26, killed outside a Liverpool hotel. James Kelly, 22, a footballer with Wolves, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 5 years. He was released from prison in 1998 and spent spells at Bury, Doncaster and Scarborough before retiring from the game.
Sep 5 – John Newman, 47, Australian Labor MP – shot in the chest outside a Labor Party meeting in Cabramatta, Sydney. Phuong Ngo, 43, a city councillor and wannabe MP, was jailed for life in Nov 2001. He wanted Newman’s seat and hired a hitman from the Vietnamese community. Two other men, David Dinh and Tu Quang Dao, were acquitted. It is thought the 5T Gang were involved.
Sep 1 – Emma Knight, 20, prostitute – beaten to death with a baseball bat at her flat in Headington, Oxford. Her boyfriend John Puffett, 27, was jailed for life in Jul 1995.
Sep 1 – Leyland Hoppie, 46, from Wisbech – shot in the back while repairing a security camera in a jeweller’s shop in Ilford, Essex. Robbers Junior Willis, 27; Neville Andrews, 26; and Shiraz Bhayat, 20, from Stoke Newington, were jailed for life in Nov 1995.
Sep 1 – Melonie Biddersingh, 17, was starved and abused for years, beaten, put in a suitcase and set on fire. The suitcase was left in an industrial area north of Toronto, Canada. Her father Everton Biddersingh has been charged with first-degree murder and went on trial in Nov 2015. Her stepmother Elaine Biddersingh will go on trial in April 2016. Melonie is thought to have weighed only about 50 pounds when she died. Melonie came to Canada from Jamaica in 1991 to live with her father and stepmother, but was never sent to school and was “treated like a slave.” Everton’s trial heard Melonie was subjected to abuse that included being kept in a closet, having her head placed in a toilet that was flushed, being chained to the furniture at times, being kicked and punched and being deprived of food.
? – Fred Clancy, 65 – beaten and stamped to death during a robbery at his south London home. Joanne Smith, 27, who was deaf, was jailed for life in Oct 1995. Her brother Barry Smith, 29, was jailed for 8 years. Darren Sams, 17, was detained under HM Pleasure.
August 1994
Aug 26 – Kenneth Brown, 56, gay hotel tycoon who owned a number of nightclubs – shot in a chicken coop outbuilding in the grounds of his mansion, Hunter’s Lodge in Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire. Unsolved.
Aug – Richard Everitt, 15, white schoolboy – stabbed on Somers Town estate in north London. Abdul Hai, 20, and Badrul Miah, 20, were both acquitted at the Old Bailey in Oct 1995. The trial heard the motive was racial hatred.
Aug 22 – Frank Latham, 50, stabbed in Liverpool. Unsolved.
Aug 22 – Janice Wood, 36, divorced mother of 2 – shot in Bradford but body never found. Her former boyfriend Michael Sagar, the boss of a demolition firm, was charged with assaulting her in a pub the night before she vanished. Unsolved.
Aug 18 – Carole Moore, 35, strangled and stabbed in Liverpool. Unsolved.
Aug 18 – Sinda Ozcelebi, 32, from north London – stabbed 25 times in a public toilet in Antalya, Turkey. Her mother-in-law Nura Yucesoy, 58, was jailed for 15 years. She had hired a hitman, Murat Cigir, 29, from Istanbul, to kill Sinda to stop her getting back with her son Turgay. Cigir was jailed for life. Turgay lives in London with the couple’s daughter Nuran, who was born in 1991.
Aug 17 – Tom Winstanley, 46 – battered to death at a flat in Newton Heath, Manchester. His hands had been tied. A 15-year-old boy was arrested by police. Unsolved.
Aug 16 – Maxine Moorhouse, 35, mother of 4 from Hitchin – found in the boot of a Rover car in a scrapyard. Her boyfriend Keith Sole, 49, a security guard, was jailed for life at Chelmsford CC in May 1995. The trial heard she had been seeing another man but insisted it was just platonic.
Aug 14 – Gabor and Ingrid Bartos, brothel owners, and four Russian prostitutes – strangled in a high class brothel in Frankfurt, Germany. Eugen Berwald, 25, and his wife Sonja, a prostitute, went on trial in Jan 1996. Berwald was jailed for life and his wife was given 6 years for letting him into the brothel. The trial heard the motive was robbery. Claims that the Russian mafia were involved were denied.
Aug 8 – Warwick Batchelor, 80, former Unilever executive – stabbed with a sharpened screwdriver in a block of flats in Hassocks, West Sussex. Edward Martin, 67, from Burgess Hill, was jailed for life at Lewes CC in Nov 1995. The trial heard the pair were feuding over the affections of 52-year-old June Cuxson who Martin had met at a tea dance.
Aug 7 – Marina Coppell, 39, Colombian-born prostitute – stabbed in a frenzy in her flat in Marylebone, central London. In 2023 Sandip Patel, 50, was charged with murder and he awaits trial.
Aug 5 – Julie Finley, 23, prostitute and drug addict from Liverpool – body found near A570 Rainford bypass, Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Unsolved.
Aug 4 – Philbert Elie, 33, killed at her home in Dagenham, Essex. Her boyfriend Mark Corbin went on trial for murder in Feb 1995.
Aug 1 – Amy Shepherd, 86, retired secretary – sexually assaulted, strangled and stabbed – at her maisonette in Wibsey, Bradford. Richard Whelan, 23, was acquitted on the judge’s directions at Leeds CC in Feb 2000. But Whelan was jailed for life for the motiveless murder of Mary Kilbride, 80, a retired teacher, who choked on her own blood in her home in Odsal, Bradford, after being attacked on Aug 10. Mrs Kilbride was stabbed in the eye with a vanity mirror.
Aug 1 – Clarence Cooper, 84, war veteran – stabbed and suffocated at his home in Palfrey, Walsall. Michael Webb, 47, from Manchester, and Michael Micklewight, 18, from Walsall, were jailed for life in Feb 1996. Jason Matthews, 18, was acquitted.
July 1994
July 29 – Megan Kanka, 7, was raped and murdered at her home in Hamilton township, New Jersey. Her neighbour Jesse Timmendequas was jailed for life. The case led to Megan’s Law, which allows people to find out if their neighbours are sex offenders.
Jul 26 – Saing Sarson, 30, Thai divorcee and mother of 4 from Congleton, Cheshire – stabbed and battered to death and dumped under a disused bridge at Bignall End, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Carl Johnson, 27, a drug dealer, from Audlem, Staffs, was jailed for life at Stafford Crown Court. He killed her after she criticised his girlfriend.
July 25 – David Enticknap, 39, driving instructor – stabbed in his sleep in Woking, Surrey. His Thai wife Porn Enticknap, 30, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) at Old Bailey in March 1995 and sent to a mental hospital. Trial heard she thought he was using black magic to harm their daughter.
Jul – Joy Millington, 17, stripper – killed at her flat in Peckham, S London. Her boyfriend Edward O’Brien, 25, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 10 years.
Jul 22 – Christopher Little, 31, drug dealer – shot in Stockport. Arran Coghlan, Graham Mansell, Peter Shurety, Dean Bell and Roy Fraser were all acquitted of murder at a trial in Manchester in 1995. The main witness was supergrass Shane Burke.
Jul 21 – John Hadley, 57, stabbed 15 times at his home in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Stephen Phillips, 36, a mentally ill man from Coventry, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and detained indefinitely at the Reaside Clinic in Hull.
Jul 20 – Sandra Parkinson, 22, hotel worker from Ayrshire – found on a clifftop path near Salcombe, Devon. Alan Connor, 32, a drifter from Yorkshire, hung himself in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in Aug 1994, before he could be arrested. He had also raped a woman in Shropshire in 1992.
Jul 20 – John Watkins, 22, stabbed in Luton. A man was charged.
Jul – Ronald Williams, a police officer, and two children – shot in a diner in New Orleans. Antoinette Frank, 23, an off-duty police officer and Williams’ partner, was found guilty in Sep 1995, along with Rogers Lacaze, 18.
Jul 20 – Colin Murphy, 53, beaten to death at his home in Todmorden, Yorkshire. Unsolved.
Jul 20 – Anthony Adams, 32, stabbed in Brixton in a dispute over drugs. Unsolved.
Jul 19 – Kenneth “Happy” Mullings – shot in Shepherds Bush, West London. Gang war. Unsolved.
Jul 19 – Wendy Hubbard, 27, strangled and found in a slurry puit in Rainworth, Nottinghamshire. Her boyfriend, Kevin Gautry, 31, was jailed for life. The trial at Nottm CC heard she was having an affair with a man in a wheelchair.
Jul 15 – Derek Wignall, 26, from Mansfield – stabbed in Liverpool. Unsolved.
Jul – Donna O’Dwyer, 26, jumped from a balcony when fire broke out in tower block in Leyton, east London. Peter Thurston, 34, a BT engineer, was jailed for life in Sep 1995.
Jul 12 – David Foley, 36, minicab boss, shot outside Northumberland Arms pub in King’s Cross, London. Wayne Hurren, 35, from Shoreditch, was acquitted on the judge’s orders at the Old Bailey in March 1999. In 1988 he was jailed for 20 years for armed robberies. The trial heard he arranged the killing of Mr Foley from HMP Parkhurst after the victim had beaten up Hurren’s wife. Hurren was thought to have connections with Adams family. Hurren died in Wormwood Scrubs prison in March 2019.
July 12 – Carol Clark, 25, unemployed waitress – stabbed near her home in Burnley. Her body was rolled up in an old carpet and left in the yard of a derelict house. Her neighbour Paul Mitchell, 32, admitted manslaughter and was jailed for life at Preston CC in Jan 1995.
Jul 11 – Maura Fyfe, 46, stabbed at home in Horsham, West Sussex. Her common-law husband William King was convicted of manslaughter at Lewes CC in Oct 1995.
July 11 – Andrew Branbury, 23, stabbed at a private party in Stoke Newington, NE London. Unsolved.
July 11 – Phillip Bell, 24, stabbed at his home in Bolton. His father, 55, was charged but was later detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
July – Robert Nixon, stabbed at his home in Onslow Street, Sunderland. His body was found 11 months later at Fulwell Quarries. His younger brother Carl Eden, 34, was jailed for life at Newcastle Crown Court in Oct 1995.
July 10 – Myrtle Allen, 53, prison officer’s wife – her dismembered body was found in a freezer in the attic of their home in Chester-le-Street, Country Durham. Her husband Michael Allen, 44, was jailed for life in July 1995. The trial at Newcastle Crown Court heard that his wife was an “outrageous flirt” and this may have been why he killed her.
July 9 – Michelle Robotham, 22, strangled in Dagenham, Essex. Her husband Jason Robotham was charged with murder.
July 9 – Michael Johnston, 26, stabbed in Moss Side, Manchester. Unsolved.
July 7 – Martin Nevin, 29, beaten to death in Crumpsall, Manchester. Unsolved.
Jul 6 – Julie Ann Clayton, 27, an Australian living in a commune in Towcester, Worcestershire – buried in a ditch in Coleby, Lincolnshire. Denzil Walker, 46, a market trader from Hull, was jailed for life and sent to HMP Long Lartin.
July 6 – Steven Green, 25, from Hackney – killed at British Deaf Sports Council disco in Birmingham. Anderson Simon, 28, who was deaf, was charged with murder.
July 5 – Mark Simpson, 23, from Rochester – stabbed in car park of a nightclub in Gillingham, Kent. Daniel Latham, 22, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was jailed for 5 years at Maidstone CC in April 1996.
July 3 – Sharon Harper, 21, barmaid at the Market Cross pub in Grantham, Lincolnshire, was viciously beaten and dumped on waste ground nearby. A couple from Hove, East Sussex, were arrested in 1999 but never charged. Sharon left behind a daughter, Sara. Unsolved.
July 2 – Gary Henbest, 31, Zimbabwean engineer – beaten up in a taxi queue in Finsbury Park, north London. Peter Goold, 28, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter on the grounds of provocation. The trial at the Old Bailey in July 1995 heard Mr Henbest had picked a fight after demanding money for a cab.
July 1 – David Gunningham, 26, nightclub bouncer – killed in Barry, South Wales. Andrew Hocking, 26, Barrington Thomas, 23, and Steven Selby, 34 went on trial at Cardiff CC.
Jul 1 – Leslie Woodward, 17 – stabbed in Liverpool. Unsolved.
June 1994
June – Donovan Beckford, 22, shot outside the King’s Arms in Peckham, south London. Unsolved.
June 30 – Rosie Palmer, 3, killed in a cul-de-sac in Headland, Hartlepool, after going to an ice cream van to buy an ice cream. Shaun Armstrong, 32, an unemployed former miner, was jailed for life at Leeds CC in July 1995.
June 30 – Samantha Walker, 22, from Tetbury, Gloucestershire – killed on her way home from a party in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Barry Wilcox, 24, supermarket worker, jailed for life in Bristol CC in July 1995.
June – Aileen Gibson-Steele – strangled in her bedsit in north London. Lawrence Hughes, 20, from Finsbury Park, was jailed for life in Jan 1995.
June 24 – Selhouk Behdjet, a drug trafficker, was stabbed in his flat in north London. In 2012 Ali Tasci, 51, was charged with murder but the case was dropped amid rumours of police corruption. It is understood Behdjet was killed over a drugs deal involving several kilogrammes of heroin. The initial investigation into the murder was led by an officer who rose to a senior rank in the Met – and who was later identified as corrupt in a secret police report. It is also understood that another corrupt officer not involved in the original investigation was present at the crime scene before anyone had called 999. Mr Behdjet’s daughter Layla, who was 28 at the time of his death, had a miscarriage after learning of his death.
June 20 – Michelle McGrath, 27, was raped and murdered in an alley near an Irish bar in Orlando, Florida, during the World Cup in the USA. Thomas Gudinas, 20, was sentenced to death in 1995.
June 17 – PC Lewis Fulton, 28 – stabbed in the Gorbals, Glasgow. Philip McFadden, 18, a schizophrenic, was ruled insane in 1994 and sent to Carstairs secure hospital.
June 15 – Marian Alcock, 39, mother of 2 – struck over the head and found in a wheelie bin in Stafford. Her boyfriend Leslie Turley-Maus, 23, was cleared of obstructing a coroner in 1994.
June 10– Nicole Brown Simpson and her new boyfriend Ronald Goldman – stabbed outside home in Los Angeles. Ms Simpson’s estranged husband, OJ Simpson, 46, a former American football star and film star, was acquitted of both murders in October 1995. He was later found responsible for the murders in a civil trial.
June 10 – Elizabeth Mercer, 83, retired London Underground ticket collector – beaten over the head at her home in Leyton, east London. Edward Ross, 26, unemployed drug addict burglar, was jailed for life (15 years minimum).
June 6 – Susan Roberts, 28 – killed in a battered wives’ hostel in Penycae, Clwyd, Wales. Her estranged and neurotic husband, David Roberts, 35, was jailed for life in March 1995.
June 1 – Margaret Renner-Ceres, from Sierra Leone – stabbed at the Elite travel agency in central London. Unsolved.
June 1 – Catherine Hampshire – stabbed in the bedroom of her home in Gants Hill, east London. Frank Hampshire, 62, a psychotic who had not been taking his medication, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Dec 1994 but sent to Rampton Hospital.
June 2 – Shamsuddin Mahmoud, 26, waiter – shot at an Indian restaurant in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands. Michael Ross, 15, was jailed for life (25 years minimum) at Glasgow High Court in 2008. The trial heard he was a racist who later became a soldier and served in Iraq. His father, PC Edmund Ross, was jailed for 4 years for concealing evidence. Ross has always denied murder and appealed in 2010.
May 1994
May 30 – Lisa Anderson, 20 – killed in front of her little brother at home in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. Her drunken stepfather Ernest Vardy, 28, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 7 years at Durham CC.
May 25 – Sarah Rigby, 11 – sexually abused and strangled, found behind a clothes rack in a house in Wallasey, Merseyside. Malcolm Frosdick, 58, a convicted child molester who had spent 40 years I jail, was jailed for life at Liverpool CC. He fled to his home town, Leicester, after the body was found. He had lured her to his house with sweets.
May 20 – Dawn Shields, 19, prostitute from Sheffield – dumped in shallow stone-filled grave at Mam Tor in Peak District, Derbyshire. Unsolved. There was speculation in 2013 she may have been killed by Crossbow Cannibal Stephen Griffiths.
May 17 – Joan Cox, 42, from Forest Hill, south London – stabbed in Dover. Her husband Joseph Cox, 42, a minicab driver, was jailed for life in Nov 1995. The trial heard he killed her after she told him he wasn’t the father of one of her children. His father had killed his mother years before.
May 16 – Philomena Gillane, 40, pregnant hospital cook, from Ballinasloe, County Galway – stabbed 6 times, shot in the back and dumped in the boot of her car at Athlone railway station in County Meath, Republic of Ireland. Her husband Patrick Gillane was jailed for 8 years in Dec 1997 for soliciting two men to kill his wife. He was released in 2003. The hitmen have never been caught.
May 15 – Cara Hepworth, 17, schoolgirl – sexually assaulted and beaten to death as she walked home from a night out in Maidstone, Kent. Michael Allen, 22, was jailed for life in July 1995. He had left his business card by her body, presumably by accident.
May 10 – Raymond Folkes, 30, strangled with a telephone flex at his flat in Victoria, central London. Stewart McNab and Marcus Brand, homeless down-and-outs, were jailed for life at Chelmsford CC in 1995. The trial heard Mr Folkes was gay and picked them up thinking they were rent boys.
May 9 – Jimmy Painter, 44, stabbed at his home in Moreton, The Wirral, Merseyside. His wife Jan Painter, 32, was acquitted of manslaughter. The trial heard she was suffering from pre-menstrual tension and stabbed him in a trivial row over £1.20. Jury heard his last words were “She didn’t mean it”.
May 9 – Christopher Bartlett-Judd, 59 – stabbed at his home in Botley, Hampshire. Troy Whitcher, 28, was jailed for life at Winchester CC in 1995. Ricky Prosser, 27, was acquitted.
May 8 – Gerry Stephens, 42, and his lover Christine Rees, 37 – killed at a taxi cab firm office in Risca, Gwent, Wales. Michael Attwooll, 50, a partner in the taxi firm, and John Roden, 28, were jailed for life at Newport CC in 1995. The case was later referred to the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Stephens and Rees were both married and someone sent photos of them to their partners. Both men continue to insist on their innocence. Attwooll was given a minimum tariff of 25 years and Roden 21 years.(SEE MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE)
http://www.mojuk.org.uk/justice/rodenattwooll.html
May 7 – Emma Merry, 18, prostitute from Tividale, near Dudley – attacked and dumped on Sneyd Hill industrial estate in Stoke-on-Trent. Kevin Williams, 38, a punter from Burslem, who had a history of sex attacks was jailed for life at Stafford Crown Court in 1995.
May 5 – Fiona Woods, 40, gynaecologist’s receptionist – stabbed in face and chest at surgery in Old Woking, Surrey. Dr Julia Wright, 46, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and jailed for 4 years in Dec 1994. The court heard Woods was having an affair with Dr Wright’s husband, Dr Jeremy Wright. GMC said Wright would be able to practice medicine on her release from prison.
May 4 – Christopher Horrox, 30, from Glossop – was killed at the junction of Bombay Street and Sackville Street in central Manchester. Marcel Williams, 30, went on trial at Liverpool CC in March 1996 but the trial was sensationally halted when new evidence came to light. The trial had heard that Williams was the business partner of Jimmy Carr, 45, who survived being shot. He had employed Mr Horrox, a Warwick University graduate, to help him with fly-posting. Mr Williams insisted he was at a barbecue in Halebarns, Cheshire, at the time.
May 3 – Malcolm Albrighton, 48, a former soldier – was killed outside his house in Atherstone, Warwickshire. Carl Holland, 22, a burglar from Nuneaton, was convicted of manslaughter at Birmingham CC and jailed for 8 years.
May 2 – Leslie Winder, 52, a former gravedigger – was killed at a house in Barmston, Washington, Wearside. Stuart Butler, 23, a print worker, was jailed for life in June 1995. Butler was the ex-boyfriend of Mr Winder’s daughter Dawn and he was burgling her house at the time. Mr Winder just happened to be there at the time and confronted him. Butler claimed he was in Sunderland that day.
May 1 – Fiona Pope, 8, stabbed as she slept at home in Barnstaple, Devon. Her mother, Janice Pope, 38, from Roundswell, Barnstaple, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and given indefinite leave in a mental hospital.
April 1994
April 30 – Karen Reed, 33, shot on the doorstep of her home in Willow Way, Woking, Surrey. Her killers are believed to have been two Chechen hitmen, who posed as pizza delivery men. It was a case of mistaken identity. The actual target was Reed’s sister Alison Ponting, a former BBC World Service producer who had been married to Gagic Ter-Ogannisyen, an Armenian KGB agent who had killed two Chechens. Miss Ponting came to stay with her sister when she realised she may be a target of the Chechens. Unsolved.
29 April – Father Joe Walsh, 37, parish priest; Imelda Riney, 29, artist; Liam Riney, 3, her son – shot dead and left in shallow graves in woods near Whitegate, County Clare, Republic of Ireland. Brendan “The Fox” O’Donnell, 20, from Wolverhampton, was jailed for life at Dublin Central Criminal Court in April 1996. He tried to hang himself in a mental hospital and died in July 1997. O’Donnell claimed to have had an affair with Imelda but it was a fantasy. He claimed to hear voices from The Devil and said Imelda was “the Devil’s daughter”.
April – Mazhar Hussain, 39, taxi driver – stabbed to death in robbery on Hawarden Hill estate in Cricklewood, north London. Melanie “Mad Mel” Myers, 20, jailed for life. Her accomplice Clifton Quartey, 18, was jailed for 4 years for manslaughter. Myers got away with £4. A senior detective described Myers, who had a string of convictions for violence from the age of 14, as ‘the most violent woman I have ever dealt with’. While awaiting trial she escaped from high-security Holloway Prison in the first break-out at the women-only jail for eight years.
Apr 27 – Diane Williams, 28, accounts clerk – stabbed in Harehills, Leeds as she ran away. Her ex-boyfriend Worrell Bailey, was charged with murder.
Apr 23 –Paul Carson, 22 – stabbed to death while in bed in Weston-super-Mare. Peter Griffiths, 30, was jailed for life for murder at Bristol CC in March 1995. Griffiths admitted manslaughter (diminished responsibility) but prosecution refused to accept his plea. The trial heard it was a case of mistaken identity. Griffiths wanted to kill his estranged wife’s boyfriend but she was sleeping in the spare room and had let her friend Tracey Carrington sleep in her bed, with her boyfriend, Mr Carson. Griffiths claimed he had a vision of himself as a medieval knight who needed to avenge his wife’s honour.
Apr 16 – Njoli Djema, 2, Zairean refugee from Leytonstone – beaten about the head and mutilated after death with a sharp instrument. Her body was found on waste ground in Beckton, E London. Her Zairean boyfriend Mabota Kumbi, 30, was arrested in Sweden in August 1994. He went on trial in June 1995 but it ended in a hung jury.
April 14 – Ron Cousins, 78 – stabbed at his home in Chelmsford, Essex. He was then covered in white paint. David Collins, 32, from Bedford, was charged with murder but that charge was dropped. He was convicted of burglary.
Apr 11 – Madhavi Ambasna, 82, and his wife Railat, 72 – stabbed, battered and mutilated at their flat in Benson Close, Hounslow, W London. Their mentally disturbed neighbour Milton Wheeler, 24, was jailed for life in Feb 1995 and given a minimum tariff of 18 years. Mrs Ambasna had accused him of stealing milk from their doorstep. He took two girls back to their flat and raped them there. When he was six, Wheeler’s father Russell Gainford was jailed for life for murdering a 77-year-old woman by slashing her throat in Accrington, Lancashire. He was released on licence in 1992. Wheeler was beaten by his father and sexually abused by his brother. Aged 18, he was jailed for attempting to rape a girl. When he came out of jail he moved to London. His brother was jailed for 10 years for raping a woman he forced to re-enact porn.
Apr 15 – Sara Alesworth, 20, battered at her home in Aylesbury. Her father, Dr Pat Alesworth, fled to France but was extradited. He was sent to a mental hospital in Feb 1995 but hanged himself in Sep 1995.
Apr 14 – Michael Donovan, 32, beaten and stabbed at home in Liverpool. Unsolved.
Apr 13 – Gill Dawson, 50, clubbed with an iron bar at home in Sutton Coldfield. Her husband Peter Dawson went on trial at Birmingham CC in March 1996.
Apr 12 – Mazhar Hussain, taxi driver – killed during robbery on Howarden Hill estate in Neasden, NW London. His killer, Melanie “Mad Mel” Myers, 20, was jailed for life. Clifton Quartey, 18, was sentenced to four years in a young offenders institution.
Apr 8 – Marc Kelsey, 43, unemployed butler from Lakenheath – battered to death and dumped semi-naked in woods near A1101 in Mildenhall, Suffolk. Andrew Wright, 28, was jailed for life (17 years minimum tariff) at Norwich CC in 1997. His mother, Patricia Carter, was jailed for attempting to pervert the course of justice after she tried to hire a hitman to kill a key witness. It is thought there may have been a homophobic motive.. Before midnight on 7 July 1994 the defendant had handed the baseball bat, which was blood-stained and covered with hairs, to a friend Dopadlik. In 1997 he was jailed for life (14 years). Since 2001 Wright has admitted his guilt, and had advanced the account summarised above. I also have the benefit of progress reports from HMP Full Sutton dating from November 2005. It is clear from those reports that he has been involved in the therapeutic process both at HMP Dovegate and at HMP Grendon on the basis that he had been the victim of sexual abuse by his victim over a prolonged period. Hhe is almost certainly free now
Apr 7 – Larry Burt, 56, from Margate – strangled as he painted landscape scenes on wasteland in Wapping, E London. Unsolved.
Apr 6 – William Hodge, 53 – stabbed in a street in Glasgow. Unsolved.
Apr – Danny Dyke, 31, originally from Eastbourne – his remains were found buried on a mountain near Garnswllt, West Glamorgan. John Welsby, 37, and John Wilson, 38, from Swansea, were both jailed for life. Terrence Welsby, 40, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 30 months for disposing of the body. Dyke worked as a physio with Aberavon rugby club.
Apr 5 – Brian Eastoe, 53, police informer – battered to death and thrown off a balcony at a block of flats in Bradford. Richard Palmer and Ian Reardon were convicted of manslaughter at Leeds CC in Feb 1995 and jailed for 6 years each.
April 4 – Helen McEwan, 80 – hit with a chair at home in Longsight, Manchester. The house was then torched. Unsolved.
Apr 3 – David Wheaden, 37, from Burnley – killed in a fight in Manchester. Unsolved.
April 2 – Diana Hernandez, 7, vanished from an apartment in Sandpiper Village, Las Vegas. Her mother had been speaking to somone in the office of the apartment complex. Her body was found the following day in a garbage dumpster nearby. A reward of $1,000 has been offered. Unsolved.
Apr 2 – Angela Jenkinson, 32, who was seven months pregnant – strangled on waste ground in Bradford, 100 yards from her home. Detective Constable Vince Hand, 30, was suspected of the murder but killed himself at Melton Constable in Norfolk in Sep 1994. He was married to Louise, a vice squad officer, but was having an affair with Ms Jenkinson, who was pregnant by him.
Easter – Margaret Wright, 31, epileptic Protestant from Forthriver – stripped, beaten, tortured and shot 4 times in a loyalist drinking den before being dumped in a wheelie bin in The Village, south Belfast. Stephen Rules, 30, and Christopher Sheals, 29, were jailed for life for murder in Feb 1996. They killed her because they thought she was a Catholic. Two other men who were involved, Billy Elliott and Ian Hamilton, were killed by the Red Hand Commando and UVF respectively after it emerged the victim was a Protestant. Three other men – 21-year-old David Jess; 24-year-old Warren Gibson and 24-year-old Stephen Salters were jailed for seven years for helping to dispose of the body. Elliott’s wife Alison was given a suspended sentence.
March 1994
Mar – Lila King, 77 – killed and hidden in a gas meter cupboard in Brighton for 18 months. Her daughter, Kathleen Ford, 43, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 5 years.
Mar 31 – Barry Stubbings, 51, City stockbroker – stabbed and had his throat slit at his flat in Whitechapel, E London. Mr Stubbings was gay and his killer, thought to be a male prostitute, was caught on CCTV but never arrested. Unsolved.
Mar 30 – John Partridge, 50, and Margaret Burtenshaw, 46 – stabbed at their home at Wood Farm, Cowley, Oxford. Her ex-lover, Robert Shreeve, 31, was jailed for life at Birmingham CC in Feb 1996 with a 20 year minimum tariff. He worked in the Lord Chancellor’s office.
Mar 29 – Indu Bina Bhagchandaney, 46 – her body was dismembered and found on a rubbish dump in Cricklewood, N London. Her servant, Esakki Muthu Gopal, 23, was charged with murder.
Mar 28 – Michael Fry, 44, shop worker – bludgeoned with a claw hammer at home in Yeovil, Somerset. A neighbour Nicholas Redding, 26, was jailed for life at Bristol CC in 1999. The trial Fry, who was homosexual, had been attacked because Redding thought he was abusing his daughter. Attempts were made to decapitate him with a saw. His legs were cut off and tied to a chair.
Mar 28 – Nicola Conroy, 12, stabbed at Hall Garth School in Acklam, Middlesbrough. Steven Wilkinson, 29, a former pupil at the school, was detained indefinitely at Ashworth mental hospital after being convicted in Dec 1995 at Leeds CC of manslaughter (diminished responsibility). The court heard he thought he was “possessed by the serpent and the dove”. He had earlier stabbed Emma Winter – she survived – and held an imitation gun to Sohil Malik.
Mar 26 – Ian Butler, 49, street cleaner – shot outside his home in Stokenchurch, Bucks. His brother-in-law George Holland, 41, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in May 1995.
Mar 25 – Lesley Kenny, 10, and her brother Joseph, 8 – hit with a hammer at home in Wythenshawe, Manchester. Their father Aidan Kenny, 34, was sent to a mental hospital indefinitely in Sep 1994. He had been hearing voices.
Mar 22 – Charlotte Alexander, 4; Amy Alderton, 3 and Dean Alderton, 1 – died in house fire in Peterlee, County Durham. Charlotte’s mother Lisa escaped. Graham Alderton, 29, the children’s father, was convicted of manslaughter x 3 and jailed for 10 years. The trial heard he was a drunk who started the fire in a bid to get rehoused by the council.
Mar 20 – Theophilos Georgiadis, pro-Kurdish activist – shot outside his home in Nicosia, Cyprus. Thought to have been killed by agents of Turkish intelligence (MIT). Unsolved.
Mar 20 – Shaun Monaghan, 56 – strangled in Liverpool. Unsolved.
Mar 19 – Trevor Monerville, 26, from Hackney – stabbed in Trumans Road, Stoke Newington, NE London. Unsolved.
Mar 18 – Mehmet Kaygisiz, 33, Kurdish businessman/drug smuggler – shot while playing backgammon at a Turkish café in Mildmay Park, Islington. Believed to have been killed in dispute with Turkish or Kurdish drugs rivals. In 2016 The Times published an article claiming his killing was ordered by Nurettin Guven, a Turkish heroin baron working for Turkish intelligence MIT. Unsolved.
Mar 18 – Colin McLachlan, 26 – stabbed in Liverpool. Unsolved.
Mar 17 – Mark Penfold, 31, and Penny Barry, 26 – killed in Parkside, Plymouth. Lisa Edwards, 22, and her brothers Sean and Stuart were jailed for life in April 1995.
Mar – Amanda Wagg, 17 – stabbed in Woolworth’s store in King’s Lynn. Shaun Thrower, 23, a postman, was jailed for life at Norwich CC. The trial heard she had dumped him. He was obsessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger films.
Mar 15 – Wendy Speakes, 51, barmaid – stabbed at her home in Barn Lane, Wakefield. Chris Farrow, 32, was jailed for life at Leeds CC in Nov 1994. The trial heard he was a shoe fetishist who had forced her to wear blue shoes.
Mar 8 – Tesrod Beckford, 15, stabbed in Ladywood, Birmingham. Averol Miller, 34, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 2 years. Birmingham CC heard they were rowing over a girl. Miller was stabbed first and almost died from his injuries.
March 6 – Omar Carrasco, 20, a soldier in the Argentine army, was beaten to death in military barracks of the city of Zapala in Neuquén province. Carrasco was the target of jokes and bullying and suffered a savage beating at the hands of three soldiers: Víctor Salazar, Cristian Suárez and Ignacio Canevaro. On his first leave, the family had decided to visit him and the officers told him that Omar was not there because he was a “deserter”. However, the relatives mistrusted that version and filed a complaint for his disappearance. Eventually in January 1996, the Federal Oral Court of Neuquén sentenced Second Lieutenant Ignacio Canevaro to 15 years in prison, while soldiers Cristian Suárez and Víctor Salazar were sentenced to 10 years in prison and Sergeant Carlos Sánchez received three years in prison for the crime of concealment.
Mar 6 – Phyllis Saville, 85, former headmistress and widow – stabbed to death on the way to church in Wimborne, Dorset. A boy, aged 13, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and detained indefinitely. He suffered from Asperger’s syndrome. He was never identified.
Mar 2 – Jason Kelly, farm worker from Telford – found in a wheelie bin in Bilston, West Midlands in May, covered with sand. Paul Shaw, 23, was jailed for life for murder at Stafford CC in Mar 1996. Kevin Adams, 22, was acquitted. The trial heard it was a drug-related murder.
Mar 2 – Andrew Andoh, 39, journalist – stabbed in a flat in south Norwood, London. His lover, Sheila Arthur, was convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey and jailed for 6 months.
Mar 1 – Yann Piat, 42, a politician from the conservative UDF party, and an anti-corruption crusader. She was killed near Hyeres in southern France. Lucien Ferri, 22; and Gerard Finale, 45, were jailed for life for her murder. Marco di Cervo, 22, was jailed for 20 years. They were hired by the French mafia to kill her because of her anti-corruption crusades.
Mar 1 – Colin Hickman, 55, solicitor – stabbed 10 times at his home in Earlsdon, Coventry. Timothy Caines, 34, a crooked businessman, from Moseley, Birmingham, was jailed for life in 1995. He had stolen £250,000 in an investment fraud and Hickman was threatening to expose him.
February 1994
Feb 27 – Michelle Rocca, 22, originally from Gloucester – killed at home in Gunhild Way, Cambridge. Her husband Raffaele Rocca, 27, unemployed, was convicted of manslaughter at Norwich CC and jailed for 6 years.
Feb 27 – Bryan Humberstone, 21, stabbed in a cul-de-sac in Plumstead, south London, following an earlier fight. Manjit Brya, 21, and his brother Pardeep Brya, 16, were acquitted at the Old Bailey in Oct 1994 on the grounds of self-defence.
Feb 25 – Louise Murrie, 9, from Reading – was suffocated in a guest house in Southend. Her mother Ann Murrie, 38, who was schizophrenic, was sent to Broadmoor.
Feb 25 – Peter Penning, Maurice Payne, James Miller and 8 other men – died in a fire at a seedy sex cinema club Dream City in Clerkenwell, central London. David Lauwers, 36, a tailor’s cutter, who was deaf and homeless, was jailed for life (10 years minimum tariff) for manslaughter at the Old Bailey in March 1995. He was acquitted of murder. Lauwers had earlier been turned away by doorman Alfred Parsons and headbutted.
Feb 24 – Linda Davies, 40, and her over Paul Shaw, 30, who was disabled – killed at their home in Powell Avenue, Blackpool, which was set on fire. Davies’ ex-boyfriend Roger Davies, 50, went on trial at Lancaster Crown Court.
Feb 21 – Ravinder Singh Rohal, 20, killed on snow-covered wasteground in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham. Sukhwinder Singh Garcha, 18, was jailed for life at Brum CC in 1995.
Feb 19 – Henry Janes, 50, taxi driver, of Clydach, Swansea – stabbed in the back in Pontardawe, near Swansea. Lee Cooper, 20, robber, jailed for life at Cardiff CC in Jan 1995.
Feb 13 – Derek Jamieson, 47 – beaten with a wooden stave in Huyton, Liverpool. Unsolved.
Feb 12 – Paul Heap, 22, robber – died after scuffle in a shop in Rochdale he was trying to rob. James Chadwick, 53, shopkeeper, was charged with murder but charges were dropped. He died of a heart attack later that year. The other robber, Spencer Reeves, 21, was jailed for 15 months.
Feb 8 – Sergeant Derek Robertson – killed while trying to stop a post office robbery in Croydon. Robin Eades, 31, a builder, from New Addington, was jailed for life for murder at Old Bailey in Jan 1995. Two brothers called Snelling were acquitted.
Feb 7 – David Matthews, 36, drug dealer from Newbridge, Gwent – killed in HMP Long Lartin after a row over Scotland v England rugby match on TV. Mohammed Saeed, 29, from Cardiff, was jailed for life for murder at Worcester CC in 1995.
Feb 6 – Darren Brennan, 23, stabbed in the Spencer district of Northampton. Unsolved.
Feb 6 – Ryan Keen, 20, semi professional footballer with Nantwich Town – burned alive (with white spirit) in Nantwich, Cheshire. Andrew Card, 32, from Crewe, and Barry Oliver, 30, from Nantwich, were convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 6 years each. The trial heard Card resented Keen going out with his former girlfriend.
Feb 3 – Yvonne Westley, 33 – killed at family home in Ramsbury, Wiltshire. Her husband David Westley, 34, a former soldier, was convicted of murder at Bristol CC and jailed for life.
Feb 1 – A woman was stabbed 50 times and strangled with a toilet chain in Kent. Her son Peter Rivers killed himself and was found on waste ground at the rear of the house. In 2014 the defence lawyer in the trial of Colin Ash-Smith claimed Rivers could have been responsible for the murder of Claire Tiltman in 1993. The trial heard that Rivers had left a note which said: “Mum was beginning to suspect me of killing Claire.” Ash-Smith was convicted.
January 1994
Jan 31 – Ian Cridland, 33, from Bursledon, Hants; Tom Williams, 22, from Salisbury; Billy Clever, US businessman and his wife Kathy – shot on Computacenter Challenger yacht off Barbuda in the Leeward Islands. Robbers Mellanson Harris, 23, and Marvin Joseph, 22, were convicted of murder at the High Court in Antigua in Jan 1996 and sentenced to death by hanging. Donaldson Samuel, 23, was jailed for 15 years with hard labour. The death penalties were never carried out.
Jan 30 – Grant Price, 43, accountant from Lee-on-Solent – kidnapped from Gosport and stabbed in Keyhaven, Hampshire. Matthew Pearce, 22, and Darren Jones, 21, were both jailed for life at Winchester CC in June 1995. Motive – to steal his car. Pearce later changed his name to McDade. He is currently in HMP Channings Wood in Kent.
Jan 26 – Tami Renee Jackson, 17, was stabbed 130 times, bound and run over by a car. Her remains were on an isolated area of Hutchinson Island in Savannah, Georgia. She was an 11th grader, who loved dance, music and played the trumpet at Calvary Baptist Day School in Savannah. Unsolved.
Jan 25 – Terry Maidens, 34, businessman in Birmingham – killed at his home in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Colin Middleton, 40, a former employee, was jailed for life for murder in Feb 1995. He was described as the “killer with the laughing eyes”.
Jan 24 – Harry Stephenson, 51, bricklayer – killed at home in Heath, Cardiff. Colin Shankland, 33, a neighbour, “flipped” after they complained about noise from his car and radio. John and Eileen Mullane and their daughter Lynne survived. Shankland was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and jailed for 8 years in Oct 1994.
Jan 23 – Paul Huggill, 21 – stabbed at a house in North Ormesby, Middlesbrough. A 15-year-old boy was charged with murder.
Jan 22 – Paul Harman, 28, a former chef – stabbed in the neck at Chetwode, near Bicester, Oxfordshire. A man was arrested.
Jan 20 – Kieran Hegarty, 11, stripped naked, thrown into a flooded quarry and battered against a tree near Strabane, County Tyrone. Brian Doherty, 19, who had been released from mental hospital the previous day, was jailed for life at Antrim CC in May 1995 after being convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. Doherty was illiterate and had been sexually abused.
Jan 20 – Avril Lucas, 47, disabled drunk – killed in her flat in Spa Road, Gloucester. Derek Hurdley, 41, an unemployed lorry driver, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 3 years at Bristol CC in Feb 1995.
Jan 17 – Angela Jones, 40, building society cashier – killed at home in Barry, South Glamorgan, Wales. Her husband Terry Jones, 42, a fire officer for Amersham International, was charged with murder. He was being sued by the Child Support Agency.
Jan 16 – Sarah Lewin, 35, mother of two – stabbed in her kitchen in Sheepridge, Huddersfield. Unsolved.
Jan 14 – Mohammed El-Sayed, 44, killed in Bayswater, west London. Jamie Petrolini, 19, and Richard Elsey, 19, were both jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Oct 1994. Elsey convinced Petrolini he was an undercover SAS officer and said Petrolini had to “slot” the Egyptian chef, who was picked at random. Both were studying at Oxford. In 2012 Petrolini’s murder conviction was quashed and replaced with a manslaughter conviction on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was suffering from schizophrenia. He has now been moved to a psychiatric hospital.
Jan 12 – Julian “Turbo” Stewart, 21, drug dealer, from Stretford – shot as he cycled through Moss Side, Manchester. He was 2nd lieutenant in Doddington Gang. £10,000 reward offered. Unsolved.
Jan – Basil Wilcomb, 49, British Rail steward – killed at a friend’s house in Fulham, which was then set on fire. It is thought he may have been killed because he was gay. Unsolved.
Jan 10 – Oswald Brown, 33, a fashion store boss – shot in his shop, Delancy Fashion, in Stoke Newington, north London. Unsolved.
Jan 7 – Shirley Leach, 66, stripped, sexually assaulted and strangled in the toilets at Bury bus station in Greater Manchester. Ian O’Callaghan, 26, a bus driver, was jailed for life with a minimum tariff of 28 years.
Early 1994 – Karen Thomas, 33 – stabbed 18 times with a screwdriver, slashed 10 times with a craft knife, battered with a hammer, suffocated with a plastic bag AND strangled with a washing lin at home in Wyke, near Bradford. Her boyfriend Darren McKenzie, 29, was jailed for life at Leeds CC in Nov 1994. The trial heard she had taunted him about his impotence after the couple tried to make love.
1993
December 1993
? – Paula Mottram, 48, strangled with a dog lead in Wood Green, north London. Martin O’Connor, 19, from Barnet, was jailed for life in April 1995. O’Connor’s friend, Jermaine Thomas, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter. The court heard O’Connor had sex with her once and felt disgusted with himself. He killed her after she threatened to tell his parents unless he had sex again.
Dec 31 – Karen Best, 35, strangled at home in Coventry. Her husband Simon Best, 38, was convicted of manslaughter at Birmingham CC and jailed for 5 years.
Dec 31 – Viv Graham, 34, former heavyweight boxer and notorious “hard man” and gangster – shot in the street outside the Queen’s Head pub in Wallsend, Tyneside. Unsolved.
Dec 30 – Thomas Spence, 47, attacked with a pick axe handle on the front lawn of his home in Nechells, Birmingham, as he scattered his father’s ashes. Lambert Small, 67, a neighbour who had paranoid schizophrenia, was committed to a secure hospital.
Dec 30 – Anthony Brown, 38, from Bonymaen – killed in an alley off the High Street in Swansea. Vincent Avo, 32, was charged with murder.
? – Samantha Leaman – killed in her flat in Blackpool. Russell Irvine, 22, a registered sex offender, was jailed for life in March 1994.
Dec ? – Susan Miller, 33, killed in London. Her boyfriend, Michael Foulkes, a schizophrenic known as Luke Warm Luke, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in April 1995.
Dec 30 – Robert Fowler, 38; Eleanor Fowler, 56; Pamela Lazore-Epperson, 32; Richard Urban, 42; and John O’Donnell – killed by bombs sent through the post in upstate New York, including the Massena Indian reservation. Michael Stevens, 53, was jailed for life with no prospect of parole in 1995. His accomplice, Earl Figley, 53, was jailed for 20 years after testifying against him. The trial heard both were ex-convicts who disliked Native Americans. Stevens was angry at the victims who encouraged his Native American girlfriend, Brenda Lazore, to leave him and take his child.
Dec 29 – Matthew Eley, 23 – stabbed at the Quick Snack burger bar at Cardiff central station. Mark White, 35, was jailed for life in June 1994. The trial heard he attacked Eley in front of horrified commuters after Eley began a relationship with a teenage girl who was known to White.
Dec 27 – Leonard Walton, 42, motor trader and traveller – shot with his own shotgun at his caravan in Thorne, near Doncaster. His daughter Violet, 15, was acquitted of murder on the grounds of self-defence at Sheffield CC in Dec 1994. The court heard he had launched a violent attack on another daughter, Linda, 22.
Dec 23 – Paul Logan, 28, delivery man for Golden Flower Chinese restaurant – shot as he delivered food to a bogus order at Blue House Farm in Shotley Bridge, Northumberland. Keith Suddick, 30, a local businessman and friend of Tyneside gangster Viv Graham, was questioned about the murder but never charged. Suddick was jailed for 8 years in 1999 for firebombing a van belonging to Mr Logan’s father. Suddick died of a cocaine overdose in 2012. Unsolved.
Dec 21 – Peter Homer, 45, shot dead outside his son’s home in Middlesbrough. David Fields, 29, who was high on drink and drugs, was jailed for life. He had just been released on parole.
Dec – Farida Patel, 22 – suffered multiple injuries at her family home in Ilford, east London. Her brother Hafiz Patel, 19, was jailed for 12 months for manslaughter in Nov 1994. Siraj Tutla, 25, was jailed for 3 years for her role in Farida’s death. The trial heard that the family employed a Muslim “high priestess” called Mona Rai, 47, to exorcise a djinn (spirit) from Farida. Rai was jailed for 7 years for manslaughter. Farida’s sister Rabiya, 25, was jailed for 12 months for manslaughter and perverting the course of justice.
Dec 21 – Peter Homer, 45, shot dead outside his son’s home in Middlesbrough. David Fields, 29, who was high on drink and drugs, was jailed for life. He had just been released on parole.
Dec 21 – Fiona Ivison, 17, prostitute from Sheffield – her half-naked body was found in a multi storey car park at the bus station in Doncaster. Alan Duffy, 25, unemployed from Batley, was jailed for life at Leeds CC in 1995. He had been one of her customers. She was strangled and battered.
Dec 20 – James Coade, 78, killed at his flat in Westminster. Suzanne Winson, 35, a young mum from Fulham, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Aug 1994. She had stolen £330 from him.
Dec 17 – Newton Stewart, 21, killed outside the Foresters pub in Tooting, south London. In Jan 1995 Ricky Smith, 22, was jailed for 8 years for manslaughter. James Little, 18, got 5 years and Neil Bates, 18, got 4 years.
Dec 16 – Adnan Abdul Al Sane, 46, a Kuwaiti millionaire – he was cut up with an Arab sword and his head was found in Cannock, Staffordshire, and his torso in Manchester. Unsolved.
Dec 16 – Lativia Johnson, 8, was shot in the head in her kitchen in Grand Rapids, Michigan as she reached for a pint of milk in the refrigerator. No motive has been found. Unsolved
Dec 15 – Dr Barry Taylor, 45, a lecturer at Portsmouth University, bludgeoned with a hammer, and his wife Janet, 46, who had her throat slashed – at their home in Worsley Road, Southsea, Hampshire. Mohamed Amine Akanour, 24, a Moroccan student, was jailed for life in Jan 1995. He was a former boyfriend of their daughter Jennifer and killed them to “punish her” after she broke up with him.
Dec – Pat Morgan, 75, widow – stabbed at her home in Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. Danielle Yablokovsky, 24, was jailed for life at Cardiff CC. She had previously served time in prison for the manslaughter of her stepfather, who she claimed sexually abused her. Her trial in July 1994 heard she was a dangerous woman who “got a buzz out of violence”.
Dec 8 – Amy Federici, 27, interior designer; James Gorycki, 51, advertising account executive; Mi Kyung Kim, 27; Maria Theresa Tumangan Magtoto, 30, lawyer; Dennis McCarthy, 52, office manager and Richard Nettleton, 24, college student – shot on a New York to Long Island commuter train near Merillon Avenue station in Garden City, New York. Colin Ferguson, 35, a Jamaican-born New Yorker with a chip on his shoulder about whites, hispanics and Asians. He was convicted of murder in Feb 1995 and jailed for 315 years to life. He is due for parole in 2309.
? – Tom Wall, 76, a retired cabinet maker – killed in a park in Blackpool. Nicky Chambers, 17, was convicted of manslaughter at Preston CC in July 1994 and given 5 years in a young offenders’ institution.
Dec 8 – Tamsin Elmswood, 36, killed in School Street, Weymouth, Dorset. Her boyfriend Barry Thompson, was charged with murder.
Dec 1 – Craig Mackie, nuclear chemist – killed in Dunbar, Lothian, Scotland. Martin Scott, from Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire was jailed for life for murder in March 1994. The trial heard there was a love triangle and Scott was the jilted lover who took revenge on her new lover.
Dec 1 – Derek Severs, 69, retired ICI executive, and his wife Eileen, 69 – bludgeoned to death at their home near Hambleton Water, Rutland, Leicestershire. Their son Roger Severs, 30, was jailed for life for their murders at Northampton CC in Dec 1994. He wanted to inherit their £1m estate. Severs was a sponger, who was into kinky sex.
November 1993
Nov 25 – Serena Steele, 14, from Smethwick – died of a drug overdose at a flat in Aston, Birmingham. Her death was later ruled to be suicide. The inquest heard she had been bullied by another 14-year-old girl.
Nov 23 – Glenn Ford, 35, from Coventry, was killed in a former steel storage yard in Saltley, Birmingham. Police believe he was lured to the deserted factory before being shot several times at close range in the head and chest. Despite extensive inquiries, the investigation closed later that year without a breakthrough. The case was re-opened in October 2009 by a cold case murder review unit. Alex Neilson, 40, from Tile Hill in Coventry, Conrad Jones, 44, from Wyken, Coventry, Gurmit Singh Birring, 52, from Hartlepool, and Martin Singh Mattu, 41, were accused of murdering Ford but the charges against them were dropped.
Nov 23 – Lilian Notley, 88, killed at her home in north London. Francis Casey, 18, an Irish traveller, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Sep 1994.
Nov 21 –
Karen Hales, 21, young mum – stabbed at her home in Lavenham Road, Ipswich. House was then set on fire. Her 18 month old daughter Emily is believed to have witnessed the murder but was too young to identify the killer. She escaped the fire (see link). Unsolved.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-25028273
Nov 21 – Alan Singleton, 56, from Skelmersdale, and Simon Bruno, 28, from Salford, Department of Transport investigators – shot at Urmston Exhaust and Tyre Company, Chestergate, Stockport. Tom Bourke, 31, was jailed for life at Manchester CC in Dec 1994. His brother Walter, 36, was acquitted. The trial heard that Bourke was suspected of MOT fraud and feared the inspectors were about to take away his lucrative licence to perform MOTs. The killer wore a Halloween mask. Bourke has always maintained his innocence. It later emerged that extra security was thrown up around the trial after a gun was found in HMP Strangeways amid claims it was meant for Bourke to use as part of an escape. It was actually smuggled in by John Haase and had nothing to do with Bourke. SEE MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE section.
Nov – Diane Hunt, 41, from Telford – strangled and dumped in her car in a layby near Shrewsbury. Her husband, Alan Hunt, 38, a sales manager, was convicted of manslaughter but given a suspended sentence in Oct 1994. The court heard he killed after she confronted him about three affairs he was having.
Nov 20 – John Fanning, 38, a former Royal Green Jacket and Falklands war veteran – killed in his flat in Shepherds Bush, west London. Raoul Billia, 19, a rent boy, was convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey in August 1994 and jailed for 9 years. The trial heard that Mr Fanning was gay. Billia was cleared of murdering another gay man, Phillip Davis, in 2003.
Nov 16 – David Hird, 52, postman – hit 4 times over the head and then run over with his own van while on his rounds in Woodseats, Sheffield. David Bearham, 34, from Wincobank, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 14 years at Sheffield CC in July 1998. His accomplice Cameron McArthur, 19, was jailed for 7 years. Both were cleared of murder. The motive was robbery and the pair got away with £5,000. Charges of perverting the course of justice against Bearham’s mother, Yvonne, 56, were dropped.
Nov 8 – Ken McAllister, 42, unemployed – battered with an iron bar in his flat in Colwyn Bay, north Wales. David Griffiths, 46, a neighbour, was acquitted in May 1994. Mr Griffiths almost died on remand after going on hunger strike for 52 days at HMP Walton in Liverpool. The trial heard that Mr Griffiths developed an obsession that McAllister was at the heart of a Satanic paedophile ring.
Nov 7 – Paul Blackledge, 31, a badger baiter – shot 4 times at a house in Blackburn. Alan Neale, 36, was jailed for life at Preston CC in Nov 1994. The trial heard Blackledge was sharing a house with Neale’s ex-girlfriend, Lynn Smith. Blackledge has been shot and wounded in woods near Preston in March 1993. His attacker on that occasion got 10 years.
Nov 7 – Ali Ibrahim, 21, a Sudanese student – stabbed on the seafront at Brighton. Ian Leaney, 26, was jailed for life at Lewes CC. Stephen McKifill, 22, was acquitted. The trial heard that Mr Ibrahim has spilt Leaney’s lager in a pub nearby.
Nov 5 – Diane Easton, 15 – strangled in wood near her home after spending the evening at Chaplin’s nightclub in Warrington. Unsolved.
Nov 4 – Peter Gallagher – attacked with a hammer at his home in Accrington, Lancashire. Karl McLennan, 33, a heroin addict from Hove, East Sussex, was jailed for life in Nov 1993.
Nov 2 – Samantha Bissett, 27, stabbed, and her daughter Jazmine, 4, who was sexually assaulted and suffocated – at their flat in Heathfield Terrace, Plumstead, south London. Robert Napper, 28, a machine operator from Plumstead, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) in Oct 1995 and sent to Broadmoor indefinitely. The trial heard that Samantha was skinned and he kept part of her abdomen as a “trophy”. Napper was later found responsible for the death of Rachel Nickell in July 1992.
October 1993
Oct 31 – Julie Baines, 18, unemployed – raped and beaten on waste land near Abrigg, outside Wakefield, West Yorkshire. She had been walking home from a nightclub. Shahid Walayat, 22, who worked in a pizza shop, was jailed for life in May 1995.
Oct – Leslie “Catweazel” Bailey, paedophile killer – murdered in his cell at HMP Whitemoor near March, Cambridgeshire. Michael Cain jailed for life for the murder.
Oct 24 – John Culshaw, 24 – stabbed with an 8-inch knife at his home in Scholes, Wigan. Diane Leonard, 24, was acquitted of murder at Liverpool CC in Dec 1994. The trial heard he was her sister Marie’s boyfriend and she accused him of injuring her baby son.
Oct 21 – Claude Moseley, 25, former British high jump champion, from Stamford Hill, north London. He disappeared outside White City tube station in west London. Gilbert Wynter, 34, a drug dealer and enforcer for the Adams family, was acquitted of murder at the Old Bailey in Feb 1995. Witnesses had refused to give evidence against him. Wynter mysteriously later disappeared and is believed to have been murdered himself.
Oct 20 – PC Patrick Dunne, 44, and William Danso, 31, a drug dealer from Ghana – shot in Cato Street, Clapham, south London. Gary Nelson, who had been 23 at the time, was finally jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2005. Richard Watts, 34, was jailed for 10 years for firearms offences. Anthony Francis, 28, was jailed for 6 years. The trial heard PC Dunne was attending a domestic dispute nearby when he heard the gang arrive and shoot Danso six times. He was shot once.
Oct 20 – Peter Howell, 40, stabbed in the chest in a street in Semilong, Northampton. Unsolved.
Oct 15 – Helen Claxton, 20, stabbed in a house in Nottingham. Her jilted lover Shaun Moorcroft, 29, a pizza parlour worker, was jailed for life in Dec 1994.
Oct 10 – Dr Ann Mead, 34, a GP, killed outside her home in south London. Brian Hale, 45, from east London, who had met her through the lonely hearts column Socialist Partners, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in July 1994.
Oct – Donna Lindsaty, 18, killed in Illogan, Cornwall. Bradley Scott, 21, was jailed for life at Truro CC.
Oct 7 – Leslie “Catweasel” Bailey, 40 – strangled in a cell at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire. Inmates John Brookes, 30, from Kent, and Michael Cain, 26, from Leicestershire, were jailed for life for murder in July 1995. Bailey was a member of a notorious paedophile gang. Cain, a convicted murderer, and Brookes, who had a manslaughter conviction, refused to give evidence at their trial at Birmingham CC. The main witness was a robber and fellow inmate, Andrew Baum.
Oct 5 – unidentified woman hitch-hiker, 24, killed and body left near Gottingen, Germany. Unsolved.
Oct 1 – Jon Newby, 22, care worker, from Devizes, Wiltshire – stabbed at a hostel in Cowley, Oxford. John Rous, 47, who was mentally ill, was sent to Broadmoor indefinitely in June 1994. The trial heard he committed the killing so he could go to Broadmoor.
September 1993
September – Dawn Wisdom, 30, was strangled at her flat in east London. Her boyfriend Anthony Ayres, 27, was jailed for life. He was later released and in November 2015 was charged with strangling another girlfriend Kelly Pearce, 36, at her flat in Canvey Island, Essex.
Sep 19 – Keith Nicholson, 47, from Bridlington – beaten, stabbed and burnt on moorland at Bransdale, near Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire. His daughter Michelle Nicholson, 22, a drug addict, and her junkie boyfriend David Smethurst, 33, were jailed for life at Sheffield CC in Dec 1993.
Sep 19 – Sujitha Puvaneswaran, 13, found in a forest in Mindergangelt, Germany. She was from a Tamil family. Unsolved.
Sep 18 – Gary Colley, 37, tourist, from Bradford – shot on the highway near Monticello, outside Tallahassee, Florida. John “Billy Joe” Crumitie, 18, was jailed for life in Pensacola in Sep 1995. accomplice Deron “Lowlife” Spear, 19, was jailed for 8 years. The trial heard it was a robbery which went wrong.
? – Alison Thorpe, former beauty queen – stabbed 50 times at her home in Kent. Her ex boyfriend Jason Anderson, 25, was jailed for life in Feb 1995.
Sep 14 – Andrew Birjukov, 37, bricklayer and cocaine dealer – shot in Two Brewers pub in Catford, S London. He was drinking with a friend, former footballer Bobby Campbell. Two hitmen shot him. Unsolved.
Sep 12 – Alwen Baker, 68, killed at his bungalow in Hampton, near Evesham, Worcestershire. John Newman, 60, from Frome, Somerset, was jailed in 1994 but not for murder.
Sep 11 – Diane Hunt, 14, schoolgirl – ran away from home in Scarcase, Hull. Her neighbour Alexander Harrison, 36, was jailed for life for murder in 1995.
Sep 10 – Brian Williams, 17, trainee mechanic – stabbed in Samuel Wright Close, Warmley, Bristol. Shane Welling, 17, was jailed for life for murder in Nov 1994. He had been drinking heavily.
Sep 9 – Detective Constable James Bourke, 50 – killed in his flat in Quinton, Birmingham. His neighbour, Jeffrey Gould, 52, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and detained indefinitely. Gould was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed Bourke was God’s spy.
Sep 7 – Mark White, 24, waiter from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester – beaten, bitten and drowned on Blackpool beach. Gary Ward, 20, a nightclub bouncer, was jailed for life. James Docherty, 19, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 10 years.
Sep 6 – Andre Branco, 19, stabbed in a park in Palmers Green, north London. Eight youths were charged with various offences.
Sep 4 – Kathryn Chappell, 31, secretary from Bolton – found in a wheelie bin at Great Hope Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. Her ex boyfriend Dominic Booth, 23, was jailed for life at Manchester CC in June 1994.
August 1993
Aug 31 – Sharon Pritchard, 21, single mum – killed in an alley near her home in Croeserw, Port Talbot, Wales. Her ex-boyfriend, and the father of her 2 children, Neil Hurley, 22, was convicted at Swansea CC and jailed for life.
Aug 31 – Tanja Groen, 18, a first year health sciences student, vanished on her way home from a party at the Circumflex student society in the Maastricht, Netherlands. She left the party around midnight to cycle home to her lodgings in Gronsveld but was not seen again. Her body has never been found. Crime reporter Peter de Vries helped generate a million euros in crowdfunding to investigate the case. He was shot dead in July 2021 moments after talking about the case at a TV studio in Amsterdam.
Aug 23 – William Bryan, 71, and his sister Anne Castle, 74, were tied up and beaten during a break-in at their flat in Bethnal Green, east London. She suffered a heart attack and he went into cardiac arrest. The case remained unsolved for almost 30 years. In November 2022 Danville Neil, by then 65, was jailed for life (32 years) for murdering Mr Bryan and the manslaughter of Ms Castle. The trial heard Neil pulled two wedding rings and two diamond rings from Mrs Castle’s fingers but failed to find £4,000 in cash, which had been hidden in old socks. At his trial Neil had accepted his DNA was found at the scene of the killings, but denied he had been there or knew the victims. He claimed an innocent explanation for the forensic link was that he had sold Mr Bryan binoculars at a car boot sale and it was the strap which was used to bind him.Neil had a string of convictions for some 15 burglaries between 1973 and 1998. In 1984, he carried out two home invasions in three months in which the occupants were physically assaulted. In that case the couple were beaten at their home in Penge. Jurors heard the victims had lived together in a flat in Bethnal Green since Mr Bryan was invalided out of the Army in 1945, with Mrs Castle being widowed in 1987.
Aug 21 – James Alexander, 83, beaten to death at his sheltered flat in Hampstead, north London. Owen Davies, 31, was arrested in Poland and charged with murder.
Aug 18 – Russian sailor Andrej Lapin, was found in a life raft with 60,000 Deutschmarks in his possession. The police found traces of violence and arson on board the ship, and Lapin was arrested and charged with the murder of the captain and the crew – five men. According to Lapin, two members of the crew had attacked the captain and two other crew members with axes, had managed to kill all three of them, and Lapin had had to kill the two murderers in self-defence, using their own axes. Realising that no one would believe his story, he had dumped the bodies into the sea, set fire to the ship and jumped into a life raft. The 60,000 D-marks he claimed to be his own profits from a previous sale of Russian icons. Since both the ship and the captain were German, the Russian sailor was handed over to the German court system for prosecution, but neither the Danish police nor the German courts were able to disprove the Russian sailor’s story, despite intense efforts to establish his guilt as a cold blooded killer. On February 3, 1995, Andrej Lapin left the Landgericht in Osnabrück a free man and is the only one who knows what really happened on that ship.
Aug 19 – Florence Jeffrey, 70; Margaret Godfrey, 50; and Susan Godfrey, 24 – attacked with a hammer at two houses in Oxford. Margaret’s husband Ron Godfrey, 58, was convicted of manslaughter (diminished responsibility) and detained indefinitely in a mental institution. Florence was his mother-in-law and Susan his daughter. He was allowed out on leave in 1997.
August – Ann Castle, 74, and her brother William Bryan, 71, were found dead at a house in Bethnal Green, east London. A post-mortem examination held at Poplar Mortuary in 1993 gave Mrs Castle’s cause of death as ischaemic heart disease and said Mr Bryan died from asphyxia and ischaemic heart disease. But in 2022 Danville Neil, 63, was charged with both murders. He was also charged with burglary. He awaits trial at the Old Bailey.
August 5 – Holly Pirrainen, 10, was killed while visiting her grandparents in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Holly and her little brother had gone to a neighbour’s house to see some puppies. Her brother had returned to the cottage where the grandparents lived, but Piirainen never returned. One of her shoes was found by the side of a road. Her remains were found by hunters in woods near Brimfield, Massachusetts in October 1993. The murder has not been solved but forensic evidence pointed in the direction of David Pouliot, who died in 2003.
Aug 5 – Raymond Kelly, off duty soldier – stabbed outside a pub in Withington, Manchester. Unsolved.
Aug 1 – George Leitch, 37, businessman and gambler, from Gipsy Hill in Streatham – stabbed and dumped at a landfill site at Cormongers Lane in Redhill, Surrey. Unsolved.
July 1993
July – Patrick McMahon, 67, strangled at his flat in west London. Brian Blacklin, 45, from Newcastle, was jailed for life in April 1994. It is thought a homophobic motive may have been involved.
July 27 – Harry Tooze, 67, and his wife Megan, 65 – shot in the cowshed of their smallholding near Llanharry, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. Jonathan Jones, 33, a market researcher, was jailed for life at Newport CC in Jan 1995. But he was freed on appeal in April 1996. His girlfriend was the Tooze’s daughter Cheryl. At trial it was claimed that he had eyes on their inheritance. He has always denied any involvement.
July – Jimmy Boyle, 50, unemployed shipyard worker – beaten and stamped to death in his home in Belfast. John Auld, 27, a drinking companion, was convicted of manslaughter at Belfast CC in 1994 and jailed for 4 years. He had claimed he panicked after Boyle made homosexual approaches.
July 27 – Marylou Archer, 59, stripped strangled and axed to death at home in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Her husband, Dennis Archer, 71, a retired vet, immediately committed suicide.
July 26 – Akhlaq Ahmed Razzaq, 9, schoolboy – brutally beaten in Salt Hill Park, Slough. Tahir Malik, 16, regarded as a lonely “nutter”, was convited at the Old Bailey in July 1994 and detained under HM Pleasure.
July 25 – Greg Nicholson, 34, a drug dealer, his girlfriend Lori Ann Duncan, 31, and her two daughters Kandace Duncan, 10, and Amber Duncan, six, were all shot dead. Nicholson had cut a deal with the feds and agreed to turn state’s evidence. In November Terry DeGeus, 32, another drug dealer, was shot dead in northern Iowa. In November another drug dealer Dustin Honken, 25, a meth dealer, and his girlfriend Angela Johnson (ex-girlfriend of DeGeus) were later convicted of the murders. Honken was executed in 2020. It emerged at the trial that Johnson and Honken had made a video of Nicholson denying his previous police statements, but then bound and gagged the adults, forced the children to pack bags and walked them at gunpoint to their car. Johnson and Honken drove the four to a wooded area north of Mason City where Honken first took Duncan and Nicholson to an already dug grave and shot them execution-style. He then came back for the children and shot them, too. Honken was only arrested in 1996 when his co-conspirator Tim Cutkomp, turned state’s witness. In jail, Johnson made friends with Robert “Bobby” Gene McNeese, a career criminal doing a life sentence who was a prolific snitch. Saying he knew a “lifer” who might take the rap for her and Honken, McNeese convinced her to tell him details about the crime only a participant would know and to draw him maps to the bodies. Johnson was originally sentenced to death for her part in the crime but had her sentence reduced to life in prison.
July 19 – Sean Williams, 7, the son of the landlord at The George pub in East Finchley, abducted, sexually assaulted and dumped, wrapped in black bin bags, in flats at Kitchener Road. Colin Hatch, 21, who had been released from Feltham YOI 3 months earlier after serving 2 year of a 3 and a half year sentence, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Jan 1994. Hatch, whose father was a violent transvestite, had written about his paedophile fantasies and confessed to the murder, showing no remorse. In 2011 he was strangled in his cell at HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire by another inmate, Damien Fowkes.
July 17 – Steven Davies, 24, beaten to death in a snooker club in Bargoed, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. Jason Evans, 21, a former schoolboy boxing champion, was convicted of manslaughter at Cardiff CC and jailed for 21 months in Jan 1994.
July 10 – Cormack Mahon, 36, accountant, from Dalston – stabbed outside a pub in Islington on his stag night. Christopher Laffan, 30, was jailed for life for murder. His brothers Darren Laffan, 28, and Tony Laffan, 29, were acquitted of murder, affray and conspiracy.
July 8 – Thomas Boedeker, 54, German tourist – shot in VW Caravanette near Cairnryan ferry port, near Stranraer, Scotland. His wife and daughter were seriously injured. Jim Boyce, 53, a bus cleaner, pleaded guilty to murder at the Sheriffs Court in Oct 1993 and was jailed for life. It was a simple robbery.
July 6 – Stephen Sweet, 32, unemployed, killed at his flat on The Esplanade, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. Unsolved.
July 4 – Emily Lucas, 46, mother of 3 from Sunderland – killed in her daughter’s bedroom in Seaham, County Durham. Paul Bacon, 26, was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at Teesside CC in 1994 and detained indefinitely in a secure unit. He had developed an obsession with her daughter.
July 2 – Mandy Duncan, 26, prostitute – vanished from red light district of Portman Walk, Ipswich. Body never found.
July 2 – Sean Hadley, 23, builder, from Dronfield, near Sheffield – shot outside Josephine’s nightclub in Sheffield. Anthony Caruana, 39, from Nethersthorpe, was sent to Rampton Mental Hospital indefinitely. He had also pointed a gun at PC Graham Saunders.
June 1993
June 29 – Christine Robinson, 18 months; Anthony Robinson, 5 months – found in their cots in separate bedrooms at home in Ouston, Chester-le-Street, County Durham. Their mother, Maxine Robinson, 25, was jailed for life at Sheffield CC in April 1995. In 2004 Robinson admitted killing her first born child, Victoria, in 1989.
June 25 – Richard Fox, 17, shot outside a flat in Appin Close, Haghill, Glasgow. Patrick Healy, 16, was acquitted of murder but convicted of involvement in another violent incident that night and jailed for 7 years. The gunman has never been caught. John Paul Kearney, 19, and Daniel Sweeney, 29, were seriously wounded, and Margaret Mullen, 30, also hit by a bullet.
June 23 – Gillian Haynes, 48, killed at a party at the home in Pershore, Worcestershire, of Colin Shepherd, manager of Pershore Town FC. Duncan Gilchrist, 36, who was the jilted boyfriend of Mrs Haynes’ daughter, was jailed for life at Shrewsbury CC in June 1993.
June 22 – Tommy Roche, 42, road workman who doubled as a minder – shot 3 times as he worked at a bus stop outside McDonald’s in Bath Road, West Drayton (opposite the Radisson Edwardian Hotel) near Heathrow. The killing is thought to be linked to the murder of Donald Urquhart (who he worked for as a minder) in January 1993. Unsolved.
June 22 – John Sygrove, 32, roof tiler – hit with a machete at a family birthday party on Eastfield estate in Scarborough, N Yorkshire. His brother Chris Sygrove, 20, was cleared of murder at York CC in July 1994 but convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 6 years.
June 21 – Betty Barrett, 67, raped, battered and left in a trunk which was found in a blood-spattered bedroom at her home in Cawdor Road, Ladywood, Birmingham. David Dunleavy, 17, burglar from Belfast, was detained under HM Pleasure. James Doherty, 42, burglar, from Newtown, Birmingham, was jailed for life in Nov 1994.
June 14 – Thomas Keery, 67, night porter – stabbed and bashed over the head with a vase at Glastonbury Hotel in Eastbourne, E Sussex. Bruce Cornish, 23, unemployed, a thief, pleaded guilty to murder at Lewes CC in 1994 and was jailed for life.
June 14 – Alan Bryant, 50, factory worker – stabbed at the Springwell Inn, Wrekenton, Gateshead. Michael Quinn, 25, who had escaped from prison, was jailed for life at Newcastle CC in Nov 1995 with a 16 year minimum tariff. He stabbed Mr Bryant when he tried to stop him stealing the pub’s takings. Wilfred McFarling, Quinn’s mentally impaired accomplice, was convicted of manslaughter.
June 13 – Noel Fitzgerald, 72, retired RAF sergeant from Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire – shot on P Street in a rough area of Washington DC not far from the White House. He was a tourist. Unsolved.
June 11 – Les Reed, 45, retired steel worker – beaten to death as he walked home from a nightclub in Cardiff. Steve James, 19, Michael Mundell, 19, and two juveniles, were jailed for life at Cardiff CC in Feb 1994. Mr Reed and his friend, Mr Tull – who was also beaten up – had tried to stop the youths vandalising bollards.
June 10 – Peter Savage, 53, from Intake, near Doncaster – stabbed in a bed on the general medical ward at Doncaster General Hospital, South Yorkshire. Kenneth Emerson, 30, a jobless fitter, was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at Sheffield CC in 1994 and sent to a mental hospital.
June 9 – Denise Johnston, 35, strangled at the pub, The Lion Tavern, in Moorfields, Liverpool. Her partner and the father of her son, David Ashworth, 31, was jailed for life in 1994. He was arrested in Newcastle.
June 7 – John “Old Jack” Goult, 80 – stabbed at his flat in Liverpool. Unsolved.
June 7 – Martin Jacks, 23, accountant with Ernst & Young – shot in the leg at his flat in Putney, SW London. Arron Bamborough, 23, and Roland Thorp, 26, from Chessington, Surrey, were jailed for life at the Old Bailey. It is thought they mistakenly targeted the Cambridge graduate. The real target was a drug dealer who lived in the same block.
June 7 – Scott Blyth, 17, from Burbage, Leicestershire – stabbed outside Buzz nightclub in Hinckley, Leicestershire. His attackers were a gang from Coventry and Nuneaton area. Scott’s father was former Coventry City goalkeeper Jim Blyth. Unsolved.
June – Laura Shatanawi, 36, vanished from her home in Hartlepool. Her husband Dr Hassan Shatanawi, 46, was jailed for life at Newcastle CC in Oct 1994.
June 7 – Iktikhar Malik, 23, drug dealer – shot on the doorstep of his home in Fenham, Tyneside. Michael Dodgson, 37, a drug addict who owed him money, was jailed for life at Newcastle CC.
June 5 – Amar Cheringuene, North African youth – beaten up and thrown off the Malaga to Madrid train by a gangs of racists. Unsolved.
June 4 – June Smith, 45, care worker – shot outside Texas Home Care store in Cheltenham. Her common-law husband Stewart Jobson, 42, a former bus driver who was on bail for previous attack on her, shot himself seconds later.
June 3 – Tracey Cowley, 24 – found by a roadside near Cannock, Staffordshire with a kagoul cord round her neck. Her husband Simon Cowley, 31, was jailed for life for her murder at Nottm CC in July 1995. The couple were known to neighbours as Mr and Mrs Anorak. He killed her during a bizarre sex act.
June 1 – Kadijatu Kamara, 26 – battered to death and left in the freezer at her home in Camberwell, south London. Her husband, Ibrahim Bangura, 29, fled to Sierra Leone but was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and jailed for 3 and a half years at the Old Bailey in Sep 2002. His sister Sento Bangura also fled to Sierra Leone but moved to Holland.
June 1 – Jimmy Moody, 55, notorious gangster – shot 4 times in the Royal Hotel (pub) in Lauriston Road, Hackney. Moody had escaped from prison in 1980 and been on the run ever since. Unsolved. It is widely thought that Danny Roff (himself later murdered) was the gunman.
May 1993
May 31 – Eric Goodwin, 73 – stabbed at his home in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. His son Ray Goodwin, 35, then cut his head off. But the trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard Eric was a violent father and Ray was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 8 years.
May 31 – Chris “Tuffy” Bourne, 34, Yardie cocaine dealer – gunned down in Vassalls Road on the Russell Grove estate in Brixton. Ray Grant, 28, a rival Jamaican drug dealer, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in March 1994 and given a minimum tariff of 20 years. Devon Lindo, Albert Gentles, 23, and Barrington Howard, 20, were all acquitted.
May 31 – Keith Shepherd, 53, from Acomb, Northumberland – stabbed in the groin at a party in Hexham. Thomas Maguire, 24, a gatecrasher, was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of provocation at Newcastle CC in 1994 and jailed for 5 years. Mr Shepherd’s son, Stephen, needed emergency surgery after also being stabbed.
May 30 – Christopher Vaughan, 34, shot at his home in Basil Road, Brixton, S London by three or four men. Unsolved.
May 29 – David Edwards, 26, Yardie drug dealer – shot in Church Road, Norwood, south London. Unsolved.
May 27 – Katrina Monk, 12, schoolgirl – grabbed in an alley in Bradley Road, Enfield, N London. Keith Collard, 24, a computer geek, soft porn addict and sexual inadequate, was convicted of murder at the Old Bailey in Dec 1993. He had been repairing a gate nearby as Katrina walked by. He was released from prison in 2009. Katrina’s stepfather, Lewis Poole-Warren, committed suicide in 2009 after learning Collard might move back to the Enfield area.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197245/Father-murdered-girl-commits-suicide-learning-paedophile-killer-released-near-him.html
? – Darren Corbett, 21, bludgeoned and stabbed at home in Cardiff. Matthew Smith, 24, from Aberarth, Dyfed, was jailed for life. He also killed petty criminal Ian McLoud, 31, in Cardiff jail after he became annoyed by McLoud talking in his sleep.
? – Jamie Smith, (girl) six months old – died at her home in Stone, Staffordshire. Her father Simon Smith, 27, was jailed for life at Stafford CC in July 1996.
May 25 – Norman Roberts, 43, shot outside the Prince Regent pub in Bethnal Green, E London. Michael Pearman was convicted of manslaughter at the Old Bailey in Dec 1993 and jailed for 7 years.
May 24 – Dawn Wisden, 30, daughter of the Danish prime minister – killed in New Compton Street, Soho, London. Anthony Ayers, 27, from Beckton, E London, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in June 1994.
May 23 – Stuart McCue, 25, bricklayer and “hard man” of Whitehawk estate – shot outside the Valley Social Club in Brighton. Mark Ryder, 25, his former best friend, was jailed for life at Lewes CC in Oct 1994. Peter Saville, 40, and Martin Renyard, 27, were acquitted.
May 21 – Sara Lynne Halsey, 20, university student, shot dead in the car park of the former Shark nightclub in Las Vegas. The attacker fled in a car. CrimeStoppers have offered $1,000 reward. Unsolved.
May 21 – John Lockwood, 65, child molester – stabbed in his car in Leeds. A woman, 40, who could never be named for legal reasons was acquitted of murder at Leeds CC in Jan 1994. Her daughter had been molested by Lockwood but she claimed she stabbed him by accident.
May – Michael White, 22, weightlifter – body found in Grand Union Canal in Harlesden, NW London. Linda Bowman, 42, and her daughter Sarah Bowman, 22, were acquitted after a trial at the Old Bailey in Sep 1994. Mrs Bowman was jailed for 3 years for perverting the course of justice. Her daughter was given a suspended sentence.
May 12 – Abdel Hag, 21, Moroccan – shot in the head in a cafe in Brussels. The racist cafe owner was believed to be responsible.
May 3 – Ten people died in a fire in an apartment complex in Westlake, Los Angeles. Two of the dead were pregnant women. In 2017 three people were charged with 12 counts of capital murder. Johanna Lopez, 51, Ramiro “Greedy” Valerio, 43, and Joseph Monge, 41, were allegedly behind the arson attack. Lopez was a crack dealer and she hired the men, from the 18th Street Gang, to get back at the apartment complex manager. Valerio was a “shot caller” with the Columbia Lil Cycos in the 1990s, a violent sect of the 18th Street Gang. The victims were mostly Mexican immigrants. Seven of them were children.
May 3 – Julie Garvey, 37, part-time accountant, and her sons Benjamin, 4, and Hannah, 2, killed at their house in Teddington, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Julie had been battered over the head and the children smothered. Her husband, Dennis Garvey, 40, a computer expert, went missing and his body was found washed up in Suffolk a few days later.
April 1993
Apr 30 – Marina Turvey, 19, and her daughter Charlene, 7 months – shot in Milton Road, Luton. Her ex-boyfriend (and Charlene’s father) David Edwards, 21, was jailed for life at St Albans CC in 1994. Marina’s husband John survived.
Apr 30 – Grant Jackson, 17 – died in a fight at a school in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield. Errol Donaldson, 14, from Notre Dame School, was jailed for life in 1994.
between 27 April and 4 June – Garry Pettitt, 25, drug dealer, and his girlfriend, Jean Larkin, 24 – dumped in shallow grave at Coppull, near Chorley, Lancashire. Frank Mullen, 34, a drug dealer, and his brother Jimmy, 26, were jailed for life at Liverpool CC in Oct 1994.
Apr 27 – Deborah Buxton, 35, wife of a wealthy chemist – stabbed 11 times with garden shears as she walked along a footpath at Marston-on-Dove, Derbyshire. David Bond, 27, from Stretton, Staffs, was jailed for life (40 years) in May 1994. He had attacked a woman in Nottingham 11 weeks earlier.
Apr 22 – Stephen Lawrence, 18, black youth – stabbed at a bus stop in Eltham, SE London, by a group of white youths. A private prosecution of several men failed in 1996. But in 2012 Gary Dobson and David Norris were jailed for life (15 and 14 yrs max respectively) at the Old Bailey. He was the victim of a racist attack and the police were accused of institutional racism by the Macpherson Report which said they failed to follow up leads. One of the main witnesses was Stephen’s friend Duwayne Brooks.
Apr 20 – Paul Milburn, 34 – shot in his car in Bricket Wood, near St Albans, Herts. Justin Clarke, 62, was arrested in Berlin in September 2016 and convicted of murder after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court. He was jailed for life (25 years). Clarke, a former doorman from Merseyside who had also served in the French Foreign Legion, was also found guilty of conspiring to defraud and conspiracy to supply a class B drug.
Apr 19 – Karen McGregor, 26, prostitute and drug addict – stabbed near Scottish Exhibition Centre in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Unsolved.
April 15 – Paul Tierney, 27, burglar – shot as he tried to break into a Yemeni-owned shop in Toxteth, Liverpool. Ahmed Muhsen, 30, security guard, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for a year.Apr 11 – Sharon Hall, 23, and her mother Lilian Hall, 62 – stabbed at the Essoldo bingo hall in Walker, Tyneside. Sharon’s former common-law husband Malcolm McEvoy, 32, was jailed for life in Jan 1994.
Apr 11 – Guillem Agullo, 18, left-wing student from Valencia – stabbed in Montangejos, near Valencia, by right-wing gang. Pedro Cuevas, who had confessed to the stabbing, was jailed for 14 years in prison in 1995 while his co-defendants were acquitted. But Cuevas only served 4 years in prison and stood as a candidate for the Alianza Nacional in municipal elections in 2007.
April 4– Sean Morris, 30, Sheffield United fan from Rotherham – struck with a single punch in a brawl outside Wembley (FA Cup semi final). James Conroy, 34, a Sheffield Wednesday fan, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 3 years.
April 2 – Daniel Driver, 35, Christian Camp employee and paedophile – shot in a courtroom in Tuolomne County, California. Ellie Nesler, 41, whose 7 year old daughter was one of Driver’s victims, was jailed for involuntary manslaughter and died of cancer in 2008.
April 12 – Sarah Guy, 34 – killed at her home in Stapleton Road, Easton, Bristol. Her boyfriend James Bullock, 39, hanged himself in HMP Horfield, Bristol, a week later.
April – Andrea Yorath, 20 – stabbed at home in Folkestone, Kent. Her jealous boyfriend Matthew Allen, 20, was jailed for life at Maidstone CC in April 1994.
April – Jean Bellis, 38, stabbed with scissors in the living room of her home in Kingstanding, Birmingham. Her lover, Peter “Pee Wee” Hastings, 25, was jailed for life at Birmingham CC in 1999.
April – Anabel Segura, 22, daughter of wealthy industrialist – abducted on a Madrid street, held for £750,000 ransom and then hanged within hours. Emilio Munoz, 38; and Candido Ortiz, 27, were both jailed for 39 years each. Munoz’s wife Felisa admitted posing as Anabel in a phone call but said she was in fear of her husband.
March 1993
Mar 28 – Carol Clark, 32, Bristol prostitute – strangled and dumped in Sharpness docks, south Gloucestershire. Unsolved. May have been “Midlands Ripper” or may even have been Fred West. No DNA evidence.
Mar 27 – Jean Bradley, 47, air stewardess from Crowthorne, Berkshire – stabbed as she got into her BMW outside Acton Town underground station in west London. Frank Marnell, 39, from Northolt, was charged but the case was dropped as he had an alibi and the only evidence against him were eyewitnesses who were contradicted. Mr Marnell suffered from mental illness. Unsolved.
March – Barry Bradford was attacked in the grounds of Highwood Hospital in Brentwood, Essex. Lawrence Mullin stabbed him several times in the throat and chest, stripped him from the waist down and stamped on his head. He then threw mud over Mr. Bradford’s face and, in a sinister ritual, placed a single daffodil on either side of the dead man’s head. When police arrested Mullin they learned he had also attacked a 16-year-old girl in a similar random attack. Mullin was jailed for life and spent 21 years in prison. When he was released he returned to his native Barbados. On March 19, 2018 he allegedly murdered Laura Springer, 56, whose body was found at her home in the small town of Christ Church. https://sputniknews.com/europe/201804091063360179-convicted-murderer-charged-barbados/
Mar 23 – Zulbiye Gunduz, 12, Turkish girl – killed outside her home in the Netherlands. She was killed a psychotic patient.
Mar 20 – Sergeant Bill Forth, 34, police officer – stabbed in Clover Hill, Gateshead when he attended reports of a domestic incident. Paul Weddle, 25, who was high on drugs, drink and glue at the time, was jailed for life in Feb 1994 at Newcastle CC. Phillip English, 15, was detained under HM Pleasure but was freed on appeal in 1997 after it was proved he was in a nearby street at the time of the stabbing. Weddle can apply for parole in 2018.
Mar 15 – Joan Douglas, 50, factory worker – stabbed in the chest at home in Bedlington, Northumberland. Paul Allison, a burglar, was jailed for life at Newcastle CC.
Mar 10 – Richard Miles, 29, panel beater – stabbed in the back garden of his home in Newtown, near Stroud, Gloucestershire. Unsolved. Police later tried to claim it might have been suicide.
Mar 5 – Maria Sloane, 79 – stabbed in her home in Sunderland. Her nephew Anthony Finnegan, 28, was jailed for life for her murder after a trial at Newcastle CC in Jan 1994. The star witness was Finnegan’s disabled cousin (Mrs Sloane’s son) Eddie, who was also attacked. Motive was money for drugs.
Mar 4 – Joanne Sherbourne, 24 – vanished after leaving a nightclub in Brighton. Body was found on the Devil’s Dyke, near Hove. Stephen Dallimore-Cooper, 30, a barman, was jailed for life in 1994.
Mar 1 – Murray Pugh, 24, student teacher from Bath – killed in Cheltenham High Street. Paul Wheway, 21, from Cheltenham, was jailed for life at Bristol CC in June 1994.
February 1993
Feb 28 – Ruslan Zaurbekovich Utsiev, 39, and his brother Nazarbek Utsiev, 20 – shot in the head and trussed up in polythene at a house in Harrow, Middlesex. Nkrtitch Martirossian, 30, hanged himself in prison while awaiting trial. Gagik Ter-Ogannisyan, 33, an Armenian former KGB officer, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in October 1993. The trial heard that Ruslan Utsiev was the Chechen “prime minister” and they were killed to stop attempts by the Chechens to buy arms to launch an independence struggle. The trial was also told that an assassin from the Armenian mafia in Los Angeles, Ashot Detmendzian, was due to be hired to carry out the hit but he could not get a UK visa. Ter-Ogannisyan was married to a BBC producer, Alison Ponting, and her sister was later killed in revenge by a Chechen hit squad. Ter-Ogannisyan was due for parole in 2008. It is not clear if he has been released yet.
Feb 28 – Harold Dixon, 68, killed in Peterborough. Simon Coles, 24, unemployed, was jailed for life for his murder at Northampton CC in Feb 94.
Feb 23 – Amaranath Bandaratilleke, 32, Sri Lankan barrister’s clerk who also ran a newsagents, R&R Agencies in King Street, Hammersmith. Shot during a robbery. Eyjolfur Andrews, 16, a heroin addict and the son of TV actor Barry Andrews, was jailed for life at Old Bailey in Dec 1993. He stole 26p in the robbery. Andrews’ minimum tariff of 9 years was increased by the home secretary to 12 but later reduced back down to 9 by judges. Sam Perman, 18, was also convicted of manslaughter. He was not the shooter.
Feb 22 – Matthew Fleming, retired civil servant, killed on The Loan Path, near Livingston, Scotland. Andrew Deacons, 23, from Livingston, was jailed for life in 1994.
Feb 20 – Fiaz Mirza, 42, taxi driver – killed at Victoria Dock in east London. Mark and Ricky Lee were jailed for life in Sep 1993. The trial heard the motivation may have simply been racism. Melanie Myers, 19, was acquitted. She was later jailed for life for killing another taxi driver in April 1994.
Feb – Bulic Forsythe, a senior manager in Lambeth Council’s housing department was murdered in south London. In 2016 his death was reinvestigated by Scotland Yard. Those who knew Forsythe say he was worried about things he had discovered – and was considering going public. But nobody has ever been able to establish what he had discovered or whether this provoked his murder. Witnesses told the police they saw three men walking away from Forsythe’s flat, carrying bags of documents and files – shortly before his home was set alight. Forsythe’s body was inside – his skull had been fractured. He was reportedly about to blow the whistle on a paedophile ring.
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/was-bulic-forsythe-killed-part-sex-abuse-cover
Feb 17 – Monica Rippin, 68, was hit in the face at home in Peterborough, during a robbery. The attacker stole her handbag. Unsolved.
Feb 15 – Elbrous Evdoev, 32, Russian-born gangster, was shot three times in the head and dumped in a parking lot which was covered in snow at GI Auto Parts, a salvage yard in Pine Brook, New Jersey. His body was found frozen solid on March 6. He was last seen in the Sea Gate area of Brooklyn. Evdoev was born in Odessa and ran a strip club called VIP International in Avenue U, Brooklyn. He was involved with Russian mafia. In June and July 1992 he survived two separate shootings. Evdoev claimed Monya Elson, a Russian mafia mob boss had put a contract out on him. Elson was associated with Moscow mafia boss Semion Mogilevitch. Unsolved.
Feb 15 – Christopher Rogers, 39, gay Labour councillor – stabbed at a house in Carlton, Nottingham. Mr Rogers was deputy chairman of Manchester City Council’s education committee. Colin Henry, 35, a gay joiner, from Carlton, was jailed for life at Nottingham CC in Feb 1994. The trial heard Mr Rogers was a sado-masochist who was wearing a PVC basque when he died. Henry was a believer in witchcraft while Rogers believed in Satanism. They had rowed about the relative merits of both creeds. A third homosexual, Paul Simmonds, was also at the house and gave evidence at the trial.
Feb 14 – James Bulger, 2 – abducted from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle, Liverpool, while his mother Denise was distracted. He was led away and taken to a freight railway line at Cherry Hill in Walton. There he was stoned and beaten to death and had paint splashed on him. He was left for dead and body was hit by a train. Robbie Thompson, and Jon Venables, who were both 10, and from Walton, went on trial at Preston CC in Nov 1993, convicted of murder and detained during HM Pleasure. Their minimum tariff was set at 8 years, which caused outrage. It was later increased to 10 years by the Court of Appeal and to 15 years by the home secretary Michael Howard. But this was later adjudged to be illegal and their tariff was reduced. Venables and Thompson were both released in 2001 and given new identities with draconian restrictions banning the press from revealing their new names. In 2010 Venables, by then 27 and living in Cheshire, was jailed for 2 years for possessing child pornography images. He was released again in 2012 and in 2013 someone posted an image on the internet purporting to show what he looks like now.
Feb 13 – Pauline Turner, 30, and her son Jamie Turner, 2 – killed at their home in Ronkswood, Worcester. She was stabbed 60 times and mutilated. He was strangled. Darren Gale, 24, a factory worker, from Worcester, was jailed for life at Hereford CC in June 1994. Gale had drunk 11 pints and was searching for someone to have sex with.
Feb 12 – Doris Shelley, 82, died after a burglary at her home in Martlesham, Suffolk. Unsolved. Supporters of Simon Hall (who was convicted of murdering Joan Albert in Capel St Mary – which is on the other side of Ipswich – in 2001) claim he is innocent and an unknown person may have killed both Doris and Joan.
Feb 12 – Wesley McSwan, five months old – at home in Boscombe Down, near Amesbury, Wiltshire. Wesley had been smashed against his mother’s shoulder. His father Lee McSwan, 22, was convicted of manslaughter in Feb 1994 at Winchester CC and jailed for 8 years. He had claimed Wesley’s mother, Karen Symes, was responsible.
Feb 10 –“Flash” Harry Fuller, 45, car dealer, and his wife Nicola Fuller, 27, were shot at their cottage in Wadhurst, East Sussex. Stephen Young, 34, an insurance broker from Pembury, Kent, was jailed for life at Hove CC in Feb 1994. He had to be retried after it emerged that the jury had used a Ouija board during their deliberations. The trial heard he had £100,000 debts and hoped to find a lot of cash in the house. The trial also heard a 999 call Mrs Fuller made before she was killed. Young remains in jail but still protests his innocence.
Feb 6 – Stephen Smith, 30, stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle outside the Archer Inn in Plymouth. Alex Binnie, who brandished the bottle, was cleared of manslaughter. Stephen Williams, Michael Andrews and Stephen Burt were all jailed for violent disorder. The gang planned to confront barman Derek Lewis.
Feb 4 – Roger Dale, 46, a taxi driver, from Liskeard, Cornwall – shot in a lane near Helland on Bodmin Moor. Shane Williams, 22, a factory worker, from Bodmin, was jailed for life at Truro CC in Dec 1993. He had told his girlfriend the previous day that he was going to “kill a cabbie”. At the trial Williams claimed he was trying to rob Mr Dale and put the shotgun in his mouth to scare him but it went off.
January 1993
Jan ?- Paul Sheldon – stabbed 71 times in Edinburgh. Andrew Somerville, 29, a complete stranger, was jailed for life in Sep 1993.
Jan 31 – Paul Kempster, 48 – stabbed in Bristol Road, Quedgeley, Gloucester. Thomas Lundberg, 41, was jailed for life at Bristol CC in April 1994 with a 7 years tariff. He was the estranged husband of Marian Lundberg and Kempster was her new lover. Lundberg’s son, Ziggy, was injured in the incident.
Jan 31 – Nasim Bibi, 23 – bludgeoned to death in Marsh, Huddersfield. Abdul Ghaffar, 28, was jailed for life at Leeds CC in Sep 1994.
Jan – Stacey Queripel, 7 – strangled in woods near Bracknell, Berkshire. Her mother Gilliane Queripel, 33, was initially questioned about her death but she was never charged. The case remains unsolved. In 1998 Stacey’s stepfather Barry Queripel was himself murdered.
Jan 30 – Ronald Wright, 37 – stabbed at Kelham Green in St Ann’s district of Nottingham. John Connellan, 20, and his brother David Connellan, 19, were jailed for life in March 1994 at Nottingham CC. They got into a row with Mr Wright over his barking dog. Their father, Derek Connellan, 46, and a friend, Andrew Duncan, 21, were acquitted of murder and manslaughter.
Jan 27 – Mark Askham, 20, beaten up outside Silks nightclub in Redcar, stripped and left for dead on the beach, where he drowned. Michael Emmerson, 27, was only arrested in 1996 and was acquitted of murder but jailed for 6 years for manslaughter in 1997.
Jan 22– Arthur Brumhill, 76 – beaten over the head with a tyre lever at Denton’s pet shop in Wellingborough Road, Northampton. Unsolved. The killer is believed to have been wearing a yellow shirt.
Jan 22 – Linda Fleming, 23, trainee pharmacist from Elland – bludgeoned to death and dumped by the B6114 near Scammonden, Huddersfield. Her father Derek Fleming, 51, a joinery manager, was jailed for life in Jan 1994. They had rowed about his work.
Jan 20 – Claire Tiltman, 16 – stabbed 9 times in an alley in Dartford, Kent, as she walked to a friend’s house. In Feb 2014 Colin Ash-Smith, by now 45, was jailed for life for murder in December 2014. At his trial he claimed Robert Napper may have been responsible.
Jan 17 – Janet Maloney, 41, was run over by a Daimler car outside her home in Chapel Row, Bucklebury, Berkshire. Her businessman husband Gerald Maloney, 41, was jailed for life at Reading CC in Jan 1994.
Jan 14 – David Watkins, 30, a cannabis dealer from Reading, was lured to Searles Farm Lane, Pingewood, Berkshire, made to kneel down and shot in the back of the head. Andrew Everson, 54, from Weymouth, denied murdering Watkins and was cleared of murder in 1994. But after the double jeopardy law was scrapped he was free to be tried again. The court heard tests revealed a “close match” between fibres on Mr Watkins’ clothing and fibres used in the upholstery of a Peugeot 309 belonging to Mr Everson, from Weymouth. Watkins had run out of his supply and had believed he was going to purchase a large amount of the drug on the day his death. He left home with £6,000 in cash to buy drugs from a man known as Drew.
Jan 13 – Peter Davis, 23, unemployed – died of head injuries after an attack in Elson, Gosport, Hants. John Wright, 57, from Gosport, was acquitted of murder at a trial in Dec 1994. His son, John Wright, 32, was convicted of manslaughter at the same trial at Winchester CC and jailed for 7 years, reduced on appeal to 4 years.
Jan – Jacqueline Evans – her body was found in the river at Tinkersdale, near Harden, Clwyd, North Wales. Her policeman husband Sgt Stuart Evans was jailed for life in 1994 and spent time in HMP Nottingham.
Jan 12 – Kevin ‘Rico’ Richardson, 29, convicted killer and one of the leaders of Strangeways prison riot, was shot dead in Park End, Middlesbrough. Gangster Keith McQuade, 38, was charged with murder but charges were dropped at Guisborough magistrates court. Also cleared was Dawn Downey. McQuade was later charged with murdering Lee King in 2000 but was acquitted. He was however jailed for life for firearms offences and died in Hull jail in 2009.
Jan 9 – Richard Ehlenfeldt, 50, restaurant owner and his wife Lynn, 49; and employees Michael Castro, 16; Rico Solis, 17; Marcus Nellsen, 31; Thomas Mennes, 32; and Guadelupe Maldonado, 46 – shot at Brown’s Chicken and Pasta diner in suburb of Palatine, Chicago, during a bungled robbery which netted only $2,000. In 2007 Juan Luna, who had been 18 at the time of the murders, was jailed for life after one of the jurors voted against the death penalty. In Illinois death penalty has to follow a unanimous decision. In 2009 Luna’s friend, James Degorski, who was two years older, was also jailed for life after two jurors voted against the death penalty. Both men maintain their innocence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4148355.stm
Jan 4 – Percy Noble, 80, was beaten to death at his home in Sleights, North Yorkshire. In April 1994 Karl Pride, 21, unemployed, from Scarborough was jailed for life at Teesside CC. Motive was robbery but he took only an electric razor.
Jan 3 – Donald Urquhart, 55, Scottish millionaire businessman/crook from Royston, Herts – shot 3 times by a motorcyclist as he walked down Marylebone High Street, central London. Urquhart’s Thai girlfriend, Rattiya Iamsrithong, was unhurt. Graeme West, 32, a bankrupt roofer turned bouncer and hitman was jailed for life for the murder in Dec 1994. He was paid £20,000. Andrew Karn, 29, was acquitted of murder at the same trial at the Old Bailey but was jailed for 2 years for firearms offences. Geoffrey Heath, 36, a taxi driver and middleman from Maltby in Yorkshire was later jailed for 5 years for his role. The alleged mastermind has yet to be brought to justice.
Jan 3 – John “Benjie” Stanley, 14 – shot at Alvina’s pattie and dumpling shop in Moss Side, Manchester. Unsolved. Despite his age, Benjie was reportedly a drug courier who had £25,000 in a building society account. The inquest heard he had swapped coats with a friend, Neville “Tito” Gunning, who might have been a case of mistaken identity.
Jan 3 – Angela Stewart, 25, from Wrecclesham, Surrey – beaten and burned in Alice Holt Forest, near Bordon, Hants. Her husband Ben Stewart, 24, a camera technician, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in July 1993. The trial heard he had been having an affair with a neighbour.
Jan 1 – James Campbell, 25 – stabbed at home in Huddersfield. His wife Tracy, 21, was charged with murder was acquitted at Leeds CC in 1994.
1992
December 1992
Dec – Richard Harris, 31 – killed at his flat in Leamington Spa, Warks. Karen McBlane, 25, went on trial at Birmingham CC in Feb 1994.
Dec 28 – Steven Clark, 23, vanished near his home in Marske, near Redcar on Teesside. He was last seen using the public toilets near Saltburn Pier after a family walk. In 1999 a handwritten letter was received by Cleveland Police. The writer of the letter came forward in 2020. Det Chief Inspector Shaun Page said finding its writer had been a “significant moment in the investigation”. In September 2020 Cleveland Police said a witness had seen Mr Clark later on Dec 28 near his home.
Dec 26 – James Eggleton, 70 – stabbed 18 times in the village of Russell’s Water, Oxfordshire. His neighbour Paul Beechey, 38, was jailed for life at a retrial at Oxford CC in 1995 (after a hung jury at the first trial). Beechey was a drug abuser and thought he would get £1k by burgling Eggleton’s house.
Dec 26 (Boxing Day) – John Savva, 43, hotel manager – stabbed 3 times at the Metropole Hotel in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. David Mangan, 24, unemployed, was charged with murder but committed suicide while in HMP Winchester in Feb 1993.
Dec 26 – Kathleen Rogers, 39 – found in a ditch at Wetheringsett, near Debenham, Suffolk. Her partner Sidney Wood, 43, was jailed for life at Norwich CC in Dec 1993.
Dec 25 (Christmas Day) – Jahangir Akhtar, 36, taxi driver – killed in Nottingham. Christopher Dore, 25, was jailed for life at Nottingham CC in Feb 1994.
Dec 23 – Johanna Young, 14, beaten and sexually assaulted, before being dumped in a frozen gravel pit in Watton, Norfolk. Body was found in Boxing Day. Unsolved.
Dec 22 – Sarah Burke, 99, originally from Lancashire – stamped on at The Green, a council-owned residential home in Redruth, Cornwall. Del Hampson, 21, unemployed, was jailed for life for the murder. He had been drinking heavily and broke into the home around 3am.
Dec 20 – Gillian Bennett, 33, travel agent – tied up, stabbed and set on fire in Streatham, south London. Winston Goulbourne, 25, a car salesman, was jailed for life (20 years tariff) at the Old Bailey in August 1993. The trial heard that Gillian bought a car from him 10 days earlier and he had sabotaged it to give himself a pretext to go and see her. He killed her when she resisted his advances. Goulbourne was obsessed with sex, had 2 girlfriends and had just had sex with one of them before he went to Gillian’s flat.
Dec 18 – Peter Wickins, 32, video game retailer, from Chelsea – stabbed 19 times in a flat in Fulham. Gordon Topen, 22, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Nov 1993. The trial heard Topen’s girlfriend, Frances Graham, 33, was a prostitute and Wickins was one of her clients but Topen was jealous and thought Wickins was her secret lover. Topen, who was on drugs at the time, stole a Rolex watch, a wallet and a pair of cufflinks from the victim. Miss Graham was the main prosecution witness. Wickins’ firm was Game, which later became a major high street chain.
Dec 18 – Brenda Howe, from Walthamstow – her body was found in Wake Valley Lake in Loughton, Essex. Her husband Brian Howe, 44, was charged with murder but acquitted after a trial at the Old Bailey in June 1993. Their only child, John Howe, aged 7, gave evidence against him, saying he saw them fighting through a hole in the bedroom wall. But Mr Howe claimed she went out shopping at 5.30am, after the fight in the middle of the night.
Dec 17 – Jonathan Zito, 27, musician from Hornsey – stabbed in the eye as he stood on the platform at Finsbury Park tube station. Christopher Clunis, 30, a paranoid schizophrenic, was found guilty of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. His widow, Jayne Zito, founded the Zito Trust to campaign for more measures to protect the public from dangerous mentally ill people. The Trust closed in 2009, after the 2007 Mental Health Act was introduced, tightening up restrictions on “care in the community” patients.
Dec 13 – Suzanne Capper, 16 – tortured, injected with drugs and eventually set on fire at a house in Moston, Manchester. Her body was dumped on a golf course in Romiley, near Stockport. Glyn Powell, 28; his wife Jeannette Powell, 25; Bernadette McNeilly, 23; and Andthony Dudson, 16, were jailed for life with tariffs of 25 years (except Dudson who got 18 year tariff). Jeffrey Leigh, 26, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 12 years for false imprisonment. Clifford Pook, 17, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 15 years for false imprisonment. Leigh was freed in 1998 and Pook in 2001. Dudson is due to be released in 2013.
Dec 12 – David Martin, 49, businessman – disappeared from his home in Naphill, Buckinghamshire. Colin James, 49, his business partner, from Mill Hill, north London, was convicted of murder and jailed for life at the Old Bailey in May 1994 despite Martin’s body never being found.
Dec 10 – Bob Osbourne, 40 – killed outside his home in Streatham, south London. Joe Elliott, 19, a suspected vandal who had been taking LSD, was acquitted at the Old Bailey in July 1993. He claimed self-defence. The trial heard Mr Osbourne was a “good neighbour” who had come out to remonstrate with Elliott, who claimed Mr Osbourne was armed with a hammer.
Dec 7 – Grace Livingstone, 50 – shot through the back of the head at her house in The Moorings, Dublin. Unsolved. Her husband was James, head of the Special Inquiry Branch of the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland. He discovered the body and was questioned by the Garda. In 2011 Mr Livingstone claimed she was killed by an IRA sniper on the orders of a Provo boss he was investigating at the time.
Dec 2 – Harold Smith, 71, and his wife Mary, 72, and their wheelchair-bound son Harold, 47 – tortured, stabbed and beaten by burglars at their home in Northfield, Birmingham. Unsolved.
November 1992
Nov – Andre Blackman – shot at a dance in Stoke Newington, N London. Leroy “Scarface” Lesley, 26, a Yardie, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in Aug 1993.
Nov 28 – Navid Kazami, 19, university student, was shot dead at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. He had been due to testify at a grand jury about a shooting which blinded a man in Bethsesda.
Nov 21 – Natalie Pearman, 16, prostitute, originally from village of Mundesley, Norfolk – strangled and dumped in a lovers’ lane at Ringland Hills, outside Norwich. Unsolved. May have been work of a serial killer, possibly even Ipswich killer Stephen Wright.
November 18 – Lisa Bayliss, 20, trainee audiology technician at Royal Liverpool Hospital – beaten and strangled in a layby near Knowsley Safari Park, Merseyside. Paul Higham, 27, a bus driver from Wigan, was jailed for life in Sep 1993. Lisa has been a passenger on his bus.
Nov 8 – Angela Brasso, 22, left home to ride her bike. Her decapitated body was later found in the field just east of her apartment complex in Phoenix, Arizona. On September 22, 1993, Melanie Bernas, 17, was also riding her bike when her murdered body was found near the Black Canyon Freeway and Thunderbird Road. In Jan 2015 Bryan Miller (by then 42) was arrested and charged with these cold case murders. Miller called himself a “zombie hunter” and drove around in a decommissioned police car. He maintained a Facebook page named “Arizona Zombie Hunter” and posted several photos of himself at various events. There is even a photo taken with police officers.