FULL LIST OF ALL THE HOMICIDES (MURDERS AND MANSLAUGHTERS) SINCE JAN 2020, INCLUDING LILY WHITEHOUSE (PICTURED), WHO WAS KILLED ON 5 NOVEMBER 2025.

2025

Dec 10 – Xiaoqing Ke, 39, a Chinese woman, was found inside a flat in Earls Court, London. She had been stabbed to death. Deepak Sandhu, 23, from Southampton, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 9 – Adam Henry, 15, was stabbed to death in Westbourne Road, Islington, north London. Tsidi Winion, 20, of Handyside Street, Camden, has been charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon and awaits trial. Police also appealed to the public for help in tracing Abdel Derdour, 22.

Dec 3 – Ruben Nunes, 34, from Peterborough, was killed after he was hit by a car in Chapel Close, Willesden, NW London. He is believed to have just left nearby Willesden Magistrates Court. Shakaine Dwyer, 29, from Willesden, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and awaits trial.

Dec 2 – Harley Purdue, 19, was stabbed to death in Chatham, Kent. Musa Hussen-Salih, 18, from Launceston Road, Greenford, west London, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 1 – Micah Whitely, 22, was stabbed to death in High Street, Wembley, NW London. It has been reported he was a drill rapper from Stonebridge known as MB. Kevon Jenkins, 22, from Wharton Close, on the Church End estate, Wembley has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

November 2025

Nov 16 – Kereen Ackeem Holder, 33, known as Aco Small, was shot dead in Station Hill, St Michael, Barbados. He was found lying in the street in the pouring rain. A friend of Holder’s was shot dead three days later, again in Station Hill.

Nov 7 – Katie Fox, 34, was stabbed in the neck on Smallbrook Queensway in Birmingham shortly before 9pm on a Friday night. She died in hospital on 10 Nov. Djeison Rafael, 21, who was originally charged with attempted murder, was later charged with murder and awaits trial.

Nov 5 – Lily Whitehouse, 19, was found with multiple fatal injuries in Park Street, Oldbury, West Midlands at around 9.50pm on Bonfire Night. She was the mother of a young baby. Mohammed Azim, 41, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Nov 5 – Kyle Bevan, 33, was found dead in his cell at HMP Wakefield in Yorkshire. He had been serving a life sentence for murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter Lola James in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in 2020. Mark Fellows, 45, Lee Newell, 56 and David Taylor, 63, are due to face trial on 2 June 2026. It was the second murder in the jail in the space of a few weeks. Ian Watkins was murdered on Oct 11.

Nov 5 – Charles Belsham, 43, was killed in Chatham, Kent. Mark Jesse, 51, from Chatham, and Shane Rule, 41, have been charged with murder. Earlier a car was set alight outside a home in the Walderslade area of Chatham. The incident was also linked to the theft of a vehicle on October 29.

Nov 3 – Terry McFadyen, 71, was stabbed at his home in Bowthorpe, Norwich, in the early hours. Moses Fernandes, 22, who lived with him, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Nov 1 – Six people were shot dead in Reiger Park, Boksburg, near Johannesburg, South Africa. According to the police, two vehicles – a silver Polo and a black Polo – drove into the area and opened fire on a group of people. It is linked to gang warfare. The National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola met with the Gauteng acting Police Commissioner Major General Fred Kekana to discuss the police’s response.

Nov 1 – Charles Belsham, 43, was stabbed to death in a house in Chatham, Kent. Mark Jesse, 51 and 41-year-old Shane Rule, have been charged with murder and await trial. Mr Jesse has also been charged with arson and handling stolen goods.

October 2025

Oct 27 – Wayne Broadhurst, 49, was stabbed to death in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge. A second man, 45, was taken to hospital with life-changing injuries and a boy, 14, was also injured. A man was arrested after being Tasered. Safi Dawood, 22, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. The Home Office confirmed the suspect entered the UK in a lorry in November 2020, was granted asylum and leave to remain in 2022, and does not live in Home Office accommodation.

Oct 21 – A nine-year-old girl died at a house in the village of Islip, Oxfordshire. Police said they attended the house after a 999 caller reported that three children had been assaulted. Two other children, a boy and a girl, were taken to hospital for treatment and have since been discharged. A 49-year-old woman was also taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition. None of those involved have been named.

Oct 21– Rinneau Perrineau, 19, was stabbed to death in a food and wine ship in Lavender Hill, Wandsworth, south London. Muhammed Cabdiqaadir, 25, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Oct 15 – Sanchini Thompson, 27, was stabbed to death in Rushey Green, Lewisham, SE London at 3am. Earl Junior Strachan, 33, was arrested in Scotland. He was charged with murder and possession of a knife. He awaits trial.

Oct 13 – Sonia Exelby, 32, from Portsmouth in England, went missing after visiting Florida and not catching her flight home. On 17 October her remains were found in Marion Oaks, Florida. On 17 Nov the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced Dwain Hall, 53, from Ocala, Florida, had been arrested on suspicion of kidnap and first-degree murder. NBC said an affidavit said Exelby had long struggled with mental health problems, was suicidal and “planned to travel to the United States with the intention of meeting with online individuals who would be willing to kill her violently.”

Oct 12 – Meraj Ul Zahra, aged two, and Abdul Momin Alfaateh, aged three, were killed at their home in Stafford. Their mother, aged 43, was arrested on suspicion of murder and detained under the Mental Health Act.

Oct 11 – Ian Watkins, 48, former lead singer with the Lostprophets, was stabbed in the neck in his cell at HMP Wakefield, where he had been serving a 29-year jail sentence for child sex offences including the attempted rape of a baby. Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, have been charged with his murder and awaits trial in 2026.

Oct 8 – Suman Mokhtarian, 33, a former UFC fighter, was shot dead in Sydney, Australia. Senior police officers told the ABC news an earlier investigation into a failed attempt on Mokhtarian’s life uncovered intelligence that the Alameddine crime family had put out a contract to kill him.

Oct 4 – Bertoldo Pantaleon Estrada, 58, a missing priest, was found died in Guerrero state. He was reported missing by the diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa. He was the pastor of the San Cristobal church in the town of Mezcala, which is dominated by narco cartels.

Oct 4 – Two children, aged 4 and 13, were shot dead in a car in Angleton, Texas. Two other children, aged 3 and 8, survived. The 3-year-old has been identified by her grandfather as Amari Chappell. He said: “She had a beautiful smile, just like her dad.” The children’s mother, Oninda Romelus, 31, a Haiti-born tax agent, has been charged with murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Brazoria County Sheriff Bo Stallman said she is being held on a $14 million bond. Chappell said of her: “I didn’t see anything wrong with her personality. She seemed like a beautiful person. She had a wonderful job and everything.“

Oct 3 – Mark Calcagni, the manager of the Condor Club strip club, was shot and killed near his home in Santa Rosa, California. Richard Lund, 43, has been charged with murder. Lund’s romantic partner, Asia Morton, 25, of helping plan the attack.  They both used to work at the club. They await trial.

September 2025

Sep 27 – Shaun Latimer-Kayser, 44, was stabbed in Camden, north London. Dwight Merrick, 35 from Beckenham, has charged with murder, possession of an offensive weapon, possession of a bladed article. He was also charged with common assault relating to an incident earlier in the day. He awaits trial.

Sep 27 – Joy Rogers, 64, of Southport; Solomon Banjo, 36, of Charlottesville, Virginia; and Michael Durbin, 56, of Galena, Ohio were shot dead at the American Fish Company, a waterfront bar in Southport, North Carolina. Five others were injured. Soon after the shootings, authorities arrested Nigel Edge, 40, a decorated Marine veteran, and charged him with three first-degree murder counts along with five attempted-murder and five weapons-related assault counts.

Sep 26 – Roy Mcintosh, 62, died in a street fight in Cowley, Uxbridge. Igor Polikarski, 33, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 21 – At 5.27am Tyrece Balcha, 18, from Hillingdon, was shot dead outside a bar in Atlantic Crescent, Wembley, London. Adem Altindal, 32, from Wood Green, and Ashley Wallace, 40, from Southwark have both been charged with murder and await trial.

Sep 21 – Imtiaz Mir, a TV news anchorman,  who hosted the show “Aaj Ki Baat With Imtiaz Mir” on Metro 1 News channel, was shot by two men riding a motorbike in the Malir district of Karachi, Pakistan. His killers are believed to be affiliated with a group, Lashkar-e-Sarullah. Four men – Ijlal Zaidi, Shahab, Ehsan Abbas and Faraz Ahmed – were arrested.

Sep 19 – Morena Verdi, 20, and her cousin Brenda del Castillo, 20, and 15-year-old Lara Morena Gutiérrez, were tortured to death at a house in Florencio Varela, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, while it was livestreamed on social media.  They had been lured by an international drugs gang to the house with a promise of being paid to attend a party. Argentine police arrested seven suspects in the days following the crime – including the man suspected of digging the hole in which the women were buried and a man and his niece, who police say drove the car in which the victims were taken to the house. Ten days later Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, 20, also known as “Little J”, was arrested near Lima, Peru. He was the alleged mastermind.

Sep 19 – Duaine Mills, 28, was shot dead in Leicester Street, Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton at 3.10am. A second man, in his 30s, was critically injured. Mohammed Maneer Khan, aged 38, was named by West Midlands Police as a suspect. Khan, who is known as Manny, is from Wolverhampton. The killing is believed to be gang-related. The area is home to two gangs – Dunstall Boys and WV1.

Sep 17 – Detective Sgt. Cody Becker, Detective Mark Baker and Detective Isaiah Emenheiser were shot dead after they were ambushed by a suspected stalker, Matthew Ruth, 24, who armed with a rifle who had hidden inside his ex-girlfriend’s home in the rolling farmland of southern Pennsylvania. Two other officers were seriously wounded before police shot Ruth to death in a hail of gunfire that capped a 15-hour siege. Police believed Ruth had planned to ambush his ex-girlfriend before the detectives walked in.

Sep 15 – Steven Kempster, 65, was killed in Exeter prison, Devon. James Desborough, 39, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 15 – Mohanad Abdullai Goobe, 15, was stabbed in Moss Side, Manchester, at 4.30pm and died in hospital. A boy aged 15 has been charged with his murder.

Sept 15 – Heather Edwards died in a fire at a farmhouse in Bwlchllan, near Lampeter in rural Wales. A 58-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder but later released by Dyfed-Powys Police who said the fire was “unexplained”.

Sep 13 – Michael Edwards, 43, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, died several days after being attacked in the street in Southwark, London. Lewis Macleod, 36, Sunderland, was charged wit\h causing grievous bodily harm.

September 11 – Tony Scarrott, 80, was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a welfare check at his home in Worthing, West Sussex, where he died three days later. Arno Engels, 39, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 8 – Frank Olton, 76, and Maureen Olton, 77, were found dead in their home in Bellerose, Queens, New York, around 3.30pm, 20 minutes after surveillance video showed Jamel McGriff, 42, walking nearby. The couple’s son, a fire department officer, called 911 after being alerted to a fire at the house by the couple’s alarm monitoring service. Frank Olton was tied to a pole and stabbed, while Maureen Olton’s body was severely burned, according to police. Police said McGriff was going door-to-door asking if he could come in and charge his cellphone. McGriff was on parole after serving 16 years in prison for a robbery. He also is wanted for two recent robberies in Manhattan.

Sep 8 – Kyrone Moodie, 27, was shot in New Park Road, Clapham, south London. He was known by the street name Kyze and was from the 67 gang. Dontai Stuart, 26, of Wandsworth, Karshae Mundle, 27, of Camberwell, and Conner Sullivan, 28, of Clapham, have been charged with conspiracy to murder and attempted murder and await trial.

Sep 6 – Gerard Ring, 82, was found with stab wounds at a house in Derby. Julian Donoher, 50, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 2 – Elsiado Marku, 26, was stabbed to death in Headingley, Leeds. Eljon Markaj, 31, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

? – Daniel Aruebose, who was three at the time, was last seen some time in 2022. But he was not reported missing until August 2025. Daniel lived in The Gallery Apartments in Donabate, Dublin, Republic of Ireland with his mother and her partner, Ciaran Dirrane. His skeletal remains were found on waste ground in Donabate in Sept 2025. It emerged that Daniel’s mother, Maria Aruebose, 28, was stopped at Dublin airport as she attempted to fly to Atlanta in Aug 2025.

August 2025

Aug 31 – Julian Guzman, 11, was playing the “ding dong ditch” prank game of ringing doorbells just before 11pm on a Saturday night in Houston, Texas, when he was shot dead by a householder. Gonzalo Leon Jr, 42, has been charged with murder.

Aug 31 – Adam Khan, 26, was stabbed to death in Luton. A boy and a girl, both aged 16, have been charged with murder.

Aug 30 – Vadim Kruglov, 37, a Russian national, was found dead in a pool of blood at the annual Burning Man art and music festival in the Black Rock Desert about 110 miles north of Reno, Nevada. Unsolved.

Aug 29 – Tia Langdon, 25, was found with significant injuries after falling from a small block of flats in Cuckmere Lane, Southampton. Jaiden Hassan-Agard, 18, has been charged with manslaughter and awaits trial.

Aug 29 – Jessica Cariad Hopkins, 34, was found with her throat slashed late near Koh Pich City Hall in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Kidikila Nganda Glodie, 33, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was arrested at a nearby salon the next day, and has been charged with murder. Cambodian police said: “This murder is a love triangle cause.”

Aug 27 – Yeray Sanchez-Morales, 17, was stabbed to death in the Old Kent Road, south east London. A second teenager was treated for injuries that were not life-changing. A boy, aged 15, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Aug 27 – Halyna Hoisan, who was known as Lina, 29, was stabbed to death in Greenwich, SE London. Yurii Muzyka, 33, from New Malden, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 26 – Two police officers, Neal Thompson, 59, and Vadim De Waart-Hottart, 35, were shot dead when they attended a house in Porepunkah, Victoria, Australia to serve a warrant. The killer is believed to be Dezi Bird Freeman, 56, who went on the run afterwards.

Aug 24 – Cheryl Wilkins, 39, was found unresponsive in the car park of B&M, a shop, in High Road, Tottenham, north London. She was sadly pronounced dead at the scene. She has been identified as Sheryl Wilkins. Simon Levy, 40, has been charged with her murder and awaits trial. He was later also charged with the murder of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, whose body was found in a derelict flat on the Aylesbury estate in SE London, which was in the process of being demolished.

Aug 22 – Iryna Zarutska, 23, a Ukrainian refugee, had her throat slashed from behind as she sat on the Lynx Blue Line train in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was killed as the train came into East/West Boulevard station. DeCarlos Brown Jr, 34, has been charged with first degree murder. He faces trial but his mental health may prevent that. The case became a big cause celebre with people on the right claiming it had been ignored by the mainstream media because the victim was white and the suspect black. President Trump also raised it.

Aug 20 – Junior Coleman, 43, was reported missing and was found, on 19 September, inside a derelict building in Lewisham, SE London. Daniel Watkis, 39, from Hackney, was charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 19 – Sean Small, 84, a convicted paedophile, was murdered at his home in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland. His body was found on 24 August. Mark Bready,  41, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 16 – Zahwa Salah Mukhtar, 27, was attacked in Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex. Several people have been arrested over her death but nobody has been charged.

Aug 12 – Dale Stogden, 50, who was known as Brett, was shot dead at a BP petrol station on Doncaster Road in Wakefield, West Yorkshire just after 9.40pm. Marc Carter, 19, Adam Ahmed, 20, and Leyton Davies, 27, all from Wakefield, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Aug 11 – Athena Georgopoulos, 39, who was 5 months pregnant, and her 50-year-old partner, Andrew Gunn, were killed in a block of flats in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Australia. Mr Gunn’s was found impaled on a spike near the crime scene, police sources told the Herald Sun newspaper. Ross Judd, 34, a homeless man, was later arrested a train station. He has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 10 – Alex Cashford, 49, was found dead after a disturbance in the Warden Bay Road of the Isle of Sheppey, close to Jetty Road. A 16-year-old girl, and two boys, aged 14 and 15, were later charged with his murder and will go on trial at Maidstone Crown Court.

Aug 5 – Erdal Ozmen, 45, was shot dead at 00:18 on 5 August in Dynevor Road, Stoke Newington, north London. He was a member of the Hackney Turks (Bombacilar) gang who had escaped injury when a gunman fired at the Evin restaurant in Dalston in May 2024.

Aug 2 – Ayowale Aladejana, 26, was stabbed to death in New Cross, south east London. Ben Wazabanga, 23, and Ronique Belfon, 23, both from Bedford, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Aug 2 – Jay Gerrett, a scaffolder, from Chelmsford, Essex, died after falling from a wall onto a car in Sittingbourne, Kent. Jack Hunt, 33, Chris McClean, and Daniel Martin have all been charged with murder and await trial.

Aug 1 – Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64, a barmaid, and three customers – Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59, David Allen Leach, 70, and Tony Wayne Palm, 74, were shot dead when a gunman opened fire in The Owl bar in Anaconda, Montana. Michael Paul Brown, 45, was found on Friday afternoon near another pub, The Ranch bar, five miles from the scene of the attack a week later. He awaits trial.

Aug 1 – Mohammed Algasim, 20, a student, from Saudi Arabia, was stabbed in Cambridge, England. He had been on a 10-week placement studying in Cambridge. Chas Corrigan has been charged with murder and possession of a knife in a public place and awaits trial. Peter Corrigan, 50, has been charged with assisting an offender.

Aug 1 – Robert Brown, 57, was discovered by a member of the public on a towpath behind Auctioneers’ Court, beside the River Nene in Northampton. A £20,000 reward has been offered.

Aug 1 – Mohammed Afzal, 19, was stabbed to death in a car park in Bury, Greater Manchester, at 9pm. Biryan Ak, 19, from Longsight, Mohammed Rayhan, 19, from Failsworth, and Abbas Hussain, 19, of Bolton, have been charged with murder and await trial.

July 2025

July 28 – Terry McDermott, 58, from Chiselhurst, and his son Brendan McDermott, 27, were stabbed to death at a business unit in Long Lane, Bermondsey, SE London. A third man was injured. Hassan Cevik, 31, from Hackney, was charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 26 – Hope McGrath, 3, was killed at her home in Leeds. Her mother Pippa McGrath, 47, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 25 – Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, were found dead on a walking trail at Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas, US. Their daughters, who are 7 and 9, were not hurt and are being cared for by family members. Andrew McGann, a 28-year-old elementary school teacher, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 23 – Vanessa Whyte, a veterinary surgeon originally from County Clare, her son, James Rutledge, 14, and daughter, Sara, 13, were shot dead at their home in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The killer was the children’s father, Ian Rutledge, 43, who died of his own self-inflicted injuries on July 27. It later emerged that Rutledge had tried to strangle his wife a week earlier.

July 23 – Derrick Jones, 56, was found dead. At 04:41police officers were called to Walton Road, Ilford after a member of the public found a body of a man between the pavement and the road, wrapped in a sheet. Detectives believe Derrick was socialising with friends at an address on Warrior Square, E12 the day before his death. Crimestoppers has offered a £20,000 reward.

July 22 – Courtney Angus, 21, was stabbed to death at a house in Batley, West Yorkshire. She used to work at the Fox and Hounds pub in Batley, and staff paid tribute on social media. Michael Doherty, 37, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 17 – Jolene Thurton, 39, the owner of Pepper’s Jamaican-Belizean Cuisine was stabbed at her restaurant on West 87th Street, Los Angeles. Known for her flavorful oxtail, jerk chicken, and vibrant community spirit, Thurton built Pepper’s into a cultural cornerstone. A $50,000 reward has been offered by her family.

July 17 – Chandan Mishra, 36, a well known gangster, was shot 28 times by five gunmen inside a hospital in Patna, Bihar, India. Mishra was a convicted murderer who was out on parole. The prime suspect Tauseef alias Badshah, his cousin Nishu Khan, and two aides from Kolkata, were later arrested. India’s Special Task Force intercepted two other suspects – Balwant Kumar Singh (22) and Ravi Ranjan Singh (20) – Bhojpur, Bihar on 22 July. They said when the pair opened fire, police retaliated. Ranjan was injured by a gunshot to the thigh, while Balwant was injured in the hands and feet. Both were arrested. It has been reported Mishra’s assassination was planned by Onkarnath Singh aka Sheru, who was at the time in prison in Purulia jail in West Bengal.

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July 10 – Jennifer Harris, 39, the manager of a McDonald’s restaurant in Eastpointe, near Detroit, Michigan, was stabbed to death at her place of work. An employee, Afeni Badu Muhammad, 26, of Eastpointe, has been charged with first-degree murder, carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent and being a habitual offender, second offence.

July 2 – Four people were shot dead at the Artis Restaurant and Lounge in Chicago at the end of a party celebrating the release of an album by drill rapper Mello Buckzz. The victims were two men – Devonte Williamson, 22, and Leon Henry, 25, and two women – Taylor Walker, 26, and Aviance King, 27. The shooting happened at the end of a party celebrating the release of Mello Buckzz’ latest album “Hollyhood.”  She has appeared to claim an affiliation with a Chicago gang. Mello Buckzz references “NLMB” on her Facebook page, an acronym commonly used to refer to the No Limit Muskegon Boys gang, a faction of both the Black P Stones and Gangster Disciples based on the South Shore. Prominent drill rapper G Herbo is a longtime associate of the gang, and featured on a track of Mello Buckzz’s new album.

July 1 – Daniel Coleman, 43, from St Austell, vanished between 2 June and 7 June. His remains were found in the village of Sticker, near St Austell, Cornwall. James Desborough, 39, of Old Oak Woods, Lower Sticker, had been charged with murder and fraud.  A woman in her 30s from Newquay was also arrested on suspicion of murder.

July 1 – Neil Ashby, 46, was killed in his cell at HMP Stoke Heath in Shropshire. A fellow inmate, Jonathan Alcide, 26, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. Ashby, from the Black Country, had been convicted of breaching a restraining order by turning up at a woman’s place of work.

June 2025

June 30 – Keanu Harker, 18, was shot dead in Great Cambridge Road, Enfield, north London. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder. Eliezer Mbaki, 24, from Tottenham, has been charged with perverting the course of justice.

June 30 – Kamran Aman, 38, was stabbed to death in Barry, south Wales. Two boys aged 16 and 17, both from Llantwit Major, have been charged with his murder and await trial.

June 29 – Kootenai County Fire and Rescue Chief Frank Harwood, 42, and Coeur d’Alene Fire Department Battalion Chief John Morrison, 52, were shot dead as they tried to put out a fire on Canfield Mountain, Idaho, which had been started deliberately.  Coeur d’Alene Fire Department firefighter Dave Tysdal survived. The killer was Wess Roley, 20, who was found dead nearby.

June 26 – Angela Botham, 93, was found dead at a house in Bude, Cornwall, after police responded to a “concern for welfare”. David Botham, 65, has been charged with her murder and awaits trial at Exeter Crown Court.

June 23 – A bride, aged 27, was shot dead as she left her wedding in the village of Goult near Avignon in southern France. The French press has named her Chaïma but that was not her real name. The groom – named as Hakim, 25 –  was seriously wounded by several shots to the upper body. Both were from France’s Moroccan community. The bride’s 13-year-old nephew, who was in the vehicle, was seriously injured. Four masked men shot at several guests in a car park outside the village hall, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said. Bessone said one of the attackers was killed after being “shot in the back and head” and was also “hit by a vehicle during the attack.” Le Figaro said the  suspects were also linked to a second shooting the same day in the nearby city of Avignon, where a man was shot dead and another injured near a shopping centre. Two men were later charged with murder and attempted murder as part of an organised gang. “Hakim” had links to drugs and organised crime in Marseille.

June 22 – Dara Sayed Barham, 22, was stabbed to death during a fight at the Hounslow Muslim Centre in Hounslow, west London. He worked in two jobs, including one at a restaurant near where the incident took place. Kaywan Warzier Karim, 27, was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon. Tania Hamza, 33, was charged with violent disorder and assisting an offender. Aziz Hama, 31, was charged with assisting an offender. All await trial.

June 19 – Anthony Morrison, 41, was shot dead in Croydon, south London. Byron Cole, 39 from Lambeth, has been charged with murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.

June 17 – Annabel Rook, 46, was stabbed to death in the early hours of the morning. At 4.57am police and firefighters were called after reports of a gas explosion at a house in Dumont Road, Hackney, east London. Clifton George, 44, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

June 15 – Dale “DJ” Martin, 21, died in hospital after being attacked in Stenson Road, Derby about 11.45pm. He had been travelling in a grey Renault Megane, which had been heading “in the direction of the Allenton triangle, Osmaston Road and towards the Foresters Business Park”. Ten people have been charged in connection with this murder. They are Jayden Manion-Roberts, 25, of Tennyson Street, Derby, Keenan Hamblet, 26, of Osmaston Park Road, Derby, Ki Grant-Finlayson, 22, of Langley Road, Derby, Kayin Holmes, 24, of Nightingale Road, Derby, Kelci Thompson, 18, of Osmaston Road, Derby, Shaylon McCalla, 26, of Copes Way, Derby, and a 17-year-old boy. Bridget Hamblett, 57, and Asha Waddilove, 20, have been charged with assisting an offender. All face trial in 2026. At the time of the killing police appealed for help in finding a moped, two electric motorbikes, and a BMW which were believed to be travelling in convoy.

June 14 – Zivan “Stipe” Radmanovic, 32, from Melbourne, Australia, was shot dead at a villa in Canggu, Bali, Indonesia. Another man, Sanar Ghanim, 34, was also shot and beaten in the attack. Ghanim is the former partner of Danielle Stephens, whose stepfather was murdered Melbourne underworld figure Carl Williams. Midolmore Pasa Tupou, 37, Darcy Jenson, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 23, have been charged with murder. They could face the death penalty. Jenson was arrested at Jakarta Airport as he tried to get through an e-passport reader to board a flight to Singapore and then on to Cambodia. Tupou and Coskun managed to make it out of the country to Cambodia but were identified by Interpol who swooped to arrest them in Phnom Penh and returned them to Indonesia. Detectives have revealed they were first traced through Tupou’s distinctive tattoos which were first picked up on CCTV as he bought cigarettes near the villa where the attack unfolded. The murder is believed to be linked to a feud between Melbourne gangs.

June 13 – Jennifer Abbott, 69, also known as Sarah Steinberg, was found by her niece and neighbours at her home in Mornington Place, Camden, north London. The neighbour said she had been left with tape across her mouth. She was last seen walking her pet Corgi in Camden on 10 June. A Rolex watch is missing from the property. The victim’s sister (not twin) Nancy Pexton, also 69, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

June 11 – Jordan Rodney, 30, from Northolt, was shot dead in Claxton Grove, Hammersmith, west London. His cousin Jahmel Joseph, 28, from Eaton Rise, Ealing, has been charged with murder, attempted murder, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, possession of a prohibited weapon and dangerous driving. He awaits trial. In a pre-trial hearing the court was told there had been a dispute at a funeral wake. In a statement, Mr Rodney’s family said: “It is with unimaginable heartbreak that we confirm the tragic loss of our beloved Jordan Olivier Rodney, who was taken from us far too soon. Jordan was a man who touched the lives of everyone who knew him. He was warm, funny, and loving. Always quick with a smile or a joke that could brighten the dark day.” Rodney had a conviction for attempted murder and had served eight years in prison.

June 8 – Ibrahima Seck, 14, was stabbed as he walked to play football in a park in New Moston, Manchester. The prosecution said Ibrahima had been walking with his brothers and friends to a nearby park. Three boys – two aged 14 and the other 16 – have been charged with murder and possessing a bladed article.

June 2 – Daniel Coleman, 43, died and his remains were found later in Sticker, near St Austell, Cornwall. James Desborough, 39, has been accused of murder and awaits trial at Truro Crown Court.

May 2025

May 31 – Ross Monaghan, 43, and Eddie Lyons junior, 46, were shot dead by a gunman in Monaghan’s Bar in Fuengirola, Spain at 11pm. He then fled the scene in a car. The two men have links to the Lyons crime clan, which has been involved in a feud with the rival Daniels gang which has involved a series of assaults, shootings and firebombings across Glasgow and Edinburgh in first 5 months of 2025. The bar had been screening the UEFA Champions League final between Paris St Germain and Inter Milan on the evening of the attack. BBC Scotland News reported that Eddie Jnr’s brother Steven Lyons had links to the Irish crime clan, the Kinahans. In May 2012 Monaghan, then 30, was acquitted of the murder of gangster Kevin “The Gerbil” Carroll, 29, who was shot dead in the Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, in January 2010. On June 13, 2025, Michael Riley, 44, was arrested in Liverpool and appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court the following day. He faces extradition to Spain, accused of both murders.

May 29 – Christopher McBurnie, 14, from Castletown, was stabbed to death in the Close Drean area of Ramsey, Isle of Man. Another boy, also 14, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 29 – Yajaira Castro Mendez, 46, a Colombian national, was last seen in Camden, north London.  A murder investigation was launched and her body was found during searches in the Bolderwood area of Hampshire. Juan Francisco Toledo, 51, a Venezuelan national, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. They worked together as cleaners and the murder is believed to have taken place on the evening of 29 May at an office where they were working in Gray’s Inn, central London. Ms Mendez’s former flatmate raised the alarm after she failed to move into new accommodation. The trial is due to take place on 20 April 2026.

May 21 – Reanne Coulson, 34, was last seen in Coventry. Her family contacted the police after she failed to make contact with them on her birthday on June 17. Her body was found in Binley Woods, Warwickshire, on June 27 after a search involving West Midlands Police and specialist teams from across the country including police dogs. Mohammed Durnion, 42, has been charged with murder and awaits trial along with Adam Moore, 38, who denies one count of assisting an offender by helping in the disposition of Ms Coulson’s body on May 22.

May 2 – The body of 14-year-old Layton Carr was discovered in a building on Fairfield Industrial Park, in the Bill Quay area of Gateshead, after a fire. In the following weeks, 26 children aged between 11 and 14 were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. By August 2025, four of them had been told they would face no further action, while 22 remained on bail.

May 1 – Cemil Önal, 41, was shot dead on the terrace of a hotel in the town of Rijswijk, near The Hague, The Netherlands.  He had previously warned authorities his life was in danger due to his knowledge of bribes paid to Turkish politicians on behalf of an alleged illegal gambling syndicate in northern Cyprus. Turkish authorities had named Önal as the “mastermind” behind the 2022 killing of Halil Falyali, Turkish Cypriot businessman who had allegedly generated about $80 million per month from illegal gambling operations. Önal, a Turkish national, had told journalists he had nothing to do with Falyali’s murder. Önal had been head of finance for Falyali, who was from northern Cyprus, a breakaway territory that only Turkey recognizes as independent. Önal told journalists he had made payments of roughly $15 million a month on behalf of Falyali’s organization to ruling party politicians in Turkey and northern Cyprus. Dutch police arrested Önal in December 2023 on an international warrant from Turkey, and he had been fighting extradition to his homeland.

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/liquidatie-cemil-onal

April 2025

April 29 – Three youths, aged between 15 and 20, were shot dead in a hair salon in Uppsala, Sweden during the annual Walpurgis Night celebrations. Six people ranging in age from 16 to 45 were arrested. Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer called it a “brutal act of violence”. The incident was linked to Sweden’s ongoing gang warfare. Rawa Majid aka The Kurdish Fox is from Uppsala.

April 28 – Leon Anderson, 39, was stabbed to death at a house in Maple Close, Eastfields, Mitcham, at around 7.30pm. Kemuel Gambicky-Forbes, 24, of Deer Park Gardens, Mitcham, has been charged with the victim’s murder and possession of a bladed article. The murder weapon was allegedly a machete.

April 26 – Eleven people, aged between 5 and 65, were killed at 8pm when a car rammed into them as they celebrated the Lapu Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver, Canada. Most were from the city’s Filipino community. Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, was charged with eight counts of second degree murder, hours after he was arrested at the scene. The incident happened two days before the Canadian general election, won by the Liberal Party of Mark Carney, who attended the scene. Lo reportedly suffered from bad mental health and had recently been released from a psychiatric hospital. His brother had been murdered and his mother tried to commit suicide before the incident.

April 19 – Pamela Munro, 45, was stabbed to death at the front door of her home in Ayley Croft, Enfield, north London. Her neighbour Abdirazak Omar, 29, has been charged with murder and with possession of a knife. He awaits trial.

April 14 – Giovanny Rendon Bedoya, 21, was stabbed in Walworth, south London after being attacked by a group of men with knives. Six people were arrested.

April 12 – Paria Veisi, 37, vanished after leaving her workplace in Canton, Cardiff. Her body was later found at a house in Penylan, Cardiff. Alireza Askari, 41, has been charged with murder and preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body, and assaulting a person occasioning them actual bodily harm. Maryam Delavary, 48, of Australia Road, White City Estate, west London, has been charged with preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body and conspiring to pervert the course of justice. The pair face trial before Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, the Recorder of Cardiff, on October 6, 2025.

April 9 – Louis Howard, 35, was stabbed to death at a house in Braunstone Frith, Leicester around 10.40pm. A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial. A 32-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on police bail. A 33-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released on police bail.

April 5 – Keiron “KJ” Charles, 17, from East Acton, was stabbed to death in Erconwald Street, Shepherd’s Bush, at 1.10pm. The site was within yards of HMP Wormwood Scrubs. Two boys aged 16 have been charged with murder. Believed to be gang-related.

April 5 – Barry Dawson, 60, was shot through the downstairs window of his home in Stanley, County Durham. Kevin Dorward, 38, of Annfield Plain, has been charged with murder. Michaela Hetherington, 35, also of Annfield Plain, has been charged with perverting the course of justice.

April 3 – Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim, 16, was stabbed to death in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He had only recently moved to the town from south Wales. He was originally from Homs in Syria and had fled the civil war. Alfie Franco, 20 from Kirkburton, in West Yorkshire, was jailed for life (23 years) for murder and possessing a knife in a public place. Leeds Crown Court heard Franco – who had consumed cannabis, cocaine, diazepam, ketamine and codeine – took “some petty exception” to Ahmad “innocuously” walking or brushing past his girlfriend in the street.

March 2025

March 31 – University student Sara Campanella, 22, was stabbed in the city of Messina, Sicily, Italy. Witnesses told media that they saw a man – later identified by prosecutors as 27-year-old Stefano Argentino – walk up to Ms Campanella and stab her on the street. She tried to get away and screamed “Stop it, let me go, stop it,” before collapsing, they said. A passer-by who reportedly heard Ms Campanella’s screams tried to chase the attacker, who managed to flee. Ms Campanella died on her way to the hospital. Mr Argentino was arrested a few hours later in the nearby town of Noto.

March 30 – Oscar Omar Hernandez, 13, vanished after visiting a football (soccer) coach in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles. Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino, 43, has been charged with murder. Garcia Aquino is also accused of a sexual offense or lewd act upon a child involving a teenager around 14 or 15 years old in 2022 and assault with the intent to commit a sexual offense involving a 16-year-old in February 2024.

March 28 – Two men were killed in a triple shooting – described as an “explosion of violence” – in Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Yasin, a 32-year-old Turkish-Dutch man Yasin, a 32-year-old Turkish-Dutch man, was shot as he walked to his car after a visit to a local barbershop and sandwich shop. He attempted to flee but crashed soon after, succumbing to his injuries. A few minutes later, his friend, Yassin, 32, a Moroccan-Dutch man, arrived at the scene with his 25-year-old nephew. Yassin was also shot and killed, and his nephew was critically injured and died a month later in hospital. In June a 24-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman were arrested in Sweden, and a 28-year-old man was arrested in Germany. All three, who have Swedish nationality, are awaiting extradition to the Netherlands. It is thought to be linked to Rawa Majid aka The Kurdish Fox.

March 26 – Paul Bowles, 50, died after he was hit by a vehicle in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Andrew Robson, 33, went on trial for murder in Sep 2025. He is said to have intentionally swerved his Ford Transit van into the path of Mr Bowles after they got into a row at some traffic lights. The trial Mr Bowles was driving home with his daughter Katie-May, 19, in the front passenger seat, when they noticed a white van being driven “very close” to their Nissan Qashqai.

March 21 – Rachel Dixon, 49, was killed at her home in Clacton, Essex. Her son Oliver Grange, 24, has been charged with murder and awaits trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.

March 20 – Troy Ramsundar, 34, was stabbed to death in Brixton around 5am. Ibrahim Gonclaves-Cumare, 30, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

March 20 – Mahad Abdi Mohamed, 27, was shot dead in Waverley Road, Tottenham, north London. He was hit with bullets fired from a stolen Mitsubishi Outlander, which was later found burnt out. His family claim he must have been the victim of mistaken identity. His younger sister, Amal Abdi Mohamed, 23, said he was a “loving father” to his five-year-old son, who “looked up to him like a superhero”, and was planning to get married in the summer. SIO is Detective Chief Inspector Rebecca Woodsford.

March 10 – Marta Bednarczyk, 43, a mother of three children, was killed at her home in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The property was then set on fire. A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder and went on trial at Lincoln Crown Court in Nov 2025. Ms Bednarczyk’s relatives paid tribute to the “matriarch of the family”.  She had moved from Poland to the UK in 2010 and had worked in a warehouse in Wellingborough to bring home money for her family.

March 9 – Joanne Penney, 40, died after being shot at a block of flats in Green Park, Talbot Green, Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. Eleven people have been charged in connection with her death. Marcus Huntley, 20, from St Mellons, Cardiff, charged with murder and participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group. Kristina Ginova, 21, from Oadby, Leicestershire, charged with murder and participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group. Joshua Gordon, 27, from Oadby, charged with murder and participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group, appeared from HMP Bristol. Jordan Mills-Smith, 33, from Pentwyn, Cardiff, charged with murder and participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group. Tony Porter, 68, from Braunstone Town, Leicestershire, charged with murder and participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group. Molly Cooper, 33, from Leicester, charged with participating in the activities of an organised crime group and having in her possession/purchasing or acquiring ammunition for a firearm without a certificate. Sai Raj Manne, 25, of no fixed abode appeared, via video link from HMP Hewell charged with participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group and having in his. possession/purchasing or acquiring a firearm. Callum Kelleher, 37, from Liverpool has been charged with participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group, perverting the course of justice and assault. Melissa Quailey-Dashper, 39, from Leicester, appeared before Cardiff Crown Court on Friday morning charged with murder and participating in the activities of an organised crime group. Laura John, 22, of Rhiwbina, Cardiff and 50-year-old Donna James, of Llanishen, Cardiff, have been charged with assisting an offender. A trial is due to take place at Cardiff Crown Court on 20 October 2025.

March 6 – Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student, 20, disappeared while enjoying spring break with friends in the Dominican Republic. Konanki was an Indian citizen and a Virginia resident. She was last seen walking on a beach with a group at Riu Republica Resort in Punta Cana at about 4.15 am. Joshua Riibe, 24, was the last person to see her alive. Riibe, a student at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, claimed he saved her from drowning and then shared a romantic kiss.

March 5 – Amen Teklay, 15, an Eritrean refugee, was stabbed to death in St George’s Grove, Glasgow. A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

March 3 – Neo Graham, 24, was shot dead in Eastfield Grove, Wolverhampton. Fabio Bandarrinha, 20, and Deric Da Silva, 19; have been charged with murder, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, possession of ammunition for a firearm without a certificate, possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply, and acquiring, using or possessing criminal property. Aaron Osei, 22 and Elie Mey, 24, are charged with conspiracy to murder, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, possession of ammunition for a firearm without a certificate, possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply, possession of a controlled Class B drug, and acquiring, using or possessing criminal property. Koketso Ximba, 22, is charged with murder. All are due to face trial in Feb 2026.

March 4 – Lathaniel Burrell, aged 16, was shot dead in Paradise Road, Stockwell, south London. Omar Prempeh, aged 32, Jeffery Frimpong, 30, and two boys aged 17 have been charged with murder and await trial.

March 2 – Miller John, 61, was bludgeoned to death at a house in Hackney, east Lonon. His brother Peter John, 59, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

February 2025

Feb 28 – Ana Maria Murariu, 45, was killed at her home in Jubilee Road, Perivale, west London. Mugurel Nica, 50, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Feb 27 – Granville Graham, 58, was stabbed to death in Cambridge. Liam Rush, 30, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. Mr Graham’s family said his death “left a hole in our hearts and the hearts of communities in Cambridge, London and Jamaica”.

Feb 27 – Fredi Rivero, 75, a Bolivian pensioner, was punched once and fell to the pavement in Holloway, north London, hitting his head and suffering fatal injuries. Three teenage girls later admitted manslaughter. A girl identified only as D1, who had punched Mr Rivero, was jailed for four years. D2 was jailed for three years and six months, and the youngest girl, known as D3, was given two years and six months.

https://totalcrime.substack.com/p/echoes-of-happy-slapping-in-killing

Feb 27 – Adam Krzan, 71, was found with serious injuries following an assault at a flat in Corrainey Park, in Dungannon, County Tyrone. He was originally from Poland but had lived in the area for 20 years.

Feb 27 – Leanne Williams was killed at her home in Townhill, Swansea, south Wales. Matthew Battenbough, 33, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Feb 18 – Jason Romeo, 20, was stabbed in Bodney Road, Hackney, east London. Raynolph Asante, 22, Travis Mitchell, 21, Rhamyah Bailey-Edwards, 21, Joshua Ogedengbe, 19, and Renaldo Roberts, 25, have been charged with murder and went on trial at the Old Bailey in Nov 2025. The trial heard Mr Romeo was killed in a row over a girl.

Feb 17 – Rebecca Marodi, 49, a fire department captain, was stabbed to death at her home in Ramona, near San Diego, California. Her wife Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi was arrested at a hotel in the city of Mexicali, charged with murder and extradited back to the US from Mexico. She awaits trial.

Feb 16 – Campbell Scott, 58, a Scottish businessman, from Dunfermline, vanished after going to a nightclub in Nairobi, Kenya. He had arrived in Nairobi’s affluent Westlands district for a business trip the day before. His body was found, with visible injuries, in a forest about 60 miles outside of Nairobi a few days later. His hands and legs had been bound with rope. Police have charged two people – Alex Mutua Kithuka, a taxi driver, and Albunus Mutinda Nziokia, a waiter from the club – with murder and they await trial.

Feb 10 – Kim Ha-neul, 8, was stabbed to death in an empty classroom by a teacher at her elementary school in Daejeon. South Korea. Myeong Jae-wan, 48, confessed. She pleaded guilty and was jailed for life on 20 October 2025. Prosecutors defined the case as an “abnormal motive crime,” in which the perpetrator brutally murdered the elementary school girl, who is weaker than herself, in order to resolve her resentment, which accumulated from conflicts within her family and her inability to adapt well at work.

Feb 10 – Dariusz Serafin, 33, stumbled into the Grosvenor pub in Hanwell, west London, after being stabbed. He later died.

Feb 9 – Victoria Adams, 37, was beaten to death with a mallet at her flat in Hammersmith, west London. She was found face down in a bedroom with a black bin bag over her head which was covered by a pillow. Apapale Adoum, 39, pleaded guilty to murder in Aug 2025 and faces being sentenced to life in prison. He had met her on February 6 when he was living in a homeless shelter. She had invited him to stay with her but later wrote a note to ask him to leave. Earlier police said a man had pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon before he was sentenced to 42 weeks’ imprisonment.

Feb 6 – Dawn Kerr, 60, was attacked at her home in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, southern France. Her husband Andrew Searle was found hanged. The couple moved to France from Mussleburgh, Scotland 10 years earlier. Mr Searle was a retired fraud investigator specialising in financial crime prevention who worked at companies including Standard Life and Barclays Bank. Mrs Searle is the mother of actor and country musician Callum Kerr.

Feb 5 – Adan Manzano, 27, a TV sport journalist who was covering the Superbowl in New Orleans, was drugged and died in a hotel room in Kenner, Louisiana. Danette Colbert, 48, from nearby Slidell, has been charged with robbery charges.  Randy Smith, the sheriff whose jurisdiction includes that area of Slidell, said investigators had discovered Xanax along with other drugs in Manzano’s hotel room. Colbert – nicknamed The Bourbon Street Hustler – is also accused of having robbed men in a similar way before.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/adan-manzano-super-bowl-journalist

Feb 3 – Harvey Willgoose, 15, stabbed to death at All Saints Catholic School in Sheffield. A15-year-old boy has been charged with murder and will go on trial on 30 June 2025. Harvey was a fan of Sheffield United and went to games with his friends. On the Saturday after the murder marchers chanted “Goose Army” and “There’s only one Harvey Willgoose” as they marched to Bramall Lane. The march was supported by Sheffield anti-knife crime charity Always An Alternative. Anthony Olaseinde, founder of the charity, was at the protest to “show support for the friends and family of Harvey”.

January 2025

Jan 29 – Salwan Momika, 38, was shot in a house in the town of Sodertalje near Stockholm, Sweden. An Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam campaigner, Momika was awaiting a court verdict following a trial over burning the Koran. He had burned copies of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, in public demonstrations in 2023 against Islam. The other defendant in the same court case posted a message on X after Momika’s murder, saying: “I’m next”.

Jan 28 – Julie Buckley, 55, vanished from home in the village of Christchurch, Cambridgeshire. Her bank cards were allegedly used and her possessions sold. Karl Hutchings, aged 48, pleaded guilty to her murder at Cambridge Crown Court in Sep 2025. Ms Buckley was last seen on CCTV footage at a Budgens supermarket in the nearby town of March.

Jan 22 – Claire Chick, 48, a university lecturer, was stabbed in the street in Plymouth. Her estranged husband Paul Butler, 53, was jailed for life (27 years). The court heard victim impact statements from Ms Chick’s daughter Bethany Hancock-Baxter, who said Butler was an “evil man” and told him jealousy had got the better of him. She said: “Let’s be honest, you must have thought if you can’t have her then no-one can.

Jan 21 – Leo Ross, 12, was stabbed to death in The Shire Country Park, Hall Green, Birmingham. A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Jan 20 – Jamelatu Tsiwah, 31, was found dead at her home in Croydon, south London. Larry Nimoh 21, has been charged with murder and attempted murder and awaits trial.

Jan 20 – David Maland, 44, a Border Patrol agent was shot and killed while performing a traffic stop on Interstate 91, at Coventry, near Newport, Vermont, US.  Teresa Youngblut, 21, faces two weapons charges. Four people have been charged with the murder of Curtis Lind, 80, a landlord, in California, and Richard Zajko, 69, and Rita Zajko 72, in Pennsylvania, while three are on the run, including Jack Amadeus “Ziz” LaSota, 34, who goes by she/her pronouns and is the group’s apparent leader. LaSota is the leader of a Berkley, California-based cult called The Zizians, who are anarchist, vegan and gender-fluid.

Jan 17 – Marianne Kilonzi, 43, a vice president at financial giant Citibank, was found beaten to death in her flat in Woolwich, south-east London. The Metropolitan Police believe Ms Kilonzi, who was Kenyan, knew her attacker and said one line of inquiry was that the suspect has fled the country. He has not been named.

Jan 16 – Laleh Zarejouneghani, 27, and a two-year-old child were stabbed at Imtech House – a former office converted into accommodation – in Ashford, Surrey. Ms Zarejouneghani had been stabbed in the neck. Milad Ghafari, 34, has been charged with child cruelty and awaits trial.

Jan 13 – Gregory Volquez, 36, a father-of-two originally from the Dominican Republic, was stabbed to death at a house in Tiverton Road, Harringay, north London. Gabriel Francisco Pineda Gonzalez, 20, from Tulse Hill in south London, and Benito Ramirez Kones, 19, from Haggerston in east London have been charged with murder. Carlos Akum-Metambe has also been charged with murder, after being extradited from Spain in October 2025. Also accused are Carlos Tavarez, 27, Edison Perez, 22 and Joan Perea, 20, all from Tiverton Road in Harringay, and 20-year-old Naiara Hernandez-Bonilla from Birnam Road in Finsbury Park. Trial is pending at Southwark Crown Court.

Jan 8 – Thomas Taylor, 17, was stabbed to death at the bus station in Bedford, England. His mother Samantha said he was a “beautiful soul” and the family was “proud of the young man he was becoming”. Bennett Ndenkeh, 18, was jailed for life (22 years) for murder and Riaz Miah, 17, was jailed for 8 years for manslaughter. Ahmed Adam, 18, and another teenager were acquitted.

Jan 7 – Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, twin sisters, 32 and originally from Hungary, were last seen in Market Street, at Victoria Bridge in Aberdeen, Scotland in the early hours of 7 January. Their bodies were later found in the River Dee. The police said there were no suspicious circumstances, but I am putting it in the database just in case they turn out to be wrong.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/14275226/dad-huszti-sisters-aberdeen-hungary-heartbreaking/

Jan 7 – Kelyan Bokassa, 14, described as an “aspiring rapper”, was stabbed on the 472 bus on Woolwich Church Road, near the junction with the A205 South Circular Road, close to the Woolwich ferry, at 2.28pm. The schools had only just returned after the Christmas holidays. His mother Mary Bokassa told MailOnline: “My son and others were taken advantage by gangs. They were groomed.” She went on: “He was missing for a year and was living on the street. He finally turned up at my doorstep, he was sick, underweight and tattooed … He was exposed to drugs. He probably experienced something because I could sense it. Two boys aged 15 and 16 were detained under HM Pleasure (minimum of 15 years) for his murder after a trial which heard he had been spotted on the top deck of the bus. He was from a rival gang. The judge chose not to name them but I know their names.

https://totalcrime.substack.com/p/was-judge-wrong-not-to-name-pair

Jan 3 – John Jones, 76, was attacked with a hammer and a knife at a housing complex for over-60s in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Peter Kindell, 80, a musician and retired sound engineer, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (22 years). Prosecutors said Kindell had a “hatred” of Mr Jones and jurors heard the two men had been involved in a long-running dispute over smoking and noise.

Jan 2 – Ray Hodge, 36, a letter carrier (mailman) in Manhattan, was stabbed to death in a delicatessen in Harlem, New York after a row about who was next in the queue to buy lunch. Jaia Cruz, 24, a transgender woman, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Jan 1 – At 3.15am a white Ford pick-up truck was deliberately driven into crowds of New Year revellers in Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, killing 15. Among the dead were Nicole Perez, 27, a deli manager, Martin “Tiger” Bech, 21, a former American football player at Princeton University, Nikyra Dedeaux, 18, a student who wanted to become a nurse, Reggie Hunter, 37,  a store manager, Hubert Gauthreaux, 21, Kareem Badawi, and Matthew Tenedorio, 25, an audio-visual technician. The pick-up truck driver, Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, a real estate agent from Houston, Texas, was shot dead by police after he got out of the crashed truck and started firing at law enforcement officers. He was a Texas-born former US Army officer who had converted to Islam and then gone rogue. He was flying an ISIS flag on the back of the pick-up truck.

Jan 1 – Billy McNicholl, 61, was found with multiple injuries at his home in Ipswich. Jake McMillan, 18, has been charged with murder, and a drugs offence, and will go on trial in Jan 2026.

Jan 1 – Jennifer Bernhard, 48, and Stevie Smith, 74, were shot dead at a house in Northfield Township, Michigan. Jeffrey Bernhard, 52, was seriously injured. The shooting was witnessed by the Bernhards’ 9-year-old biological daughter (Mr Smith’s granddaughter), and their 4-year-old foster child. It emerged that the shooting occurred against the foster child’s mother, Shuvonne Vinson, 42, turned up at 8.30pm on New Year’s Day with two armed accomplices, determined to get her child back. Police said after forcing Jeffrey and Jennifer to transfer money from their accounts, Jeffrey was pistol-whipped, shot in the chest, and then in the head, followed by his wife being shot in the head. Vinson and the other two then fled with both children. Vinson has been charged with murder along with Gregory Callhan and Keith Finley. They await trial.

2024

December 2024

Dec 31– Steven Cox, 63, was attacked at his home in Everton, Liverpool at 4pm. He died on New Year’s Day. His partner, Gillian Shaw, 61, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 30 – David “Jah David” Andrews, 33, a gang leader from East Dry River, was shot dead near a building site in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Police said two gunmen approached and shot him more than 20 times before running away. Homicide detectives said Andrews was the leader of the G Unit gang, which operates in East Dry River, with offshoots operating in other parts of the country, including Enterprise, Chaguanas. Members of the gang identify themselves with tattoos of the gang’s name and markings on their backs or abdomens, police said. A state of emergency was imposed in Trinidad & Tobago on the same day. Police sources said Andrews replaced former gang leader Kerwin “Fresh” Phillip, who was shot dead at the corner of Oxford and Henry Streets, Port-of-Spain, after going to a party on September 16, 2007.”In their heyday, they were one of the most feared gangs in east Port-of-Spain. After Fresh get kill, Jah David was trying to keep things quiet to avoid police attention,” a senior homicide detective said.

Dec 28 – Recorda Davey-Ann Clarke, known as Ricardo, 35, was stabbed in Willesden Green, north west London at 4am. Elyas Moussa, 29, was convicted of murder and jailed for life. The footage shown to the jury during the trial revealed that prior to the fatal stabbing, an altercation had taken place on Linacre Road between Ricardo and Moussa. During this incident, glass bottles were thrown before they both went their separate ways.

Dec 28 – Mirjana Pap, 58, was killed at her home in Athlone, County Meath, Republic of Ireland, but her body was discovered in a field at Curraghaleen on December 30.Her son Nebosja Pap, 31, was charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 28 – Joel Jusino Bergollo, 36, from Downers Grover, Illinois, was killed when a stolen car collided with his vehicle in Dallas, Texas. The Jeep Wagoneer had been stolen in Fort Worth and was chased at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour by police. The chase ended when the Jeep went the wrong way on the service road of I-35 and Inwood Road in Dallas and crashed head-on into Mr Bergollo’s Audi A4. Devonte Webber has been charged with murder, evading arrest with a vehicle causing death, the unauthorised use of a vehicle and the unlawful carrying of a weapon. A black Glock model .357 was also found in the car.

Dec 25 – Joanne Pearson, 38, and Teohna Grant, 24, were killed at a flat in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, and were found at 6.30pm on Christmas Day. Jazwell Brown, 49, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and the attempted murder of Bradley Latter, 29, and his son Jake, who was 17. He was jailed for life (minimum term of 39 years). The victims were attacked on Christmas Day and taken to hospital. Thames Valley Police said a Staffordshire bull terrier dog, that was initially thought to have been killed in the incident, had survived. The court heard that Ms Pearson was Brown’s girlfriend and Ms Grant was his neighbour. He had smoked crack cocaine before attacking them.

Dec 25 – Kirk Marsden, 37, suffered multiple serious injuries after being hit by a Toyota Land Cruiser outside The Gate Bar in Blackburn, just after 4.45pm on Christmas Day. He was taken to Royal Preston Hospital where he died on Boxing Day. James Ward, 26, was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter and will be sentenced in March 2026. Thomas Ward, 58, and Michael O’Neill, 36, were both acquitted of murder and manslaughter. They were both in the car James Ward was driving. Mr Marsden was involved in a row with a group of people including Ward where one member suffered an injury to his lip and tooth.

Dec 25 – Louis Price, 31, a father-of-six, was found suffering from a cardiac arrest at a house in Norton Canes, Staffordshire after being stabbed at 3.30am on Christmas Day. His girlfriend Kirsty Carless, 33, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (25 years). Staffordshire Police previously said a referral had been made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct following recent police contact. The trial heard she attacked and  was “motivated by anger and jealousy” after she was sent a picture of Mr Price’s profile on dating app Tinder, Stafford Crown Court heard. She went to his parents’ home and lay in wait for him to return from the pub. She was also convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm by a majority of 11 to one in connection with an incident in November 2024 but was cleared of intentional strangulation in relation to the same incident.

Dec 25 – Aidan Chapman, 25, was killed after being run over by a high-powered Mercedes car in Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End of London. Anthony Gilheaney, 31, went on trial at the Old Bailey in Dec 2025. Five people were hit by his car in the early hours of Christmas Day. As well as Mr Chapman, the victims were Arif Khan, Marcelo Basbus-Garcia and his partner Miguel Waihrich, and Mr Chapman’s friend Tyrone Itorho. Gilheaney, from Harlow in Essex, denies murder, wounding with intent, three counts of attempted murder, two counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and one count of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm. He has pleaded guilty to a slew of alternative counts which were added to the indictment, admitting the manslaughter of Mr Chapman, as well as unlawfully wounding Mr Khan, causing grievous bodily harm to Mr Basbus-Garcia and Mr Waihrich and assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Mr Itorho. The jury was told the prosecution does not accept the pleas and that they will still have to consider the eight offences Gilheaney denies.

Dec 19 –  Ninos Khouri, 24, a rapper known as Gaboro, was hunted down and shot dead in a car park in Norrkoping, Sweden by a killer who livestreamed the whole thing. He was from the Hageby/Navestad area of the city. Khouri first gained recognition on TikTok in 2022, and is best known for songs like “Browski” and “Suavemente”.  On 27 November 2023, his friend was shot dead in a restaurant in Marielund, Norrköping. Khouri was also in the restaurant. He belonged to a criminal gang called the Kalonetwork who were led by Rawa Majid aka The Kurdish Fox.

Dec 19 – Gemma Devonish, 42, a teacher, was stabbed to death at a house in Carshalton, Surrey. Her boyfriend James Madden, 38, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 18 – Tawana Choruma, 19, was stabbed to death in Netley, Southampton. Dominic Adeyemi, 18, and Jack Hibberd, 18, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Dec 17 – Barbara Gayle, 77, a retired journalist who used to work for The Gleaner and was well known, was stabbed to death at her home in the Caymanas Country Club estate, west of Kingston, Jamaica. Travis Ellis, 24, from Gregory Park, has been charged with murder and robbery. He was reportedly caught on a Ring doorbell camera talking to her on her porch. He allegedly stole her car.

Dec 15 – Lincoln “Link” Button, 5, died at his home in South Ockendon, Essex. His mother, Claire Button, 35, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 14 – John George, 37, from Belfast, vanished in Spain and relatives reported him missing when he failed to catch a scheduled flight home four days later after what was meant to be a short holiday. Mr George’s body was found in Jan 2025 in a lemon grove in Rojales near the Costa Blanca resort of Torrevieja. He had been shot and stabbed. In April murder suspect Jonny Smyth, 26, from Belfast, was arrested at an Airbnb in Guimaraes near Braga in Portugal and was extradited to Spain.

Dec 14 – Karen Cummings, 40, a children’s nurse, was found unconscious at a house in the Laurel Heights area of Banbridge, County Down. She had suffered a head injury. Glenn King, 32, from Lurgan, Co Armagh, and Kevin McGuigan, 42, from Hillsborough, County Down, have been charged with her murder. McGuigan is also charged with possession of a firearm, namely a double-barrelled shotgun, and ammunition with intent to endanger life. He is facing a third count of handling stolen goods, namely a double-barrelled shotgun.

Dec 14 – Michelle Sadio, 46, was shot dead outside a funeral wake in Gifford Road, Harlesden, north west London. Kenneth Amoah, 39, suffered a gunshot wound to the back and Kadeem Francis, 30, was shot in the foot. It was a drive-by shooting and the killers drove slowly past in a dark car. It is believed to be connected to the feud between the Church Road Soldiers and a rival gang, A9, from Wembley. Perry Allen-Thomas, 26, Amir Salem, 18, Shaquille Sutherland, 24, and Tahjin Sommersal, 18, have all been charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder and await trial.

Dec 8 – Vikel Kamperai, 44, a Greek civil engineer, and five other people were killed when an explosion tore through an apartment building in Mariahoeve, The Hague, Netherlands which collapsed. Three people from the same family died. The victims were a 45-year-old father, a 41-year-old mother and their 17-year-old daughter. An 8-year-old boy from that family survived. The gas company denied the explosion was caused by a gas leak. Several cars were seen driving off after the blast. Three people were later arrested. Police also seized several vehicles, but they said that it was unclear whether they included the one which was seen driving away at high speed from the site shortly after the explosion.

Dec 4 – UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was shot dead outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan, New York. NYPD said Thompson was targeted in a pre-planned killing, for which they do not have a motive. Ammunition found near Mr Thompson’s body bore the words “delay,” “deny” and “depose,” mimicking a phrase used by insurance industry critics. A manhunt got under way and a prime suspect was identified using CCTV footage of him. He was believed to have arrived in New York by bus from Atlanta and possibly to have left the same way. On Dec 9 Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He was in possession of items linking him to the shooting. In his backpack, police found a black, 3D-printed pistol and a 3D-printed black silencer. He also had a fake New Jersey ID matching one the suspect used to check into a New York City hostel before the shooting. He also had a three-page document which showed he bore “ill will toward corporate America.” Thompson had been on his way to UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor conference. Mangione went to an elite prep school in Baltimore and later earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania.

November 2024

Nov 30 – Chloe Ferris, 24, died in Lux nightclub in the centre of Belfast after her drink was apparently spiked. Two men were arrested but not charged.

Nov 30 – A 14-year-old schoolboy was stabbed to death in Albania by a fellow schoolmate after a row on TikTok. As a result of the incident the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, announced he would be banning TikTok.

Nov 26 – Alana Armstrong, 25, was killed when she was rammed off an e-bike in a hit-and-run crash in Pleasley, Derbyshire. Keaton Muldoon, 23, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, has been  charged with her murder, the attempted murder of Jordan Newton-Kay and driving while disqualified. Mr Newton-Kay had part of his leg amputated after the crash. Police said the assailant’s car was a dark-coloured 4×4 which allegedly followed two e-bikes before ramming one of them.

Nov 26 – Suchir Balaji, 26, a former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower, was found dead in his apartment in San Francisco, California. Balaji’s mother, Poornima Ramarao, has questioned the circumstances of their son’s death and refuse to believe that he died by suicide, as ruled by the office of the chief medical examiner. Balaji had no history of mental illness and no suicide note was found. He started work at OpenAI in November 2020. He worked on a project called WebGPT, which John Schulman, one of the OpenAI co-founders, said helped pave the way for ChatGPT. Balaji quit OpenAI in August this year, the same day as Schulman, and publicly spoke of copyright violations by generative AI developers including OpenAI.

Nov 23 – John Brown, 82, was attacked at his home in Bulkington, near Coventry. He died on Nov 29. Jakob Walpole, 32, has been charged with murder and awaits trial at Warwick Crown Court. Walpole was charged before Mr Brown died, with grievous bodily harm with intent, actual bodily harm, possession of an offensive weapon, common assault by beating and breaching a restraining order. The charges relate to the assault against Mr Brown and a second incident at Bulkington working men’s club the same evening. Mr Brown was the founder of the company Leaping Cats, which built and restored iconic Jaguars, including the XK series.

Nov 19 – Cumali Turhan, 45, went missing after visiting The Globe pub in Chelmsford, Essex and then the nearby Barista Greek restaurant around midnight. His body has not been found. Ciprian Ilie, 44, a Hungarian national, has been charged with assisting an offender and preventing lawful and decent burial of a dead body. Police say the prime suspect for the murder, Ceyhan Dinler, 38, from Chelmsford, has fled to Turkey.

Nov 18 – Angel Landi, a 36-year-old construction worker, was stabbed to death in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York just before 8:30 a.m., shortly afterwards Chang Wang, 67, from Chinatown, was stabbed as he fished in the East River. An hour later 36-year-old Wilma Augustin was stabbed to death in midtown Manhattan. Ramon Rivera, 51, has been charged with all three murders and awaits trial. Rivera had eight prior arrests on charges including grand larceny, burglary, assault and petit larceny.

Nov 17 – Rasean Carter, 21, and his nephew Malachi Jackson, 19, were killed and 10 others were wounded in two separate shootings along a parade route in St Roch, New Orleans.

Nov 17 – Norman Scott , 68, and Sidy Fall 75, were stabbed to death in Moss Side, Manchester. A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and detained under the Mental Health Act. He was Sidy’s son. He did not know Norman.

Nov 17 – Phoenix Spencer-Horn, 21, was shot dead at a house in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Her boyfriend Ewan Methven, 26, pleaded guilty to murder and jailed for life (23 years) and  attempting to defeat the ends of justice by covering up the crime and pretending to her family that she was still alive. Methven, who worked as a postman, had complained to his girlfriend that her waitress shifts made him “lonely”. They had a row and he choked her to death, before severing her head and trying to remove her limbs and torso from her body. In a 999 call, Methven claimed that the murder happened during a psychotic episode induced by cocaine, alcohol and steroids – which he claimed he thought had been spiked. But a delivery driver said he was not under the influence of any drugs when he called that night.

Nov 15 – Raad Asmael, 27, was shot dead in Rotton Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. A second man who was found injured at a bus stop remained in a stable condition.

Nov 15 – Carol James, 81, was hit with a pan and then throttled at her home in Bexleyheath, SE London. Her husband Brian James, 81, has been charged with murder. A court heard he became “fixated” that they had an infestation of hookworm.

Nov 10 – Hilkiah McLeggan, 77, was stabbed in East Street Market in Walworth, south London. Two other men survived. Musse Ali, 66, has been charged with of one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder and one of knife possession. Ali needed a Somali interpreter during his first court appearance. He awaits trial.

Nov 10 – Harshita Brella, 24, who was living in Corby, Northamptonshire, went missing. Her body was found a few days later, in the boot of a car in Ilford, east London. Police have launched a manhunt for her husband, Pankaj Lamba, 23, who may have left the country, possibly returning to India. The BBC reported Ms Brella’s family said the couple had entered into an arranged marriage, with a legal wedding in India in August 2023. They had a traditional Indian ceremony on 22 March, 2024, before they left for the UK on 30 April 2024, moving to Corby. On 3 September Ms Brella was the subject of a Domestic Violence Protection Order in the months before her death. She told them she had made dinner and was waiting for Mr Lamba to come home. Her sister, Sonia Dabas, said Ms Brella’s phone was off for the next two days, and by 13 November they “thought something was wrong”.

Nov 10 – Curtis Green, 30, was shot dead in Sydenham, south London. He was described by his family as “Happy, excited and beautiful.” They said: “He was an entrepreneur and the owner of a clothing brand and local fitness company. He was also a father-to-be, with a child due in five months.” His death may have been linked to gang rivalry.

Nov 9 – Andres “Pillin” Bracamonte and Daniel “Rana” Atardo, were shot dead in Rosario, Argentina. They were leaders of the Canallas group of ultras or hooligans, who followed Rosario Central football club. The gangs, or “barrabravas,” are mafia-like organisations. Bracamonte, who was banned from attending Rosario’s matches due to his history of violence, and Atardo were reportedly ambushed near the club’s Gigante de Arroyito stadium, where the club lost 1-0 to San Lorenzo. During his 25 years leading Rosario’s barrabrava, Bracamonte was the target of around 30 murder attempts, media reported. He had appeared in court the day before on charges of gender-based violence, for which the prosecutor had requested two years’ imprisonment. He was also charged with extortion, criminal conspiracy and money laundering. He is believed to have been killed by a rival gang of Rosario Central ultras.

Nov 8 – Terrance Hamilton Forbes was shot and killed at 4pm near a bar in Five Cays, Turks and Caicos Islands. It was the latest in a series of murders in the islands. Acting Commissioner of Police Kendall Grant visited the scene along with Deputy Commissioner Fitz Bailey to comfort the family of the deceased. Former prime minister Michael Misick attended the funeral.

Nov 8 – Antônio Vinicius Lopes Gritzbach, 38, a former member of the First Capital Command, was leaving São Paulo international airport in Brazil when two hooded men jumped out of a car and fired a hail of bullets. He was hit by 10 bullets. Three other people were hit and one of them, Uber driver Celso Araujo Sampaio de Novais, 41, died later in hospital. Gritzbach had been given the task by Anselmo Becheli Santa Fausta, known as Cara Preta (Black Face), to invest 100 million reais in cryptocurrency. In 2021, Fausta demanded it back, but Gritzbach did not comply. Later that year, Fausta and his bodyguard were murdered. Gritzbach later cut a deal with the authorities and gave details of PCC’s money laundering operation. He also said police had taken bribes to shield gang members from investigation. Six people have been charged over the murder. They are Emílio Carlos Gongorra, nicknamed Cigarreira – identified as a drug trafficker and mastermind of the crime (fugitive). Diego Amaral, aka Didi – identified as the mastermind behind the crime (fugitive), Kauê Amaral – identified as a lookout at the airport (fugitive), Denis Antônio Martins, corporal in the Military Police – identified as the perpetrator (arrested on 16 January 2025), Ruan Silva Rodrigues, military police officer – identified as the perpetrator (arrested on 21 January 2025), and Fernando Genauro, police lieutenant – driver of the car that took the shooters to the airport (arrested on 18 Jan 2025).

October 2024

Oct 31 – Nicolas Dumas, 22, was shot in the head as he queued up with his friends for a Halloween party at a rugby club in Valence, southern France. A bouncer and a female clubber were also shot by the gunman, who was hooded and armed with a Magnum revolver. Both survived. Dumas had no connections to the gang that is suspected of the shooting.

Oct 29 – Reuben Higgins, 17, was stabbed to death inside the Vape Minimarket in Solihull, West Midlands. Abdurrahman Summers, 19, was jailed for life (19 years) for murder and two 16-year-old boys were sentenced to HM Pleasure (17 and 15 years minimum). Reuben was stabbed after \he had tried to block the door, shouting his pursuers were trying to kill him. Another juvenile, named only as MAS, has fled to Pakistan and has still not been apprehended.

Oct 24 – Catherine Flynn, 69, was dragged from her bed and stamped to death at her home in Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales. Dean Mears, 34, was jailed for life (28 years minimum) in July 2025. The trial heard Mrs Flynn’s daughter Natasha Flynn-Farrell received a doorbell camera alert of Mears  breaking into her mother’s home. Judge Rhys Rowlands said Mears- who had taken ketamine before the attack – was responsible for a “savage, and quite ferocious and merciless attack”. He said the recording captured on the doorbell camera “can only be described as horrific”. The victim had suffered serious health and mobility issues, and used a stairlift and a walking frame inside her house.

Oct 20 – Rhiannon Whyte, 27, a hotel worker, was stabbed to death at Bescot Stadium railway station in Walsall, West Midlands. Deng Chol Majek, 18, a Sudanese refugee, has been charged with murder and awaits trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court. He had been staying in a nearby Radisson Hotel after crossing the English Channel on a boat and entering the country illegally. The CPS said: “I would like to remind all concerned that there are active criminal proceedings against Cholmajek and he has the right to a fair trial. There must be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online that may in any way prejudice these proceedings.”

Oct 20 – Eston Lundy, 43, was shot as he sat in a car in Walter Cox Drive in Kew Town, Turks and Caicos Islands. He was the 40^th murder victim of 2024 in Turks and Caicos Islands, an island with a tiny population. The day before, the chiefs of the National Security Council – Daleeni Daniel-Selveratnam and Washington Missick – said of the islands’ record homicide rate: “This situation is unacceptable. We want to assure you that we are taking decisive action to secure our law enforcement response and build our capability to deal with the threats we face.  In the last month, the RTCIPF has received additional specialist capability assigned to the serious crime team and tactical firearms unit.  Our multi-agency law enforcement efforts have intensified in high-risk areas, with intelligence-led operations aimed at disrupting and dismantling criminal groups.  The safety of our communities and all who visit is our top priority.”

Oct 19 – Ali Riyan, 19, died in hospital two days after being shot in Birmingham. Seeraj Ayub, 24, was jailed for life for murder after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court. Ayub initially fled the country, but was arrested in January 2025 when he returned to the UK from Dublin. Ayub was in a black Mercedes that had followed Mr Riyan and a friend as they were riding an e-bike. The Mercedes pulled up beside the pair when they came to a stop, and a shot was fired from a rear passenger window.

Oct 19 – John Taylor, 44, was killed outside his home in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. Kieran Lindsay, 19, Kiey O’Connor, 26, and Marshall Strachan, 19, have been charged with murder and await trial. Police Scotland said it was a “targeted attack.”

Oct 19 – Damara Kirland, 35, who was 2 months pregnant, was shot dead at her home in St Paul, Minnesota. Her ex-husband Mychel Stowers, 36, has gone on the run. He has been charged in absentia with two counts of second-degree murder. Officers responding to reports of gunfire found Kirkland’s body crumpled on the floor. There were ultrasound photos in the apartment and a letter addressed to Stowers in the mailbox. Stowers had been paroled from prison in March, after serving time for a second-degree murder charge in the 2008 shooting death of a St. Paul man. He was on work release and living at a halfway house, but he had been granted a pass to visit Damara. Stowers filed for divorce in June, although it doesn’t appear it had been finalised.

Oct 18 – Abdul-Latif Pouget, aged 20 from Camden, was stabbed and then crashed his moped into a wall in Farringdon, central London. He died of his injuries on 21 October. Oguzcan Dereli, 26, from Islington, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (24 years). Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC said: “We shall probably never know why you chose to to get out of your car that night and run over and stab Mr Pouget.”

Oct 17 – Wayne Woodgate, 54, from Tunbridge Wells, went missing after being forced into a Peugeot van in Goods Station Road in the town. His body was found at a rural location in Peasmarsh on October 23. Stephen Castle, 59, was jailed for life (25 years) for murder. Judge Julian Smith told Maidstone Crown Court that Castle had acted in “revenge”, believing Mr Woodgate was responsible for a previous police raid on his home that had led to him being jailed. Mr Woodgate had told family he feared Castle was “after him” as he thought he had ‘grassed’ on him. While in custody Castle protested about leaving his cell for an interview saying: ‘there’s no point, I may as well go straight to prison; I’m going to do 25 years anyway’.

Oct 15 – Kieran Shepherd, 30, was assaulted in Great Baddow, near Chelmsford, Essex, on Tuesday at midday. Joseph Dawe, 20, from Great Baddow, Zack O’Keeffe, 19, from Langdon Hills, Basildon, and Harrison Carpenter,19, from Chelmsford, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Oct 12 – John Murray, 75, was “brutally” killed in his home in Carlton Road, Chiswick, west London.  In July 2025 Crimestoppers offered a £20,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those involved. Unsolved.

Oct 12 – Baba Ziauddin Siddique, 66, an influential Congress Party politician, was shot near his car while he was leaving his son Zeeshan’s office in Banda, Mumbai. He died later in hospital. Siddique was part of the coalition governing Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital. The alleged shooter, Shiv Kumar, confessed to his involvement and revealed the plot was orchestrated by Anmol Bishnoi, brother of Laurence Bishnoi, an infamous gangster from the Punjab. A total of 24 people were arrested.

Oct 4 – Arthur Braxton, 32, was shot outside a Mexican restaurant, El Presidente, in Augusta, Georgia, US. Basketball player Malik Dunbar, 28, was named as a suspect. In Jan 2025 he joined the Caledonia Gladiators team in Scotland. Him and teammate Jared Wilson-Frame both had their contracts terminated by the super league team.

Oct 4 – Nessim Ramdane, 36, a taxi driver, was shot dead in Marseille. His assailant was a 14-year-old boy who had been paid by a rival drugs gang. Ramdane was an amateur footballer with Carnoux-en-Provence. The killing was a botched revenge mission for the brutal killing of a 15-year-old, who was set on fire (see Oct 2). Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said the city’s drug lords were recruiting young boys to kill “without any remorse or reflection”. Two drugs gangs – the DZ Mafia and The Blacks (Les Noirs) are fighting over possession of Marseille.

Oct 2 – A 15-year-old boy was stabbed 50 times and set on fire in the Fonscolombes housing estate in Marseille, France. Two drugs gangs – the DZ Mafia and The Blacks (Les Noirs) are fighting over possession of Marseille. A member of the DZ Mafia, who is currently in prison, hired the boy for €2,000 to “intimidate” a competitor by setting fire to his door. But the boy was stabbed by The Blacks, who stabbed and set him on fire after finding a gun. A friend, also aged 15, managed to escape.

Oct 2 – A 30-year-old Mexican drug dealer was shot dead man outside the five-star Hotel Riu Palace resort in Cancún, Mexico. He was involved in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy a beach next to the hotel in July.  The Quintana Roo Attorney General’s Office said in a statement about the July incident that the victim was riding one of the two jet skis that approached the shores of Caracol Beach, where they confronted rival drug dealers. One of the bullets struck the stomach of 12-year-old Santiago, who was sitting on a beach chair several yards away from the RIU Cancun hotel. The child, a native of Mexico City, was rushed to an area hospital, where he died. Two drug dealers from the rival groups were arrested during an operation August 4.

September 2024

Sep 29 – Dontae McLaren, 24, was stabbed to death during a brawl between two groups of men with knives outside Dirty Blonde nightclub in Wandsworth Road, Stockwell, south London. Dynzell Patrick, 26, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 19 years for manslaughter. He was a drill artist known as Reckz Capo and the victim was known as SAV37.

Sep – Nazire Koreli, 54, was last seen alive in Welling, south east London. She was only reported missing on 28 Feb 2025. Her body has not been found. A man in his 50s was arrested on suspicion of murder.

Sep 15 – Charlotte Lawler, 31, was stabbed to death around 1am in the foyer of a block of flats in Tower Hamlets, east London. Hope Rowe, 32, was jailed for life (23 years) after being convicted of murder at Inner London Crown Court. The stabbing was witnessed by some of Ms Lawlor’s family, children and guests who had stayed on after a children’s birthday party. Rowe and Miss Lawlor had a row at the party. Rowe’s boyfriend Leigh Holder, 38, was jailed for 16 months for perverting the course of justice. He encouraged Rowe not to surrender to the police and helped her dispose of the murder weapon. Rowe’s phone was seized and analysed by forensic experts. A voicemail – accidentally left by Holder on Rowe’s phone while he was sitting next to her and driving away from the scene – was recovered. In the recorded conversation, Rowe told Holder that it was “good” she had killed Ms Lawlor, while Holder instructed his partner to dispose of the knife and to avoid the police.

Sep 13 – Juliana Falcon, 48, and her children Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13, were shot dead at their home in Leabank, a block of flats in Luton. Her son Nicholas Prosper, 19, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in Feb 2025 and was jailed for life. The court heard he intended to carry out an attack at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, and a loaded shotgun with more than 30 cartridges was found in a bush after his arrest.

Sep 12 – Francis Reilly, 63, who was known as Frankie, died after a serious assault in Brentwood, Essex. Mr Reilly’s family said he was a “loving father, brother, grandfather, and uncle”. John Moore, 38, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 4 – Tikquaan Stephenson-Walters aka Lil Bam, 28, a personal trainer, was shot dead at 11pm in Bravington Road on the Mozart estate in west London. He was an associate of the Harrow Road Boys (HRB) gang. The murder took place a day after the anniversary of the murder of MLO, from the rival SSK gang. Police said Tikquaan was approached by a lone suspect on a white moped. They exchanged words before Tikquaan was shot at close range and the suspect then fled north and turned right into Marban Road.

Sep 4 – Antonio Bellocco, 36, an Inter Milan ultra, was stabbed to death during an argument outside a sports centre in Cernusco sul Naviglio, Milan. Andrea Beretta, 49, head of the “curva nord” (north end) ultras, has been charged with murder. Beretta said he stabbed Bellocco in self-defence after he was shot in the leg. Beretta was questioned in his hospital bed by a prosecutor. Beretta, who has been convicted several times for violence and drug dealing, became head of the Inter ultras after their historic leader Vittorio Boiocchi was assassinated in October 2022. According to press reports, Bellocco is the heir of a powerful ‘Ndrangheta crime family from Calabria, and has been condemned in the past for organised crime activities.

Sep 2 – Four passengers – three of whom were asleep – on a Blue Line train, which operates 24 hours a day, from Forest Park through downtown Chicago to Chicago O’Hare International Airport, were shot dead at 5.30am on Labor Day (a bank holiday Monday). Rhanni Davis, 30, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Three of the victims were identified as Adrian Collins, 60, Margaret Miller Johnson, 64, and Simeon Bihesi, 29. Bihesi was a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marines, serving from 2016 to 2022. But his father in Columbus, Ohio said his son became homeless after suffering from depression.

Sep 1 – Alan Sutton, aged 41, was killed during a fight between a group of men in Monk Bretton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Callum Strachan, 21, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 1 – Bhim Kohli, 80, died after being attacked at Franklin Park in Braunstone Town, Leicestershire, while walking his dog Rocky. A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 1 – Four people were killed execution-style in Tshelimnyama, Mariannhill, South Africa. The six suspects were killed in a shootout with police in South Beach, Durban, a few days later. They  have also been linked to the murders of three men near a tuck shop in Hammarsdale, Mpumalanga.

August 2024

Aug 29 – Alexander Zurawski, six, was found dead at a house in Gendros, Swansea. His mother Karolina Zurawska, 41, has been charged with murder. She is also accused of attempting to murder her father, Krzysztof Siwi, 67, earlier the same day.

Aug 29 – Jahziah Coke, 13, was stabbed to death at his home in Oldbury, West Midlands. Two boys, aged 13 and 15, have been charged with murder and await trial at Birmingham Crown Court. A man in his 40s has been charged with assisting an offender. The prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said the case was “tragic” and “senseless” after it was brought up by the local MP.

Aug 26 – Mussie Imnetu, 41, a Swedish chef who was visiting the UK from Dubai where he worked (at the Arts Club restaurant), was found unconscious with a head injury in Queensway, west London, at around 11.22pm after attending the Notting Hill Carnival. He was taken to hospital, where he died of his injuries four days later. He was a Michelin star chef, who hailed from Eritrea but grew up in Sweden. Omar Wilson, 31, was originally charged with GBH but that charge has been upgraded to murder. He was convicted of murder and jailed for life (18 years). The trial heard that after attacking Mr Imnetu – who died in hospital four days later – Wilson told a friend he had “crossed the line” and admitted, in a text message: “There’s a monster in me, man, and it’s just like sometimes it comes out.”

Aug 25 – Cher Maximen, 32, was stabbed to death with a zombie knife in front of her 3-year-old daughter in Golborne Road, at Notting Hill Carnival. Shakeil Thibou, 20, was charged with murder and went on trial in March 2025. His older brothers, Sheldon and Shaeim Thibou, were charged with violent disorder and assaulting PC Oliver Mort, who had tried to stop the violence.

Aug 24 – Joshua Pedro Pelico-Pelico, 19, David Antonio Delgadillo, 21, Daniel Segura-Cruz, 17, and Robert Valencia, 18, were shot dead in Pleasant Grove Park in Dalton, Georgia. A 16-year-old boy from Rome, Georgia, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 21 – Bryonie Gawith, 29, and her daughter Denisty Birtle, nine, son Oscar Birtle, five, and daughter Aubree Birtle, 22 months, all died in an arson attack on a house in Bradford, West Yorkshire. A 39-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and had been taken to hospital with critical injuries. Mohammed Shabir, 44, and Calum Sunderland, 25, both of Keighley, have been charged with murder and await trial. Prosecutor Matthew Bean told Bradford crown court on their first appearance there was a third person who was “in a coma”. Bean added: “He is, at the moment, very unwell and the expectation is that he may not recover. He may, but at the moment there is a degree of uncertainty. In March 2025 after waking from his coma Sharaz Ali, 39, was also charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

Aug 20 – Mahir Abdulrahman, 30, an inmate at HMP Fosse Way in Leicestershire, was beaten to death in his cell. Fellow inmate Ashirie Smith, 18, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (17 years). Thierry Robinson, 21, was jailed for 11 years for manslaughter. Shaan Karim, 38, was acquitted of all charges. Robinson and Smith accepted they entered Abdulrahman’s cell, but claimed they only wanted to speak to him about an incident the day before, in which he had thrown water from a kettle on them. Karim gave evidence and said Abdulrahman’s 35-week prison sentence for a sexual offence had led to other inmates “terrorising him for days”.

Aug 20 – Claudiu-Carol Kondor, 42, an Amazon parcel delivery driver from Sheffield, was dragged to his death in Wortley, Leeds, as he tried to stop his van being stolen. Mark Ross, 32, has been charged with murder. Police are also seeking Eddie Hampshire, 24, from Belle Isle, Leeds, in connection with the incident. Ross’s trial is due to take place at Leeds Crown Court in March 2025.

Aug 18 – Alberta Obinim, 43, was stabbed to death at a house in Gorton, Manchester. Her husband, church leader Joshua Obinim, 64, and her 17-year-old daughter survived. A 22-year-old man, believed to be Alberta’s son, has been detained under the Mental Health Act.

Aug 18 – Sophie Watson, 57, was stabbed to death at a house in Magherafelt, County Londonderry.  on Sunday afternoon. Andrzej Pajaczkowski, 43, a Polish national, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 18 – Stephanie Marie, 19, was stabbed to death near the railway station in Crawley, West Sussex. Jason Flore, 21, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 15 – Joel Stenning, aged 29, died in hospital after he was shot by a Surrey Police firearms officer at a house in Knaphill, Woking.

Aug 15 – Christopher Brown, 72, a retired lawyer, was battered to death at his home in Lewisham, south east London. His pet cat was stabbed in the neck. His friend and lodger Habiba Naveed, 35, denied murder but pleaded guilty to his manslaughter by diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. She also admitted causing unnecessary suffering to his cat Snow. The court heard Naveed thought she was “Jesus” and had been “sent to eliminate evil from the world.”

Aug 15 – David Dosa, 53, was stabbed to death outside his home in Luton. Yasar Hussain, 27, from Aylesbury, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 11 – Kalik Aaron, 26, from the US Virgin Islands, was shot dead in Sandy Ground, Anguilla. It was the 6^th murder on the Caribbean island – which only has a population of 15,000 – in 2024. Two others were injured. Police described it as a “targeted” shooting.  At the time, hundreds of spectators were at the Anguilla Summer Festival closing ceremony which was held in the area. Governor Julia Crouch said it was “awful” to hear of another shooting. “Those involved demonstrated a callous disregard for the safety of the public and the sanctity of human life,” she said. In Nov 2018 Aaron was acquitted of an attempted murder in Road Town in the British Virgin Islands. He was accused of being the “getaway driver” after the shooting of a fellow partygoer at Da Basement, a club below U.P.’s Cineplex.  Adrian Augustin, from St Croix, was the alleged gunman who shot Dakeem Cheltenham on Oct. 29, 2016. Mr. Cheltenham was shot several times near the club but narrowly survived. Augustin was himself shot to death in St. Croix in May 2018.

Aug 11 – Eight people were shot dead in Cherry Tree Lane, Four Paths, Clarendon parish, Jamaica. The victims included a seven-year-old boy, Aiden Bartley. The other victims were Kavel Daley, 27, a therapist, Lawrence Francis, 50, a construction worker, Diamond Bennett, 20, a cashier, Errol ‘Wagga’ Stewart, 58, Jermaine ‘Blacks’ Boothe, 32, Courtney ‘Dummbie’ Messam,  and a woman called Margaret. A one-year old boy and a 70-year-old woman were among 10 others who were injured. Two men have been charged with the murders and await trial. They are Dushane ‘Snowman’ Smalling, 28, from May Pen, and Leighton ‘Bands’ Whyte, 32, from Havana Heights. A third suspect, Steve Smith, was shot by police in a shootout. The police claim the three and other men, who were all armed with handguns, drove to the community, where a birthday party was being held, and fired at a group of people.

Aug 9 – A 31-year-old junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, India, was raped and then stabbed and mutilated after finishing a gruelling 36-hour shift. She had fallen asleep in a seminar room due to the lack of a designated rest area. The next morning, her colleagues discovered her half-naked body on the podium, bearing extensive injuries. A hospital volunteer worker has been arrested in connection with the crime. The attack triggered massive protests and Reclaim The Night marches across India. Under Indian law the victim can never be identified because she was a rape victim.

August 8 – Lyudmila Lazarenko, 44, was killed and dismembered in Yurimaguas, Peru. Ivan Kuzmin, 38, a Ukrainian, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. The incident occurred at the Dos Mundos integrated development centre. Workers heard screams and found Kuzmin standing over Lazarenko’s body, which was lying in a pool of blood. Kuzmin resisted arrest, threatening suicide and attacking officers. A drug pipe was found in his belongings. Lazarenko, who leaves behind a husband and two children, was reportedly in Peru for spiritual practices.

Aug 6 – Courtney Mitchell, 26, was stabbed in Ipswich, Suffolk. Logan Burnett, 27, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 6 – Joshua McLean, 31, was fatally shot in Weavers Fields, Tower Hamlets, east London.

Aug 6 – A 33-year-old transgender woman known as Abuja Area Mama was found along a highway in Abuja, Nigeria. She was a TikToker and had a loyal fan base on social media, where she posted about being transgender and her life as a sex worker. She never used her full name, referring to herself sometimes as Ifeanyi. Last year the TikToker told of how she had been attacked and feared for her life. Her body was found along Katampe – Mabushi expressway in the Banex, Wuse II area of Abuja.

Aug 5 – Abdul Jalloh, 23, was stabbed in the Isle of Dogs, east London. Shomiah McKenzie, 18, of Lewisham and Cody Godfrey, 18, of Isle of Dogs, have been charged on with murder and possession of Class C drugs with intent to supply. McKenzie was also further charged with possession of an offensive weapon.

August 2 – Oliver Payne, 38, was stabbed to death in Paragon Place, Norwich. He was a convicted shoplifter.

July 2024

July 30 – Mustapha Ait Chick, 48, a cocaine dealer and former boxer, was shot dead by two men as he opened the electric gate to his home in Livry-Gargan, near Paris.  He was hit by four bullets fired by a Kalshnikov as he sat on his motorbike waiting for the gate to open. Chick was well known to the police. He was jailed for five years in 2011 for his participation in a major drug trafficking operation in Bagnolet. His older brother was the ringleader. He was nicknamed  “Momo” and “Baldy”.

July 30 – Derek Thomas, 53, a bus driver, was stabbed with a Rambo knife in Stoke Newington, NE London. Kamar Williams, 33, was arrested at the Notting Hill Carnival a month later and has been charged with murder and awaits trial.  At a first court appearance the court heard Williams, from the Isle of Dogs, had recently broken up with his girlfriend when he allegedly stabbed her father. A grey Citroen van allegedly used by Mr Williams was found abandoned in east London on 1 August. Two days later, a BMW car allegedly associated with the defendant was stopped in Burntash Hill, south-east London, but drove off at speed before crashing into other cars, the court was told. It is alleged Mr Williams then ran off, jumping through a series of gardens. A female passenger was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

July 29 – Olivia Wood, 29, of Northwich, Cheshire, was killed at a house in Frome, Somerset. Keiron Goodwin, aged 32, from Frome, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 29 – Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class taking place during the summer holidays in Southport, Mersyside. Ten other people – children and adults – survived, some with serious injuries. Axel Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time, from Banks in Lancashire, has been charged with three murders and 10 attempted murders. The murders triggered race riots in Liverpool, Hartlepool, Sunderland, Hull, Rotherham, Tamworth and elsewhere after it was falsely reported on social media that the killer was a Muslim illegal immigrant called Ali Al-Shakti. Rudakubana, whose parents are from Rwanda, grew up in Cardiff.

July 28 – Rebecca Simkin, 31, was found dead at a house in Stafford. Wayne Bond, 44, from Stafford, has been charged with her murder and awaits trial.

July 27 – Imran Maroof, 20, was stabbed to death in Plashet Park, Newham, east London. A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 26 – Hitkaran Johal, 25, a gangster, was shot dead as he drove down East 63rd Avenue in Vancouver, Canada. Harjot Samra, 28, survived. In 2017 Johal was stopped by Vancouver police on his way to a Kerrisdale office building to burn it down. Johal was originally charged with conspiracy to commit murder, as well as conspiracy to commit arson. But in August 2019, he pleaded guilty in Vancouver provincial court only to the arson count. He was sentenced to two years in jail. Samra pleaded guilty to several firearms and drug offences in 2018 and was sentenced to six years in prison.

July 24 – Anita Rose, 57, suffered fatal head injuries while walking her springer spaniel, Bruce, in Brantham, Suffolk. She died four days later in hospital. She left home at 5am and was found less than two hours later on a track off Rectory Lane next to the London-Ipswich railway line, which overlooks the River Stour estuary. A man in his 20s, from the village, was arrested on suspicion of murder. Another man, 45, was previously questioned on suspicion of murder while a woman, 37, was arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods. On 30 July, the day after the Southport attack, the first claims appeared on X that the arrested 45-year-old and 37-year-old were Somalian. The rumour was repeated by numerous anonymous accounts and amplified by influential anti-immigration accounts. One tweet on 2 August falsely claimed that “two Somali immigrants who followed her attacked Anita to rob her” – to date it has been seen by 2.5 million people. The untruth was then referenced by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson and by the rightwing former actor Laurence Fox. It led Suffolk constabulary to take the highly unusual step of publicly rebutting the false rumours, stating that the man and woman were not Somalian. In July 2025 Roy Barclay, 56, was convicted of murdering Ms Rose. The jury at his trial heard in agreed facts that Barclay had previously pleaded guilty in August 2015 to grievous bodily harm with intent, for attacking pensioner Leslie Gunfield 10 years ago. Ms Rose’s partner of 13 years, Richard Jones, broke down in tears when the guilty verdict was delivered.

July 23 – Pharrell Garcia, 15, was stabbed to death during a botched robbery in Hackney, east London, after picking his little sister up from primary school. The incident took place on the grounds of a block of flats next to Benthal Primary School, where Pharrell had been a pupil before going on to secondary school. A 15-year-old boy was charged with murder but was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 12 years. The trial heard the killer – a former friend of Pharrell’s –  confessed to an online girlfriend he killed him “by accident” as she sat with her grandmother in a Nando’s restaurant.

July 23 – Ervin Baraku, 33, died in hospital after being stabbed in Seven Sisters station, Tottenham, north London. Kevin Nguyen, 20, and Milumo Pedrinho, 20, have been charged with murder and perverting the course of justice.

July 22 – William Birchard, 21, and Darren George, 22, were killed on the A316 southbound slip road on the M3 in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey when their e-bikes were rammed with a car. Alex Rose, 30, was jailed for life (34 years) and Charles Pardoe, 25 was jailed for life (29 years) after being found guilty of murder. Rose’s girlfriend Tara Knaggs, 25, was also convicted of assisting  an offender and was jailed for three years. Samuel Aspden, 25, was cleared of both murder charges. Rose and Pardoe believed the victims had burgled their house but they were completely innocent and on their way to the pub.

July 21 – Rene Graham, 15, was shot dead in Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park in Ladbroke Grove, west London at 7.20pm. Four men, two aged 21 and the others aged 20 and 25, were arrested on suspicion of murder but later bailed. Abderahman Boumzough, 25, was charged with murder in Sep 2025 and awaits trial.

July 19 – Iryna Farion, 60, a former Ukrainian nationalist MP, was shot dead in Lviv, Ukraine. She caused controversy in 2023 by suggesting that “true patriots” of Ukraine should not speak Russian under any circumstances. Police said her killing was a targeted attack and a power outage affected CCTV in the area. The hardline nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) political party she was a member of blamed Russia directly for the killing.

July 18 – Chen Chen Fei, 47, was killed with a samurai-style katana sword during a fight at her home in San Dimas, Los Angeles, California. Her wife Weichien Huang, 44, was charged with murder and attempted murder of her 70-year-old mother-in-law.

July 18 – Tommy Boom, 30, was stabbed in the early hours in Millers Meadow, also known as Semilong Park, in Northampton. Daniel Larman, 21, and Kieran Okocha-Sleight, also 21, are both charged with his murder. Larman is also charged with one count of possession of a bladed article. Both men will go on trial in January 2025.

July 17 – Andrew Main, 33, from Falkirk in central Scotland, died in hospital on August 14, four weeks after being injured near the entrance to a Travelodge in Swansea. Joseph Dix, 26, of Frome, and Macauley Ruddock, 27, of Bath, both Somerset, have been charged with murder and will go on trial at Swansea Crown Court in January 2025.

July 14 –  Farooq Abdulrazak, 37, and Juan Cifuentes, 33, were shot dead and their Toyota Rav4 car was found burnt out on an industrial estate in Malmo, Sweden.They were both from north London and were running a travel agency called Empire Holidays. They were on a “business trip” to Copenhagen. A month later, Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lee, from the homicide team in the Met’s Specialist Crime Command, said: “We are supporting our colleagues in Sweden as they investigate this incredibly tragic and complex incident…Police in Sweden continue to follow a number of lines of enquiry, we understand that no arrests have been made at this time.”  Two men have been detained by the Swedish police – Yaser Abdelaziz (the main suspect in the murder) and Fares Kafaf (suspected of aiding in the murder). They are believed to be part of a gang which has connections to Malmö’s Rosengård district and includes as members Jonathan Håkansson and Marko Osman. It would appear Abdulrazak and Cifuentes were also involved in a drugs deal which went wrong.

July 13 – Angela Weatherspoon, 56, Markeisha Gettings, 42, Stevie McGhee, 39, and Lerandus Anderson, 24, were shot dead and 10 others were wounded during an adult birthday party at Trendsetters nightclub in Birmingham, Alabama. Hatarius Woods, 27, and Damien McDaniel, 22, have been charged with the murders. McDaniel alone is also charged with the murders of Carlos McCain, 27, Roderick Lynn Patterson Jr., 26, Anitra Holloman, 21, and Tahj Booker, 27, who were killed at the Hush Lounge nightclub in Birmingham on Sep 21, 2024.  Seventeen people were injured in that shooting. McDaniel is also accused of three separate fatal shootings that took place on three separate days in August and September —the victims were Charlie Moore, 61, Charles Nance, 41, and Diontrante Brown, a 35-year-old mother who police say was an innocent bystander shot to death inside 604 Bar and Lounge. When McDaniel appeared in court a police dog swept the courtroom before the hearing, and 16 armed officers were stationed throughout the courtroom. McDaniel is accused of committing 7% of all homicides in Birmingham in 2024. He faces trial.

July 11 – Jeremy Rickards, 65, was stabbed to death and dismembered at their home in Kent. His wife Maureen Rickards, 50, was jailed for life (22 years) at Canterbury Crown Court in 2025. After killing him she spent money using his bank card, concocted lies to try to divert suspicion away from herself, and got rid of evidence and the murder weapon.

July 10 – Izzet Eren, 41, one of the leaders of the Tottenham Turks gang, was shot dead as he sat on the terrace of a café in the stylish Riscani district of Chisinau, capital of Moldova. The gunman, who was wearing a black bike helmet, fled on an electric scooter after firing multiple shots, hitting him in the head. The killing is believed to have been in revenge for a shooting in Dalston, east London, in which several members of the Bombacilar gang from Hackney were shot at. A 9-year-old girl was seriously injured. Eren had a long criminal history, including a 21-year prison sentence for firearms offences in the UK. In 2015 Jermaine Baker was shot by armed police as he prepared to try and spring Eren from a prison van heading to Wood Green Crown Court. He was convicted and then transferred to a Turkish prison in 2019. He was reportedly freed in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and absconded. In May 2022 Moldovan authorities arrested Eren, but he was reportedly free at the time of his death, awaiting extradition to the UK. Eren was implicated in the 1994 killing of Mehmet Kaygısız, who was shot while playing backgammon at a café, a murder initially presented as part of a drug war. But he was never charged.

July 10 – Jesse Lloyd-Smith, 20, was shot in the head in an alleyway close to the Damilola Taylor Centre in Peckham, south-east London. He was found by his mother, who lived nearby. Gabriel Charles, 20, was jailed for life (28 years) for murder. Five other defendants were sentenced for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice – Enver Francis, 22, was jailed for four years, Kywan JN Pierre, 19, was detained for three years, Ben Nguyen, 20, was jailed for five years, Abdoul Guene, 19, from Peckham, was detained for two years, and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, was detained for two years. Kadjo Kadio, 21, from Dartford, was also convicted of assisting an offender and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The judge criticised the defendants for their “ignorant, unfeeling and disrespectful” behaviour during the trial.

July 9 – Carol Hunt, 61, and her daughters Hannah Hunt, 28, and Louise Hunt, 25, were killed in a crossbow attack in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Kyle Clifford, from Enfield, was arrested in a cemetery the following day on suspicion of murder. He is a former boyfriend of Louise Hunt. Carol Hunt was the wife of BBC Radio 5 Live horse racing commentator John Hunt. After the incident the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said she was urgently looking at the laws on crossbows. In April 2024 the previous government concluded a consultation on laws on tightening rules on crossbow ownership.

July 8 – Kaylani Kalanzi, who was three months old and a twin, was killed in hospital on 23 July, after being assaulted at her home in Homerton, east London. Her mother, Nazli Merthoca, 24, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 13 years for manslaughter. Her partner, Herbert Kalanzi, was cleared of murder, manslaughter and causing or allowing the death of a child.

July 8 – Connor Brookes, 20, was shot dead as he sat in a car in Walsall in a revenge attack for an earlier killing. Jake Sanbrook, 23, Byron Sellick, 20, and Julian Falconer, aged 19, were jailed for life (20 years) for murder in July 2025. Samuel Danks-Petty, aged 20, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice after helping the killers get home safely after the murder and was jailed for 3 years. Connor and a friend were sitting in a car when a stolen black Ford Focus pulled up alongside them and a gunman in the back of the car fired a shotgun once at them. Connor’s brother, Patrick, was one of 7 men convicted of the murder of Bailey Atkinson, who was stabbed to death in Walsall in 2023. Connor’s killers were friends of Mr Atkinson and some had images of him and material related to the 2023 murder on their phones. Less than 15 minutes before the murder, shots had been fired from the Focus towards another car less than two miles away, that was also an attempted revenge attack for Mr Atkinson’s murder.

July 7 – Antonios Antoniadis, 29, was attacked in New Cross, south east London. He died in hospital two weeks later.  Joshua McCorquodale, 20, Sofian Alliche, 19, Shian Johnson, 25, and a 17-year-old have all been charged with murder and await trial.

July 6 – Josh McKay, 30, was stabbed to death in a barber shop in Lea Bridge Road, Walthamstow, north east London. His 6-year-old child reportedly witnessed the killing and told passers-by “my dad has just been stabbed”. McKay was known as JMK and was reportedly associated with the Beaumont gang, which is hostile to the Mali Boys gang. Local Labour MP Stella Creasy tweeted about the incident, which took place two days after the general election. Renai Belle, 29, from Edmonton, Tenika Parker, 38, from Leyton and Daniel Cooper, 21, from Walthamstow,
have been charged with murder await trial in April 2025.

July 5 – Sophie Evans, 30, was beaten and strangled at her home in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Richard Jones, 50, was jailed for life (20 years) in March 2025. Ms Evans had returned home from dropping off her two children at school and was wearing just a towel – having showered – when Jones arrived. He killed her because he wrongly believed she was scamming his son, Jamie Davies. After the murder, Jones left the property and then ran errands – ordering a new debit card at the bank and buying a custard slice and sandwich from a bakery. Jones later contacted his ex-partner and told her he had “sorted” the problem he had with Ms Evans and had “erased” it. Jones believed he had been duped into signing a tenancy agreement for Ms Evans’s home and was worried about a housing benefit claim she had made. In psychiatrist interviews after his arrest, Jones said he believed he had been “tricked” out of the deeds for his mother’s house by his son and Ms Evans.

July 5 – Scarlett Vickers, 14, was stabbed to death at her home in Darlington. Her parents, Simon Vickers, 48, and Sarah Hall, 44, have been charged with murder and await trial.

July 2 – Jack Cadwallader, 25, was attacked outside a house in Harrietsham, Kent at 1.30am. Paige Poulton, 19, from Haringey, north London, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 1 – A 37-year-old man from Leatherhead died in a car crash on the A244 in Esher, Surrey. Neil Sullingston, 52, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 1 – Joanne Samak, 49, was killed at her home in Droitwich, Worcestershire. Her husband, Egyptian national Mohamed Samak, 42, a hockey coach, has been charged with murder. He went on trial at Worcester Crown Court in Feb 2025 and said he was woken up at around 3am by a scream from his wife and went out onto the landing at their home to see her stabbing herself six times. But when he called the emergency services at 4.10am, more than an hour after the incident, he told the call handler he had gone to the bathroom and decided to check on his wife, who slept in a separate bedroom, and found her slumped on the bed with a knife in her stomach. The call handler asked Samak if Joanne had stabbed herself, to which he replied: “I think so.” Asked by defence barrister John Jones KC why he had not told the operator that he had seen his wife stabbing herself, Samak said: “I tried to cover it because I was worried that I was going to take the blame for it and I panicked.” When he was asked by Mr Jones if he had killed his wife, he said: “How, why? Why would I kill my wife? Why would I kill her, why would I not leave? I’m not a killer.”

June 2024

June 30 – D’Vontaye Mitchell, 43, died during an altercation with staff at a Hyatt Regency hotel in Milwaukee. Mithcell ran into a women’s bathroom before staff dragged him outside, beat him and held him face down on the ground for eight or nine minutes, according to court documents. Mitchell was unresponsive when police arrived at the scene and was later pronounced dead. He died of “restraint asphyxia and toxic effects of cocaine and methamphetamine”, found a post-mortem examination that also noted he was morbidly obese. Two security guards, Todd Alan Erickson, 60, and Brandon LaDaniel Turner, 35, who was off duty at the time of the incident; as well as Devin Johnson-Carson, 23, a front desk agent; and Herbert Williamson, 53, a door attendant, were charged with murder and await trial.

June 26 – Kyle Marshall, 37, was stabbed to death in a park, Well Head Fields, in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Reece Bruns, 20, and a 16-year-old boy have been charged with murder and await trial.

June 25 – Akashdeep Singh, aged 26, died in a house fire in Wolverhampton. A 52-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy were both seriously injured. It is believed to have been an arson attack and a murder inquiry was launched.

June 23 – Neno Dolmajian, a 41-year-old tourist from Montreal, Canada, was attacked on O’Connell Street, Dublin in the early hours. He was taken to Dublin’s Mater Hospital but died two days later with his parents and sister at his bedside. Ionut Danca, 24, a Romanian construction worker, and Madalin Ghiuzan, 23, have both been charged with assault.

June 23 – Charles Jones, 26, a rapper better known as Julio Foolio, was shot dead during his birthday celebrations in Tampa, Florida. He was one of four people hit by gunfire in the car park of a hotel. He had been forced to move to the hotel after being asked to vacate an Airbnb because there were too many people at the party. He posted on his Instagram account that the police had “shut us down.” He had nearly a million monthly listeners on Spotify, where his top-played track is called Voo Doo.

June 22 – Bob Moore, 93, was killed at his home in Hambrook, south Gloucestershire. His son, Gary Moore, 64, was charged with murder and awaits trial at Bristol Crown Court.

June 20 – David Hallatt, 57, a tiler from South Yorkshire, was attacked at The Dolphin and Anchor pub in Chichester, West Sussex. Kieran Egan, 30, from Birmingham, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

June 18 – Delia Haxworth, 85, was killed at her home in Bath, Somerset. Her husband, William Haxworth, 87, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

June 14 – Mark Glasscoe, 46, was found with fatal injuries outside a row of garages in Lincoln. Jason Frow, 31, Louis Giles, 33, and Jordan Hartley, 32, have been charged with murder and await trial.

June 9 – Sebastiaan James-Kraan, 20, was shot in Templeman Road, Copley estate, Hanwell, at 2.10am. He died in hospital on June 12. Javier Rodriguez-McDonald, 18, of Emanuel Avenue, W3, his brother Jayson Rodriguez-McDonald, 19, of Uxbridge Road, W13, and Emmanuel Mgbean, 19, of Alperton Lane, Wembley, have been charged with murder and await trial.

June 7 – Jeremy Rickards, 65, was stabbed and buried in a bag in the garden of his home in Canterbury, Kent. His wife Maureen Rickards, 50, has been charged with murder and went on trial in Feb 2025. The couple had been married for 27 years. The trial at Cantebury Crown Court heard Ms Rickards initially stored his body, dressed in his underwear, in a cupboard in her bedroom, before wrapping it in bin bags, putting it in a large holdall, and moving it down two flights of stairs. The body was eventually hidden under grass cuttings in her garden at St Martin’s Road. The remains were discovered by police on 11 July 3034, six days after he was reported missing by his stepdaughter. Neighbour Oksana Kandaurova told the court she was tidying up her own garden a few days before a family event on 14 June when she noticed a smell.

June 6 – Robert Robinson, 21 was stabbed to death in Deptford, south London. Ryan Wedderburn, 18, Dalziell Wedderburn, 44, and Kirk Harris, 18, have been charged with murder and await trial.

June 4 – C Gambino, 26, a Swedish rapper, whose real name was Karar Ali Salem Ramadan, was shot dead in a car park in Gothenburg, Sweden. Hassan Rabeie, 22, was jailed for life (22 years minimum) for murder, Vide Atterstam, 20, was jailed for 15 years and 6 months and Fatjam Vardari, 21, for 12 years and 6 months. C Gambino posthumously won the Hip Hop of the Year category at the Swedish Grammys for 2024’s Sista Gång, In Memory Of Some Stand Up Guys (Private Collection).

June 4 – Mohammed Adam Abdi, 19, was stabbed to death at Edgware Road station in central London. Awad Abdel Samad, 23, has convicted of murder after a trial in Sep 2025. He was found guilty of murder after the jury rejected his self-defence story. Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC had told jurors there was “a lot going on” in CCTV of the incident which also captured a man shooting himself in the foot. He told jurors: “It is, you might have thought, like something from the Wild West.”

June 1 – Taha Errami, 22, broke his ankle during an incident in Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End of London. He died in hospital on 23 July from complications allegedly associated with the fractured ankle, including deep vein thrombosis. Malachi Wilson, 32, Devonta Rose, 20, and Dennis Kaantharasan, 25, were charged with murder and went on trial in Feb 2025. Mr had been punched and stamped on during the attack, which was not captured by CCTV cameras.

May 2024

May 28 – Maria Nugara, 54, and Giuseppe Morreale, 29, were killed in the village of Ugley in Essex. Calogero Ricotta, 63, has been charged with murder and one count of actual bodily harm and awaits trial at Chelmsford Crown Court. Ricotta is the husband of Nugara and father of Giuseppe.

May 27 – Andrew Rowland-Stuart, 70, was killed at his flat in Brighton. His wife Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 70, has been charged with murder and is due to go on trial at Lewes Crown Court in Nov 2024. When she appeared for a first appearance she  was aided by a British Sign Language interpreter after the battery died in her cochlear implant.

May 26 – Kelvin Evans was killed after he was with a single punch from behind outside The Station Hotel pub in Gorseinon, Swansea. Christopher Cooper, 39, was jailed for life (16 years). The trial heard Cooper felt “slighted” after Evans laughed at his partner’s karaoke singing. Mr Evans was punched unconscious and was taken to hospital, where he died a month later. After the incident, Cooper boasted about the attack, branding his fists his “bad boys”.

May 25 – The body of He “Kiki” Meihong, 39, was found in a storage locker in The Dalles, Oregon, USA, on July 29, 2025. She was last seen that day in Glenwood, Washington, when her fiancé dropped her off to go fishing with her friends near Underwood, Washington. In Aug 2025 Richard “Mike” Robinson, a registered sex offender, was arrested in Colorado and charged with her murder.

May 25 – Johnny Wactor, 37, an actor who starred in soap opera General Hospital, was shot and killed in Los Angeles when he interrupted three thieves stealing the catalytic converter from his car. He had left work at a downtown LA rooftop bar with a coworker when he saw three men who had hoisted his car. Police said one of them fired at him without provocation and killed him. Robert Barceleau, 18; Sergio Estrada, 18; Leonel Gutierrez, 18; and Frank Olano, 22, have all been charged with murder and await trial.

May 24 – Leon Penman, 20, was stabbed to death in a car park in Bedford, England, after a dispute over a designer coat. Jacob Zuco, 19, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (20 years). Leon was stabbed multiple times through a car window. Zuco had attacked him previously, in March 2024, but Penman refused to name him to police.

May 24 – Amie Gray, 34, a personal trainer, was stabbed to death on Durley Chine beach in Bournemouth just before midnight. Her friend, Leanne Miles, 38, survived. Nasen Saadi, 20, from Croydon, south London, was convicted of murder at Winchester Crown Court and jailed for life (39 years). The trial heard Saadi, a criminology student from London, had travelled down and decided to kill someone to find out what it felt like. He was also obsessed with the Setagaya murders.

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May 24 – Kamari Johnson, 16, was stabbed in Bourne Avenue, Hayes, west London. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article in a public place and awaits trial.

May 22 – Jesse Tubbs, 30, of Mississauga, was shot in Toronto, Ontario around 12.30am and died in hospital a few days later. Adrian Gordon Jr, 24, fled to the UK and was arrested in London in August 2024. He has been extradited back to Canada and awaits trial.

May 17 – Emma Finch, 96, was found dead at her home in Mill Road, Liss, Hampshire, at 4.29am.  She died in a fire. Joshua Powell, 26, from Lindford, was later arrested and charged with her murder. He awaits trial at Winchester Crown Court. Emma’s family said in a tribute released through Hampshire police: “The death of our dear Mum at the age of 96, has left a huge void in our lives, more so as to the circumstances surrounding her untimely death.”

May 15 – Franklin Agbotui, 79, was beaten to death at his home in Soprano Court, a sheltered housing complex in Plaistow, east London. Philip Fracezek, 20, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. A number of neighbours had become concerned that a man had entered the block of flats and was trying door handles, the Old Bailey heard.

May 14 – Prison guards Fabrice Moello, 52, and Arnaud Garcia, 34, were shot dead when a gang sprung notorious criminal Mohamed “The Fly” Amra, 30, as he was being transported to Évreux prison following a court hearing in Rouen. At 10.57am the convoy was ambushed at the Incarville tollboth, just outside Rouen. Amra went on the run but was recaptured in Feb 2025 in Bucharest. Ten members of his entourage were also charged. Amra was then extradited back to France where he awaits trial.

May 9 – Anita Mukhey, 66, a part-time medical secretary, was stabbed to death at a bus stop in Burnt Oak, Edgware, north London after being slapped, punched and shaken by her attacker at 11.46am. The attack was witnessed by members of the public. Witnesses said he grabbed her and held her “like a rag doll”, shaking her about. Jalal Debella, 22, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 7- Konstantin Tsachev, 66, was stabbed repeatedly at a house in Palmers Green, north London. His son, Aleks Tsachev, 21, a Bulgarian national, has been charged with murder and is due to go on trial at Wood Green Crown Court on 24 Feb 2025. He is also charged with assault and threats to kill and robbery of his mother, Kristina, and the attempted GBH with intent of a 16-year-old boy.

May 6 – Josh Itseli, 20, was shot dead in Drimnagh, Dublin in the early hours of Bank Holiday Monday.  He was shot multiple times in an incident that saw a Mercedes and a Volkswagen collide on the Knocknarea Road. The Garda recovered an AR-15 assault rifle and an e-bike. It is believed to be a gangland killing.

May 6 – Tarnjeet Riaz, 44, was beaten to death next to her bed in Thurnby Lodge, Leicester. Her partner, Raj Sidpara, 50, admitted manslaughter but was found guilty of murder and jailed for life (21 years) in Nov 2024. The trial heard Sidpara “took pleasure” in the “savage and merciless” attack. Ms Riaz suffered 64 injuries to her face, head and chest, including bruising, a brain injury, and 20 rib fractures. The court heard he had an “established pattern of domestic violence”, including threats to kill a former partner and battery.

May 6 – Oleg Sloboda, 42, a Ukrainian national, was stabbed to death at a house in Chingford, NE London. Baimolda Beibit, 37, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 5 – Jack Hague, 38, was stabbed to death in Bethnal Green, east London. Umair Rafiq, 35, and Mohammed Ikram Uddin, 24, have been charged with murder and await trial.

May 4 – Tekin Kartal, 30, of the Hackney Bombers (Bombacilar), was shot dead after he came out of a restaurant in the Diagonal Mar neighbourhood in Barcelona, Spain, after a meeting with drugs baron and patron Abdullah Baybasin. Kartal, a German-Turk, was one of four men in the restaurant, on Llull Street. He received a phone call, excused himself and headed outside. Five bullets were fired at him, four of them hitting him in the head. Several weeks later a 9-year-old girl was shot and critically injured in a shooting in Dalston, east London. Then in July, Izzet Eren, of the rival Tottenham Turks, was murdered in Moldova. It was all connected.

May 1 – Marcus Smith, 19, was shot dead during a burglary in Eccles Road, Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire at 1.20am. Another teenager survived. Mr Smith, of Chapel-en-le-Frith, played football for a local team and was a DJ at a pub. A man in his 50s was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, and three others – aged 19, 21 and 31 respectively – were arrested in connection with the burglary. They remain on bail in 2025.

April 2024

April 30 – Daniel Anjorin, 14, was approached from behind and stabbed to death with a samurai sword as he walked to school in Hainault, north east London. Marcus Arduini Monzo, 36, has been charged with murder. Four other people – including two police officers – were seriously injured in separate attacks, all within 20 minutes around 7am. Mr Monzo, a dual Spanish-Brazilian national living in Newham, east London, awaits trial in February 2025.

April 29 – Callum and Jake Robinson, both in their 30s, Australian brothers from Perth, were shot dead in Baja California, Mexico, along with their friend Jack Carter Rhoad, a US citizen. Callum and Jack were friends in San Diego where Callum lived. All three were surfers. The trio were reported missing when they failed to check in to pre-arranged accommodation in Rosarito, Mexico. Their bodies were later found dumped in a well. A fourth body was in the well but had been there for years. Jesús Gerardo, aka El Kekas, has been charged with kidnap and murder. The trio were probably killed while trying to stop the tyres of their pickup truck being stolen. Gerardo’s girlfriend Ari Gisel and another man were also detained.

April 28 – Kenneth Brown, a homeless man, was attacked and killed at a bus stop on Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada at around 3am. Colin Czech, 39, has been charged with murder and attempted murder. Czech allegedly started to “eat his face”.  He ate his eyeball and ear. He also tried to kill a man at a 7-Eleven “in the same manner as he did” Brown. In May, a judge found him competent to stand trial. According to documents, an employee at the 7-Eleven at the intersection of Charleston and Las Vegas boulevards saw Czech outside the store after 3 a.m. Czech appears to do pushups in the middle of the parking lot before mocking the employee. The video shows Czech then tackling the man for some time. Czech said he had been awake for five days and thought he was “possessed”.

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April 27 – Gary Belfield, 40, was repeatedly stabbed with a knife and screwdriver at his home in Felling, Tyneside. His son Luke Williams was also stabbed but survived. In Feb 2025 Leandro Lopes, 18, and Jordan Tams, 17, and Kriesha Beyonce Stroud, 15, were all convicted of murder at Newcastle Crown Court and jailed for life (detained at His Majesty’s pleasure). Lopes and Tams must each serve 26 years before being eligible for parole, while Stroud must serve 20 years. Stroud arranged the attack over allegations Mr Williams had assaulted a relative of hers

April 21 – Two men, aged 24 and 35, were found dead after a fire at an end-of-terrace house in Forest Road, Walthamstow, NE London. A murder investigation was later launched. The SIO, Matt Webb, has refused to name the dead men, who are believed to be Algerian immigrants. The house in question is believed to have been used as a squat and as a drugs den and residents were not happy with the noise which emanated from it.

April 12 – Rijkaard Siafa, 22, was stabbed to death in Fellmongers Yard, Croydon. David Walcott, 34, from Norbury, and Rammon Mali, 32, from Kenley, went on trial in Feb 2025. Mali was arrested on 5 May at Gatwick Airport having returned to the UK from Senegal. The trial was told a third man was involved the murder. CCTV footage was played to the court showed the three suspects walking through Croydon together. They were seen on Surrey Street near Fellmongers Yard just before the attack. Mr Siafa appeared to notice the group as he emerged from the alleyway and immediately turned to flee, Mr Orchard said. After the killing the three killers allegedly went to the Spread Eagle pub for a pint of Guinness. CCTV captured them entering the pub, where they ordered three pints of Guinness and made phone calls before leaving through the beer garden, the jury heard.

April 12 – Myra Thompson, 90, was found dead in her home in Spital, Wirral, Merseyside. Jane Hill, 51, from Upton, Wirral, has been charged with murder. She was also charged with the theft of £60, alleged to have been taken from Ms Thompson.

April 7 – Okechukwu Iweha, 46, was stabbed in Worcester Avenue, Tottenham, north London.
Devon Brown, 29, was arrested in Jan 2025 on suspicion of murder, manslaughter, possession of a knife/pointed blade and perverting the course of justice after arriving at Heathrow Airport on following his extradition from the United States. Previously, Leandro Kaienga, 28, was charged with murder and possession of a bladed article. He is due to go on trial at Wood Green Crown Court on 24 February 2025 but that might now be delayed.

April 6 – Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche, 25, was found dead in a Vauxhall car in Whiston Road, Hackney, east London. Her boyfriend, Gogoa Tape, 27, who lived in the street where she was found, was charged with her murder. He denies murder but admitted admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitly under the Mental Health Act. The court heard he killed her and then drover her around in the car, before confessing to his brother.

April 6 – Kulsuma Akter, 27, was stabbed in the neck as she pushed her baby in a pushchair through the Westgate area of Bradford, West Yorkshire. A shopkeeper and a passing doctor tried to help but she was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. Police said she wanted to speak to Habibur Masum, 25, a Bangladeshi national who was in the country on a student visa. Masum, who was living in Oldham, was charged with threatening to kill Ms Akter on November 24, 2023 and assaulting her on November 23. Both offences were alleged to have happened in Manchester. He was given bail despite the objections of the prosecution.

April 6 – Mark Barrs, 39, from Fulham, was stabbed to death at 7.50pm outside The Old Hat pub in West Ealing, London. Cleveland McEntee, 40, from Hammersmith, pleaded guilty to murder and was jailed for life (minimum of 23 years). Leon Woods, 42, from Ealing was jailed for seven years having pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Tron McEntee, 35, from Perivale pleaded guilty to violent disorder. He was jailed for 12 months. They changed their pleas mid-trial.

April 5 – A 15-year-old boy called Shamseddin died in Necker Hospital after he was beaten by a group of youths near his school in Viry-Chatillon, a suburb of Paris. “This extreme violence is becoming commonplace,” said the town mayor, Jean-Marie Vilain. The boy was walking home after a music class at about 4.30pm when he was set upon by a group of youths. According to witnesses, he was punched and kicked by the attackers, who were wearing balaclavas.

April 5 – Celeste Rivas, 15, went missing from Lake Elsinore, California. Her body was inside the boot of an impounded Tesla on 8 September, 2025 after responding to reports of a foul smell at the Hollywood tow yard in Los Angeles. The cause and time of her death remained unknown. The car, which has a Texas licence plate, was towed from the Hollywood Hills after it was abandoned five days earlier. The car is registered to 20-year-old David Anthony Burke, the official name of singer D4vd.

April 4 – The remains of Stuart Everett, 67, were found in Kersal Dale nature reserve near Salford, Manchester. Michal Jaroslaw Polchowski, 68, and Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, both from Eccles, have both been charged with murder.  A torso – consisting of the bottom of the back, buttocks and thigh – was found in clear plastic by a passer-by at Kersal Dale Wetlands on April 4. Remains were found at two further locations a few days later and a further discovery in an alleyway close to the railway lines off Worsley Road, Eccles.

April 1 – Janayo Lucima, 21, was shot dead at a house in Comeragh Road in West Kensington, west London at 10pm on Easter bank holiday Monday. Khuedr Al-Kurdi, 21, Muktar Said, 22, Issa Siteri, 18, Yusuf Muhudin Abdi, 18, two 17-year-old men and a 16-year-old boy have all been charged with murder and face trial in February 2025. Siteri and Abdi voluntarily returned from Morocco in June 2024 while the 16-year-old boy was extradited from Spain in June 2024. Lucima had been convicted of perverting the course of justice in 2021 after helping in the clean-up operation after William “Blaise” Algar was murdered in Dec 2019 in the so-called Monster Line murder.

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March 2024

March 30 – Steven Hutton, 43, received fatal injuries after being attacked with a hammer, and stabbed with a knife and a screwdriver at a flat in Charleston Road, Dundee, Scotland. He died the next day in Ninewells Hospital. Barry Murray, 44, Scott Henderson, 40, Brian Millar, 28, and Carri Jane Stewart, 43, have been charged with murder and are due to go on trial in Glasgow in Nov 2025. The accusation in connection with Ms Stewart claims the crime was aggravated by the abuse of a partner or ex-partner.

March 28 – Camila Gómez Ortega, 8, was found by a road near the city of Taxco, Guerrero state, Mexico. She is believed to have been killed after she trespassed to use a couple’s swimming pool. A woman, identified only as Ana Rosa, was beaten to death by a lynch mob in revenge. A video of the incident went viral on social media. A man survived.

Mar 20 – Zhe Wang, 31, a Chinese woman, was stabbed to death at a house in Hither Green, south London.  Joshua Michals, 24, of Lewisham, was charged with her murder on Friday and awaits trial.

March 11 – Bajram Luli, 27, from Edgware, was stabbed to death in a car at Sudbury Heights Avenue, Greenford, west London around 5.30pm. He was taken to hospital where he sadly died a short time later. Sabin Manda, 31, was jailed for life (17 years) for murder. He had claimed self-defence but CCTV footage disproved his claim.

March 10 – Shaquille Graham, 30, shot in the back of the neck outside Silks nightclub in Catford, SE London. Tyler Roberts-Emmanuel, 19, was jailed for life (28 years) in April 2025.  Judge Sarah Plaschkes KC said Roberts-Emmanuel had run his own drug-dealing business selling cannabis for two years. She told him: “There was no link between you and Shaquille Graham and therefore it is likely you were acting under the direction of others.”

March 9 – Sacad Ali, 24, a drug dealer, was stabbed to death in a park called The Ponderosa in Sheffield. Barney Griffin, 18, Jack Douglas, 17, and Rebecca Moore, 25, were all convicted of murder and later jailed for life. The trial heard Moore, a sex worker, acted as “bait” to entice Ali to the park. The jury previously heard how Moore called Mr Ali in the early hours of 9 March under the guise of wanting to buy crack cocaine and offer her services as a sex worker. During the meeting at The Ponderosa, she sent several text messages to a phone line used by the boys to make them aware of Mr Ali’s movements. The teenagers, who had been involved in running a drug supply line and decided to attack Mr Ali “to stop him from selling drugs in their area”.

March 7 – Sarah Mayhew, 38, died and her dismembered remains were found at Rowdown Fields in Croydon, south London. Gemma Watts, 49, and Steve Sansom, 45, pleaded guilty to murder when they appeared at the Old Bailey in November 2024. They were jailed for life in Jan 2025. Sansom used a profile name of Red Rum on Facebook, which is murder spelt backwards. On March 10, a post appeared on the Red Rum account saying: “Best friends are those who don’t say anything when you show up at their door with a dead body. They just grab a shovel and follow you.” Watts pleaded guilty to murder and perverting the course of justice, but denied three charges of making indecent images of a child, which will lie on the court file.

March 6 – Brendon Staddon, two weeks old, died at a house in Yeovil, Somerset. Sophie Staddon, 20, and Daniel Gunter, 25, have been charged with murder and causing or allowing the death of a child and await trial.

March 5 – Aliki Mamwa, 30, known as Alex, was stabbed to death in St Paul’s Bristol. David Malcolm, 43, from Easton, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

March 5 – Butler Prophete, 22, of Wheeland, Providenciales, was shot dead as he left his workplace on the Lower Bight, Turks and Caicos Islands. Kerly Agenor, 29, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. It was one of at least 40 murders on the islands in 2024.

March 4 – Shay Kang, 10, was found dead at a house in Rowley Regis, West Midlands. Her mother Jaskirat Kaur, also known as Jasmine Kang, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

March 3 – Christine Bauld, 55, was killed at Burbage in Leicestershire. Her son, Gregor Bauld, 22, has been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article. A trial date has been set for September 2024.

March 3 – Five people – Mandlenkosi Mayise (66), Delisile Mayise (63), Phemile Mayise (36), Bongathini Mayise (34) and Phindile Mayise (29) – were shot dead at a propery in Dumaneni in Ulundi, South Africa.

Mar 1 – A 48-year-old man was stabbed to death in his home in Brighton Park, Chicago, Illinois. Another man has been arrested.

February 2024

Feb 27 – Bernie Fowler, 87, was found on the floor of Harold Wood station in east London after going to get a free morning newspaper at 4.30am. He was beaten with his own walking stick and had his eye gouged out. The station is on the Elizabeth Line. Sekai Miles, 22, from Brent Cross in north west London, denied murder but admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. He was given an indefinite hospital order. The court was told Miles had paranoid schizophrenia and there was evidence he had taken the synthetic drug Spice in the past. Miles had stopped taking medication after declaring he had been “saved by God”. When staff at Harold Wood station approached Miles and asked him to leave the station he said: “Touch me and I will kill you.”

Feb 26 – Robert Weston, 37, was stabbed to death in Harrow, north west London. Jaden Sheriff, who was 19 at the time and from Hoxton, was jailed for life (19 years) in Feb 2025. The Old Bailey trial heard three days before the stabbed Sheriff had told his girlfriend Jaid that he needed to have sex because he had “blue balls”. When Jaid told Mr Weston he said Sheriff was not telling the truth and an argument ensued.

Feb 23 – Paramjit Gill, 40, known as Pam, was killed at her home in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Paul Gill, 39, has been charged with one count of murder and awaits trial at Reading Crown Court.

Feb 21 – Ronald Ojeda, a former Venezuelan lieutenant who had been accused of plotting against President Maduro, was abducted from his home in Santiago, Chile by people posing as Chilean police. Chile’s Attorney General Angel Valencia said in May 2025 that 23 people linked to a cell belonging to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had been arrested, 16 of which were linked to the murder of Lt Ojeda. His body was dismembered and buried in a suitcase under a concrete slab in Maipu, where it was discovered on 1 March 2024. Among those charged are Maikel Villegas Rodríguez and Larry Álvarez Núñez, aka Larry Changa, who were extradited from Colombia and Costa Rica respectively.

Feb 19 – Jesse Baird, a TV presenter, 26, and his boyfriend Luke Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant, were murdered at his home in Paddington, Sydney, and their bodies were found buried on a rural property in Bungonia, near Sydney, Australia. Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, a police officer and former boyfriend Mr Baird, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. He joined the police force in 2019 and was previously a celebrity blogger. Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty said the remains were found “near the entrance to the property” and that attempts had been made “to cover the bodies with rock and debris”. He added that police believe two “surf bags” were used to transport the deceased couple in a white van from Mr Baird’s home. The incident led to the police being uninvited to the LGBT Mardi Gras parade in Sydney.

Feb 18 – Fares Bash, 7, Joury Bash, 3, and Mohammed Bash, 9 months old, were found dead at a house in Sea Mills, Bristol. A 42-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken to hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The children were all boys and the family was originally from Sudan. In Oct 2025 the children’s mother, Yasmeen Ali, 43, was charged with all three murders. She awaits trial.

Feb 18 – Christine or Chrissie Everett-Hickson, 21, was killed at a house in Riddings, Derbyshire. Kain Tailby, 30, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Feb 17 – Brian Low, 65, a retired groundsman, was shot while he walking his dog in Pitilie on the outskirts of Aberfeldy, Perthshire. His death was initially thought to be non-suspicious and medically-related but a post-mortem examination then took place six days after his death, prompting a murder investigation. His body was discovered on a remote track next to his black Labrador, which was unharmed.

Feb 17 – Nathan Bawuah, 17, was stabbed to death in Hackney, east London around 10.50pm. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial in June 2024.

Feb 14 – Darrian Williams, 16, was stabbed in Rawnsley Park, Easton, Bristol. He died in Old Market. At the time it was reported the killers were wearing masks and fled on a bicycle. Two boys, both aged 15, have been charged with murder and possessing a knife in a public place. They await trial.

Feb 12 – Sam Varley, 44, was killed at a house in Harehills, Leeds. Her boyfriend Warren Spence, 54, was jailed for life (23 years) for murder in 2025.

Feb 11 – Claire Leveque, 24, a Canadian, was killed in a “truly horrifying” assault at a house in Sandness, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Her Canadian boyfriend, Aren Pearson, 41, was jailed for life after being convicted of her murder in Oct 2025. He repeatedly struck Ms Leveque on the head, neck and body with knives or similar instruments. He also inflicted blunt force trauma to her head, neck and body, compressed her neck, and submerged her head and body in a hot tub. Pearson then driven to the nearby Melby Pier, where he “deliberately” drove his car into the sea.

Feb 9 – Brian Darby, 60, died when a van was driven into a crowd of people in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside. Martin Breeze, 56, and Shaun Breeze, 29, have been charged with murder and three counts of attempted murder. They are due to go on trial in July 2024.

Feb 8 – Lenny Scott, 33, a prison officer at HMP Altcourse, was ambushed in the car park of a gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, and shot six times with a handgun. Elias Morgan, 35, a prison inmate, and his co-accused Anthony Cleary, 29, both from the Edge Hill area of Liverpool, went on trial in July 2025 charged with Mr Scott’s murder, while Mr Cleary also denies an alternative count of manslaughter. The trial heard Scott was the officer who had found and confiscated a phone belonging to Morgan in 2020. Evidence on the phone exposed a “sexual relationship” between Morgan and another prison officer, Sarah Williams, which resulted in them both being prosecuted, Preston Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Alex Leach KC said when Mr Scott refused a £1,500 offer to “lose” the phone, Mr Morgan responded with “powerfully made” threats, including giving descriptions of Scott’s girlfriend and children.

Feb 7 – Teddi Baker, 21, died after being involved in a fight in Dod Street, near an alleyway that leads to Limehouse Cut canal in Limehouse, east London around midnight. She is believed to have made her way back to a flat in nearby Stainsby Road, where she died of her injuries.

Feb 6 – Wallis Webb, 65, a former councillor, was found dead at his home in Erdington, Birmingham. Sakander Hussain, 25, is accused of murder and fraud and awaits trial. West Midlands Police said Mr Wallis’s bank card was used after his death.

Feb 5 – Giovanni Joseph, 31, was shot five times in Providence Avenue, Nassau, Bahamas, by robbers who stole his Honda Accord car. His mother Territa said her son was about to leave for work about 6am when he was shot. Nobody has been arrested. The killing was the latest in a series of violent events in the Bahamas, with 20 murders in January 2024 alone.

Feb 4 – Bledi Petraj, 37, was stabbed to death in Southgate, north London. Kozma Papa, 21, from Yate, Bristol, was charged last night with murder and awaits trial. He was arrested after his car was stopped on the M25 in Hertfordshire.

Feb 4 – Samantha Murphy, 51, was attacked in a bushland area where she was known to exercise, near her home in East Ballarat, near Melbourne, Australia. Patrick Stephenson, 22, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. He is the son of former AFL player Orren Stephenson. He was arrested at a house in Scotsburn, a farming community east of Buninyong, where he was house-sitting.

Feb 2 – Blake Newland, 17, was stabbed in Limavady, County Londonderry. Michael McGlinchey, 53, Stephen McGlinchey, 27, and Andrew McGlinchey, 29, are all charged with the teenager’s murder and await trial.

January 2024

Jan 31 – Mohammed Duraab Khan, 26, was stabbed to death at a Texaco petrol station in Meadow Lane, Nottingham. Haseeb Majid, 22, from The Meadows, Nottingham, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Jan 31 – Wallis Webb, 65, a care home chef, was stabbed in the neck at his flat in Erdington, Birmingham. Sakander Hussain, 25, was jailed for life for murder and robbery. The court was told Mr Webb was gay and frequented Birmingham’s Gay Village, used chat sites on the internet to meet like-minded males and had a regular friend for over 10 years who he would spend time with, although they were not settled partners and did not live together. On the night of the murder he was picked up by Mr Webb, allegedly for a gay encounter but he killed him and then used his victim’s bank cards at supermarkets and a takeaway. He was convicted by a majority 10-2. Hussain, from Washwood Heath, pleaded guilty to fraud before his trial but denied murder, citing psychiatric issues after initially claiming not to be involved in the death.

Jan 31 – Michael Mohn, who worked for the US Army corps of engineers in Philadelphia, was shot dead. He was then decapitated with a power saw and his head was shown off in a video online. His son, Justin Mohn, 32, has been charged with murder and abuse of a corpse. The gruesome video circulated for hours on YouTube garnering more than 5,000 views before it was taken down. During the online diatribe, Mohn railed against the Biden administration and the border crisis while declaring himself the new acting US president under martial law and decrying his father as a traitor. The diatribe also mentioned fiscal policy, urban crime and the war in Ukraine.

Jan 29 – Charles Kinston, 23, a dairy farmer, was shot dead in a field near his farm, off Brizlincote Lane, Bretby, Derbyshire. A man in his 30s was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder. Mr Kinston had won a third-place accolade in a Farmers’ Weekly inventions competition in 2020 for a Land Rover Discovery 1 300Tdi he had modified for calf-feeding rounds.

Jan 29 – Dimitrios Tsavdaris, 54, known as Jimmy, was stabbed to death at a house in Hackney, east London. Two men were arrested.

Jan 27 – Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, were stabbed to death in the street in Knowle West, Bristol. Anthony Snook, 44, from Hartcliffe, Bristol, was jailed for life (38 years). Riley Tolliver, 18, and Kodishai Wescott, 17, were jailed for life (23 years). A 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were detained for life with minimum terms of 15 and 18 years respectively. The trial heard that a window had been broken at a house in Hartcliffe and the killers believed it was someone from Knowle West. Snook drove there and the boys got out, wielding large machetes and a baseball bat. The attacks lasted just 33 seconds, while Snook sat waiting in his parked car with the lights off. He claimed at the trial that he had no idea what they were doing. The trial heard there was long-running rivalry between Hartcliffe and Knowle West. Bailey Westcott, 22, and Jamie Ogbourne, 26, were jailed for 5 years and 8 months for assisting an offender.

Jan 26 – Claudia Kambanza, 22, was stabbed on a street in Hull. She died a short time later. Her partner, Mateus Johannes, 28, has been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article and awaits trial.

Jan 24 – Tyler Donnelly, 19, was stabbed to death in Hanworth Park, Feltham, Middlesex. The body was discovered by joggers in Hanworth Park in Feltham, at about 7.40am the following morning. Daniel Matos, 21, Joshua Cowley, 27, and Keith Preddie, 32, have been charged with murder and went trial in Jan 2025. The Old Bailey heard Donnelly, was involved in drug dealing and cycled to the park with 29 packages of heroin and crack cocaine and over £300 pounds in cash, he was also carrying a large knife. The killers are believed to have been rival drug dealers.

Jan 19 – Kanticha Sukpengpanao, 36, Jasmin Kuczynska, 12 and Natasha Kuczynska, nine, were found stabbed to death at their home in Costessey, Norwich. Also found was the body of Bartolomiej Kuczynski, 45, who had suffered fatal neck injuries. He was the children’s father. Norfolk Police has twice referred itself to the police watchdog in connection with the case. It later emerged that Kuczynski rang the police at 6am and said he was confused and worried about his mental state. The police did not attend but told him to contact a doctor. An hour later the bodies were found.

Jan 19 – Petra Ross, 23, who was born in Inverness, went missing and her body was discovered near the Gibraltar Point nature reserve in Skegness two days later. She had died of hypothermia. A 45-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and bailed. Ms Ross was unemployed and living with her parents in Skegness when she was reported missing. According to social media she was engaged to be married.

Jan 16 – Tyreece Scott was stabbed to death on Hibernia Road, a quiet residential street in Hounslow, west London. Ben Laing, 23, from Feltham, and Durra Abdi, 19, from Acton, were both jailed for life (22 years) for murder.  for fatally stabbing Tyreece Scott. Laing was also sentenced for being involved in the supply of drugs. Reda Mohamed, 24 , from Hounslow was jailed for four and a half years for perverting the course of justice and Morgan Allen, 29, was given a suspended sentence for the same offence.

Jan 15 – Five people, including a 16-year-old boy were shot dead in a drive-by shooting in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. Three of the victims were found dead inside a pick-up truck while a fourth was found on the pavement. A fifth victim died in hospital while being treated for his wounds. Police Commissioner Antonio Lopez told the WKAQ radio station weapons were found inside the bullet-riddled pick-up. He said the victims had just left a cock-fighting establishment in the nearby town of Naguabo. It was not immediately clear what led to the shooting late on Monday, although Mr Lopez said authorities believe it was related to drug trafficking.

Jan 13 – Shane Parris was murdered in Barbados. Nigel “Bounty” Pinder, from Cox Hill, was charged with murder in Sep 2025 and awaits trial in 2026. He is also accused of murder Randy Brathwaite and Junior Taitt, who were killed sometime between June 27, 2023, and December 5, 2024.

Jan 11 – Shakira Serrano, 24, was found dead in the parking lot of the Louis H. Pink Houses in Brooklyn, New York. She had suffered severe trauma to her head and body after being run over by a car. Neighbours said they saw her fighting with her boyfriend and the car, which was being driven by a woman, then hit her. It was reportedly a love triangle situation.

Jan 10 – Ryan Munro, 36, fell to his death from a window of a block of flats in Morgan Street, Dundee, Scotland. Jennifer Souter, 38, has been charged with culpable homicide. Ms Souter is alleged to have threatened, intimidated and detained Mr Munro against his will with a view to extorting money from him and placing him in a state of fear and alarm. It is claimed she committed culpable homicide by putting Mr Munro in fear for his safety and causing him to fall from a second floor window, resulting in fatal injuries. Stephen Stewart, 50, and Victoria McGowan, 41, have been charged with abduction and extortion. All three await trial. The brother-in-law of Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf was initially arrested in connection with the incident along with Stewart and McGowan. Ramsay El-Nakla, 36, the brother of Mr Yousaf’s wife, Nadia El-Nakla, was released pending further inquiries.

Jan 9 – Kevin Conway, 26, was shot dead in his home in the Greenan area of west Belfast. Conway, who was originally from the Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan, was one of three men charged in relation to the murder of Shane Whitla in Jan 2023. Whitla – who is believed to have been killed by a drugs gang known as The Firm – was alleged to have lured the victim to his “execution”. Conway’s father, also called Kevin was also shot dead, aged 30, in 1998. The IRA is believed to have been responsible. Conway jr was given bail in July 2023.

Jan 8 – Anojan Gnaneswaran, 21, was stabbed to death at Strawberry Hill railway station in Twickenham, south west London. A 16-year-old boy was found with a knife wound to his leg in nearby Alexander Close. Four men were arrested.

Jan 8 – Chaudhary Mahmood, 45, was stabbed 45 times and dumped in the passenger seat of a car found in the car park of the Stratford Centre shopping mall. He worked at the centre. Vasile Gorghescu, 41, from Southampton, has been charged with murder and is due to go on trial on 28 October 2024 at the Old Bailey. The prosecution claim Gorghescu drove from his home in Southampton to the Stratford Centre in east London, met Mr Mahmood in the car park where he attacked him. The body was only found on Jan 10 after they received a tip-off.

Jan 4 – Jonah Ho-Shue, 24, was stabbed to death in a street in Haringey, north London.

Jan 4 – Maya Bracken, aged 56, was found stabbed to death in a Lexus car outside her home in Pangbourne, Berkshire. She was originally from Indonesia. Thames Valley Police were called to the scene of a crash at around 5:45pm on the A340 Tidmarsh Road at the junction with Flower’s Hill. They found her at the scene. Her 18-year-old son, Julian Bracken, was found dead on a railway line nearby. He had been hit by a train. Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with Ms Bracken’s death.

Jan 3 – Tia Simmonds, 32, was found dead at her home in Lewisham, south London. Her husband Shane Simmonds, 38, was jailed for life (32 years) for murder. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of rape in relation to a separate woman. He was sentenced to 12 years concurrently for each of these offences.

Jan 1 – Keotshepile Naso Isaacs, known as Naso, 33, was found dead at her home in the Scottish seaside town of North Berwick, near Edinburgh at 8am. Her husband, Mompati Dodo Isaacs, 37, has been charged with murder and awaits trial at Edinburgh sheriff court. The victim was originally from Otse, a village in south-east Botswana. She is understood to have three sons and had been living in the UK since 2023.

2023

Dec 31 – Karen Wilshaw, aged 63 and her mother Joyce Wilshaw, 91, were discovered at house in Cheadle, near Stoke-on-Trent on New Year’s Eve. Both had suffered severe injuries. A 68-year-old man was arrested but Staffordshire police said he was later released.

Dec 31 – Harry Pitman, 16, was stabbed to death in Primrose Hill, Camden, north London, 20 minutes before midnight. Primrose Hill is a popular spot for watching the New Years’ Eve fireworks. Areece Lloyd-Hall, who was 16 at the time, was jailed for life (16 years) for murder after being a hung jury at his first trial. Both trials heard Harry accidentally bumped into another boy while “play-fighting” and practising high kicks, which led to the violence.

Dec 31 – Marc Webley, 38, was shot outside the Anchor Inn in Granton, Edinburgh, just after 11.30pm on New Year’s Eve (Hogmanay). Webley, was involved in organised crime and had been given an Osman warning by police, was wearing a stab-proof vest, the High Court in Edinburgh was told. Grant Hunter, 34. pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder at the court and was jailed for life. Hunter had pulled up in a stolen Hyundai SUV and wearing a balaclava, when he was approached by Webley and his friend Stewart Pearson. CCTV footage, which was shown in court, captured Webley showing his mobile phone to Hunter, who then removed his mask and opened fire, hitting Mr Pearson, who was injured. Webley, who was holding a knife, ran for his life but was shot in the back. Hunter’s girlfriend Emma McVie, 27, admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice by cleaning the inside of the stolen Hyundai after the shooting and cleaning their clothes. Gary Robertson, 22, admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice, for paying Hunter on behalf of “others unknown”. Judge Frank Mulholland branded the killer “callous and arrogant” and said the “paid assassin” may never be released. The court heard Hunter was paid £400 by Robertson who also provided an ounce of cocaine on January 1, and was later paid another £300, via a third party.

Dec 29 – Ahmed Ali Jama, 29, was stabbed to death on the Abbey Estate in Camden, north London, at 7.32pm. Arlind Hashani, 22, from Bray Fellows Road, was arrested in Paris on 30 July 2025 and extradited back to the UK where he was charged with murder. He awaits trial.

Dec 28 – Joanna Derkacz, 37, was found dead at her home in Waterlooville, near Portsmouth. Her boyfriend, Stephen Sexton, 36, was charged with murder. He was also charged with two counts of coercive or controlling behaviour. It is alleged that Sexton controlled his partner of three years for a period of 16 months before her death.

Dec 26 – Michael Murphy, 49, was stabbed in the street in Hackney, east London. Police have appealed for help in finding the prime suspect, Jurejs Vankovs, 38.

Dec 26 – Luke Miller, 23, was stabbed to death on Boxing Day at a flat in Tadcaster, Yorkshire. Taylor Fenwick, 22, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 25 – Anna Haslup, 31, was shot dead in the car park of a Walgreens store in Gainesville, Florida. Amanda Marie Janzen, 39, entered a plea of no contest and was adjudicated guilty on eight counts, including second-degree murder. Judge Denise R. Ferrero also found Janzen guilty of the attempted homicide of her ex-husband (Haslup’s boyfriend), fleeing police and five counts of child neglect. As part of her sentence Janzen is to have no contact with her own children until approved by a licensed therapist and/or court approval. The shooting took place during a child custody handover.

Dec 25 – Reece Connor, 29, was stabbed to death near Crown Island in Nottingham. Kersharn Dockeray-Barnett, who was 17 at the time, was found guilty by a jury of murdering Connor in revenge for an earlier incident. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 19 years at Nottingham Crown Court.

Dec 24 – William Bush, 23, wad found dead in Cardiff at 11.30am. Dylan Thomas, 23, of Llandaff, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 24 – Jason Hennessy sr, 48, was shot dead during an incident at Browne’s steakhouse in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The gunman, Tristan Sherry, 26, was himself stabbed to death. Michael Andrecut, 22, and David Amah, 18, have been charged with the murder of Mr Sherry and await trial. Sherry apparently burst into the restaurant with a submachine gun but he only managed to get a couple of shots off before his gun jammed. He was killed after targeting gangland rivals. An accomplice fled in an Audi. Sherry was stabbed almost 30 times with one of Browne’s famously sharp steak-knives, before being bludgeoned around the face with a bar stool and shot in the head with his own gun. Sherry was a member of the Gucci Gang, from Finglas, which is led by a gangster known as Mr Flashy. Their rivals are the so-called Blanchardstown Mob. 

Dec 24 – Kacey Clarke, 22, was stabbed to death at a flat in Bermondsey, SE London at 10pm on Christmas Eve. A 16-year-old boy was charged with murder but he was acquitted of that charge in Oct 2024. The boy, by then 17, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 6 and a half years. He cannot be named. The court heard he killed Kacey “in a fit of anger” during a laughing gas-fuelled row. At the time of the killing he was on bail for a series of e-bike mobile phone snatches, having stolen 34 devices valued at £28,000. Judge Simon Mayo KC told the teenager: “I accept you did not plan to stab her and that your decision to do so was formed in the moments before you did so. I also accept you regret what you did and the remorse you have expressed is genuine.” The judge said he was satisfied both the defendant and Ms Clarke were “under the influence” of nitrous oxide at the time of the killing. He imposed no separate sentence for a charge of conspiracy to rob relating to the mobile phone snatches and six counts of dangerous driving. The court heard how a row began over Ms Clarke’s missing car keys, which she had mislaid. The youth was caught on CCTV threatening to “ching” up and kill her. She The threw an object at the youth and pulled a clump of his hair out.

Dec 20 – Chris Marriott, 46, was hit by a car in Burngreave, Sheffield. Hassan Jhangur, 23, has been charged with murder and five counts of attempted murder. He awaits trial. A 32-year-old woman remains in hospital in a serious condition. South Yorkshire Police said Mr Marriott had been out walking with his sons, aged six and eight, when the incident happened. He was among several people hit by a car on College Close, including an off-duty midwife who had also stopped to help.

Dec 20 – Kobi Macharia Dooly, 4, was stabbed to death in his bed at a flat in Hackney, east London. His mother, Keziah Macharia, 41, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. On the evening of 20 December, police were alerted to concerns for Kobi’s welfare by his father, Ben Dooly, who had split up with the defendant approximately a year before, the court heard. Within minutes of a 999 call, officers forced their way into the defendant’s home in Hackney just before 11pm.

Dec 19 – Michael Patrick Afonso Peixoto, 27, was stabbed at a house in Thornton Heath, south London. Zak Baako, 29, was convicted of murder and robbery and jailed for life in Jan 2025. John Budal, 20, was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter and robbery. Omari Peat, 23, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter but convicted of robbery. Michael’s female friend was threatened with a knife but was unhurt. The attackers stole the couple’s white BMW but abandoned it nearby. A number of cigarette butts were found near the BMW which were matched to the robbers.

Dec 19 – Elianna Singler, 9, and her brother Aden, 7, were found dead in their bedroom in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US. The eldest child, aged 11 at the time, survived being stabbed in the neck but needed emergency surgery. Police responded to a 911 call reporting a burglary at their family home at 12.29am, a claim later discovered to be unfounded. The children’s mother, Kimberlee Singler, 35, and her eldest daughter were treated for injuries at the scene in the 5300 block of Palomino Ranch Point before being taken to hospital. Despite initially co-operating with the investigation, Singler disappeared on December 23, 2023 and a warrant was issued for her arrest was issued three days later. Colorado Springs Police Department’s violent offender fugitive task force worked to locate Singler. She was found in Kensington, London, on Dec 30, 2023 and extradition proceedings are due to culminate in Jan 2025. One hearing heard the eldest girl begged her mother not to kill her.

Dec 18 – Penelope Chandrie, 3, was found dead at a house in Pennine Way, Hayes, west London. She had allegedly died of starvation. Her mother Manpreet Jatana, 34, and  father, Jaskiret Singh Uppal, 36, were charged with murder in Sept 2025 and await trial. They are also charged with manslaughter, causing or allowing death, and child neglect.

Dec 16 – Samuel Wilson, 26, was hit by a van in Market Place, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Zac Newman, 27, was convicted of murder, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and attempted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after two other men were also injured in the incident. He was jailed for life in July 2024.

Dec 12 – Kevin Pokuta, 19, was shot on Page Hall Road in Sheffield in the early hours. Jake Brown, 23, was jailed for life (36 years). Leon Waite, 27, and Lester Ramsey, 25, were both jailed for 4 years and 6 months for conspiracy to commit robbery. Adam Mulligan, 33, was jailed for 3 years and 6 months for conspiracy to commit robbery and a 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jailed for conspiracy to commit robbery. Ethan Hallows was charged with the murder in 2025 and awaits trial. Mr Pokuta, whose family had moved to the UK from Slovakia, was sitting in his car with his brother when he was targeted following the failure of a robbery by the group. He was totally innocent victim of “mistaken identity”.

Dec 10 – Liam Humphreys, 28, was stabbed at a block of flats in Toxteth, Liverpool. A man aged in his 30s was left critical but stable in hospital while a woman, also in her 30s, was serious but stable. Ian Scott, 37, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 10 – Gary Bartram, 49, a teacher, was found dead in a canal near Deep Hayes Country Park in Longsdon, near Leek, Staffordshire. A 49-year-old man from Dundee has been arrested on suspicion of murder. He remains on conditional bail. Mr Bartram had spent the evening in a pub in Denford.

Dec 6 – Ilya Kyva, 46, was assassinated in Moscow, Russia by a gunman working for Ukraine’s SBU security service.  Earlier in 2023 Kyva was given a 14-year jail sentence for high treason and calling publicly for the occupation of Ukraine. He had already fled Ukraine and was convicted in absentia.

Dec 5 – Lianne Gordon, 42, was shot dead in Vine Close, Hackney, east London. A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder and is due to go on trial in June or Sep 2024. At an Old Bailey hearing in Dec 2023 the court heard the teenager was wearing a balaclava and armed with a 9mm self-loading pistol and fired the gun, hitting Amani Adams-McGuire, 20, in the buttocks and injuring a 16-year-old boy in the thigh. He then allegedly tried to force his way into Ms Gordon’s house. She tried to keep the door shut but was unable to do so and was shot inside her own home. The teenager has also been charged with possession of heroin and crack cocaine.

Dec 5 – Jack Edwards, 24, sustained significant head injuries when he was attacked and robbed near Sussex Street Skate Park in Nottingham. He died in hospital on December 7. Kai Howitt, 18, and a 13-year-old boy have been charged with murder and robbery. The pair await trial, along with a 16-year-old girl who is only charged with robbery.

Dec 5 – Ilyas Habibi, 17, was stabbed to death in Sutton, south London.

Dec 2 – A 37-year-old man died at a house in Wigan. A 28-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder.

November 2023

Nov 29 – Anthony Ibbitson, 54, died in hospital two days after being rescued from a fire at a house in Terry Street, Hull. Mark Vaskouski, 27, was jailed for life (20 years) for Mr Ibbitson’s murder. Hull Crown Court heard a candle was knocked over during the “sustained and brutal beating” of the victim. Vaskouski will be deported to his native Belarus at the end of his sentence.

Nov 28 – Taiwo Abodunde, 41, was beaten to death with a skateboard as people tried to get into her home in Newmarket, Suffolk. Her husband Olobunmi Abodunde, 48, pleaded guilty on the eve of his trial. She suffered “catastrophic injuries” during the attack. Three officers are being investigated for misconduct over the case, the IOPC has confirmed. Police had been called to the couple’s home on Exning Road a number of times before over domestic incidents, including the day before the fatal attack. Abodunde had been bailed and warned not to visit the property but, after finishing a night shift in Tesco, he went there shortly after 9am. He was jailed for life on May 9, 2024.

Nov 26 – Michael Beaton, 35, was killed during an incident in Inverclyde, Scotland. Alexander McQuillan, 27, and Richard Mullan, 21, pleaded guilty to murder in Nov 2025 and were jailed for life. The High Court in Glasgow heard Mr Beaton was hit with a car driven by Mullan before being struck in the face with a machete by McQuillan. Advocate depute David McLean KC said Mullan’s role in the murder had been “a case of mistaken identity” and “the intended target was the first accused (McQuillan)”. The prosecutor said Mullan and Mr Beaton had apparently been searching for McQuillan in Greenock on the day of the incident. Mr Beaton chased after McQuillan and other men before he was hit by the car driven by Mullan. As the victim was lying on the ground, McQuillan approached him and attacked him with a machete. McQuillan had earlier been heard to laugh and refer to the victim being hit by “his own pal”. Sentencing them, Lord Cubie said: “You have each accepted responsibility for the murder of Michael Beaton – each in different ways.”

Nov 22 – Irina Dvizova, 42, a Russian model, and her daughter Dayana, 15, were found dead at her villa in Bodrum, Turkey. Her five-year-old son Makar was missing. Her Lithuanian ex-husband Andrey Kuslevich, 45, is the prime suspect. He was a former security guard for a Ukrainian businessman. He had been involved in a custody battle for Makar. She had sought custody at a court in Moscow in June 2023. Kuslevich entered Turkey from the Edirne Border Gate with a vehicle with a Lithuanian plate on November 20, 2023, stayed in a hotel in Bodrum and drove from the district with a vehicle belonging to Irina Dvizova. It was determined that he left Ankara Esenboğa Airport with his son on November 24, 2023, from Ankara Esenboğa Airport to France and from there to Lithuania. A red notice was issued for the murder suspect. He was later arrested by German police as he tried to cross into the Czech Republic. He faces a trial in Nuremberg, Germany.

Nov 22 – A 58-year-old man was killed at a house in Charlton, south London. Radoslaw Brzezicki, 41, and Marius Bruzas, 49, were originally charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent but this was changed to murder after the man died. Mr Brzezicki was also charged with actual bodily harm against a woman, who had suffered minor injuries.

Nov 19 – Salam Alshara, 27, was killed at her home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. She was a mother of four. Her partner Wahib Albaradan, 35, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. West Yorkshire Police said the couple are believed to have come to the UK in around 2020 and arrived in Dewsbury in 2021 with their four children.

Nov 18 – Jack Field, 24, was hit by a car in Hailsham, Sussex at 11pm. Kyle Dumble, 26, has been charged with murder, attempted GBH, and disqualified driving and driving without insurance. Jack died in an alleged hit-and-run. Dumble faces trial at Lewes Crown Court in May 2024.

Nov 17 – Gregory “Picasso” Woolley, 51, was shot dead in the car park of a commercial building in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, near Montreal, Canada. The killers’ car was found burnt out on Sébastopol Street. Guy Ouellette, a retired member of the Surete de Quebec and a biker gang expert, noted the Rockers set up their first clubhouse in 1992 on Sébastropol Stree and he said leaving the vehicle there was “a strong message instead of a coincidence.” For decades, Woolley has been tied to the most powerful organized crime figures in Montreal. He started out in a Montreal street gang, but during Quebec’s biker gang war — which ran between 1994 and 2002 — he joined the Rockers, a support club that did much of the dirty work for the Hells Angels during their war with other organized crime groups. He was often seen with Hells Angels leader Maurice (Mom) Boucher during the conflict. In 1997, Woolley and a few other Rockers were charged with the murder of Jean-Marc Caissy, a member of the Rock Machine. The gunman turned informant and alleged that the other Rockers were part of the conspiracy to kill Caissy. Woolley and the Rockers were acquitted in a jury trial.

Nov 16 – Lucretia Donaghy, 32, a mother-of-two known as Keshia, was struck over the head at her home in Elgin, Scotland. Owen Grant, 43, was jailed for life (24 years) for murder in 2025 by a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh. The judge, who described the attack as involving a claw-hammer or similar implement, said: “The attack was exceptionally savage, frenzied and brutal.” After the murder, Grant turned up drunk at a woman’s address and gave her money to source cocaine. She returned to the house and told him she had learned that Keshia was dead.

Nov 15 – Simarjeet Singh Nangpal, 17, was stabbed to death in a fight just after midnight in Burket Close, Southall. Amandeep Singh, 21, Manjit Singh, 27, Ajmeer Singh, 31, and Poran Singh, 71, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Nov 13 – Shawn Seesahai, 19, was stabbed on Stowlawn playing fields, East Park, Wolverhampton. Two boys, both aged 12, were convicted of murder and detained during His Majesty’s Pleasure (8.5 years minimum). They were identified only as BGI and CMB. In Dec 2024 their minimum terms were raised to 10 years. The boys were the youngest boys convicted of murder since the killers of two-year-old James Bulger in 1993. Anguilla-born Mr Seesahai had been living in Birmingham at the time of his killing. He had travelled to the UK for eye surgery after injuring himself while playing basketball. His mother, Maneshwary Seesahai said: “They killed my son like they kill a dog. It’s brutal. They stab him through and through. They kick him. They cuff him. He was helpless.”

Nov. 13 – Rami Hajj Ali, 23, was shot dead in a gang-related assassination, while sitting in a car in the parking lot of the Trans Canada Centre mall in Calgary, Alberta.  After locating a black truck speeding away from the scene, a police helicopter followed the vehicle, which was abandoned in the parking lot of the Chinook Mall. Two people got into another vehicle and then fled to two homes about 10 kilometres away in the suburb of Southview. Police then arrested several people from both homes. A 14-year-old boy was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder and his 18-year-old brother was charged with accessory after the fact to murder. But a few days later the police dropped the charges and apologised for arresting the wrong people.

Nov 11 – Anselam Senaj, 26, was stabbed to death through the window of a taxi in East Ham, east London by three masked men who got out of a stolen silver Mitsubishi which was later found burnt out. Muhammad Saqib Khan, 24, from Enfield, and Muhammad Samiyul Miah, 19, from Manor Park, were jailed for life for murder. Khan got a minimum of 26 years, Miah got 25 years. Zain Ali, 22, and Ibrahim Naim, 18, were acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter. Ali got 14 years and Naim 10 years. The trial heard Khan inflicted the fatal wound, Miah and Ali were the other two who got out of the car and Naim was the getaway driver. Khalis Malik, 18, from Ilford, Esahak Yusuf, 19, and a 17 year old boy were acquitted. The trial heard Senaj, told the taxi driver: “There is one car behind – they will kill me,” before he was attacked. The court heard the motive for the attack was over drugs, although the exact reasons were unclear. Prosecutor Alexandra Healy KC had told jurors: “It appears from the drugs subsequently found on Mr Senaj and messages received from his phone that he was involved in drug dealing.” Miah was also convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl in March 2023. The girl was punched in the jaw and rendered unconscious during the attack.

Nov 11 – Giulia Cecchettin, 22, a biomedical engineering student, disappeared after going to a shopping mall in Marghera, to buy a graduation dress. She had been stabbed more than 70 times and her body was wrapped in black plastic bags and dumped in a ditch close to a lake north of Venice, Italy. Her murder triggered protests by women across the country. Her ex-boyfriend, Filippo Turetta, was arrested in Germany on 19 November 2023, the day after her body was found. He told Venice’s assize court in October 2024 he had planned to kidnap and kill Cecchettin after she refused to get back together with him. He was jailed for life in Dec 2024. Her father, Gino, told reporters that “justice has been done according to the laws in force”. Turetta’s lawyer, Giovanni Caruso, had argued the life sentence was excessive, saying his client was “not Pablo Escobar”.

Nov 10 – Karla Brown, who was four months pregnant, was shot dead as she shopped for baby clothes in set up in the Independence Center mall in Independence, Missouri. Three other people were injured. Anthony Greer was charged with second-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action and two counts of unlawful use of a weapon following the shooting. Leandre Peterson Jr was charged with tampering with physical evidence charge connected with the incident. But those charges were dropped in August 2024. Karla’s parents are suing the mall and the company which provided security. Court documents suggest an argument started after someone in the group with Karla said “hello” to the girlfriend of one of the alleged shooters. Two members of the group she was with said that man then opened fire on them and shot back into the mall before they fled for cover.

November 10: Victoria Greenwood, 41, from Luton, was found dead in a car park near Roe Green in Hertfordshire. Robert Brown, 38, has been charged with murder.

Nov 10 – Perseverance Ncube, 35, was stabbed in the chest at a house in Salford, Greater Manchester at 2.40am. She was taken to hospital where she later died. Obert Moyo, 45, from Bolton, has been charged with her murder and possession of an offensive weapon and awaits trial.

Nov 9 – Harpreet or “Harp” Singh Uppal, 41, and his son Gavin Uppal, 11, were shot dead in a car at a petrol station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Gavin’s friend, who was also in the car, survived and was physically unhurt. Uppal is believed to have been linked to the Brothers’ Keepers gang and his killing was an underworld hit. Supt. Colin Derksen said: “What we do know, sadly, is that once the shooter or the shooters learned that the son was there, they intentionally shot and killed him.” He said killing children was once a “line in the sand” gang members refused to cross, but that is changing. “That is sick and twisted,” Derksen said. “I think most gang members would agree.” Sources told CTV News Edmonton Uppal was associated with British Columbia-based gang the Brothers Keepers, a purported variant of the Hells Angels.

Nov 7 – Alfie Lewis, 15, was stabbed to death in front of children leaving a primary school in Horsforth, Leeds. Bardia Shojaeifard, who was 14 at the time, was convicted of murder and was jailed for life (13 years). Shojaeifard admitted stabbing Alfie but claimed he was acting in self-defence. BBC research suggested it was the 16th confirmed fatal stabbing in West Yorkshire in 2023, with six of the victims being teenagers. Reacting to the news during a visit to a school in Lincolnshire, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: “My heart goes out to his family and friends. They’ve lost a friend and this is awful.” The trial heard Shojaeifard had a “worrying interest in knives”. Mr Justice Cotter lifted reporting restrictions preventing him from being identified, saying it would help in the “vitally important debate about the scourge of knife crime, among young people in particular”. Mr Justice Cotter said people would be wondering how a young boy “from a loving and supportive family” could commit such an “extraordinary” crime “without forewarning or any warning signs save for some pictures of knives on his phone”. “Outwardly Bardia was a normal 14-year-old boy with no interest in crime, albeit with a poor school disciplinary record,” the judge said. The court heard he had no interest in drugs, gangs or mental health issues.

November 7: Sharon Butler, 64, was found with serious injuries in a garden of a house in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Kevin Shepherd, 54, has been charged with murder.

Nov 5 – Diego Henry, 16, was shot dead in Ladywood, Birmingham. He died in hospital two days later. The body of a second teenager, Jaydon Beckford, 17, was found by detectives investigating Diego’s murder. A gun was found next to him and it is thought he shot himself. Jaydon’s family have released this statement: “Jaydon was so transparent; you always knew where you stood with him. He was not afraid to speak his mind and be true to himself and tell those he loved that he loved them every day. Whether it was cracking jokes or sharing his thoughts, Jaydon was always a joy to be around and spend time with which is reflected in his family and friends who adored him.”

Nov 5 – Mahmoud Alabdullah, 28, was stabbed to death in Bordesley Green, Birmingham. Tarik Al-Mitheab, 21, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Nov 4 – Wayne Ambridge, 50, was attacked in the car park of Tesco in Ware, Hertfordshire. Stuart Smith, aged 42, Karen Lynn, aged 41, and Charlie Penn, aged 20, were all charged with GBH but then, after Mr Ambridge died on Nov 9 those charges were upgraded to murder. They await trial in 2024.

Nov 4 – Hayley Adams, 37, found dead at a house in Barnstaple, Devon. Cheyanne Loder, 32, has been charged with her murder and awaits trial.

Nov 2 – Christie Eugene, aged 64, was found critically injured at 8am at her home in Brixton, south London. She died in hospital at 10pm. Her son, Jason Phinn, 35, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Nov 1 – Jonathan Lewis, 17, was beaten to death in Las Vegas. Dontral Beaver, 16; Gianni Robinson, 17; and Damien Hernandez, 17, and Treavion Randolph, 16, are among 10 Rancho High School students between the ages of 13 and 17 who were all charged with suspicion of murder and two more were being sought. Las Vegas police homicide Lieutenant Jason Johansson said the fight was over a pair of wireless headphones and a vape pen. Lewis suffered severe “head trauma” and other injuries until his death about a week after the fight. Mr Johansson said the fight was prearranged after the headphones and vape pen were stolen from the victim’s friend. After his death, the victim’s father, Jonathan Lewis Sr, said his son was attacked while standing up “for one of his smaller friends”, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. In the alley, the 10 students “immediately swarm him, pull him to the ground and begin kicking, punching and stomping on him”, Mr Johansson said.

October 2023

Oct 29 – Mehak Sharma, 19, was killed at a house in Croydon, south London. Sahil Sharma, 23, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Oct 28 – Dragos Carabineanu, 46, was punched and fell to the ground outside Burnt Oak tube station in north London. He died of his injuries on November 1.

Oct 26 – Paul Knowles, 56, was killed at his home in Woodston, Peterborough. Anne-Marie Burrowes, 53, was jailed for life (17 years) for murder. She had claimed self-defence. She left his body for four days before calling police. A sock had been lodged in the back of his throat, blocking his airways.

Oct 25 – Denise Steeves, 59, was killed after suffering a “significant injury” in Diamond Meadow Lodge Park caravan park in Brean, north Somerset. Simon Steeves, 70, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Oct 25 – Lilie James, 21, a water polo coach, was beaten to death with a hammer in the toilet at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney, Australia. The killer, Paul Thijssen, 24, a Dutch hockey coach, later jumped to his death on rocks in Diamond Bay Reserve. Ms James had recently ended a relationship with Thijssen. They had been seeing each other for only five weeks.

Oct 23 – Mandy Barnett, 60, was killed at her home in Farnley, Leeds. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Oct 21 – Samantha Woll, 40, was stabbed to death outside her home in Detroit, Michigan. Woll was a prominent leader in Detroit’s Jewish community and had served as the president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue since 2022. But police said they did not believe the attack was anti-Semitic. It came during an uptick in anti-Semitic incidents globally in the wake of the Israeli bombing of Gaza caused by Hamas attacks on Oct 7.

Oct 17 – Garry Thomson was stabbed to death at his flat in Guardbridge, Fife, Scotland. His neighbour John Farquhar, 59, was jailed for life (22 years) in March 2025.  The trial heard Farquhar went out drinking in nearby St Andrews after the murder and lied to one of the victim’s concerned daughters that he had not seen her father.

Oct 17 – Melissa Eastick, 36, was killed at her home in Stockton Terrace, Sunderland. Two men, aged 38 and 40, were arrested. In 2021 Eastick was convicted of common assault against her boyfriend Keith Evans, The court heard Eastick drank 10 pints of cider and told police “I have a knife and will stab him’ when they attended Keith Evans’ home in The Village, Ryhope, Sunderland.

Oct 16 – Evaldas Simanaitis, 68, was beaten to death after he challenged two men trying to steal cars outside a house in West Ham, east London, at 4am. Police arrested a 25-year-old man who was found in possession of a car key belonging to a local house. Police also sought the whereabouts of a second man, Tomas Asmenkas, 24.

Oct 15 – Justin Henry, 34, was last seen visiting a McDonald’s drive-thru in Croydon, south London at 9.50pm. He was reported missing the following day. Louis Benjamin, 29, and Jamal Ali-Richards, 29, were acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court. Benjamin was jailed for 20 years and Ali-Richards for 8 years. Police believe that after visiting the McDonald’s Mr Henry drove from to nearby Waddon New Road where his vehicle, a silver Mercedes E Class, remained for around two-and-a-half hours. The Mercedes was later found on October 16 in Kingswood Drive, Croydon. His body was later found in the boot of his car. The killing was linked to a row over a spoofing fraud.

https://totalcrime.substack.com/p/how-spoofing-bank-fraud-row-led-to

Oct 15 – Daniel Galhanas, 19, was stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle in the district of Bairro Alto, Lisbon, around 4:30am. Daniel was targeted while trying to defend his friend, one of several thieves from the Sintra Line gang who had tried to rob some British tourists. Video of his killing went viral and made several tabloid newspapers. Police said the Sintra Line gang targeted foreign tourists on weekend evenings as they walk through the city after a night out.

Oct 14 – Wadee Alfayoumi, 6, a Palestinian-American boy, was stabbed to death in Plainfield, near Chicago. His mother Hanana Shaheen was also stabbed but survived. Joseph Czuba, 73, was charged with murder and went on trial in Feb 2025. He allegedly killed her – because she was a Muslim – a week after Hamas launched an attack on Oct. 7, 2023 on southern Israel, killing 1,200 people.

Oct 13 – Naython Muir, 43, was stabbed with a zombie knife after being lured into an ambush in Hounslow on the pretence of buying drugs from him. Mahdi Mumin, 24, from Slough, Khalfani Sinclair, 23, from Hayes, and Philip Jones, 48, from Feltham, were all handed life sentences for murder at the Old Bailey. Mumin must serve a minimum of 24 years, Sinclair 22 years and Jones 20 years. Christian Braimah, 24, from West Drayton, was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter. At the sentencing hearing, a recorded message from the 11-year-old son of Naython Muir was played to the court. The boy said: “Four cruel men took my Dad’s life for no reason. “I don’t know why they did this as my Dad was a nice man.  Mumin had a long standing background in drug dealing in London and was a “trusted and senior” member of a drugs gang that ran “The Gucci line” which had a reputation for “ruthless violence”. Sinclair had described himself as “Gucci chef” – chef or shef is slang for stabbing.

Oct 10 – Khasha Smith, 35, from Calder, Edinburgh, was last seen on a FaceTime call with a friend. She was finally reported missing in January 2024. In September 2024, John Byrne, 39, of Edinburgh, appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Monday accused of murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

Oct 9 – Tafari Thompson-Mintah, 16, was riding his moped on Sevenoaks Way in St Paul’s Cray, Orpington, Kent, when he was hit by a car at 3.30pm. He died at the scene. Aaron Conway, 38, and Joseph Barnes, 40, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Oct 5 – Rico Andrews, 21, was shot dead in Shuttleworth Road, Battersea, south London. He is believed to have been a member of the 37 gang, who hail from the Winstanley estate. Josh Eno, 23, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Oct 5 – Mustafa Momand, 17, was stabbed in Queens Road, Brighton and died in hospital. A 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder.

Oct 3 – Ian Langley, 54, known as “Scouse”, was mauled to death by an XL Bully dog in Shiney Row, Sunderland, just before 7pm. Police destroyed the dog in question at the scene “to ensure the safety of the public”, and seized another. The owner of the dogs was arrested on suspicion of murder and bailed.

Oct 3 – Keelen Wong, 22, was stabbed in front of shoppers on Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, south London, around 5pm. Kyiza Sandiford, 23, has been charged with murder possessing an offensive weapon and awaits trial.

Oct 2 – Luke Blackmore, 42, from Morden, was stabbed to death outside a house in Sutton, south London. Chase Rochester, who was 17 at the time, and a 16-year-old boy were charged with murder. They went on trial at Croydon Crown Court in Feb 2025. But face a retrial at Southwark Crown Court in May 2026.

Oct 1 – Joshua Clark, 21, and Haidar Shah, 19, died after being stabbed in Commercial Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, at 3.48am. A third man was treated for non-life threatening injuries. Rashane Douglas, 19, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

October 1 –Taye Faik, 16, died after he was stabbed near his home in Kendal Gardens, Edmonton, north London, in an attack by two men. Bernard Carroll, 20, and Josiah Semper, 19, both from Enfield, were both jailed for life (22 years) in Oct 2024 after being convicted of murder at Snaresbrook Crown Court. A 16-year-old girl was acquitted. Taye had been out walking his dog and was yards from his home when he was attacked by the men when they got out of a car.

September 2023

Sep 30 – Abdullah Mirzada, 53, and Khaja Raisoddin Mohammed, 65, were stabbed in Harehills, Leeds, at around 11am. Robert Jean, 46, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. All three men are believed to have lived at the same house.

Sep 30 – Charlene Mills, aged 43, died after police were called to a report over “concerns for welfare” at a house in Hyde Road, Gorton, Manchester. Peter Pitt, 52, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 30 – Temur Qureshi, 19, was stabbed in Hampden Road, Langley, Slough, Berkshire. As a result of the incident, a Section 60 order has been put in place to cover Langley. A 17-year-old boy from Slough has been charged with Mr Qureshi’s murder and possession of a bladed article. The victim’s family said he “brought endless joy into our lives”.

Sep 29 – Hubert Brown, 61, from Easton, was stabbed in St Paul’s, Bristol. Christina Howell, 36, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. The victim was black and the police described it as a “race hate crime.”

Sep 29 – Ashraf Habimana, 16, was stabbed in Nunnery Lane, Luton, at 7pm on a Friday evening. Earlier two youths were stabbed in another incident in Sundon Park Road. Three youths have been arrested over Ashraf’s murder. It is thought Ashraf is related to Tamim Habimana, 16, who was stabbed to death in Woolwich in 2021.

Sep 28 – A woman, 39, and her 14-year-old daughter were shot dead at a house in Rotterdam, Holland. A male lecturer, 43, was later shot dead at the Erasmus Medical Centre hospital. Fouad L, a student of the Erasmus University medical school, was charged with murder. He had been showing signs of psychotic behaviour and had a previous conviction for animal cruelty.

Sep 27 – A 23-year-old was shot dead in Jordbro, on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. Billy Linder, 22, has been charged with murder. Linder is reportedly linked to a Nazi group, the Nordic Resistance Movement, NMR, and a breakaway group Nordic Strength. But the murder is believed to be linked to an going gang war between two groups – one comes from Hässelby (where Linder lived) and is linked to Rawa Majid aka The Kurdish Fox, and the other, from Jordbro, is anti-Majid. A few days after Linder was arrested and named in some Swedish media, his parents’ home was firebombed.

Sep 27 – Elianne Andam, 15, was stabbed to death after she got off a double decker bus outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south London, at 8.30am. She was on her way to school at the Old Palace of John Whitgift school, a private school. Witnesses said the bus driver and other passers-by tried to save her. An air ambulance arrived but she was declared dead at 9.20am. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and possession of a kitchen knife.

Sep 27 – Junior Osborne, 50, was stabbed to death in Narborough Road, Leicester. James Williams, 18, a 17-year-old boy and two 16-year-olds, have been charged with murder and await trial.

September 26 – Michelle Elbow Shield, 26, an Oglala Sioux woman, went missing in Rapid City, South Dakota. Her remains were recovered on January 15, 2025 on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Her death is being investigated by the Rapid City Police Department in conjunction with the Bureau of Indian Affairs Missing & Murdered Unit.

Sep 25 – Hamzah Iqbal, 35,  was stabbed to death when he was out with friends in Olympic Way, Wembley, NW London. Ali Alamari, 21, Joshua Oladele, 20, and Micah Hines, 21, were all convicted of murder after a trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court in 2024. Oladele was sentenced to life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of 28 years. Hines was sentenced to life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of 25 years. Alamari was sentenced to life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of 24 years. In July 2025 Dontae Smicle, 29, from Monks Park, Wembley was charged with murder and awaits trial.

September 20 – Max Moy Wheatley, 19, was stabbed in Jubilee Country Park close to Tent Peg Lane in Petts Wood, south-east London.

Sep 19 – Brian Edwards, 53, was stabbed to death in a road near Finsbury Park, north London at 4am. David Odunuga, 32, from Brentwood, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (27 years). Detectives were able to link the silver BMW X5 to Odunuga by false details and addresses provided on insurance and registration documents. Their suspicion that Odunuga was the suspect was strengthened following the recovery of a car key for the BMW that scientists confirmed had his DNA on.

Sep 18 – Terrell Marshall-Williams, 16, was stabbed in the street in Merry Hill, Dudley, West Midlands. Omari Lauder, aged 23, from Darlaston, and Mpho Obi aged 22 from Merry Hill, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Sep 16 – Gagandeep Sandhu, 29, was shot dead in his car near Lougheed Shopping Centre in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) is investigating it and it is believed to be linked to the ongoing gang war in the Greater Vancouver area, the so-called Lower Mainland gang conflict. A Honda Pilot SUV used by the killers was found burnt out nearby.

Sep 15 – Nathaniel Shani, 14, was stabbed during a fight in Harpurhey, Manchester. A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 13 – Juliana Prosper, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13, were killed at their home, a flat in a block of flats, Leabank, in Marsh Farm, Luton. Nicholas Prosper, 18, has been charged with three murders, purchasing or acquiring a shotgun without a certificate, possession of a shotgun and possession of a kitchen knife in a public place. He is due to go on trial at Luton Crown Court in March 2025. The victims were his mother and siblings.

Sep 12 – Bradley Hutchins, 20, was stabbed to death in New Addington, near Croydon. A 19-year-old survived. Shane Canavan, 22, and Josha Langley, 27, both of Purley, were charged on Monday with murder, attempted murder and possession of pointed and bladed articles. They await trial.

Sep 11 – Matthew Bryant, 52, was stabbed to death outside the Hare and Hounds pub, which he ran, in Maidstone, Kent. His sister-in-law Stephanie Langley, 55, was convicted of murder and jailed for life. Langley claimed he had raped a woman she knew. She told a customer in the pub: “Get a drink while he is still alive.” She told Mr Bryant: “You’re dead tonight.”

Sep 10 – Annabel Mackey, 2, was discovered unresponsive in Kingsley Pond, near Bordon, Hampshire, shortly after she was reported missing. She was pronounced dead in hospital a day later. Her mother Alice Mackey, 42, of Gibbs Lane, Oakhanger, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 8 – Gary Sampson, 34, was stabbed to death at his home in Cricklewood, north London. Marie Nellie, 44, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 5 – William Rowe, 71, was beaten to death at a house in Borstal, near Rochester, Kent. Simon Brown, 28, was acquitted of murder at Maidstone Crown Court in March 2024 but admitted manslaughter. He told the jury he lost his temper after Rowe bragged about his past when confronted with a Kent Online article from 2012, when he was convicted of sexual offences against a young girl dating back to the 1980s. Brown said he lashed out in a “blanket of rage” and left Mr Rowe with injuries to his head, neck and torso, including 27 rib fractures.

Sep 4 – Ronaldo Scott, 21, was stabbed to death in Angell Town Park, Brixton, south London. He was better known as Skengroy and was part of the 150 drill crew. His attackers are believed to come from the rival Harlem Spartans. Scott’s mother described him as a “loving, caring, family man.” Scott was given a suspended sentence in Feb 2021 for inciting a riot on the Angell Town estate during the pandemic in June 2020. A month after that sentencing he was arrested in a car on the M20 in Kent. In Nov 2021 he admitted possession of Class A drugs (heroin and crack) with intent to supply and was sentenced to be detained for 42 months in a young offenders’ institution.

Sep 4 – Anis Omar Zen, 19, who was from Harrow, was stabbed to death in Masefield Avenue, Stanmore, NW London.

Sep 3 – Leo Moran, 44, died after being hit by a car in Gosford Street, Coventry. Hospital worker Joel Carriedo died after being struck by the same vehicle on Woodway Lane shortly afterwards. A man aged 33 was arrested on suspicion of two counts of murder and has since been sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

Sep 1 – Edward Forrester, 55, was last seen in Blackpool. His body was later found in Cumbria. William Wilkinson, 65, from Blackpool, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 1 – Gabriela Kosilko, 26, went missing after failing to return home from work in Leicester. Her boyfriend Sebastian Zarnoch, 30, was charged with kidnap and murder but was found dead in his cell on September 6, the same day that her body was found in woods near Groby Pool. Her car, a red Audi A1, was found in Ratby Lane, Leicester.

August 2023

Aug 30 – Yahye Ahmed, 23, was stabbed to death in Islington, north London. Ibrahim Elkadmiri, 30, has been charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon. Ahmed Abdi Ahmed, 33, has been charged with assisting an offender. Both await trial. It is believed to have been gang-related.

Aug 28 – Brett Sheffield, 38, a Canadian businessman, was attacked in downtown Toronto at 11.25pm. He died in hospital two days later. Craig Gibson, 28, a British soldier, has been charged with second degree murder.

Aug 26 – The remains of Simon Shotton, 49, were discovered close to the Manor Steps Zig Zag, a path leading to the beach from Overcliff Drive in Boscombe, near Bournemouth. Debbie Ann Pereira, 38, and Benjamin Lee Atkins, 48, both from Bournemouth, have been charged with Mr Shotton’s murder and await trial.

Aug 24 – Theo Porteous, 32, was stabbed to death at a block of flats in Nine Elms, Wandsworth, south London. Police released CCTV footage of the prime suspect. Earl Morin-Britton, 36, from Sutton, was later charged with murder.

Aug 24 – Marie Snowling, Glen Sprowl, 53, Tonya Clark, 49, and John Leehey, 67, were shot dead at Cook’s Corner, a famous biker bar at the corner of El Toro, Santiago Canyon and Live Oak Canyon roads, 50 miles south of Los Angeles. John Snowling, 59, a retired sheriff’s deputy with Orange County Sheriff’s Department, was the gunman. He was later shot dead by law enforcement officers. It is believed Marie had filed for divorce in December 2022.

Aug 23 – Claire Knights, 54, from Upstreet near Canterbury, was found dead near Minnis Bay, Kent, while walking her spaniel, Zebulon. Harrison Lawrence-van Pooss, 20, from Margate, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. He was also charged with voyeurism, following an investigation into a separate incident when “upskirt” images of a woman were covertly taken on August 22 in Birchington, Kent.

Aug 22 – Wendy Buckney, 71, a retired riding school instructor, was killed at her flat in Clydach, Swansea. Her neighbour, Brian Whitelock, 56, was jailed for life (whole life) for murder in Dec 2024. When spoken to by police Whitelock admitted he was responsible for the attack but later changed his explanation, saying he saw someone else near the property and found the victim’s body. At trial Whitelock admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility saying he had a brain injury which impaired his judgement and self-control. But psychiatric evidence was put before the jury at trial, which contradicted his claim, saying the most likely cause of his behaviour was drug intoxication. After he was convicted it emerged he had killed two other people. He was jailed in 2001 for murdering Nicholas Morgan with a pickaxe handle or hammer at a house in Swansea after a drink and drug-fuelled argument. He then set fire to Mr Morgan’s body to try to cover up evidence and ended up killing his own brother, Glenn, who died of smoke inhalation after falling asleep in the house. He served 18 years in prison and was released in 2021.

Aug 22 – Donald Patience, 45, was found dead at his home in Bury, Greater Manchester. He “had been dead for several days” The cause of his death remains unknown and is being investigated. Ian Connell, 39, from Bolton, has been charged with the murder of Mr Patience. Mr Patience was known to own some expensive labradoodle puppies and it has been speculated that he was killed during a burglary or dognapping.

Aug 21 – Aurman Singh, 23, a DPD delivery driver from Smethwick, West Midlands, died after he was attacked in Coton Hill, Shrewsbury. Arshdeep Singh, 24, from Tipton, Jagdeep Singh, 22, from Dudley, Shivdeep Singh, 26,  and Manjot Singh, 24, both from Smethwick, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Aug 21 – Max Richardson, 35, from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, was fatally assaulted in Joyners Field, Harlow, Essex, at around 11pm. Tieran Carmody, 18, from Harlow, has been charged with his murder and awaits trial.

Aug 20 – Andy Foster, 26, died in hospital after being sprayed with ammonia at his home in Wrekenton, Gateshead, Newcastle. Four men were convicted of murder – Kenneth Fawcett, 31, from North Shields, was jailed for life (32 years). Yousef Wynne, 39, from Jarrow, was jailed for life (33 years), John Wandless, 31, was jailed for life (31 years) and Josh Hawthorn, 21, from Jarrow, was jailed for life (22 years). The trial heard the men carried out “drug taxings” – in other words robberies of drug dealers. Extensive CCTV, house-to-house and telecoms enquiries revealed they were linked to three recent corrosive substance attacks in almost identical circumstances between August 9 and 16 in Hebburn, Jarrow and South Shields.

https://www.northumbria.police.uk/news/northumbria/news/convictions-and-sentencings/men-jailed-ammonia-murder/

Aug 16 – Ahmed Alshran, 33, was stabbed and pushed into the Rochdale Canal in Dale Street, Manchester city centre. He died of his injuries in hospital several weeks later. Another man survived. Mohammed Al-Enizi Hameed, 38, from Rusholme, was jailed for life (24 years) for murder. Hussein Muhalhal, 22, from Longsight, was found guilty of assault and sentenced to 5 and a half years. The trial heard witnesses heard Hameed say: “Come bring the knife”, “Go get a knife” and “Let’s kill him”. Nasir Al-Shumari, 17, A was found guilty of murder and jailed for life (13 years) and another 17-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons was convicted of assault and sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison. Al-Shumari appealed and his lawyers argued that a judge should not have allowed ‘bad character’ evidence, which showed the teenager had previously taken a eight inch bread knife into school, had threatened to stab another pupil in the face and, in an Instagram message, had offered to help another boy get a knife, to be heard during the trial. But he lost appeal.

Aug 16 – Alexey Petrov, 61, a prominent Bulgarian businessman, was shot dead in broad daylight in a suburb of Sofia, Bulgaria. A woman who was with him was injured and was taken to an emergency hospital with a gunshot wound. Petrov had been the target of at least two other attempts on his life. A karate champion and former state security agent, Petrov left his job in the police after the fall of communism to start a private business. It boomed and he became an associate in more than 50 companies by 2002. In 2010, he was arrested and charged with running a criminal group engaged in extortion, racketeering, drug trafficking, money laundering and tax evasion. He was released on bail and eventually acquitted and was even a candidate in the presidential election in 2011.

Aug 13 – Harrison Tomkins, 25, from Three Bridges, was stabbed to death at a block of flats in Crawley, west Sussex. Police said it was a “targeted” attack. Kaydon Prior, 23, from Crawley, has been charged with murder, being in possession of an offensive weapon and assault by beating. Jason Curtis, 22, from Lambeth, London, has been charged with murder. Both await trial.

Aug 13 – A man’s body was found in the back of a white VW Caddy van which was on fire in Paget Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. His death is currently being treated as unexplained and he has not been identified.

Aug 12 – Krzysztof Baran, 40, was killed at a house in multiple occupancy (HMO) in Hayes, Middlesex. Sufian Choudry, 38, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 12 – Six migrants drowned in the English Channel while trying to cross by small boat from France to England. French police arrested four people on suspicion of manslaughter and referred them to the investigating judge. They are two Iraqi nationals born in 1980, suspected of being part of the illegal immigration network that organised the transport of migrants, and two people of Sudanese nationality born in 1994 and 2006, suspected of having actively participated in the transport of passengers in dangerous conditions in exchange for a preferential rate on their own passage.

Aug 10 – Ben Daly, 30, was shot in Frances Havergal Close, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and was found nearby after staggering away. He later died in hospital. Six people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

Aug 10 – Fuad Saman, 40, was stabbed more than 100 times in a house in Harlesden, north west London. Osman Abshir, 28, has been charged with murder and is due to go on trial in June 2024.

Aug 10 – Sara Sharif, 10, was found dead at a house in Horsell, near Woking, Surrey. Her father Malik Urfan Sharif, 31, and two other people left the UK a few hours before her body was discovered the following day. He is believed to have travelled to Pakistan.

Aug 10 – Four people were shot dead in Gradacac, near Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Nermin Sulejmanovic posted a disturbing video on Instagram, telling viewers that they would see a murder live. The video then shows him taking a gun and firing a bullet into the forehead of a woman, believed to be his ex-wife. The cry of a child nearby can be heard in the video. During the police search, the suspect published another video on Instagram, claiming to have shot at least two other people while on the run. Sulejmanovic then killed himself. He was part of a Bosnian criminal gang. n 2013, he was arrested as a member of a large drug trafficking group headed by Emir Kodzag, along with 24 others. A year later, he was arrested while trying to smuggle 806 kilograms of marijuana into Croatia. An international warrant was also issued for him in 2016, stating he was charged with violence against a police officer. He was a bodybuilder and worked as a fitness instructor in recent years and even won awards.

Aug 9 – Hamed Mani, 20, was stabbed to death near St George’s shopping centre in Harrow, north west London. Abbas Jean-Pierre, 20, from Northolt, and Shakur Idan, 21, from Harrow, were convicted of murder and were later jailed for life. The trial heard Idan rode his electric bike directly at Mani and his friends who became hostile and waved a knife at him. Idan called Jean-Pierre, who appeared with a machete. They then ran towards Mr Mani’s group and Idan called out to Jean-Pierre with the words “wet him up”, which the court heard was street slang for stabbing.

Aug 9 – Stephen Koszyczarski, 60, was found with a head injury at his home in Woodseats, Sheffield. Zoe Ryder, 35, and Nicola Lethbridge, 44, have been charged with murder and robbery.

Aug 8 – Daniel Varadi, 28, was stabbed outside a house in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Daniel Balazs, 21, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 7 – Yusuf Mohamoud, 18, from Enfield, was stabbed to death in Regents Park Road, Barnet, north London. Tyrese Jennings, 20, was acquitted of murder and jailed for 13 years for manslaughter. Jennings was one of a group of three males who confronted Yusuf when he left a restaurant. During the ensuing altercation, Yousuf was stabbed in the neck. Two boys, who were both 15 at the time, were acquitted of murder and manslaughter.

Aug 6 – Karima Nour, 57, was killed at her home in Feltham, Middlesex. Her daughter, Arizo Nour, 33, was charged with murder and appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on 9 August, when magistrates banned the identification of the victim. Police said they were called to a house at 10.26pm amid concerns for a woman’s welfare. Nobody was in but people found signs of a disturbance. The body was found the following day in a canal off Bulls Bridge Lane in Southall, west London. In May 2024 Nour admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was given a hospital order.

Aug 5 – Rachel Morin, 37, a mother-of-five, was beaten to death with a rock or a baseball bat on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air, Maryland. On 17 August police revealed that DNA found at the scene matched that of a Latino man who attacked a young girl in her home in Los Angeles and they revealed CCTV footage of him leaving the house shirtless.

Aug 5 – Cameron Hamilton, 18, was stabbed to death during a drunken fight in Bournemouth Square. Thomas Betteridge, 18, from Southsea, and Lennie Hansen, 18, from Waterlooville, went on trial at Bournemouth Crown Court in Jan 2024. Prosecutor John Price KC said Betteridge was heard saying ‘I sliced him up’ in a “boastful and proud manner” just moments after he inflicted three stab wounds.

Aug 4 – Julian Ebanks-Ford, 20, was stabbed to death in Lewisham, south London in the early hours of the morning. Ismail Kallon, 20, was later jailed for life (22 years) for murder. The trial heard he had lured Julian to his death. Analysis of Kallon’s devices showed that this attack was fuelled by a disagreement between the parties earlier in 2023. But Kallon was not the actual knifeman and he remains at large.

Aug 3 – Christine Emmerson, 71, was stabbed 26 times at her home in West Ashby, Lincolnshire. Her son Shaun Emmerson, 50, was charged with murder but was mentally unfit for trial. A trial of facts at Lincoln Crown Court in July 2024 found he had carried out the act and he was given an indefinite hospital order.  The court heard he had paranoid delusions that everyone was “going to kill him”. After killing her he climbed onto the roof of the house’s conservatory and called 999 to admit to carrying out a “violent attack” on his mother. He also told the call handler to send armed officers to the scene to “put me out of my misery” and claimed the “Department of Justice have been torturing me for the last 20 years”. Emmerson thought he could hear his “neighbours through the walls” who were saying they wanted to kill him in a “painful” way and he was afraid that someone would “attack” him in his sleep.

Aug 1 – Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, a wealthy Colombian plastic surgeon, was killed and his dismembered body dumped at a landfill on the island of Koh Phangan, Thailand. His boyfriend Daniel Sancho Bronchalo – the son of two famous Spanish actors – has been charged with premeditated murder, which carries a possible death penalty, and with concealment of a body to cover up the death. Koh Phagnan is famous for its monthly “full moon parties”. Sancho is the son of actors Rodolfo Sancho and Silvia Bronchalo. He is said to have confessed to killing and dismembering Mr Arrieta.

Aug 1 – David Taddei, 48, was shot dead shortly before 8 a.m in Route d’Afa, in a car park in Sarrola-Carcopino on the outskirts of Ajaccio, Corsica. Taddei had been acquitted twice in criminal cases in Marseille. In 2015 he was acquitted, along with Guy Orsoni, with attempting to murder a member of the infamous Brise-de-Mer gang. In 2019 he was acquitted of providing the murder weapon in the assassination of Richard Casanova, another Brise-de-Mer member. Taddei’s death is believed to be linked to the murder of Fabrice Chiappe a week earlier (see July 24).

July 2023

July 30 – Talip Guzel, 33, shot dead at the junction of Pretoria Road North and White Lane, Tottenham, north London around 11.30pm. Earlier that evening the Afrobeats singer Wizkid had held a concert at the Tottenham stadium but police said there was no link to the murder. It is believed the killing may be linked to the murder of Koray Alpergin in Oct 2022. Jan Mercan, 22, from Enfield, was charged with murder but the charges were dropped in 2024. In Jan 2025 Mercan was again charged with the murder. He was acquitted of murder and manslaughter in November 2025. Stanislava Kukusheva, 35, was acquitted of perverting the course of justice and assisting an offender but was found guilty of possession of a prohibited weapon. She will be sentenced in Jan 2026. The trial heard the actual gunman was Ali Danish Syed, 32, who has since fled to Pakistan.

July 29 – Don Patterson, 70, and wife Gail, 70, died along with Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, after they ate a meal containing death cap mushrooms which had been prepared by the Pattersons’ former daughter-in-law Erin, 48, at her home in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia. Heather’s husband Reverend Ian Wilkinson, 68, a pastor at Korumburra Baptist Church, remains in hospital. Erin Patterson’s two children were also at the lunch but were given a meal not containing the toxic mushrooms. They have reportedly been taken into state care as a “precaution”. Erin Patterson is said to be separated from her husband – the son of Mr and Mrs Patterson – but their split was described as “amicable”. She has denied any wrongdoing.

July 29 – O’Shae Sibley, 28, a professional dancer who had worked with Beyonce, was stabbed to death on the forecourt of a petrol station in Brooklyn, New York while dancing to her music. Mr Sibley was voguing while he and friends filled up at a petrol station when men approached and told them to stop. The men began using homophobic slurs and Mr Sibley confronted them, according to video of the altercation. Beyonce posted on her website: “Rest in Power O’Shae Sibley”. Dmitriy Popov, 17, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. At least one witness told reporters some of the teens had objected to the dancers’ behavior because they were Muslim. But the family and lawyer of Popov said he is actually a Russian Orthodox Christian who wears a cross and goes to church.

July 29 – Amy Wilson, 27, died when the VW Tiguan she was in collided with a Mercedes C-Class in New Carron Road in Falkirk after an “altercation”. Police Scotland said they were treating it as a murder. A 39-year-old man, who was driving the Tiguan, suffered minor injuries. There was a road rage altercation earlier in Foundry Street. Anthony Davidson, 30, from London, faces 10 charges including murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Andrew Gregoire, 27, who was arrested in London, made no plea or declaration to 12 charges including murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. Steven Hornsby, 53, who was arrested in Essex, also made no plea or declaration to charges of conspiracy and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

July 29 – Sean Day, 29, drowned in the river Wye in Hereford after falling from the Victoria Bridge. Three men were arrested on suspicion of murder but nobody has been charged.

July 28 – Stefan Balaban, 19, was stabbed to death in Edgware, north London, around 1am. Five boys, four aged 16 and one aged 17, have been charged with murder and await trial.

July 25 – Kyle Zybilowicz, 29, was killed at a flat in Dumbreck Court in the south side of Glasgow. A 33-year-old man was arrested.

July 24 – Fabrice Chiappe, 38, was shot dead as he returned to his home located in the Vazzio district of Ajaccio, Corsica, at 6.30am. Well-known in the Corsican underworld, he was convicted in 2014 in a case of narcotics, weapons and explosives.

July 24 – Ann Blackwood, 71, was attacked at Crofton Cemetery in Lychgate Green, Stubbington, Hampshire. Martin Suter, 66, from Lee-on-the-Solent, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 23 – Charlie Cosser, 16, stabbed multiple times during an attack in Warnham, West Sussex in the early hours. He died in hospital on July 25. A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 22 – Kiena Dawes, 23, from Fleetwood, was found dead on the railway line near Barnacre, Lancashire, shortly after she was reported missing. On June 3, 2024, Ryan Wellings, 30, from Bispham, Blackpool, was charged with manslaughter, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He awaits trial.

July 21 – Eddie King Muthemba Kinuthia, 19, known as EK, was stabbed in St Paul’s, Bristol. Two young men were arrested and bailed.

July 20 – Sharon Gordon, 58, was beaten to death with a hammer at her home in Dudley, West Midlands. She was found slumped at the bottom of the stairs with severe head injuries. Peter Norgrove, 43, a builder from Sedgley, pleaded guilty to murder on the eve of his trial in Dec 2023 and was jailed for life at Wolverhampton Crown Court. He met Mrs Gordon through mutual friends at the same church they both attended. Norgrove was building an extension at her home which had taken several months and thrown up a number of problems.

July 17 – Milton Hurlington, 42, was stabbed to death in Wembley, NW London. Wael Farroukh, 18, was acquitted of murder on the grounds of self-defence. He was convicted of possession of an offensive weapon. The trial heard Hurlington, who was homeless, was drunk and aggressive.

July 16 – Ibrahim Pertek, 52, is thought to have been assaulted during a robbery in an alley next to Wood Green library in Enfield, north London, at about 1.10am. He died three weeks later in hospital.

July 14 – Claudyo Jauad Lafayette, 17, was stabbed to death in Kilburn, north west London. A 17-year-old boy was also injured but survived. A woman, in her early 20s, received hospital treatment for an injury to her hand. The case remains unsolved and the police made a fresh appeal in July 2024. His mother Yzakia Jauad said: “I know whatever I say or do will not bring my son back, but I am pleading for your help to get the justice my son deserves. A £20,000 reward was offered, which expires in October 2024.

July 15 – Joseph Riches, 16, was stabbed in the street in Stourbridge, West Midlands. Dray Simmonds and Joshua Edgington, both 19, were jailed for life (21 years) and Corey Burkitt and Leroy Robinson, both 16, were convicted of murder and jailed for life (15 years). West Midlands Police said that for reasons only known to themselves, Joseph and his friends were “intent on causing trouble” with another group of teens. It was said Joseph saw the group and ran up to them at the bottom of the High Street, attacking two of them with a screwdriver before trying to get in a car with his friends. But he was unable to and ran along Coventry Street as the other group chased him. Police said that one member of the group had pulled a machete from his clothing and three of them caught up with Joseph and pushed him into a hedge and stabbed him. He was found in the car which had been abandoned almost six miles away in Orchard Close, Rowley Regis. Simmonds inflicted the fatal wounds but all four were convicted of joint enterprise.

July 13 – Emiliano Hasanpapaj, 22, was stabbed during a fight in Palmers Green, north London just before midnight. Unsolved.

July 11 – Jason Thompson, 54, was stabbed at his home in Hayes, west London. His stepson Adejuwon Oyekan, 32, admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was given a hospital order. Oyekan, who developed paranoid schizophrenia after taking large amounts of drugs. He committed the killing after he returned from a drugs binge in Ibiza two days before.

July 9 – Rahaan Ahmed Amin, 16, was stabbed in the heart in West Ham, east London. A 16-year-old boy was charged with Rahaan’s murder and possessing a bladed article. He was later jailed for life (15 years) but was not named. He had bought the ninja sword used to kill Rahaan from the internet.

July 8 – Emile Soleil, 2, was last seen walking by himself in the street in the village of Haut-Vernet in the French Alps. Some of his bones and clothes were found by a hiker near a path between the church and the chapel in the village in March 2024. His maternal grandparents – Philippe and Ann Vedovini – were arrested in March 2025. Two of Philippe’s cars were seized, which included a navy blue Hyundai and a horse trailer. But they have – as of Nov 2025 – not been charged. Unsolved

July 8 – Bohdan Vandzhura, 47, was stabbed 39 times in the street in Pinner Road, Harrow, NW London. Abdul Khan, 27, admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was given an indefinite hospital order in Jan 2025. Months earlier, he had assaulted Santa Shrestha at random, putting him in hospital for four days, after “voices” in his head said he should “make a corpse of him”. But the police had failed to identify him as the attacker. His father, Khalid Khan, 62, was jailed for four years for assisting an offender by hiding his son’s bloodied tracksuit and trainers in a garage and lying to police about it.

July 6 – Michael “Mosca” (Fly) Torres, 59, a Mexican Mafia member who oversaw gangs in the San Fernando Valley and controlled drug and extortion rackets in the Los Angeles County jails, was stabbed to death in California state prison, Sacramento. Torres was serving 133 years to life for attempted murder, conspiracy, weapons offenses and witness tampering. Ray Martinez, 49, and Juan Angel Martinez, 47. who are not related, and are both serving life in prison for murder and other crimes, have been charged with murder. Ray Martinez is a Mexican Mafia member nicknamed “Cisco,” according to law enforcement sources. After serving 16 years for manslaughter, Torres was released in the early 2000s. He then became the Mexican Mafia’s “sanctioned tax collector” in the San Fernando Valley, a prosecutor wrote in a bail motion.

July 4 – Hans Peter Walter Mack, 62, a German property broker, was killed and his body dismembered and left in a freezer in Pattaya, Thailand. Zahrouk Kareem Uddin, 27, a Pakistani with Thai nationality who was a member of the Outlaws motorcycle club, was sentenced to death in Dec 2024. Two Germans, Olaf Thorsten, 52, and Petra Christl Grundgreif, 54, admitted their role and their death sentences were therefore commuted to life in prison. Another German suspect, identified only as Enrico, to six years in prison for money laundering and receiving stolen property after he accepted money transfers connected to the crime from Brinkmann.

July 3 – Armaan Kadeer, 18, was shot dead on a canal towpath in Nechells, Birmingham. Four men were arrested on suspicion of murder.

July 3 – Andre Salmon, 18, was shot dead in Haringey, north London. Reagan Konin, 18, has been charged with murder, possession of a firearm, possession of an offensive weapon in a private place, possession with intent to supply class A drugs and affray. He awaits trial.

June 2023

June 30 – Isabella Wheildon, two, was found dead in a temporary housing unit in Birmingham. Scott Jeff and his girlfriend Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, 22, have been charged with murder and await trial.

June 29 – Dylan Bragger, 15, was “butchered like an animal” after being stabbed at least 23 times in Digmoor Road, Skelmersdale, Merseyside. Felipe Figueiredo, 28, was jailed for life (22 years) for murder. He claimed self-defence during a trial at Preston Crown Court. The trial heard that after receiving messages at around 8.30pm that his wife’s stolen motorbike had been seen with two youths in the area, Figueiredo set off from his home to track them down.

June 29 – Leonardo Reid, 15, and Shekaj Klevi, 23, were stabbed to death while making a music video in Archway, Islington, north London. Abel Chunda, 27, Lorik Lupqi, 21, Jason Furtado, 26, Eden Clark, 29, and Xavier Poponne, 21, have been charged with murder and the attempted murder of Abdullah Abdiullahi, 28. It is alleged Chunda arrived at the scene of a music video shoot as part of a group of people carrying “large knives” who went on to attack the victims. They are due to go on trial on 17 March 2025.

June 29 – Fiona Holm, 48, went missing from Hither Green, south-east London, since going to an off-licence. Carl Cooper, 65, was jailed for life (35 years). He was also convicted murdering Naomi Hunte, 41, who was found stabbed to death in Plumstead, south-east London, in February 2022. Both women were ex-girlfriends of Cooper and both had complained about him. Four Met Police officers are under investigation for misconduct.

June 29 – Ashley Day, 20, a talented footballer who had trials with Newport County and was celebrating getting into university, was stabbed to death at a rented apartment in Digbeth, Birmingham. Mr Day had rented the flat for a party and advertised it on social media. Gurveer Bhandal, 19, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 13 years for manslaughter. The trial heard Mr Day decided to throw everyone out after neighbours complained of noise from the party in the early hours of the morning.

June 26 – Kyle Knowles, 32, a chef, was stabbed to death on a tram near Highbury Vale stop in Basford, Nottingham at 11am as other passengers watched in horror. A 24-year-old man was arrested.

June 25 – Rohan Trotman, 26, was stabbed in Peckham, south London. Mr Trotman died in hospital at 9.30am the following day. Yusuf Kallon, 19, was charged with murder and has also been charged with two counts of robbery, possession of a bladed article and possession of cannabis.

June 23 – Victor Lee, 17, was found in the water in a canal under Scrubs Lane, near Willesden Junction. Three boys – aged 14, 15 and 17 – have been charged with murder and robbery of a bicycle and rucksack. They face trial in May 2024.

June 23 – Owen Fairclough, 21, was found dead on a country path near Risley Lane, Breaston, Derbyshire. Jack Towell, 21, from Nottingham, and David Oswald, 30, from Birmingham, have pleaded not guilty to his murder and having an offensive weapon and will go on trial in Jan 2024. Co-defendant Jason Hill was not asked to enter pleas.

June 21 – Nelly Akomah, 76, was killed at her home in Thornton Heath, south London. Hugo Da Silva Pires, 28, has been charged with murder, burglary and fraud, while Catia Feliciano, 31, is accused of fraud and perverting the course of justice. The pair were arrested at Stansted Airport two days later.

June 20 – Sarah Henshaw, 31, was strangled with a dressing cord at her home in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, and was then dumped by the A617 near Chesterfield. Her boyfriend Darren Hall, 36, was jailed for life (16 years). Sarah’s mother said Hall was “a monster who committed the most evil crime a person can do.”

June 19 – Khaled Saleh, 17, was stabbed to death in Paddington Green, west London. A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

June 18 – Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, president of the Guru Nanak gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, was shot dead outside the temple. His New York lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannunwho said he was in “good spirits” despite being warned his life was in danger by someone with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Nijjar and his lawyer were leaders of a campaign for Khalistan — the separate Sikh nation some want created in India’s Punjab state. They had been organising a referendum on the issue. Karan Brar, age 22, Kamal Preet Singh, age 22, and Karan Preet Singh, age 28, have been charged with first degree murder and await trial. They were Indian nationals living in Edmonton, Canada. The killing led to a huge diplomatic crisis as Justin Trudeau said there were “credible allegations” suggesting Indian officials were behind the murder. India denied it and expelled several Canadian diplomats.

June 16 – Aravind Sasikumar, 38, was stabbed to death in the early hours of the morning at his home in Camberwell, south London. Salman Salim, 25, has been charged with murder. The victim was originally from Kerala, India, and his younger brother, Sekhar Sasikumar, 30, who lives in Northampton, said “he loved this country,” and was close to getting his UK citizenship.

June 16 – Daniel Piedra Garcia, 52, an Uber driver, was shot dead as he drove a passenger to the Speaking Rock casino in Mission Valley, El Paso, Texas. Phoebe Copas, 48, from Kentucky, has been charged with murder. She claimed she saw signs to Juarez, Mexico, panicked and thought she was being kidnapped and taken over the border. She awaits trial.

June 15 – Clayton Doerman, 7, Hunter Doerman, 4, and Chase Doerman, 3, were shot dead at their home in Monroe Township, about 75 miles west of Columbus, Ohio. Their father Chad Doerman, 32, has been charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping and felonious assault. Clermont County’s chief prosecutor of Municipal Court, David Gast, said Doerman lined his sons up and executed them with a rifle. At one point, one of the boys tried to flee into a nearby field but Doerman “hunted” his son down and brought him back to their home before killing him.

June 14 – Eva Liu, 21, from Naperville, Illinois, died after being thrown 165ft down a ravine during a day trip to Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria. Her friend Kelsey Chang, 22, survived after she was also pushed. Both had graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in May. Liu studied Computer Science and Chang studied Computer Engineering. A 30-year-old US tourist has been charged with murder and attempted murder. All three had been staying at the budget Seibel Hotel in the centre of Munich, 50 miles from the castle, which was said to have inspired Disney’s Cinderella castle. They had travelled by coach to Neuschwanstein with other tourists.

June 13 – Usmaan Mahmood, 20, was stabbed in Thornton Heath Recreation Ground, south London around 4pm. Joshua Munoz, 19, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

June 13 – Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19, Barnaby Webber, 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death in Nottingham. Valdo Calocane, 31, aka Adam Mendes, has been charged with murder. The University of Nottingham students were stabbed on Ilkeston Road around 4am as they walked home from a nightclub. Mr Coates was found dead with knife injuries on Magdala Road after his van was stolen an hour later. Mr Calocane, a mechanical engineering graduate, is also charged with three counts of attempted murder after a van was used to drive at pedestrians in Milton Street.

June 13 – Tejaswini Kontham, 27, from Hyderabad, India, was stabbed to death at a house – believed to be a shared house – in Wembley, NW London. Another woman, aged 28, survived. Ms Kontham’s father told a local TV channel in Hyderabad, India that Ms Kontham had travelled to London three years ago to study for her master’s degree at the University of Greenwich. He said she came home for a month in August last year and was supposed to come back again for her wedding. Keven Antonio Lourenco De Morais, 23, a Brazilian national, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

June 12 – Monika Wlodarczyk, 35, was stabbed in a flat in Hounslow, west London. Her children Maja Wlodarczyk, 11 and Dawid Wlodarczyk, three, were also found dead along with their father Michal Wlodarczyk, 39. He stabbed himself in the neck. The Met said it was called by Maja’s school on 16 June “since they and her friends were concerned she had not attended school since 12 June, and family members had not replied to messages”.

June 11 – Ethan John, 7, was stabbed more than 20 times and his sister Elizabeth, 11, suffered fatal brain damage after being stabbed in their home in Stoke-on-Trent. Their mother, Veronique John, was later found unfit to plea and a trial of facts at Nottingham Crown Court found she had committed the crime and also stabbed the children’s father, Nathan John, at a nearby car wash. He survived. She was given an indefinite hospital order. The trial heard that after the stabbings she returned home, dialled 999 and told the operator: “I am calling to report I just killed my two kids.” She told the operator: “If you have a gun shoot me. I am not a monster – he was going to take them from me.” The court heard John was boiling with rage after being arrested for assaulting her husband while suspecting him of having an affair. She later told interviewing officers: “I didn’t want my husband to get them”. She told police: “It’s something I was thinking about for a long time – just kill myself and the kids. Unless you guys are offering me the death penalty I have nothing else to say.

June 10 – Mikey Roynon, 16, from Kingswood in Bristol, was stabbed to death at a house party in Weston, Bath, Somerset. Shane Cunningham, 16, was detained for HM pleasure (minimum of 16 years) for murder. Cartel Bushnell, 16, and Leo Knight, 16, were both jailed for 9 years for manslaughter. The killers were from Devizes and travelled to Bath by bus for an open-invitation birthday party. They did not know Mikey or his friends. The murder weapon was a 10in (26cm) Rambo knife – in a public place. Mikey was an aspiring drill rapper known as YM and was a friend of Takayo Nembhard, aka TKorStretch, who was murdered at Notting Hill Carnival in August 2022. During his sentencing remarks, Mr Justice Saini said the killing was an example of the “plague of knife crime” that was blighting Bristol and surrounding areas. He said: “The lives of young boys who carry knives continue to be taken at the hands of other boys who carry knives.”

June 10 – Solaine Thornton, 11, was shot dead as she played on a swing in the back garden of her family’s home in the village of Saint-Herbot, north of Quimper in Brittany. Her parents, Adrian and Rachel Thornton, were also hurt and were taken to hospital. The girl and her eight-year-old sister were playing on a swing as their parents tended the barbecue, when a neighbour began firing at them with a shotgun through a hedge. The neighbour, a 71-year-old Dutch national, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

June 9 – Josh Bashford, 33, and his wife Chloe Bashford, 30, were found by police at a house in Newhaven, East Sussex. Derek Martin, 64, also known as Derek Glenn, from Brighton, has been charged with two counts of murder and awaits trial.

June 9 – Felecia Cadore, 29, was stabbed at a house in Croydon, south London. Her ex-boyfriend Hussain Haron, 22, was charged with attempted murder. Ms Cadore died on 14 June and the prosecution amended the charge to murder. In Feb 2025 Haron, who is originally from Sudan, was found guilty of murder at Snaresbrook Crown Court and jailed for life (20 years). The court heard that Haron climbed through the window of the address in the search of Felecia. Following an altercation between the two, Haron grabbed a knife and violently stabbed her.

June 9 – Josh Bashford, 33, and Chloe Bashford, 30, were found dead at their home in Lewes Road, Newhaven, East Sussex. Derek Martina, 65, also known as Derek Glenn, has been charged with murder. He previously admitted killing the couple when he pleaded not guilty to murder but added “guilty to manslaughter”.

June 7 – Emil Lahaziel, 39, an Israeli citizen who lived in Miami with his wife and five children, was shot dead outside a house in the Hollywood Hills, near Los Angeles during a “crazy poker game”. Lahaziel was said to have been shot dead by a man he was speaking to outside the house. Actor Adam DeVine and his wife, Chloe Bridges, witnessed the incident from their home across the street. Lahaziel, a wealthy roofing contractor, flashed his wealth with images of private jets and sparkling blue poolside shots posted across Instagram.

June 6 – Jailyn Candelario, 16 months old, died at her home in Cudell, Cleveland, Ohio after being left alone for 10 days. Her mother, Kristel Candelario, 31, has been charged with murder and felonious assault. Her daughter was unresponsive when she returned home from a vacation in Detroit, Michigan, and Puerto Rico, so she called 911. Candelario’s daughter was found with dirty blankets in a play pen on a liner soiled with urine and faeces. She was extremely dehydrated at the time of death.

June 6 – Francesco “Chit” Del Balso, 53, a leading member of the Montreal mafia, was shot dead in broad daylight in West Island, Montreal. Del Balso was arrested as part of the Operation Colisée sweep of the Montreal Mafia in 2006. He was convicted of gangsterism and conspiracy to import cocaine. He was released in 2016, then ordered back into prison over concerns for his safety. Parole board documents at the time described him as “next on an execution list.” Del Balso was released again in 2018. He was arrested in September 2022 by police in Laval, Quebec, in connection to threats and extortion against the leaders of a local religious community. In March 2023 the Sûreté du Québec searched his home along with the homes of three influential members of the Hells Angels as part of an investigation into drug trafficking.

June 2 – Chloe Mitchell, 21, went missing late at night and her remains were discovered in Ballymena, County Antrim, a week later. Brandon Rainey, 26, has been charged with murder. A barrister for the defendant said his client has “acute mental health difficulties”. Ryan Johnston Gordon, 34, has been charged with assisting an offender.

June 1 – Ion Radiu, 46, a Romanian national, was stabbed to death in a car park in Croydon, south London. Kiiran Hibbert-Gordon, 23, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 2023

May 31 – Debra Cantrell, 58, was found dead at a house in Plymouth, Devon. Callum Thomas, 32, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 30 – Emily Sanderson, 48, was killed at a house in Hillsborough, Sheffield. Her boyfriend, Mark Nicholls, 43, was charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 29 – Amyra Baddouri-Stassin, 3, was tortured and killed at her home in Marchienne-au-Pont near Charleroi, Belgium. Her mother, Audrey Stassin, and her partner, Mohamed Benayed, went on trial in Nov 2025. The child had burns on her body, probably caused by boiling water, as well as bruises. The girl’s mother and her partner were in the country illegally.

May 28 – Thomas Barton, 30, was stabbed to death in Ryde, Isle of Wight. Cameron Baker, 28, was jailed for life (21 years) for murder at Winchester Crown Court. A second man, Rio Scott, 28, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter. Barton, 30, had seen the defendants with his ex-girlfriend, Sammi Creed, outside a bar in Ryde on the previous evening. He said Miss Creed – who had split with Mr Barton two months earlier – was holding Baker’s hand, which she later told police was because he was drunk. A row broke out and Barton was killed.

May 28 – Roy Deeley-Price, 48, was attacked in Wolverhampton after withdrawing £10 from a cashpoint at a garage. He was repeatedly stomped on his head. Carl Ellitts, 26, was jailed for life (27 years). The court heard Ellitts stopped the attack briefly to try and buy a sandwich using his victim’s bank card. Ellitts was convicted of three separate robberies, assault with intention to rob and four counts of raping of two women, all of which happened during a four-day “rampage”. Ellitts, a drug addict and alcoholic, returned to Mr Deeley-Price’s body four times in the space of 11 minutes to continue his assault, kicking and stamping on his head at least 12 times, at one point using both his feet, before he was dragged away by a friend.

May 28 – Amarpreet (Chucky) Samra, 28, was shot dead on Fraser Street in south Vancouver, British Columbia. He had been on the dance floor with other wedding guests less than 30 minutes before he was shot in the early hours of the morning. He was a member of the United Nations gang. The killers are believed to have been from the Brothers Keepers gang and dumped a burning vehicle in Surrey.

May 26 – Fiona Robinson, 37, died of multiple injuries at a house in Chorley, Lancashire. Jason Gowan, 26, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 25 – Mohammed Iqbal, 17, was stabbed to death in Crookes, Sheffield. Peshawa Ghaffour, 29, from Walkley, Sheffield, has been charged with murder, possession of a firearm on arrest, possession of a bladed article, being in possession of an offensive weapon when in a private place, and assault by beating. He awaits trial.

May 23 – Margaret Craig, 71, was killed and then dismembered with a chainsaw at a house in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Her daughter Candace Craig, 45, was found guilty in Oct 2024 of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and tampering with evidence and disposing of a body in an unauthorized place.  Her mother had confronted her for committing credit card fraud and was choked to death when she threatened to turn in her daughter to the police Candace Craig then roped in one of her own three children, 19-year-old daughter Salia Hardy, to dispose of the body. Hardy pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact, and testified that her mother cooked chicken on a grill in the garden to cover up the smell.

May 23 – Lucas Sutton, 22, was chased and stabbed behind the Pawson Arms pub in Croydon, south London. Keahn Williams, 19, and a 16-year-old boy have been charged with murder and await trial.

May 23 – Peter Sisson, 60, was found dead in the shower in a locked bathroom at his home in Wandsworth, south London. He failed to turn up for work and his husband raised concerns over his welfare. Paul Mendes, 27, a former lodger, has been charged with murder and awaits trial in April 2024.

May 21 – Warren Burns, 37, was punched, kicked in the head and stamped on at a house in Fallowfield, Manchester. Ryan White, 29, was convicted of murder after a trial at Manchester Crown Court and jailed for life (17 years). His cousin Damian White, 34, was found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 11 years. Greater Manchester Police said they received a 999 call after a group of men broke into Mr Burns’ house where he was with his partner and baby son. The trial heard the Whites had a grudge against Burns which dated back five years. In 2018, Mr Burns had been on a night out with friends when Ryan’s brother, Noel White, was killed. The man accused of murdering Noel White was acquitted following a trial, police said. The White family felt Burns’ witness account had contributed to the man being found not guilty. A “verbal altercation” between members of the White family and members of Burns’ family at a festival at Platt Fields Park in Fallowfield on 20 May was the “catalyst” for Ryan White and Damian White to go looking for Mr Burns.

May 19 – Mackaya Bradley-Brun, 6, was drowned at a house on St Helena Island, South Carolina. Her eight-year-old sister survived after their 16-year-old sister woke up. The children’s mother, Jamie Bradley-Burn, 37, has been charged with murder. Brun tried to grab a deputy’s gun as she was arrested and officers shocked her with a Taser to take her into custody. She is understood to have mental health problems.

May 18 – Danielle Davidson, 33, was stabbed to death at her home in Leith, near Edinburgh. A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 18 – Sean O’Neill, 30, was stabbed to death in Hayes, west London. Shakil McCrea, 26, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 15 – Katie Higton, 27, and her 25-year-old boyfriend Steven Harnett, were stabbed to death at a house in Dalton, Huddersfield. Higton’s former partner, Marcus Osbourne, 34, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. West Yorkshire Police has referred itself to the IOPC because it had prior dealings with Ms Higton.

May 10 – Alex Josephs, 29, crashed his BMW into parked cars in Ladywell, Lewisham, SE London after being stabbed. Ahmed Chakile Gonladieu, 25, was charged with murder and went on trial in July 2024. The trial at the Old Bailey heard Gonladieu lost his temper after Mr Josephs ran over his mountain bike. He allegedly stabbed him through the open car window and fled. Witnesses say as he fled into a park, he allegedly re-sheathed the knife and shouted: “They take me for a pussyhole.”

May 9 – Anna Jones, 44, was killed at her home in Petersfield, Hampshire. Her daughter Bronwyn Jones, 25, was charged with murder. In Dec 2023 Jones – who wants to be known as Anarlin Jones and self-identifies as male, pleaded not guilty to murdering their mother but admitted manslaughter by means of diminished responsibility. She was found guilty of murder and jailed for life (22 years) at Portsmouth Crown Court in Feb 2025. The killer was described as looking like “something out of a horror film” by neighbours, who saw her clambering into her upstairs flat wearing trousers drenched in blood. She was heard to have said: “I’ve killed her, I’ve killed her.” Hampshire Police said: “Anarlyn denied that alcohol and anger were the cause and claimed his mother had begged to be killed due to health problems, but then changed her mind during the attack.”

May 8 – Adam Abdul-Basit, 19, was attacked with a machete in Sheffield. Thomas Hardiman and Xander Howarth, who were both 17 at the time, were jailed for life (19 years each). Sheffield Crown Court heard Hardiman and Howarth Hardiman were on “bad terms” with Abdul-Basit over drug dealing and had “harboured an intent” to attack him.

May 7 – Cameron Bailey, 17, who was from Sussex, was stabbed to death in the centre of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Scott Cordice, aged 29 and Aaron Pattinson, aged 32, both from High Wycombe, and Philip Solomon, aged 37, have been charged with murder, grievous bodily harm with intent and conspiracy to commit robbery. Marlon Cato, aged 49, was charged with one count of assisting an offender. They await trial at Reading Crown Court.

May 6 – Ben Moncrieff, 18, was stabbed to death around 3am in the centre of Bath, Somerset. A 15-year-old boy from south London has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 5 – Sebastian Zon, 27, was stabbed to death in Hackney, east London, around 11pm. Zbigniew Galek, 52, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 5 – Renell Charles, 16, was stabbed to death in Walthamstow, NE London. A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 5 – Wazabakana Elenda Jordan Kukabu, 18 – known as Jordan Kukabu – from Romford, Essex, was stabbed to death near Dagenham Heathway tube station in east London. Another man, aged in his 20s, was also taken to hospital with a stab injury. Michael Tommy-Mgagba, 20, and three teenagers aged 15, 16, and 17 have been convicted of murder and will be sentenced in October 2024. Jordan’s uncle, Michel Pongo, a Labour councillor in  Barking and Dagenham, warned people not to get involved in gangs to or quit “before it is too late”. At a council meeting on May 17 Mr Pongo told the chamber his family was unable to bury Jordan in the borough due to threats that have been made to his cousin.

May 5 – Eight people were shot dead after midnight near the village of Dubona, 37 miles south of Belgrade, Serbia. The gunman, identified by the initials UB, opened fire from a moving car. President Aleksander Vucic pledged the “practical disarmament” of the country, as he announced a list of new security measures intended to improve gun control. It followed a massacre two days earlier.

May 3 – Ana Božović, 12, and eight other students, were shot dead at Vladislav Ribnikar Model Elementary School in Vracar, Belgrade, Serbia. Dragan Vlahović, 55, a security guard was also killed. The gunman, a 13-year-old boy, was arrested but is below the age of criminal responsibility (14) and is unlikely to face any charges. Serbia’s President Alexander Vučić has pledged to introduce a law to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 12.

May 1 – Johanita Dogbey, 31, was stabbed to death in Stockwell Park Walk, in Brixton, just after 4pm on a Bank Holiday Monday after being approached from behind by a stranger. Ms Dogbey – was the founder of a charity that helped people suffering with sickle cell disease and a devout Christian who ‘wanted to make the world a better place’ – had just returned from a shopping trip in central London. Mohamed Nur, 33, was jailed for life (32 years) for murder in May 2024. He was also convicted of injuring two other members of the public two days before and having offensive weapons made from scissor blades and broken mirror glass. Nur, who came to the UK from Somalia in 1993, became addicted to drugs and was homeless from December 2022, the court heard. At the time of the attacks, he was living in accommodation for vulnerable adults in Vauxhall, south London, and had previous convictions for possession of cannabis, a firearm, ammunition and blades. He was not mentally ill.

April 2023

April 30 – Suma Begum, 24, was reported missing from her home in Orchard Place, Tower Hamlets. Her body was later found in the Thames at Thamesmead after a call from a member of the public. Her husband, Aminan Rahman, 45, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

April 30 – Michael Allen, 32, was stabbed to death near the Eclipse nightclub in Bodmin, Cornwall. Jake Hill, 24, has been charged with murder, three counts of attempted murder and two counts of section 18 causing grievous bodily harm with intent and awaits trial.

April – Siriporn Khanwong, 32, was murdered with cyanide in Ratchaburi province, Thailand. Her friend Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, 36, was found guilty of murder. It is one of 14 murders she is believed to have committed dating back to 2015. One person she targeted survived. Sararat, dubbed Am Cyanide by Thai media, had a gambling addiction and targeted friends she owed money to, then stole their jewellery and valuables. Her former husband, Vitoon Rangsiwuthaporn, an ex-police officer, and her lawyer, were handed prison terms of one year and four months, and two years respectively, for hiding evidence to help her evade prosecution. Police said he most likely helped Sararat poison an ex-boyfriend, Suthisak Poonkwan.

April 27 –  David Breaux, 50, a homeless man known as The Compassion Guy, was stabbed to death and found on a bench in Davis, California. Carlos Reales Dominguez, 20, a student at the nearby University of California, has been charged with murder. He is also accused of stabbing to death Karim Abou Najm, a UC Davis student who was cycling home after collecting an award. Dominguez is also charged with the attempted murder of Kimberlee Guillory.

April 26 – Ronique Thomas, 33, was stabbed to death in Kings Heath, Birmingham, in the early hours of the morning after he spotted his stolen e-bike.  Terrell Boyce, 18, was jailed for life for murder at Birmingham Crown Court. He was also found guilty of robbery and possession of a bladed article. Nathaniel Daly, 21, was convicted of manslaughter, robbery and possession of a bladed article. Kody Stephenson, 20, was convicted of robbery.

April 26 – Darren Augustine, 44, from Ealing, was stabbed to death at a house in Brentwick Gardens, Brentford, west London at 5.15am. Seven men and three women, aged from mid-teens to early 60s, who were in the house at the time were originally arrested on suspicion of murder but later released. A 28-year-old man was released on police bail until August 2023. In June 2023 the police announced that Augustine had been trying to burgle the property with another man when he was stabbed. They appealed to the public for help in finding the man and released a photo of him on a bus.

April 26 – Elise Mason, 37, was killed at her home in Chelmsford, Essex. Her boyfriend Mark Donovan, 38, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

April 26 – Human remains were discovered near Little Nomanshill car park, between Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire. Police said they were “not ancient” but have not been able to identify the victim yet.

April 25 – Marelle Sturrock, 35, was murdered at her home in Glasgow, Scotland. She was heavily pregnant. The body of her partner, David Yates, 36, was later found at Mugdock Country Park near Glasgow. He is believed to have committed suicide.

April 24 – John Hackett, 36, was attacked in Snowhill recreation ground in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. He died at home the following day. A girl and two boys all aged 15 admitted manslaughter in Jan 2024 at a hearing at Warwick Crown Court in Leamington Spa. It is understood a video of the attack circulated on social media.

April 23 – Kwabena “KP” Osei-Poku, 19, a digital marketing student from Peterborough, was stabbed near the University of Northampton’s Waterside Campus in Northampton. Melvin Lebaga-Idubor, 19 from Barking, east London, was jailed for life (21 years) for murder and possession of an offensive weapon. Ogechi Eke, 19, from Enfield, was acquitted of murder. Antonio Huian, 18, from Northampton, was given a suspended prison sentence for perverting the course of justice. Zhanae Forbes-Coleman, 19, from Edmonton, north London, was acquitted of perverting the course of justice. The trial in Oct 2023 heard the killing was a dispute between drug dealers on the campus and Kwabena was killed after being robbed of a bag of cannabis worth £1,000. All of those on trial were students at the university. KP had been suspended or excluded by the university in November or December 2022, but had been allowed back in February 2023.

April 20 – Tshiamo Rabanye, six, and Nqobizitha Zulu, five, were abducted while playing at Thokoza park in Rockville, Soweto, South Africa. Their mutilated bodies were found 1.4km apart, in Rockville and White City by residents after a nearly 24-hour search. Their noses, lips and genitals had been removed. Nqobile Ndlovu, 50, and her lover Mthunzi Musawenkozi Zulu, 39, have been charged with murder and await trial. Ndlovu was reportedly one of the children’s grandmothers. It is thought they were killed so their parts could be used for black magic potions.  

April 18 – Kelvin Ward, 50, was stabbed to death after an incident in Castle Bromwich, near Birmingham. Tyrone Hollywood, 17, and Leighton Williams, 28, were found guilty of murder at Coventry Crown Court and were jailed for life. Aaron Coates, 18, was convicted of manslaughter. All were also found guilty of conspiracy to murder Mr Ward’s son, who was the actual target. Rusharn Williams-Reid, 18, was also convicted of conspiracy to murder Mr Ward’s teenage son. The jury saw CCTV of the gang chasing both men and heard the attackers had shouted “kill” amid chase scenes near a KFC takeaway restaurant.

April 15 – Filipe Oliveira, 20, was stabbed to death in Tulse Hill, south London. Caudel Haughton, 19, from Bellingham, SE London, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

April 15 – Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, 18, Marsiah Collins, 19, Shaunkivia “Keke” Smith, 17, and Corbin Holston, 17, were shot dead at a 16^th birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama. Dowdell’s sister Alexis said she told him before he died: “Don’t give up on me. You’re going to make it. You’re strong.” Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, Willie George Brown Jr, 19, Johnny Letron Brown, 20, and a 15-year-old have been charged with reckless murder.

April 15 – Atiq Ahmed, 60, a former MP with the Samajwadi Party, who had convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges, was shot dead live on TV, along with his brother Ashraf Ahmed.  They were in police custody outside a hospital in Prayagraj (Allahabad) in Uttar Pradesh, India, when three men fired more than 20 rounds of bullets at them from close range as they took questions from reporters. Police officer Ramit Sharma said the three assailants came on motorcycles posing as journalists, and were carrying camera equipment, a microphone bearing the logo of a television network and fake journalist IDs. They have been identified as Lavlesh Tiwari, 22, Mohit Puraney, 23, and Arun Kumar Maurya, 18. The men reportedly told police they had been following the Ahmed brothers for two days, since they came into custody, and wanted to carry out the killings to gain notoriety. “We wanted to kill Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf with the aim of completely wiping off the Atiq-Ashraf gang and making a name for ourselves,” the men are quoted as telling police in the report filed in the case. Police said they were investigating further but did not clarify if they were looking into a sectarian motive for the killing. Atiq Ahmed, his brother and their wider family were notorious gansters in the Uttar Pradesh criminal underworld, accused of running a crime syndicate embroiled in murder and extortion, and the former politician had more than 100 different cases filed against him, including assault and murder. He was jailed for life in 2019 after being convicted of orchestrating a kidnapping while in prison. The Ahmed brothers had been in police custody relating to the murder of lawyer Umesh Pal, who had been a key witness in the case of another killing they were implicated in.

April 14 – Tyler McDermott, 17, was shot in the head in a street in Tottenham, north London. Six men from south London have been charged with murder and await trial. They are Rhys Antwi, 19, from Streatham, Damaris McBeth, 19, from Cheshunt, Alfred Cocker, 20, Tyrese Barnett, 19, Leo Reid, 19, and Tyrese Matthews, 20.

April 10 – Chima Osuji, 17, was fatally stabbed in Chingford, north east London. Two boys, both aged 16, have been charged with murder and await trial.

April 9 – Guy Malbec, 51, a disabled former barrister who was living rough, was beaten to death on the street in Canterbury, Kent. Sobantu Sibanda, 28, the homeless son of a university lecturer and social worker, was found guilty of murder and jailed for life. Gavin Houghton, Keith Hall and Airidas Sakalauskas were acquitted of murder and manslaughter. They were alleged by the prosecution to be Sibanda’s “henchmen” and had allegedly “participated in and encouraged” the violent attack. All four men admitted an offence of perverting the course of justice in relation to “cleaning up” the scene and deleting phone messages. Mr Malbec, who relied on a wheelchair walking frame and stick due to a leg injury he sustained while living in Israel, was beaten to death with his own wooden gavel and laptop.

April 9 – Abdullah Hassan, 25, was shot in Gleadless Valley, Sheffield, at 1.30am. Five people have been arrested but nobody has been charged.

April 9 – Stephen Baxter, 61, and his 64-year-old wife Carol Baxter, were killed at their home on Mersea Island in Essex. The couple were directors of Cazsplash, a firm which produces shower mats and bathroom accessories. Luke D’Wit, 33, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

April 5 – Marcia Grant, 60, a grandmother and foster carer, was found seriously injured in Greenhill, Sheffield, after being run over by a car. A 12-year-old boy has been charged with murder and is due to go on trial in August 2023.

April 5 – Gareth Hart, 43, was stabbed to death in Ingoldmells, near Skegness, Lincolnshire. Joseph Malek, 33, from Belper, Derbyshire, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

April 4 – Shou Zou, 22, was stabbed to death in the centre of Coventry at 2.40am. A 20-year-old man was also treated for a shoulder and hand injury. Penqui Sun, 23, has been charged with murder and attempted murder and awaits trial.

April 4 – Oto Carick was shot dead when he went to pick up his son from Meadowbrook preparatory school in St Andrew parish, Jamaica. The gunman fired multiple shots at Carick as he rode a motorbike with his son. The boy, aged about 8, jumped off the motorbike and escaped unscathed.

April 4 – Bob Lee, 43, the founder of Cash App, was stabbed to death as he sat in a car in downtown San Francisco, California. Nima Momeni, 38, a tech entrepreneur from Emeryville, California, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. According to a LinkedIn profile for Mr Momeni, he is a technology consultant and owner of a company called Expand IT, Inc.

April 4 – Tyrese Miller, 22, was shot in the chest at close range with a shotgun in Mitcham, south London. Denzel Kwateng, 21, a drug dealer, was convicted of manslaughter after being acquitted of murder. Kavaun Morrison, 19, and Manuel Paulo, 20, from Tooting; were acquitted of murder and possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life. Cheick Cisse, 39, from Croydon, and a 17-year-old, who cannot be identified because of his age, were convicted of possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life. Ky-mani Elliott, 21, from Lewisham; and Azariah James-Gulston, 21, from Croydon; were cleared of perverting the course of justice after they were accused of assisting in the destruction of a Toyota car used in the killing. Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC told the trial the attack was in retribution after a man called Prince Miller was stabbed in south London shortly before midnight on 3 April. But Mr Emlyn Jones said it was clear that Tyrese Miller had not been involved in the stabbing and had been enjoying a night out in a pub with friends at the time. He was wrongly targeted. It was the second time Kwateng was acquitted of murder. He had been accused of the murder of Denardo Samuels-Brooks in Streatham, south London, on June 10, 2021. Kwateng was acquitted on the grounds of self-defence.

April 3 – Steven Grygelko, 55, a drag queen known by the stage name Heklina, was found dead in his flat in Soho Square, central London. Detectives are still trying to determine what happened to Steven who was on tour with his friend Peaches Christ at the time. Announcing Steven’s death on social media in 2023, Peaches wrote: “I am shocked and horrified to bring this news to you. I am living in a real-life nightmare so forgive me if I don’t have all the answers just now. This morning, in London, England I went to collect my dear friend Heklina, who is co- starring with me in a Mommie Queerest show here, and found her dead.” In Jan 2025 police released CCTV footage of three men seen walking through central London on the night of Grygelko’s death. Police said: “We know that the three men in the CCTV images were at the flat in the early hours of 3 April 2023.”

April 2 – Georgia Blunt, 38, and Ruel Fuller, 42, were shot dead in an abandoned house near Kitson Town, St Catherine parish, Jamaica. Their bodies were found the following day. The pair had been tending cows in nearby fields. Two of the cows were later reported stolen from nearby Naseberry Grove.

April 1 – Sheldon Flanighan, 55, died as a result of the injuries he sustained in a fight outside the Bay Horse pub in Cramlington, Northumberland. He worked for the North East Ambulance Service but was off-duty. Toby Kelly, 37, from Blyth, David Fairclough, 32, from Newbiggin-by-the-sea and Shannon Wooden, 27, of Blyth, have all been charged with murder and attempting to murder another man. They await trial.

March 2023

March 31 – Jamie Meah, 18, was stabbed to death in Armley, Leeds. His friend Kayne Priestley, 16, survived. Ranei Wilks, 23, was charged with murdering Mr Meah and attempting to murder Mr Priestley, and two counts of possession of a bladed article, one of which relates to a separate incident. He went on trial at Leeds Crown Court. The trial heard three others who the prosecution say was involved – Caleb Awe, Aquade Jeffers and Enham Nishat – remain at large having fled the UK after the incident.

March 29 – Gary Dunmore, 57, a builder, was shot dead in Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire and his 32-year-old son Joshua Dunmore, also a builder, was killed half an hour later at his home in Sutton, six miles away. Stephen Alderton, 66, admitted both murders and was jailed for life (25 years). Prosecutor Peter Gair said “It’s clear that the events were triggered by an ongoing family court case” involving Alderton’s grandson. Judge Mark Bishop said Alderton murdered the men over his “distorted beliefs” about family court proceedings “following what was an interim and not final hearing on 27 March (2023)”. The court heard Alderton, had written in a text message: “I’ve a shortlist of people I intend to murder.” Alderton had a shotgun licence and lawfully held a Beretta shotgun which was used in both killings.

March 28 – A one-year-old boy was shot dead by his 5-year-old brother at their home in Lafayette, Indiana. The boys’ parents Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24, have been charged with neglect of a dependant resulting in death, two counts of neglect resulting in endangerment, and one count each of neglect resulting in bodily injury, conspiracy to commit dealing a narcotic drug, dealing a narcotic drug, possession of a narcotic, conspiracy to commit dealing marijuana, dealing marijuana, possession of marijuana, and possession of paraphernalia.

March 27 – Beryl Purdy, 86, a church warden, was killed during a burglary at her home in Broomfield, near Bridgwater, Somerset. David Parish, 36, denied murder but admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. The prosecution accepted his plea.

March 26 – Keano Byrne, 25, went missing after he was last seen walking with another man in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of the morning. His body parts were found 12 days later. In Nov 2019 Byrne had been jailed for seven years for possession of drugs and other offences. He had presumably been out of prison only a few days before he was killed.

March 26 – A 26-year-old taxi driver was found hanged from a tree in the Hjälstaviken nature reserve in Sweden. A 15-year-old girl and four teenage brothers were convicted of murder at a court in Uppsala in Nov 2023. The court heard found the driver was killed after he allegedly raped the girl. He was lured to the forest with the promise of sexual favours. He was then overpowered and killed. His taxi was found with the engine on and the meter running. The eldest brother, aged 18 at the time, was given a life sentence. The four others, all minors at the time of the events, were sentenced to between three and four years in a young offenders’ institution. The girl and her boyfriend were found to have not been at the scene but were convicted of aiding and abetting the murder. The prosecution presented text messages between the group as evidence of their involvement. Four days before the taxi driver went missing, the girl texted a friend: “His brothers are going to meet my rapist.”

March 25 – Rushena Senior, 28, a data entry clerk from Kingsvale, Hanover, Jamaica, was shot dead at a wedding in Negril, Jamaica. Two photographers were also injured.

March 23 – Tala Tala, 53, was found with 196 knife wounds in a house in Leicester after being abducted late at night from outside his home.  Daryoush Kholghnik, 34 and Talib Mombeini, 37, who were Iranian asylum seeker, went on trial at Leicester Crown Court in Oct 2023. Prosecutor Mary Prior said that after abducting him they made several calls to Mr Tala’s daughter and a friend demanding £40,000, but it was never paid. One message said: “I cut his ear soon” and another: “He is alive but no more than two hours from now.” Mr Tala’s daughter, Ange, also got a video call with Kholghnik tapping her father’s face with a knife, the trial heard. Ms Pryor said: “Tala Tala offered Kholghnik the opportunity to get rich quick with a fake money scam and that, through greed, both defendants fell for this scam and handed over large sums of money. It is plain that they realised that they had been tricked – they wanted their money back and were prepared to do anything to get it.”

March 23 – Devroy Peart, 37, Tattiana Brown, 21, and Deanna Green, 21, were shot dead while in a Honda car in King Street, Kingston, Jamaica. The assailants were in another car.

March 22 – Rohan “Fred” Shand, 16, died from a single stab wound outside the Cock Hotel in Kingsthorpe, Northampton. A 15-year-old boy was convicted of murder and a 17-year-old was acquitted.

March 21 – David Kelly, 42, was hit by a car in Plymouth. Luke Dann, 36, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

March 20 – Stefan Stelian Moraru, 44, was killed in Chandos Avenue in Barnet, north London and was found at 6am. Armand Tafa, 39, and Migen Emilova, 35, have been charged with murder and await trial.

March 19 – Trust Gangata, 17, was stabbed to death at a house party in Armley, Leeds. Karl Belinga, 20, and Karlson Ogie, 19, from Bradford, and Paul Mbwasse, 19, from Huddersfield, were jailed for life for murder.  Brandon Paradzai, 20, from Bierley, was jailed for manslaughter. The trial heard the attackers were seeking revenge for an earlier assault on Belinga which Trust was not involved in. Belinga left the party after the assault, prosecutors said, but all four later returned in a car and were wearing masks.

March 19 – Moesha Heath, 23, was shot dead as she got out of her car outside her home in Negril, Jamaica. She was killed by one of three men who came out from behind her home as she arrived. She wanted to be a make-up artist. Her death was the 19^th murder in the parish of Westmoreland alone since the beginning of 2023.

March 19 – Jerald Netto, 62, was killed in Hanwell, west London, after being tripped up in the street and hitting his head, just after midnight. A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder but admitted manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 months in custody and a further twelve months supervision in the community, as part of a Detention and Training Order of 24 months. He was never named, due to his age.

March 12 – Kasey Anderson, 24, was stabbed in the chest and leg at a house in Croxteth, Liverpool. He died in hospital on 31 March. His girlfriend Natalie Bennett, 47, was jailed for life for murder. She had tried to claim he was a drug dealer and had been killed by rivals.

March 11 – Akeem Francis-Kerr, 29, was stabbed to death at Valesha’s nightclub in Walsall, West Midlands. Edward Wilson, 39, from Oldbury, went on trial for murder at Stafford Crown Court in September 2023. Prosecutor Maria Karaiskos KC said it was the crown’s case that Wilson stabbed Akeem on the dancefloor “out of anger, arrogance or jealousy” after returning from the toilet to find Akeem was standing in a recessed area of the club where Wilson had been standing since he arrived at the club an hour before, at around 4am. Ms Karaiskos said Wilson deemed that part of the club as his “area”.

March 10 – Lee Rhoades, 45, was tortured and killed at a flat in Hull. Keeran Edge, 25, was jailed for life (31 years), Amie Kehoe, 23, was jailed for life (28 years) and Lee Hailstone, 33, was jailed for life (16 years) for murder. They were attending a drink and drugs party at Hailstone’s flat when a row broke out between Rhoades and Hailstone and they sided with Hailstone. Toni Hodgson, 31, was jailed for 16 months after admitting perverting the course of justice. She had helped clean up some of the blood in the flat.

March 7 – Michele Rutherford, 54, a care worker, was stabbed to death in supported accommodation in Stirling, Scotland. Kellyanne McNaughton, 33, denied murder but admitted culpable homicide. She had been suffering a mental health episode. Two other carers, Moira McMillan and Victoria Hendry, were also stabbed but survived. McNaughton referred to herself as “demonic”. At the sentencing hearing in Jan 2024 the judge heard that the only secure facility was Carstairs Hospital, which houses men only. McNaughton may have to be transferred to Rampton Hospital in England.

March 5 – Jordan Briscoe, 25, was robbed and stabbed in Tottenham, north London, after being lured to a bogus drugs deal. Karl Black, 43, was jailed for life (27 years), Jahoe Allen, 34, was jailed for life (25 years),  Ayyub Kigozi, 19, was jailed for life (17 years), and Jabir Sitar, 21, was jailed for life (19 years). Christina Manen, 37, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for three years. Vittorio Di Murro, 25, was arrested in Italy in October 2023 and was extradited. He was convicted of murder and jailed for life (25 years) in Dec 2024. He admitted to “tripping out” on drugs while failing to attend his trial.

March 4 – Tony Johnson, 55, died after suffering a head injury in a fight between football fans near The Manchester bar on the Promenade in Blackpool, Lancashire after a goalless draw between Blackpool and Burnley. The murder came almost 50 years after Kevin Olsson, another Blackpool fan, was killed by Bolton fans in another brawl in 1974.

March 3 – Charlotte Wilcock, 31, was kicked, stamped on and stabbed to death as her baby slept upstairs in her home in Blackburn, Lancashire. Anthony Stinson, 31, was jailed for life with a minimum of 24 years and two months. He was a complete stranger. Her 15-month-old daughter remained alone in the property until police were alerted the following day. Stinson told police he had psychosis and had seen the devil when he carried out the attack, which was described as a “total fabrication” by the Crown Prosecution Service. Medical evidence did not back up this concocted story and when detectives searched his phone, they found that he and a friend had made a rap video that described killing someone just an hour before the unprovoked attack.

February 2023

Feb 28 – Neil Canney, 37, was shot dead on the doorstep of his home in Larkfield, Greenock, Scotland at 1.15am. Kieran Meechan, 27, Jack Benson, 22, Dale Russell, 28, and Martin McCusker, 38, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Feb 27 – The remains of a two-month-old baby was found in woods near Brighton. The baby’s mother, Constance Marten, 35, and her boyfriend Mark Gordon, 48, have been charged with gross negligence manslaughter. The couple had been missing since January 5 when they abandoned their car, on fire, next to the M61 in Bolton, near Manchester. Inquiries revealed Marten, who comes from an aristocratic family with royal connections, had given birth recently – possibly one or two days before the incident – and had not been assessed by medical professionals. Gordon had served a sentence in Florida for a sex offence and social services in London had concerns about him being around the child. The couple were living rough in Essex, east London and Sussex during January and February 2023.

Feb 24 – Abby Choi, 28, a socialite and social media influencer, was killed and her dismembered body was found in Hong Kong. Her ex-husband Alex Kwong, Kwong’s brother Anthony and their father Kwong Kau have been charged with murder. Kwong’s mother, 63, has been charged with obstructing the case. Choi’s head was found in a three-storey house in the rural Tai Po district, days after her other body parts were found in the same location – roughly 17 miles from where she was last seen in Kowloon City on Tuesday. A meat slicer and an electric saw were also found at the scene. Hong Kong police told media they believe Choi and her former in-laws had many financial disputes involving “huge sums”.

Feb 22 – TV reporter Dylan Lyons, 24, and a nine-year-old girl, T’Yonna Major,were shot dead in Pine Hills, near Orlando, Florida, close to the scene of a murder that took place hours earlier. A second reporter, Jesse Walden, and the girl’s mother, Nathacha Augustin, 38, were shot and injured by the same gunman, who is also suspected of the other homicide. The journalists were covering the killing of Ms Augustin when the suspect, Keith Moses, 19, returned. Moses is a known gang member with a lengthy criminal history that includes at least eight felony and 11 misdemeanor arrests ranging from gun charges, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft.

Feb 22 – Gerald Wickes, 79, stabbed at a house in Eyres Monsell, Leicester. A complete stranger, Daniel Rounce, 18, was jailed for life (25 years) for murder, possession of bladed article, and assaulting an emergency worker. During the trial Rounce, from Markfield, offered no reason why he killed Mr Wickes at the pensioner’s former partner’s house. But at the sentencing hearing he claimed through his barrister at his sentencing hearing that he had acted out of panic while intending to rob Mr Wickes, after following the victim’s former partner into the house.

Feb 22 – Agnès Lassalle, 54, a teacher at a private Catholic school in St Jean de Luz, south-west France, was stabbed to death in front of a packed class by a 16-year-old pupil who claimed to be ‘possessed by the devil’. The incident happened during a Spanish lesson. The schoolboy – who cannot be named for legal reasons – was charged with premeditated murder and taken into custody.

Feb 20 – Harley Brown, 17, was stabbed to death in Huddersfield. Harley, who was known as Dripzz, had moved to Huddersfield from Deptford, south London in 2020 for a “safe” life after his mother became concerned he was being groomed by older gang members. Two boys admitted murder at Leeds Crown Court. Zak Robinson, 17, was jailed for life (14 years) and a 15-year-old was just for life (10 years). Judge Bobbi Cheema-Grubb KC lifted the order on Robinson but not the younger boy. She said the killing was a “senseless atrocity”. The court heard the killers had been “under the influence of nitrous oxide” on the night of the murder. They bumped into Brown by chance at 3.40am and began chasing him. When the younger boy’s sentence was read out a member of Harley’s group walked out, calling the 10 year tariff a “joke”. That sparked a scuffle between his relatives and friends and those of the killers. Police were needed to restore order.

Feb 18 – Lorna England, 74, was stabbed in the neck and chest as she walked across Ludwell Valley Park in Exeter to buy some flour from a Lidl supermarket. Cameron Davis, 31, was convicted of murder and jailed for life. He had denied murder but admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. The jury concluded Davis stabbed Mrs England to death because he was “angry and upset” rather than affected by a mental illness. A few hours before killing her he threatened to take his own life in a fire unless he was arrested.

Feb 15 – Daneiko Ferguson, 27, was stabbed to death in Harehills, Leeds. Alga Lutondo, 33, and Halgon Randon, 44, were jailed for life (28 and 26 years respectively). The trial heard the killing was in revenge for an earlier dispute. The pair trawled the area on bikes searching for their victim before stabbing him five times. One of the stab wounds severed his femoral artery causing a catastrophic bleed that resulted in his death. He was ound by a passing taxi driver and taken to hospital but died a short time after the attack in the early hours.

Feb 14 – Sarah Brierley, 49, was battered to death with a hammer at her home in Woodhouse, Sheffield. David Scott, 39, was jailed for life (29 years) for murder and robbery. His girlfriend Zoe Clarke, 38, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter and jailed for 42 weeks for theft. Sarah was found laid on her sofa with significant injuries to her head. She was wrapped in a duvet. Traces of rat poison were found near her body. The pair had been living with her at the time of her death and were caught on CCTV footage removing her TV from the house after her death. During the investigation police found a love letter Scott wrote to Clark in which he said: “I can do 20 years, if I know you’re there at the end.” Police also found photographs on a phone shared by Scott and Clark showing Sarah’s body with a plastic bag over her head.

Feb 12 – Andy Wood, 16, stabbed to death in Waterson Vale, a park in Chelmsford, Essex. Elijah Clark, 18, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Feb 11 – Trei Daley, 26, from Bromley, was stabbed to death died near the Colour Factory nightclub in Queen’s Yard, Hackney Wick, east London. Another man, 24, survived. Christopher Appiah-Blay, 35, of Hackney, and Mawien Mawien, 39, from Chadwell Heath, have been charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon and awaits trial in Jan 2024.

Feb 11 – Brianna Ghey, 16, a transgender girl, was found with multiple stab wounds on a path in Linear Park, Culcheth, near Warrington, Cheshire. Scarlett Jenkinson, who was 15, was jailed for life (22 years) and Eddie Ratcliffe, 15, was jailed for life (20 years) for murder after a high-profile trial. Brianna was born Brett but had been living as a girl. The judge ruled the killing was partly motivated by transphobic hate. The trial also heard Jenkinson had been the prime mover, having seen snuff movies on the dark web.

Feb 9 – Kai McGinley, 24, from Southwark, was shot dead in Erith, Kent. Charlie Brabon, 18, Anthony Wallder, 20, Connor Brooks, 20, Bradlee Reeve, 33, Kai Osibodu, 23, and Jalees Selby-Gangera, 18, all from Erith and Enriko Spahiu, 20, from Belvedere, have all been charged with murder and attempted murder and are due to go on trial at the Old Bailey in Jan 2024. The getaway car was a Land Rover Freelander. In 2018 McGinley was jailed for 5 years for carrying out a jewellery robbery at a Mappin & Webb shop in St Andrews, Scotland.

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Feb 10 – Kiernan Forbes, 35, a rapper known as AKA, and his close friend, the chef and entrepreneur, Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane, were shot dead as they left the Wish restaurant in Florida Road, Durban, South Africa.The pair were on their way to a nightclub for a performance as part of Forbes’ birthday celebrations. Footage of the shooting went viral on social media. Two brothers, Siyabonga and Malusi Ndimande, were arrested in Eswatini and extradited to South Africa in August 2024. They are due to go on trial along with Lindokuhle Thabani Mkhwanazi, Lindani Ndimande, Siyanda Myeza, Mziwethemba Gwabeni and Lindokuhle Ndimande. They are also linked to the murders of Mntimande Kunene, Nhlanhla Ngcobo and Zamokuhle Mkhwanazi-Ngcobo, which took place in eManzimtoti and Berea in March 2023. AKA was one of the most popular rappers and hip hop performers in South Africa. In Feb 2021 Forbes had got engaged to Nelli Tembe but two months later she fell to her death from a hotel in Cape Town.

Feb 9 – Valentin Cozma, was killed and her body found after a fire was started at her home in Stoke-on-Trent. Her ex-boyfriend Georgian Constantin, 42, was jailed for life for murder. Petrol was used to start this fire. Significantly, a plastic bottle was found in the back yard containing petrol. Swabs taken from the cap on the bottle were examined and were found to contain a major DNA profile that matched the defendant.

Feb 1 – Eunice Dwumfour, 30, a city councilwoman in Sayreville, New Jersey, was shot dead in her car. Police believe she crashed her SUV during the shooting. Ms Dwumfour had been elected to the council in 2021. She was a mother, and worked as a part-time EMT and a business analyst. Victoria Kilpatrick, the mayor of Sayreville, said in a statement that “the fact that she was taken from us by a despicable criminal act makes this incident all the more horrifying.”

Jan 2023

Jan 29 – Colin Prime, 41, a serving police officer, was attacked at a car park in Belfast, Northern Ireland around 3am. He died in hospital on March 5. PSNI insist the killing was not linked to his job.

Jan 28 – Bailey Atkinson, 20, was stabbed to death near Asda in Walsall, West Midlands. A 15-year-old boy and two youths aged 16, were arrested at a hotel in Rhyl, north Wales but have not been charged.

Jan 27 – Holly Newton, 15, was stabbed multiple times in an alleyway next to a pizza shop in Priestpopple in the centre of Hexham, Northumberland. A 17-year-old boy, who was 16 at the time, admitted manslaughter but denied murder. He was later convicted of murder and jailed for life. In Oct 2024 the judge, Sir Nicholas Hilliard, lifted the restriction on naming him. He was identified as Logan McPhail, Holly’s ex-boyfriend. In a police interview shown to jurors at Newcastle Crown Court, McPhail said he had been trying to kill himself. The youth, who has been diagnosed with learning difficulties, told officers he “bumped” into Holly while walking to the bus station, although prosecutors said he followed her for 45 minutes before attacking her. He said his mind went “blank” during the attack, adding: “Normally when my mind goes blank I try to hurt myself, slit my wrists or something, try and kill myself.” The pair met at army cadets in Consett and were in an “on-and-off” relationship for 18 months, which ended days before the killing. Holly’s mother Micala Trussler had arranged a meeting with Northumbria Police to discuss her fears about him for the evening of 27 January, but Holly was killed hours before it could take place.

Jan 26 – Fernando Johnson, 23, a rapper known as Fdot, was stabbed to death by two men as he got out of his BMW car in Rosebank Way in Acton, west London (not far from the A40) at around 2.15am. Fdot was a member of the Shepherds Bush-based 12Anti drill collective and had racked up hundreds of thousands of YouTube views on his music videos. 12Anti’s arch-rivals are the 3^rd, based in the W3 postcode in Acton.

Jan 23 – Gionni Dameron, 18, and Rashad Carr, 16, were shot dead at the Starts Right Here education programme in Des Moines, Iowa. Will Keeps, a former Chicago gang member who moved to Des Moines and later founded a programme to help at-risk youth, was seriously wounded. Preston Walls, 18, and Bravon Tukes, 19, of Des Moines, face two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of criminal gang participation. Tukes and Walls are members of the same gang and committed the shootings “in connection with that gang membership,” police said.

Jan 22 – Neil Shadwick, 63, died after being knocked off his mobility scooter in the car park of a Tesco supermarket in Stroud, Gloucestershire. The scooter was missing. Kimberley Ann Hawkins, 41, was charged with manslaughter in April 2024 and awaits trial.

Jan 22 –  Arsène Salomon Mbani Zogo, a radio journalist, 50, was abducted as he left the Amplitude FM radio station. He was better known as Martinez Zogo. His body was found on an empty plot of land in Ebogo, Yaoundé, Cameroon. The killers fled in a black Toyota Prado. Zogo’s body had a broken right foot, multiple severed fingers and a twisted tongue. Cameroonian police arrested the alleged mastermind of the killing: the Gucci-suited media tycoon Jean-Pierre Amougou Berlinga, owner of the television channel Vision4 TV and the newspaper L’Anecdote, who had been accused of corruption. A police lieutenant colonel called Justin Danwe confessed and incriminated his boss, the DGRE chief, Léopold Maxime Eko Eko. Berlinga, Danwe and Eko Eko await trial.

Jan 22 – Darren Moore, 39, from Newport, was killed in an alley in the centre of Cardiff. Moore, a drag queen, was last been seen at around 5am wearing full face make-up, a luminous green dress, blonde wig, heels and carrying a clutch bag. He ran a company called Blingblingbling and exhibited his jewellery at RuPaul’s annual Dragcon event in London in 2020. As a teenager, and under his previous name of Darren Sewell, he was convicted of four counts of rape on a boy under the age of 16 and sent to a Young Offenders’ Institution for three years. He was banned from having contact with children but in 2011 he was convicted of breaching the order by working as a gymnastics and dance tutor with children in Cardiff. He was sentenced to a three-year sex offender’s treatment programme, a 24-month supervision order, 300 hours unpaid work and a six-month curfew on electronic tag.

Jan 12 – Shane Whitla, 39, was shot several times in Lord Lurgan Park, County Armagh. Joshua Cotter, 29 Jake O’Brien, 27, and Kevin Conway, 25, have been charged with murder. The killing is believed to have been carried out by a gang of drug dealers called The Firm. They are said to have 50 members, be based in Lurgan and sell drugs in County Armagh and County Down. In June 2021 a court was told that murdered crime boss Malcolm McKeown, who was shot dead outside a Waringstown petrol station in August 2019, was locked in a feud with The Firm.

Jan 9 – Firdaous El J was shot dead at the home of a relative in Merksem, a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium. The motive behind the shooting may have been a “settling of scores” between rival gangs, including the Mocro Mafia from the Netherlands. One of the girl’s relatives is said to be Younes El Ballouti, 24, known as “El Magico”, who has been declared a fugitive and convicted of cocaine smuggling. In 2017, police sources said he was kidnapped by rivals only for another family member to negotiate his release at a cost of €5 million.

Jan 4 – Tausha Haight, 40, her 78-year-old mother Gail Earl, and her five children – three girls, 17, 12 and 7, and two boys, 7 and 4 – were shot dead at their home in Enoch City, Utah. Their father Michael Haight, 42, an insurance salesman, shot himself after killing his entire family. He was triggered by his wife suing for divorce in December 2022. US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden also offered their condolences, calling the incident a “tragic shooting”.

Jan 2 – Sean Patterson, 33, a personal trainer from Shepherd’s Bush, west London, was shot 12 times as he sat by a pool in Bogue Hill, Montego Bay, Jamaica, while visiting. Javaughn Brown 23, of Baillieston, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. Reports are that at about 12:10 pm, Patterson was at a guest house when a lone gunman approached him and opened gunfire hitting him in the upper body. Jamaica Constabulary’s deputy commissioner Fitz Bailey called it “a contract killing that emanated from Britain”. Mr Patterson had arrived in Jamaica on 29 December with another man who was also from London. The pair had spent several days at an apartment before checking into the villa in Bogue Hill on New Year’s Day. The two Britons had met up with a third man – from Kingston – who would be present when Mr Patterson was shot and killed. All three men had stayed at the guest house in separate rooms and the following day at around noon, Mr Patterson and the Jamaican man had gone to the villa’s pool deck. “[The Kingston man] reported that his back was turned to [Mr] Patterson when he heard several loud explosions [which] sounded like gunshots,” Mr Bailey said. “He reported that he looked around and saw a lone man dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt with a handgun shooting [Mr] Patterson.” The witness reportedly fled and hid in bushes. Patterson was a former member of the notorious Shepherds’ Bush gang MDP (Murder Dem Pussies) & was convicted of attacking a friend of Kodjo Yenga two weeks before Kodjo, 16, was murdered in 2007.

Jan 2 – John Hallissey, 60, was beaten to death at an adult care home in Lansbury Drive, Hayes, west London. Rajinder Pall, 44, was charged with murder but he admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was given an indefinite hospital order.  The property, Imperial Lodge was supported residential accommodation for people with mental health and drugs issues. Both men were schizophrenics. Experts agreed Pall was suffering from an episode of schizophrenia at the time. Pall also admitted being in breach of a suspended sentence for harassment and common assault at the Old Bailey.

2022

December 2022

Dec 31 – Edwin Kiprotich Kipruto, 25, a fashion model and LGBTQ activist popularly known as Edwin Chiloba, was smothered to death and dumped in a metal box beside the road in Eldoret, Kenya a few days later. His friend and lover Jacktone Odhiambo, 25, was jailed for 50 years for murder. The pair lived together and Odhiambo killed him after they returned home from a nightclub. He reportedly stole money from the dead man and spent it. It was NOT a homophobic killing.

Dec 30 – Stephanie Hansen, 39, was stabbed to death in Hayes, west London. Her housemate Sheldon Rodrigues, 30, was jailed for life (25 years) for murder. The trial heard Rodrigues was besotted with Stephanie and was furious when she began seeing a married work colleague. He embarked on a campaign to disrupt the relationship, bought spy devices to he could spy on her and then killed her a few hours after Stephanie’s lover, Celso Cabillan, left the house after a night-time tryst. The trial heard shift worker Rodrigues had been at work at Swissport the night before but was listening in on the couple’s date with a Micromax phone hidden in the living room.

Dec 26 (Boxing Day) – Cody Fisher, 23, was stabbed to death on the dance floor of the Crane nightclub in Digbeth, Birmingham. He was a non-league footballer and school sport coach. He was attacked just before midnight at an event featuring well-known techno DJ Marco Carola. Kami Carpenter, 21, and Remy Gordon, 22, have been charged with murder and await trial in Jan 2024.

Dec 26 – Emma Lovell, 41, originally from Hasketon, Suffolk, died after confronting intruders at her home in North Lakes, Brisbane, Australia, on Boxing Day night. Her husband Lee Lovell, 43, who was also stabbed, described his wife as the “glue to our family”. Two boys, aged 17, have been charged with murder.

Dec 24 (Christmas Eve) – Elle Edwards, 26, a beautician, died in hospital after being shot in the head at the Lighthouse Inn in Wallasey village, Merseyside. Five men were injured. Connor Chapman, 22, from the Woodchurch estate, was charged with murder and went on trial in June 2023. He denies murder and also denies wounding with intent to cause GBH to three men who were injured – Harry Loughran, Liam Carr and Nicholas Speed – and possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger. Thomas Waring, 20, denies possession of a prohibited weapon and assisting an offender. The trial heard the gunman sprayed the pub entrance with 12 bullets from a military style Skorpion sub-machine gun. Nigel Power, KC, prosecuting, described Ms Edwards as the “wholly innocent” victim of a feud between gangs based in the Woodchurch estate and the Beechwood/Ford estate in Wirral. He said the intended targets were Kieran Salkeld and Jake Duffy, from the Beechwood estate. The trial heard Salkeld was “critically injured” after being shot in the legs and Duffy had wounds which “narrowly missing his testicles”.

Dec 23 – Dave Peck, 51, was killed with a crossbow as he had a quiet drink at The Lamb and Lion pub in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Alfred Turner, 44, admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. CCTV from inside the Lamb and Lion showed Turner entering the pub from the door opposite the bar. He fired the crossbow and hit Mr Peck who was sat on a bar stool opposite the door. Turner was given a life sentence with a section 45A hospital order. This means he will be detained at a mental health facility and if fit will then be sent to prison.

Dec 22 – David Perry, 40, was stabbed to death at a house in Sittingbourne, Kent, at 1.35am. Rohan Daniels, 18, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Dec 20 – Jamaly Samba Baibu, 16, was stabbed to death in Islington, north London. A 16-year-old boy was charged with murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter and will be sentenced on 17 Nov 2023.

Dec 20 – Andre Foster, 44, was stabbed to death in Willesden, north west London. Liban Ali, 29, has been charged with murder, with drugs offences and possession of a bladed article.

Dec 19 – Reverend Lynval Lewis, the pastor at the Spanish Town Tabernacle and Greater Portmore Tabernacle, was shot several times by a gunman in Portmore, Jamaica. As he came under gunfire, Lewis lost control of the car he was driving, which veered off the roadway and on to a sidewalk, coming to a halt in a clump of small trees.

Dec 18 – Natalie McNally, 32, was stabbed to death at her home in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. She was 15 weeks pregnant. Police said a 32-year-old man was arrested but released the next day and was no longer a suspect. Police released a CCTV clip of the suspect arriving in her road at 8.52pm and leaving at 9.30pm. But on 1 February Stephen McCullagh, 32, from Lisburn, was charged with murder. He was an audience editor at the Belfast Telegraph. A magistrates court hearing heard Mr McCullagh, who has a YouTube channel, staged a live broadcast on the night of the murder, with footage appearing to show him playing the video game Grand Theft Auto for six hours. It was told the defendant was initially arrested in the wake of the murder but then ruled out as a suspect on the basis of the alleged livestream alibi. McCullagh awaits trial.

Dec 18 – Sabrina Cooper, 68, was killed at her home in Eastbourne, Sussex. Tony King, 60, was jailed for life (22 years). The victim was the niece of late comedian Tommy Cooper. She ran a magic shop until 2017 and was selling her property and was “excited” to start a new chapter in life. Hove crown court was shown footage of King, the day before the murder took place, posting on his TikTok account with 11,000 followers, saying: “Watch out for my next magic trick, it’s going to be amazing.” In an unpublished TikTok video the following day, after the murder took place, he recorded himself saying: “I have just taken a life today.”

Dec 18 – Ken Lee, 59, a homeless man, was killed in downtown Toronto, Ontario, just after midnight. Eight teenage girls have been charged with second-degree murder. Three of the girls were 13, three were 14, and two were 16. They met on social media and congregated in the city’s downtown core, where they were allegedly involved in two fights.

Dec 15 – Ailish Walsh, 28, who was pregnant, was stabbed more than 40 times with a pair of scissors at her home in Hackney, east London. Liam Taylor, 37, has been charged with murder. Walsh, who was 22 weeks pregnant, was pronounced dead at the scene. Judge Mark Lucraft KC set a three-week trial at the Old Bailey from 16 October 2023.

Dec 15 – Anju Asok, 35, an NHS nurse, and her children Jeeva Saju, six, and Janvi Saju, four, were asphyxiated at their home in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Saju Chelavalel, 52, was jailed for life (40 years) for murdering his wife and children. Chelavalel said he believed his wife was having an affair and claimed he lost control while drunk, killing her at around 10pm on 14 December at their ground-floor flat. Chelavalel, originally from Kerala, India, had more than four hours “to reflect on whether to kill his children” before using a dressing gown cord to strangle them in the early hours of the following morning.

Dec 11 – Nicoletta Golisano, 50, Elisabetta Silenzi and Sabina Sperandio were shot dead at a café in Fidene, Rome. The gunman had entered the bar on Sunday shouting “I’ll kill you all” before using his pistol. He was reportedly overpowered by other residents before being detained by police. A 57-year-old man was expected to be charged with murder. The dead women were reportedly members of a residents’ committee and the gunman had a grudge against them. Golisano was a friend of Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.

Dec 10 – Abraham Kallon, 24, died after being stabbed through the window as he sat in a car in Clapham High Street, south London at around 4am. Justice Beckford, 22, has been charged with murder and is due to go on trial in Nov 2023. Abraham and his friend had enjoyed a night and had begun socialising with a group of women. At around 4am, they joined a larger group and while Abraham was sitting in his friend’s car with the passenger window rolled down, he was stabbed.

Dec 7 – Jack Norton, 18, was stabbed to death in Cookie Park, Darlaston, West Midlands. Brandon Price, 19, and a 16-year-old youth who cannot be named for legal reasons, from Walsall, went on trial for murder at Wolverhampton Crown Court in Nov 2023. Jack Norton was also known as Jack Lowe.

Dec 4 – Owen Dunn, 18, was stabbed to death in Swindon. Tyler Hunt, 18, and a 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were found guilty of murder by a jury at Bristol Crown Court in Dec 2023 after their defences of self-defence were rejected. The court heard Mr Dunn was cycling to meet his girlfriend when he was attacked by the two balaclava-clad youths wielding machetes.

Dec 1 – Michelle Hanson, 47, was stabbed to death at her home in Pallion, Sunderland. Alexander Carr went on the run to London for 18 days but was caught and was found by police in a tent pitched on a railway embankment near Upper Holloway train station, hiding with a hunting knife. In May 2023 he pleaded guilty to murder at Newcastle crown court and was jailed for life. Carr was a student at the University of Sunderland but had links to London.

November 2022

Nov 30 – Phillip Breach, 59, was attacked in Oxford as he made his way back home from a Co-op shop in Wood Farm Park after buying a newspaper and a chocolate bar as he did every day. He suffered 37 injuries. Liam Jones, 45, was jailed for life (37 years). Jones had been jailed for another man’s murder in 2002 but was released on parole in 2021. Mr Breach, who had five children, suffered brain damage and walked with a limp after he was hit by a car when he was 20. He had a minor altercation with Jones the day before he was attacked.

Nov 28 – Omar Abdullah, 20, was stabbed to death on the Lisson Grove estate in Marylebone, central London. Hamza Elchgar, 18, from Shepherds Bush and Christian Peterkin, 19, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Nov 27 – Brian Andrews and his wife Mary, who were both in their 70s, were killed at their home in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Their son James Andrews, 51-year-old, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Nov 26 – Reece Newcombe, 31, was stabbed to death with a shard of glass during a fight on Richmond Bridge in south west London at 4am. The fight was apparently filmed by someone and shared on social media. Ross Hamilton, 32, from Isleworth, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Nov 26 – Charlie Bartolo, 16, was stabbed to death after his moped was rammed by a car in Abbey Wood, south east London. Kearne Solanke, 16, who also died during the “chaos” of the same incident, was one of the attackers. Hussain Bah, 19, Alagie Jobe, 19, were both jailed for life (25 years) for murder. Jake Debonsu, who was 17 at the time, was jailed for life (17 years) and a boy who was 16 at the time was jailed for life (16 years). Prosecutor William Emlyn-Jones KC said the killers were from the T-Block gang in Thamesmead and the violence was linked to rivalry between them and Abbey Wood. Charlie, who was not involved in gangs, was out riding a brand-new motorbike which his mum had bought him.

Nov 23 – Liam Smith, 38, was sprayed with acid, shot and then dumped in the street covered in “potentially hazardous” substances in Shevington, Wigan, Greater Manchester. His family paid tribute to the 38-year-old as “the life and soul of the party”. Michael Hillier, 38, from Sheffield, and Rachel Fulstow, 37, from York, were both charged with murder and went on trial in July 2023. Both were convicted of murder and jailed for life (30 years). The jury was told Smith, an electrician, was lured out of his home and blasted at close range with a gun by Hillier, who then poured the corrosive liquid, probably sulphuric acid on the face and body of his stricken victim, burning away his flesh. The jury at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester was told Smith had a “brief liaison” with nail technician Fulstow, a one-night stand in a hotel in 2019. The next year she became the partner of Hillier, from Sheffield who was not happy about the fling and was “led to believe she had been raped,” Jason Pitter KC, opening the case for the prosecution, told the jury. Jurors were told prosecution evidence includes CCTV and vehicle recognition footage, mobile telephone tracking and internet searches done by Fulstow before and after the murder. Giving evidence, Hillier said: “We decided jointly between the two of us that we would deal with the matter ourselves and seek justice ourselves and go down the vigilante route.” “It’s not surprising given only 1.6 percent of all reported rapes make it to court,” he said, referring to a widely reported statistic. Hillier told the court: “She (Fulstow) most definitely saw me as kind of like her knight in shining armour.” The victim’s family insisted he was not a rapist and the judge said nobody would ever know what happened on the night of the one-night stand.

Nov 23 – Two men were shot dead in Dawes Hill Road, Coquitlam, British Columbia. One has been named as Ramin Salam, 25. A third victim survived. The shooting was investigated by IHIT and is believed to be linked to ongoing gangland disputes in the greater Vancouver area.

Nov 22 – Bryan Andrews, 79, and his wife Mary Andrews, 76, were killed at their home in Totley, Sheffield. Their son James, 51 – known to relatives as Duncan – admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility and murder charge was dropped. He was ordered to be detained in a psychiatric hospital (Rampton).

Nov 22 – Kyle Hackland, 17, was stabbed to death in broad daylight, around midday, in Withington, Manchester. Three youths were convicted of murder. Yousef Sesay, 18 at the time, from Audenshaw, was jailed for life (22 years), Lewis Ludford, 18, from Gorton, was jailed for life (21 years), Tafari Kosey-Smith, 17, from Stockport, was jailed for life (19 years). Alfie Benson, 17, from Stockport, was jailed for 12 years for manslaughter. The court heard it was a premediated revenge attack after Yousef Sesay was robbed by Kyle’s friend of around £1,000 during a drug deal the day before. Those sentenced drove around the area in a stolen Volkswagen Golf looking to seek revenge when they came across a Mercedes car which they wrongly believed was connected to Kyle’s friend. They smashed the car’s windscreen and a few minutes later found Kyle in a street nearby.

Nov 21 – Lorraine Mills, 63, was stabbed 48 times at her home in Southampton. Richard Shaw, 48, was jailed for life (30 years). Mrs Mills was the mother of his ex-girlfriend. Shaw vowed to “rip the heart out” of his former lover after she split up with him, Winchester Crown Court heard.

Nov 20 – Sarah Albone, 38, was killed in a frenzied attack at her home in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Her boyfriend Matthew Waddell, 35, was jailed for life (32 years) for murder. He sent text messages from her mobile phone, used her bank card and sold her belongings, the jury at Luton Crown Court heard. The remains of Ms Albone were found in a taped-up bin at her home on 25 February 2023. She had ended her relationship with Waddell in January 2021 because she felt he was emotionally controlling. He would return to her home repeatedly, the court heard, and ignored his bail conditions when he was arrested for harassment. On at least two occasions in the months before her murder, Ms Albone had reported Waddell to police. She reported him for assault in December 2021 and, in a statement, she catalogued his controlling and aggressive behaviour towards her, the court heard.

Nov 20 – Naeemah Drammeh, aged one, and her sister Fatimah Drammeh, three, died in hospital after a fire in Nottingham, while their mother, Fatoumatta Hydara, 28, died two days later. A neighbour, Jamie Barrow, 31, was jailed for life (44 years) for murder. He had admitted the manslaughter of the mother and her children but denied murdering them claiming he thought the flat was empty when he started the fire. The court heard he drank 11 cans of lager and was “in a dark place”. The children’s father Aboubacarr Drammeh, 40, was out of the country at the time of the fire and said the family were planning to start a new life in the US.

Nov 19 – Five people were shot dead at a gay club, Club Q, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Anderson Aldrich has been charged with the murders. He is reportedly non-binary. The attack was halted by two club patrons including Richard Fierro, who told reporters that he took a handgun from Aldrich, hit him with it and pinned him down with help from another person until police arrived. The victims were Raymond Green Vance, 22; Ashley Paugh, 35; Daniel Aston, 28; Kelly Loving, 40; and Derrick Rump, 38.

Nov 18 – Vanesa, 14, was abducted on her way home in Tonneins, in the rural region of Lot-et-Garonne, southern France. Romain Chevrel, 31, was charged with murder and awaits trial. Chevrel lived with his partner and has a one-month-old daughter. He was convicted for sexually assaulting children when he was 15.

Nov 16 – Delano Christie, 31, a shopkeeper, and Jordain Brown, 26, were shot dead I Norwood, St James parish, Jamaica. Four other people, including Christie’s nine-month-old daughter, were also shot in the incident. Shandee Brown has been charged with the murders. In May 2023 he was released on J$800,000 bail with reporting conditions.

Nov 13 – Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were stabbed to death in the middle of the night at a student house in Moscow, Idaho. Bryan Kohberger, 21, a former PhD criminology student, was arrested during a raid on his parents’ home in Poconos Mountains, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 2022. He has been charged with the murders and awaits trial. His defense has continued to challenge evidence in the case, disputing some methods including investigative genetic genealogy, which investigators used to find Kohberger from DNA left at the crime scene. The DNA was then matched to him through a cheek swab taken while he was in custody, court records say. Xana Kernodle’s mother Cara Northington sought to prevent the demolition of the house in December 2023, claiming it should be forensically preserved until after the trial.

Nov 9 – Gordon Gault, 14, was stabbed to death in Elswick, Newcastle. Benedict Mbala and Daniel Lacerda, both 18, and several other teenagers were charged with murder but all were acquitted. Carlos Neto, 18, of Salford, and Lawson Natty, 18, were convicted of manslaughter. The court heard the killers were from one part of Newcastle and Gault was from Elswick. A drill rap song was linked to the killing. The judge said Neto’s case was that he was acting in self-defence and he reminded the jury of Jason Pitter KC’s comment, defending, that what was said in rap or drill music was not necessarily true, just as Bob Marley and Eric Clapton had not really shot a sheriff.

Nov 5 – Dwelaniyah Robinson, 3, died at a house in Bracken Court, in Ushaw Moor, Durham. Christina Robinson, 28, denies murder and a separate offence of child neglect.

Nov 4 – Gabriel Stoyanov, 21, was stabbed to death in the street in Downham, south east London just after midnight after he got off a bus. Alfie Kibble, 18, from Bexley, south-east London, and a 17-year-old boy were found guilty of his murder and were later jailed for life. A boy who was 14 at the time was convicted of manslaughter. Prosecutor Edward Brown KC told jurors: “He was killed for being little more than drunk and annoying, perhaps very annoying.” The court heard he had flicked the ear of the 17-year-old and punched him in the stomach, but without much force, before being taken off the bus by his friend. The killers went back to their homes and armed themselves before returning and ambushing Gabriel outside a takeaway restaurant.

Nov 1 – Phillip Lewis, 59, known as Scottish Phil, disappeared in November 2022 and his body was discovered in Oakwood Pond in Harlow, Essex, on 31 December 2022. Lee Clark, 52, has been charged with murder.

Nov 1 – Keisha Christodoulou, 32, was stabbed 17 times at her home in Deptford, south London. Her ex-boyfriend Leon Murray, 35, was convicted of murder at Wood Green Crown Court in May 2024. The day before the murder Keisha ended their relationship. After killing her, he changed his clothes and went to pick up their six-year-old daughter from school. On arrival, he told a member of staff that ‘it is done’ and that he had ‘ended’ Keisha. Staff quickly called 999, as did Murray, telling police what he had done.

Oct 2022

Oct 30 – Akeem Bailey, 17, was stabbed in the neck in Ladywood, Birmingham, and died in hospital five days later. Zechariah Nelson, 18, from Aston, was convicted of manslaughter and was jailed for life with a minimum term of 11 years and 109 days. The motive – a row about a mobile phone.

Oct 30 – Lamar Scott, 27, a drill rapper better known as Perm, was shot dead after the car he was in crashed into a moped and a parked car in Railton Road, Brixton, south London. Guilherme Messias Da Silva, 21, a Deliveroo moped rider, was killed by the car. The killer got out of the chasing car and shot Scott after he got out of his car. Scott was the son of Dean Whyte, a boxing promoter and friend of heavyweight boxer Dillian Whyte. After Chris Kaba was shot dead by police in September 2022 Perm made a short Snapchat video, during which he offered his sympathies but said Kaba – who belonged to the rival 67 gang – would have died anyway. The 67 took it as a sign of disrespect.

Oct 30 – Givani Espuet, 21, was stabbed to death outside The Aura restaurant and bar in Sudbury, NW London after a fight at a Halloween party at 1.50am. After a trial in November 2023, Kadeem Hibbert, 30, from Wood Green, was found guilty of murder and violent disorder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 22 years. Sahid Kpaka, 27, was jailed for life (17 years) for murder. Courtney Forrester, 26, from Luton, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of ten years for manslaughter, and one-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for violent disorder. Bruce Hutchinson, 30, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter but was jailed for 2 years 9 months for violent disorder. Andre Watson-Browne, 36, from Haringey, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter but jailed for 2 years and 6 months for violent disorder. Firat Tato, 27, was found guilty of violent disorder and sentenced to two years, 11 months’ imprisonment. Omari Knight, 28, was found guilty of violent disorder and sentenced to two years, eight months’ imprisonment. Kyle Peters, 33, pleaded guilty to violent disorder.  Theo Simon, 33, was acquitted. Prosecutor Tony Badenoch KC said Hibbert did the stabbing and Watson-Brown was standing next to the killer. The killers fled the scene leaving behind a hat that was later linked to Forrester.

Oct 30 – Takeoff, 28, a rapper with the group Migos, was shot dead in Houston, Texas. His real name was Kirshnik Khari Ball. Gucci Mane, Kid Cudi, Khalid and Dave posted tributes on social media, while Rick Ross called him a “young legend”. Patrick Xavier Clark, 33, was indicted with murder by a grand jury in May 2023.

Oct 29 – Shanquella Robinson, 25, a businesswoman from North Carolina, died of a cardiac arrest while on holiday in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. She founded a women’s fashion clothing line, was a hairstylist, and social media personality. She went on holiday with six friends – her best friend Khalil Cooke, Wenter Donovan, Alysse Hyatt, Daejhanae Jackson, and Nazeer Wiggins – known as the Cabo Six. Viral cellphone footage later surfaced on several social media outlets of a naked African-American woman being viciously beaten by one of her female acquaintances in a bedroom. The footage included a male who can be heard recommending to Robinson: “Quella? Can you at least fight back? At least sum’in’? Shanquella’s mother Salamondra Robinson later recounted how Khalil Cooke, Shanquella’s best friend, personally visited their home after returning from Mexico. He insisted that no foul play was involved and repeated that Shanquella had simply consumed too much alcohol. In 2024 Salamondra sued the Cabo Six.

Oct 29 – Adrian Keise, 32, was stabbed to death in a fight in Lower Marsh, near Waterloo station in central London. Paul Yusuff, 21, and Matthew Yusuff, 23, were charged with murder. Their friend Moussa Traore, 24, was charged with manslaughter. All three went on trial in 2023 but in Jan 2024 the trial ended in farce when they were “mistakenly” acquitted after a mistake by the jury foreman. A retrial is due to take place on 2 Dec 2024. The original trial heard Mr Keise had spent the evening drinking with friends at the Thirsty Bear pub in nearby Stamford Street but he got into an altercation with the three men near the Cubana Bar in Lower Marsh at 2am.

Oct 25 – Saydi Abu Sheikh, a drill rapper better known as Giddy, 23, and his cousin, Zakariya Jeilani Mohamed, 32, were shot dead in Henley Road, Ilford, east London. A third man, aged 30, survived. Giddy was a member of the Drillford drill gang and is believed to have been targeted by a rival gang. The dead men were also believed to be involved in a Monzo bank fraud. The killers dumped their getaway car in Ronnie Lane in nearby Manor Park. Ayaani Ali Adan, 20, from Barking, Zain Mirza, 20, of Newham, Mahad Gouled, 21, from Enfield, and Chibiuke Ohanweh, 21, from Romford, were all convicted of murder at the Old Bailey in Jan 2024. Zakarie Mohamed, 18 from Kensington, was acquitted of murder but admitted perverting the course of justice. Giddy was a key member of an Ilford gang called Drillford and the killers were from the rival Only Manor (OM) gang from Manor Park

Oct 24 – Deborah Gumbrell, 59, was assaulted at home in Northbourne Close, Shoreham, West Sussex. Her husband James Gumbrell, 64, has been charged with murder and awaits trial at Lewes Crown Court.

Oct 23 – Arshad Sharif, 49, an investigative journalist from Pakistan, was shot dead when the car he was travelling in was fired upon by police after it failed to stop at a checkpoint outside the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. He was accompanied by another Pakistani Khurram Ahmed, who was wounded in the incident. Sharif had gone into exile after receiving death threats in Pakistan for his journalism, in which he exposed corruption in the military.

Oct 22 – Breanne “Breezy” Pennington, 30, was shot in the head at her home in Gardner, Massachusetts. Her husband Aaron Pennington fled the scene and has not been seen since (in Nov 2025). Brenda Hull – the victim’s aunt – said Pennington had locked eyes with his eldest daughter – who was 9 – before he fled the home, leaving her and her three siblings (aged 2, 5 and 7) in the house with their dead mother.

Oct 22 – Angie White, 45, was strangled and had her throat slashed at her home in Plasmarl, Swansea. Her husband, Daniel White, 36, was jailed for life. Swansea Crown Court heard that White, a labourer, had a long history of domestic violence, including against Mrs White. At the time of the murder, he was on licence from prison after receiving a 10-year extended sentence for rape and assault. Fearful of her husband, Mrs White had recently installed a mortis lock on her bedroom door, which White kicked in after an argument started on WhatsApp. Shortly before 6am, White called police, telling a call handler: “She’s in the house, she’s dead. I’ve strangled her and cut her throat. She’s dead. “We argued and she locked the door and said she wanted me out. “All I wanted to do was take my stuff and leave. I just shut her up, I strangled her, I ran downstairs, and I cut her throat to make sure she was dead.” The trial heard at 3.16am Daniel White’s voice can be heard saying, ‘Alexa stop’. “He then goes back downstairs into the living room and says, ‘Turn on – Alexa’ but what can also be heard is that he is out of breath and these appear to be the moments when, the Crown say, he has gone to get the knife. “He then returns to the bedroom at 3.18am when he says, ‘Alexa, turn on the electric light’, and at 3.19am he says, ‘Alexa, turn off the TV’.

Oct 21 – Aneka Townsend, 35, a social media influencer known as Slickianna, vanished and was later found in the sea at Reading, near Montego Bay, Jamaica. A video of her body in the sea was shared on social media. Rushane “Chizzie” Patterson was later arrested and charged with her murder. He was last seen with her at a restaurant. He was also charged with abducting and assaulting an ex-girlfriend in 2018. In 2017, Patterson had been freed after a murder, rape and abduction charge dating from 2014. In Feb 2025  Patterson was shot dead by police in Hanover, Jamaica, having been granted bail.

Oct 19 – Darren Ammon, 47, a drug addict, was strangled at his flat in Tower Hamlets, east London. Salieu Seray-Wurie, 25, was later charged with murder. He admitted manslaughter on the second day of the trial. Opening the case for the prosecution, Jacqueline Carey KC said the killing appeared to have been motivated by an argument over a bank card. She said Seray-Wurie, a drug addict, killed Mr Ammon, then stole and sold his TV for £15.

Oct 16 – Zeqja Lumturi, 27, was stabbed in Leytonstone, east London. Sabajet Shuti, 30, was arrested in Sweden and extradited. He faces trial for murder, violent disorder and possession of a knife. Both are believed to be of Albanian origin.

Oct 15 – Koray Alpergin, 43, vanished after being abducted outside his home in Ebony Crescent, Oakwood, north London. He was a DJ and owner of Bizim FM. His body was found the following day near Oakwood Hill industrial estate in Loughton, Essex. Ali Kavak, 25, from Tottenham, Steffan Gordon, 33, from Northolt, Junior Kettle, 31, from Islington, Tejean Kennedy from Cricklewood, and Samuel Owusu-Opoku were all charged with murder, kidnap and false imprisonment. Erdogan Ulcay, 55, from Camden was charged with perverting the course of justice. They all went on trial in the autumn of 2023. The trial heard Alpergin and his 33-year-old girlfriend, Gozde Dalbudak, were abducted and bundled into a van which drove to the Stadium Lounge in Tottenham. There Alpergin was tortured and murdered. She survived the incident and was found unharmed. She has since returned to Turkey and refused to testify at the trial.

Oct 14 – Lola Daviet, 12, was raped and tortured and her body left in a courtyard near her home in northeast Paris, France. She had been bound, her face covered in tape, and had a knife slit on her throat. An autopsy revealed she had been tortured and sexually abused. Cryptically, the numbers 1 and 0 were scrawled on her chest. Dhabia B, 24, an Algerian woman who arrived in France in 2016 on a student visa, has been charged with murder. It is believed she had “serious psychological problems” and had overstated her visa. The killing became a cause celebre with the French far-right.

Oct 9 – Trong Minh Nguyen, 39, the former leader of the Fresh Off the Boat (FOB) gang, was shot dead outside his home in Langdon, near Calgary, Alberta. His sister-in-law was also wounded in the shooting. The FOB gang has been engaged in a turf war with rival gang FOB Killers that resulted in at least 25 deaths. In 2018, Nguyen was convicted of conspiracy to murder Vinh Tung Truong, a rival gang member, in 2012, first at a cemetery and then at the Calgary Courts Centre. Nguyen was sentenced to 10½ years in prison but was released in 2021. At one of his last parole hearings he was warned: “File information notes you currently have a ‘hit’ on your life. You have shown you will use violence and/or retaliate without hesitation and it is a definite possibility you may have to deal with this hit on you one way or another.”

Oct 9 – Rebecca Steer, 22, died when a Volvo car mounted a footpath outside a takeaway in Oswestry, Shropshire. Stephen McHugh, 28, went on trial for murder at Stafford Crown Court in April 2023. The court was told McHugh denied the murder of pedestrian Rebecca Steer but admitted her manslaughter, after she was dragged under his car. McHugh has admitted assault causing injury to Kyle Roberts, who was also hit by his car, but denies attempting to cause him grievous bodily harm with intent. Prosecutor Kevin Hegarty KC said McHugh got into an altercation at 2.45am. He stopped in the road and “exchanged words” with a group of people near the Grill Out takeaway before driving his car aggressively towards them, killing Miss Steer. McHugh, the jury heard, had been to a local football match on Saturday October 8, before visiting two pubs and a nightclub. He was arrested on October 10 in Gobowen, Shropshire, and claimed he “didn’t mean to hit anyone”.

Oct 7 – Diana Dafter, 36, was stabbed to death at her home in Northampton. Her husband Phillip Dafter, 33, a former soldier, was found at Euston station in London with multiple self-inflicted stab wounds. He was also drunk. He denied manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but was convicted of murder and jailed for life (19 years). The couple were both from Malawi. Diana, who was a student nurse at the University of Northampton and worked as a carer at St Andrew’s Hospital, has been described as a “lovely person, who got on well with everybody around her,” “caring” and “always smiling.” Dafter said he had been “driven” to killing his wife following an argument about their car being MOT’d and described it as a “moment of madness.” The trial heard he had been unfaithful to her before and she was angry that he had been texting a younger woman in Malawi.

Oct 6 – Maris Digiovanni, 30, a showgirl, and bystander Brent Hallet, 47, were stabbed to death with a foot-long kitchen knife outside the Wynn casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Yoni Barrios, 34, a Guatemalan chef and illegal immigrant, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in Feb 2025. He also stabbed 7 other people. He entered his pleas Thursday as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. He is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Scott Coffee, his attorney, said the plea agreement “recognizes what everybody in the system knew — that this was the result of mental illness that caused paranoia.” Barrios was at the hotel attempting to sell his kitchen knives for money to travel back to Guatemala. Police ended Barrios’ rampage at the Venetian Expo when they tackled him inside the convention center, across the street from the Wynn.

Oct 3 – Tomasz Oleszak, 14, was found with a stab wound on the Springwell Estate in Gateshead. Leighton Amies, who was 14 at the time, was convicted of murder, attempted wounding with intent and having a bladed article in a public place and was jailed for life (12 years). The judge said Amies had shouted “I’ve wetted your boy” at a group of teenagers after he had stabbed Tomasz and the judge said this was done “triumphantly”. A victim impact statement from Tomasz’s mother, Kamila Wisniewska, was read out in court. In it she paid tribute to her “kind, loving and sporty” older son, who was born in Poland and who moved with his family to Gateshead in 2012.

Oct 2 – Haji Choudhary Rab Nawaz, 52, died after an attack in Coventry linked to a family feud. His brother was also hurt but survived. Adam Razaaq, 21, Hasnian Razaaq, 24, and Hasham Razaaq, 23, all from Halesowen, were convicted of murder, along with Jenaid Mahmood, 19, and Faisal Mohammed, 30, from Birmingham after a seven-week trial at Warwick Crown Court. All were later jailed for life. Mr Nawaz and his brother had been followed to their nearby parked car after the funeral at a mosque and attacked by the group, who were armed with weapons.

Oct 2 – Sean Fox, 42, was shot dead by two masked men who walked into Donegal Celtic Football Club on the Suffolk Road in Belfast on a Sunday afternoon. Police said the two gunmen fired 20 bullets at Fox and stood over him as he collapsed. A CCTV clip showed the men, one wearing a blue hoodie and the other in a white hoodie, calmly walking into the club. Detectives said they are following several lines of inquiry, including Fox’s friendship with another murder victim Jim Donegan, who was shot dead outside a school in Belfast in December 2018. Fox was a member of the so-called ‘Marbella Crew’ of high-profile drug dealers. Police say the same two gunman killed Mark Hall, 31, who was shot dead in a brutal gun attack at his family home in Rodney Drive on Saturday 18 December 2021.

Oct 2 – Kyron Lee, 21, was knocked off his bicycle by a VW Golf and then attacked by a gang armed with machetes and large knives in Cippenham, Slough, Berkshire. Khalid Nur, 22, was jailed for life (26 years) for murder. Mohammed Elgamri, 20, was jailed for life (25 years), Yaqhub Mussa, 23, was jailed for life (23 years), and Fras Seedahmed, 19, was jailed for life (23 years).  At a previous trial Ilias Almallah, 22, had been convicted of murder Mohamed Abdulle, 21, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to causing grievous bodily harm with intent. Judge Amjad Nawaz said the murder was the result of “tit-for-tat” violence between rival gangs. Mr Lee and his killers were members of rival gangs – and Mussa was himself attacked multiple times in the run-up to the slaying.

September 2022

Sep 30 – Kane Moses, 19, a rapper also known as T1 from N15 gang, was stabbed to death in Tottenham High Road. Khamani Guthrie 18, was jailed for life (18 years) in July 2023. Guthrie was reportedly known as Demz and was a member of the NPK gang from Northumberland Park.

Sep 30 – Karla Xiomara Zelaya Godoy, 36, went missing in Peru. Her body was later found in Carabayllo, an hour’s drive from Lima. Her boyfriend, Jorge Alfredo Minaya Garay, 46, flew to Chile and then on to England, where he was arrested in October. The couple lived together in Dartford, Kent.Karla had arrived in Peru in September with Garay. They travelled to Machu Picchu and other tourist places before returning to Lima to be introduced to the family of her Peruvian partner. On September 22, Karla spoke with her mother by phone, asked about her 8-year-old daughter and confirmed that on September 23 they would return to Europe, where they live, but they did not. Karla worked at an HMRC lorry depot in Ebbsfleet.

Sep 29 – Reece Radford, 26, from Hillsborough, was stabbed to death in the centre of Sheffield. Louis James, 47, and Dereck Owusu, 40, were jailed for life. James got minimum of 25 years and Owusu got 15 years. Sheffield Crown Court heard the defendants were “angry” Mr Radford shouted racist remarks and confronted Owusu after Owusu punched a teenage girl. The court heard James, from Sheffield, and Owusu, from Rotherham, were talking and drinking with the 17-year-old girl at a bus stop in Arundel Gate when Mr Radford passed by with a group of friends. A violent brawl erupted after Mr Radford saw Owusu striking the teenager to the ground and stepped in to punch him. After killing Radford, Owusu then stole his wallet and removed his own belt, which he “swung in a threatening manner” towards witnesses before fleeing.

Sep 28 – Damilola Oloruntola, 28, was stabbed to death in Woolwich, south London. Solomon Bamidele, 25, from Sutton-at-Hone, Kent, was arrested at an address in Harlow, Essex and charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon. Mohammed Osman, 21, from Greenwich, has also been charged with murder. They went on trial at the Old Bailey in July 2023. The trial was told the killing was a turf war over drugs. The knife was allegedly hidden inside an umbrella.

Sep 28 – Maya Chappell, 2, was shaken to death at her home in Shotton Colliery, County Durham. Her mother’s boyfriend, Michael Daymond, 27, was jailed for life (20 years) for murder at Teesside Crown Court. Maya’s mother, Dana Carr, 24, was jailed for nine years for causing or allowing Maya’s death. She had ignored her family’s concerns about Daymond. Maya’s father, James Chappell, said her life had been stolen by a “monster and coward”.

Sep 26 – Fuaad Xuseen, 45, was stabbed in Sparkbrook, Birmingham. Mohammed Adam, 45, from Birmingham, was convicted of murder and jailed for life. The trial heard an argument first broke out between Adam, who was drunk, and staff at the Relax Cafe after he approached and pestered a woman who had been trying to enjoy a night out. He was asked to leave but refused and was eventually escorted outside. Xuseen went to talk to him but was stabbed.

Sep 24 – Shakira Spencer, 35, was found dead in a bunkbed at her home in Holbeck Road, Hanwell, west London. Shaun Pendlebury, 25, from Ealing, Ashana Studholme, 37, from Harrow, and Lisa Richardson, 43, from Northolt, have all been charged with murder and await trial.

Sep 22 – Richard Hopley, 43, was stabbed and then crashed his car in Metchley Lane, Birmingham. Nicholas Stallard, 41, and Paul Hayles, 63, were acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy to rob. Stallard was jailed for 13 years and Hayles 10 years. Mr Hopley was acting as a drug runner driving a dealer around in a VW Passat. They were asked to go to Underwood Close in Harborne where four men, including Hayles, Stallard and a rival dealer, were waiting. The jury was told Mr Hopley was stabbed by the rival dealer who had got in his car but became involved in a struggle as he tried to get out. The two defendants ran towards the car with Stallard dragged along the ground as the vehicle drove away. Mr Hopley reached Metchley Lane where he crashed. The trial was told the actual killer had fled to Pakistan.

Sep 21 – Khayri McLean, 15, was stabbed outside North Huddersfield Trust School in Huddersfield and died in hospital. Jovani Harriott, who was 16 at the time, and Jakele Pusey, who was 15, were later convicted of murder and were jailed for life. Harriott must service at least 18 years and Pusey a minimum of 16. The killers were from a gang called the Fartown Boys.

Sep 18 – Andrew Gardner was stabbed in Alexandra Road, Birmingham. Lesean Williams, 19, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Sep 18 – Adam Clapham, 31, was tied up, tortured, and attacked with a machete and doused with boiling water at a house in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, over a £300 drug debt. Five people were found guilty of murder. Arbab Yusuf, 24, was jailed for life (39 years), Robert Crookes, 31, was jailed for life (37 years), Kieron Millar, 30, was jailed for life (30 years), Muhammad Ashraf, 18, was jailed for life (28 years) and a 17-year-old boy was jailed for life (21 years). Lynette Myers, 39, of Hounsfield Crescent, Rotherham, was jailed for at least 12 years for causing grievous bodily harm and false imprisonment. Mr Clapham and a second man were imprisoned by six gang members and then beaten, stripped and forced to perform sex acts on each other in a five-hour ordeal before being left for dead. The second victim, who suffered more than 50 injuries but survived and escaped, told a sentencing hearing how his attackers laughed as they filmed the “horrific” violence on mobile phones. Yusuf was the ringleader. He ran a drugs business from the homes of addicts and instigated the violence after £300 went missing from a crack house Clapham was responsible for.

Sep 17 – Jill Barclay, 47, was attacked and burned alive as she walked home from the Spider’s Web pub in Aberdeen. Her body was found in a street in Dyce. Rhys Bennett, 23, was jailed for life after admitting murder. The judge described his crimes as “wicked and medieval in their barbarity”. Ms Barclay was walking home and Bennett, a complete stranger from Ballingry in Fife, followed her and attacked her in the grounds of an empty property at Farburn Gatehouse.

Sep 12 – PnB Rock, 30, a rapper (real name Rakim Allen), was shot dead at a Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles in Los Angeles. Freddie Lee Trone, 40, and his 17-year-old son have been charged with murder, two counts of second-degree robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit robbery. Trone’s wife Shauntel has also been arrested and charged with one count of being an accessory after the fact. PnB, who was from Philadelphia, rose to fame with the release of his 2016 hit Selfish and had collaborated with artists including Ed Sheeran. He was having lunch with his girlfriend Stephanie Sibounheuang on the day of the shooting when a gunman approached the pair, demanded they hand over valuables shortly before he opened fire, removed items from the victim then fled in a waiting getaway car. A grisly video showing PnB Rock covered in blood but still moving was posted on social media. It also emerged that Sibounheuang had posted a message on Instagram when they arrived at Roscoe’s in which they are wearing expensive watches and jewellery. This may have tipped off Trone and his son.

Sep 9 – Peter Marechau, 65, was killed after being punched during a parking dispute at Abbey Industrial Estate in Alperton, NW London. Abdelaziz Maaroufi, 26, was jailed for five-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for manslaughter.

Sep 8 – Jillu Nash, 43, and her daughter Louise Nash, 12, were found dead at home in Great Waldingfield in Suffolk. Peter Nash, 46, was jailed for life (40 years) for murder. The trial heard Jillu had been unfaithful.

Sep 8 – Cameron Lindley, 22, was stabbed 19 times in the garden of his mother’s home in Betws, near Ammanford, Wales. His brother Tyler, who was 19 at the time, was jailed for life (18 years) at Swansea Crown Court in June 2023 after pleading guilty to murder. The court heard Tyler felt Cameron was “the golden boy” who got most of their mother’s love. The brothers were put on the child protection register when they were young and were subsequently placed together with foster parents. He said throughout Tyler’s childhood he exhibited “problematic behaviour”. The court heard Tyler’s antisocial and aggressive behaviour continued into his teens and progressed to the point where the foster parents needed a respite break from him, and in January 2018 the siblings were separated when Tyler was moved to a new foster family in Port Talbot. By 2022 Tyler was living in a hostel in Neath and Cameron – by then in his second year at university – was splitting his time between living in student accommodation and living with his mother. On the day of the murder there was a family gathering at the mother’s house. Cameron, Tyler, and their mother had dinner together and watched the news of the Queen’s death on the television. The mum’s young granddaughter was asleep upstairs. Tyler then selected the largest knife from the knife block in the kitchen, “sniggered” and apologised to Cameron, and then lunged at his brother with the blade. He then chased him into the garden and stabbed him. Tyler told police “the voices made me do it” and that he wanted to kill his brother but didn’t want him to suffer, and started talking about Cameron and “black magic voodoo shit”.

Sep 7 – Susan Hawkey, 71, was killed at her home in Neasden, north west London. Her body was not found until Sep 26, when a neighbour contacted police, expressing concern. The pensioner’s badly decomposed body under a duvet. Her hands had been bound behind her back with fabric and parcel tape. More parcel tape may have been wrapped around her head in a bid to gag her. Xyaire Howard, 22, was jailed for life (31 years) for murder. His girlfriend, who was pregnant at the time of the crime, Chelsea Grant, 27, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 15 years for robbery and fraud. The pair went on a £13,000 spending spree using the victim’s bank card in the days after her death. Between September 7 and 27, there were 143 successful transactions totalling more than £14,000. They blamed each other for her death.

September – Padma, 52, from Dharmapuram district in Tamil Nadu, and Rosli, 49, from Thrissur district, were tortured and killed as human sacrifices in Cochin city, Kerala, India. Bhagaval Singh, an ayurvedic “healer”, his wife Laila, and Mohammed Shafi, an “occult practitioner” from Idukki district, have been charged with murder and await trial.

Sep 6 – Caragh Eaton, 28, died of a fractured skull after falling into the road as she tried to stop her boyfriend driving away in his Range Rover from her home in Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire. Ian Curson, 42, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter. The prosecution alleged he fractured her skull with a ratchet, a pistol or its magazine as she tried to stop him driving away. During the trial, the jury was told by Mr Curson that he and Miss Eaton had been arguing about a man – Rob Booth – who she had been spending time with while they were briefly separated in August 2022. He said she had lied to him about the amount of contact they had and also told Curson that Mr Booth was gay, which she admitted was not true. Giving evidence to the jury, Mr Booth admitted he was infatuated with Miss Eaton and that he understood Miss Eaton and Mr Curson were in an “on-again-and-off-again” relationship. He said he lent her his car and £2,000 during the time she and Mr Curson were temporarily separated.

Sep 5 – Shea Gordon, 17, was stabbed during a brawl involving dozens of people in Tower Hamlets, east London shortly after midnight. A second teenager survived. Abdul Yaro, 19, and Kavian Vaughans, 18, were both jailed for life (21 years) for murder following a trial at the Old Bailey in 2023. Dainnan Witter-Cameron, 18, and Giovanni Addae-Johnson, 18, were both jailed for 8 years for manslaughter. Yaro was recorded speaking about his plans to attack Shea with an associate who was in prison, the jury was told.

Sep 4 – Lisa Cash, 18, and her eight-year-old twin siblings Christy and Chelsea Cawley, were stabbed to death at a flat in Tallaght, Dublin. Their brother, Andy Cash, 24, was jailed for life for murder in April 2024.

Sep 4 – Maximillian Kusi-Owusu, 29, a rapper known as M Lo, was shot dead in Kensington High Street, West Kensington, London. Unsolved.

Sep 4 – Ten people were killed in various locations in the remote indigenous James Smith Cree Nation community and nearby Weldon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Damien Sanderson, 31, and his brother Myles Sanderson went on the run. Damien was found stabbed to death a few days before Myles was arrested. He died in custody after going into “medical distress”. The victims included Bonnie Goodvoice-Burns, 48, and her son Gregory “Jonesy” Burns, 28, and Gloria Burns, a 62-year-old addictions counsellor. Myles Sanderson is believed to have suffered drug issues.

August 2022

Aug 29 – Takayo Nembhard, 21, a rapper from Bristol known by his rap name TKorStretch, was stabbed to death at Notting Hill Carnival, west London. The incident was one of seven stabbings over the two days. He was stabbed in Ladbroke Grove, beneath the Westway. Unsolved.

Aug 22 – Ian Rawle, 72, was stabbed to death at his home in Braunton, Devon. His wife, Christine Rawle, 69, was jailed for life (15 years) for murder. Mrs Rawle was a horse trainer who specialised in hypnotism and had been dubbed a “horse whisperer”, featuring in publications such as Horse & Hound for her work in the equine world. She stabbed him in the back as he pushed a barrow of horse manure at their Devon farm. She said the attack followed years of physical, psychological and sexual torment from her husband, which her defence team described in court as a “constant burn of abuse”. But the prosecution said they had a row over a piece of land that she wanted to sell to pay for a private eye operation.

Aug 22 – Olivia Pratt-Korbel, nine, was shot dead at her home in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, at 10pm. She was shot in the chest and died in hospital. Her mother Cheryl suffered a gunshot wound to the wrist. The gunman had been chasing a convicted drug dealer and burglar, 35-year-old Joseph Nee down Kingsheath Avenue. The man forced his way into the house when Cheryl unwittingly opened the door. The man himself was shot but survived and his friends took him away in a black Audi and delivered him to hospital. Thomas Cashman, from Grenadier Drive, West Derby, was jailed for life for the murder of Olivia, the attempted murder of her mother and Nee, and two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. Paul Russell, 40, from Snowberry Road, West Derby, was jailed for 22 months after pleading guilty to assisting an offender. The court heard Russell would change his name after coming out of prison to protect him from underworld threats.

Aug 22 – Karen Dempsey, 55, was stabbed to death outside the Brambles pub in Kirkby, Merseyside. Her son, Jamie Dempsey, 32, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 19 years for manslaughter, possession of a bladed article, wounding with intent and affray. The trial heard Jamie had been fighting another man when his mother tried to intervene.

Aug 21 – Rico Burton, 31, was stabbed in the neck at 3am while on a night out in Goose Green, Altrincham, Manchester. He was the cousin of Tyson Fury, who mentioned the killing on Instagram and called for longer sentences for “idiots” who carry knives. The killing took place on the night of Anthony Joshua’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk, which was shown on TV in many pubs. Liam O’Prey, 21, was convicted of murder in July 2023. Relatives of Mr Burton who packed the public gallery shouted “yes” as the guilty verdict was delivered. He was later jailed for life.

Aug 21 – Ashley Dale, 28, was shot in her back garden in Old Swan, Liverpool, just after midnight. She died in hospital. Detective Chief Supt Mark Kameen said she was “an innocent member of the public” who had been “callously and thoughtlessly shot”. Ms Dale worked for Knowsley Council and had recently been promoted. She was the half-sister of Lewis Dunne, 16, who was shot dead in 2015 in a case of mistaken identity. James Witham, 40, from Huyton, and Joseph Peers, 28, from Roby, have been charged with murder and possession of a firearm with intent. Kallum Radford, 25, has been charged with assisting an offender. Ian Fitzgibbon was extradited from Spain and will also go on trial in October 2023.

Aug 20 – Daria Dugina, 29, a political commentator, was killed when a bomb blew up her Toyota Land Cruiser near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy, west of Moscow, at around 9.3op. Her father was the Russian political commentator and nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, who was supposed to have been travelling in the same car. He followed behind in another car and was seen, distraught, on video shown on TV in Russia. The Russian government has accused the Ukrainian secret service of carrying out the bombing. Dugin had encouraged Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine in Feb 2022.

Aug 19 – Thomas Waugh, 20, was stabbed in Tonbridge, Kent, while trying to prevent his friends from being robbed. Rocco Mustafa, 18, was jailed for life (19 years) for murder while Reece Willis, 17, was jailed for life (14 years) after they fatally stabbed Mr Waugh in a car park. Mustafa and Willis approached Mr Waugh and two friends, who were sat on a bench at Tonbridge Racecourse Park, threatening them and demanding their mobile phones.

Aug 19 – Carl Ball, 51, was hit over the head with a plank of wood at a house on the Duffryn estate in Newport, Gwent. Andrew Southwood, 39, was jailed for life (20 years) for murder. Ball had previous convictions for the rape of a woman and the sexual abuse of a child.

Aug 19 – Saviay’a Robinson, 24, was shot dead in Los Angeles, California. He was in a car with his cousin, rapper Quando Rondo (real name Tyquian Bowman) who was the actual target. In Nov 2024 rival rapper Lil Durk, 32, whose real name is Durk Banks, was charged with murder, using, carrying, and discharging firearms, including a machine gun, in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death. Also accused are Kavon London Grant, 28, a.k.a. “Cuz” and “Vonnie,” of Atlanta, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, 33, a.k.a. “DeDe,” of Chicago, Keith Jones, 33, a.k.a. “Flacka,” of Gary, Indiana, David Brian Lindsey, 33, a.k.a. “Browneyez,” of Addison, Illinois; and Asa Houston, 36, a.k.a. “Boogie,” of Chicago. They are allegedly associated with Lil Durk’s Only The Family (OTF) label. The FBI said text messages between Lil Durk and one of the alleged hitmen read, “Don’t book no flights under no names involved wit [sic] me,” according to the complaint. Lil Durk also flew to California with Grant on a private plane on August 18, 2022. The FBI later received a tip that Lil Durk had booked two international flights: a one-way flight from Miami to Dubai connecting through Doha, Qatar, scheduled to depart the evening of October 24, 2024, and another one-way flight from Fort Lauderdale to Switzerland, connecting through New Jersey, also scheduled to leave that night. Lil Durk did not board either flight and the FBI learned he was on a private plane departing from Miami to Italy that night. He was arrested at the Miami airport. In a separate lawsuit filed in Nov 2024, Lil Durk is accused of being a part of the August 2020 gang-related shooting that killed rapper FBG Duck. FBG Duck, whose real name was Carlton Weekly, was shot in the Gold Coast by a group of masked men as he waited to enter the Dolce & Gabbana store.

Aug 16 – Tommy O’Halloran, 87, was stabbed as he rode his mobility scooter along Western Avenue (A40) in Greenford, west London at 4pm. Lee Byer, 44, from Allenby Road, Southall, was charged with murder but admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was given an indefinite hospital order. O’Halloran was a well-known eccentric figure around the Greenford area. He used to play his accordion outside Greenford station and collect money for the Ukraine conflict. He was originally from Ireland. Byer, who had been released from prison 5 days earlier, had a long criminal record. He later wrote repeatedly about a “Hunger Games” scenario in which he was required to meet “contestants” and then fight or attack.

Aug 16 – Khadidja O, 23, an Algeria-born beauty blogger, was killed and her body left in the boot of a Mercedes car in Ingolstadt, Germany. Sharaban K, 23, a German-Iraqi beautician from Munich, and her Kosovan boyfriend Sheqir K, 23, were charged with murder. The case is known as the Doppelganger case. Prosecutors allege Sharaban wanted to fake her own death and get away from her parents so she found a lookalike on Instagram, befriended her and offered to meet her to share cosmetics. After killing her the pair then lifted the victim on the backseat of their Mercedes and drove to Ingolstadt, parking the car in a quiet residential area by the banks of the Danube, where it was discovered by Sharaban K’s parents shortly before midnight.

Aug 16 – Sam Rimmer, 22, was shot dead in Dingle, Liverpool at 11.40pm. Two men in dark clothing fled the scene on electric bikes. Unsolved.

Aug 15 – Aziza Bennis, 58, a dinner lady, was stabbed to death at a flat in Boddington Gardens, Acton, west London. Her daughter, Hanna Bennis, 21, was charged with murder but she admitted manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility, on the basis her mental function was impaired and the murder charge was dropped. Hanaa had told psychiatrists she had been abused by her mother for many years. Police found evidence of drug and alcohol abuse in the home. Police were called to reports of a loud altercation between the mother and daughter following the escalation of a row about custody of Hanaa’s child.

Aug 15 – Il Sung, 58, was stabbed to death at a Korean restaurant just off Oxford Street in Soho, central London. Li Hunan, 60, a Chinese national, has been charged with murder. The pair were both chefs and it is alleged they had argued about the way the victim was preparing food with the defendant querying his skill as a chef. The defendant allegedly used a knife he was using to prepare food to swing out at the victim, who had a knife sharpener.

Aug 14 – Stephen Goodman, 60, was killed in a fight in the centre of Dagenham, east London, at 5am. Connor Coveley, 23, has been charged with murder.

Aug 13 – Kacey Boothe, 25, was shot in Forest Rise, Walthamstow, north east London shortly before 9.30pm and taken to hospital by car, where he died. Police say people at a party at a nearby community centre may have seen what happened and have urged witnesses to come forward. A Twitter user told local MP Stella Creasy the event was a first birthday party. Ka-Amni Brightly-Donaldson, 22, from Enfield, has been charged with murder, possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition, Jeffrey Gyimah, 20, has been charged with murder and unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition, Kammar Henry-Richards, 24, and Kadeem Brightly-Barnes, 30, from Romford, were also charged with murder. They await trial in 2023.

Aug 10 – John MacKinnon, 47, was shot dead at a house in Teangue, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Rowena MacDonald, 32, was earlier stabbed eight miles away in Tarskavaig. John Don Mackenzie and Fay Mackenzie, both aged 63, were injured in a shooting in Dornie, on the mainland. The local MP described it as an “awful day”. Rowena’s husband Finlay MacDonald, 39, was jailed for life (28 years) in Dec 2024 for murder and attempted murder. Mr MacKinnon was his sister’s husband. He claimed he was suffering from an abnormality of mind at the time.

Aug 7 – Abdul Rahman, 59, was beaten to death in the basement of a shop in Norwood junction, south London and left in the doorway of a nearby Aldi supermarket. Vijay Pethuru 23, Darren Parchment, 20, and Agash Jeyanandam, 23, were charged with murder went on trial in July 2023. The trial heard Jeyanandam, the owner of Counter News, killed Rahman after a customer complained about him having spoken to her teenage daughter while he had his hands in his pants. Defence counsel Alison Morgan KC told the jury: “The CCTV shows that Mr Rahman, the man who died, left the shop at one point in the evening and began to follow a young girl. That young girl had been with her friend but then was isolated on her own. The overwhelming inference from what Mr Rahman, the man who died, was doing was that he was deriving sexual gratification from following and chasing that young girl.” The jury heard Jeyanandam told his girlfriend, Sarveswari Selvaseelen, the next morning he was so angry he took Rahman to the basement of his shop and beat him with a rod-shaped weapon. Jeyanandam was acquitted.

Aug 7 – Billy Pearson, 26, was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver in the churchyard of Chesterfield Parish Church in Derbyshire, famously known as the Crooked Spire. Melusi Madaweni, 30, was jailed for life (25years) at Derby Crown Court. The court heard one of Mr Pearson’s friends accused Madaweni of selling them fake drugs, which later turned into an altercation which saw Madaweni kicked.

Aug 6 – Ghulam Sadiq, 18, was stabbed in the street in Leytonstone, east London. Emadh Miah, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was jailed for life (19 years) for murder. The court heard the murder weapon was a 22 inch zombie knife and Miah had travelled down from Birmingham to attack Sadiq. The trial judge, Christine Laing KC, raged about such weapons being available and told jurors: “All I can do is encourage you to write to your MP and say, ‘Why is it these can be so readily purchased. Knife crime is becoming the scourge of our society but at the moment people can get weapons like that — it’s really quite shocking.” In April 2023 the government announced it would be banning zombie knives and other types of non-work machetes.

Aug 5 – Brenton Marriott, 58, died in hospital after being stabbed at his son’s home in Nottingham. His 29-year-old son Rudi Marriott – who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia – was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility by a jury and was given a hospital order. Brenton’s brother, Delvin, claimed Rudi’s report of hearing voices “wasn’t taken seriously”.

Aug 4 – Deshaun James-Tuitt, 15, was stabbed to death at Highbury Fields in Islington, north London during a confrontation between two groups of youths. He was known to friends as Huntz. Six boys, aged between 15 and 17, were charged with murder in July 2023 and await trial.

Aug 2 – Shane Frye, 14, from Paterson, New Jersey, shot dead in the Rockaways, Queens, New York. Detectives were investigating if the killing was connected to a shooting on a nearby block the night before. In that incident an 18-year-old boy was shot in the face and hand. Frye and his older brother lived with their father, after their mother died.

Aug 2 – Simon Wilkinson, 50, was beaten to death with a bag full of five tins of Pokemon cards in a “ferocious and brutal” attack outside his flat in Sheffield. He was also punched and stamped on. Andrew Hague, 31, his neighbour, was jailed for life (17 years) after being insulted. Hague suffered from a psychotic disorder, most likely schizophrenia, which was exacerbated by cannabis use, and had stopped taking his medication before the killing, the court heard.

Aug – The bodies of two children, Mina Jo, aged six, and Yuna Jo, aged eight, were found in two suitcases which had been bought in an online auction in New Zealand amid a trailer of goods. Lee Hakyung was charged with their murder in 2025. Lee lived in Auckland for several years before she returned to South Korea in 2018. The children’s father died of cancer in 2017. It is known exactly when the children died but their bodies then discovered in August 2022. Lee was extradited from South Korea to New Zealand in November 2022, and was jailed for life for murder in Nov 2025.

July 2022

July 31 – Charley Bates, 16, was stabbed to death in Radstock, near Bath, Somerset. Joshua Delbono, 18, from Frome, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (21 years). The court heard that an argument broke out between two groups of youths.

July 30 – Thomas Parker, 24, was hit on the head with a horseshoe on the platform at Reading station just before midnight after a row on a train. Kirkpatrick Virgo, 42, from Slough, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (21 years). trial. Virgo had five previous convictions for crimes such as drink-driving, and on another occasion he was found with crack cocaine and heroin. The row on the train began when Thomas’s older brother Craig Parker, 27, told one of Virgo’s friends to turn the music down on a boombox at about 11pm. The two groups shouted at each other before the altercation was ended by off-duty police officers. Virgo then followed the brothers when the train arrived at Reading. Virgo claimed he was racially abused.

July 29 – Kathleen John, 39, fell from a block of flats in Wembley, NW London. Leonidas Georgalla 50, from Harrow, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 29 -Alika Ogochukwu, a Nigerian beggar, was assaulted on the street and strangled in Civitanova in Marche, Italy. Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, 32, from Campania has been charged with murder and theft. A video of the assault was uploaded onto social media, with many observers questioning why the person filming the apparently racist attack had not intervened.

July 28 – Lilia Valutyte, nine, was stabbed as she played with her younger sister in the street in Fountain Lane, Boston, Lincolnshire. Deividas Skebas, 22, a Lithuanian national, was charged with murder but was found mentally unfit for trial. A trial of issue found he had committed the act and he was given an indefinite hospital order. Lilia’s family were also Lithuanian but Skebas was a stranger.

July 27 – Learoy Venner, 53, was beaten over the head in Anfield, Liverpool. Kevin Spaine, 43, was jailed for life (18 years) for murder. Spaine had admitted manslaughter. Spaine was a former child actor who delivered a famous line in a milk advert in the 1980s. He said the iconic catchphrase: “Accrington Stanley? Who are they?” in a commercial by the Milk Marketing Board.

July 27 – Victor Hamilton, 63, was killed in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Mario Menezes, 33, from Portadown, and Mamadu Saido Djalo, 29, from Belfast, were charged with murder and await trial.

July 25 – Two homeless people died in Langley, just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The gunman, Jordan Goggin, 28, then shot himself. Goggin went to several locations in the city and township of Langley during the night and shot a total of four people. Two died, a third remains in critical condition, and one man suffered non-life-threatening injuries during the rampage. Several people mentioned on social media that YouTuber Joe Rogan had suggested killing homeless people a few days earlier.

July 24 – Meninder Dhaliwal, a prominent member of the Brothers Keepers gang, was shot dead, along with his friend Satindera Gill, in broad daylight outside the Sundial Hotel in Whistler, British Columbia. Tanvir Khakh, 20, and Gursimran Sahota, 24, were later apprehended and charged with murder. The getaway was found torched in Squamish. The killers are allegedly linked to Vancouver’s rival United Nations gang. Sahota was charged in 2019 in three drugstore robberies in Surrey and Delta, along with the UN’s Karman Grewal. Grewal was shot to death at Vancouver airport on May 9, 2021, in a targeted hit believed to be one of several in retaliation for the murder of Dhaliwal’s brother Harb at Vancouver’s Coal Harbour on April 17, 2021.

July 24 – Dawid Such, 19, was stabbed in the back and abdomen in Southampton, Hampshire. Ken Mulangala, 20, Jordan Matthews, 20, and Donovan Thomas, 35, have been charged with murder and Billy McIntyre, 23, has been charged with assisting an offender. The killing is believed to have been linked to a dispute over drugs. Police investigating the murder shot a man in the hand while arresting him in King’s Road, Chelsea, a few days after the killing.

July 24 – Sam Brown, 28, was shot dead at a party in Cheney Row Park, Walthamstow, NE London. Kyle Kemp, 26, from Mitcham, south London, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 24 – Lauren Jade Howe, 26, was beaten to death at a house in Baildon, Bradford. Her boyfriend Charlie Booth, 27, was jailed for life (15 years). For murder. She suffered injuries so severe they would usually be seen in victims of a car crash, Leeds Crown Court heard. The court heard Booth was very possessive and was angry because Ms Howe had gone out without him on the night before the attack and he had made “countless efforts to locate and contact her”.

July 24 – Camilo Palacio, 23, was shot dead on Wood Green High Road in north London. Devonte Jackson, 27, from Hornsey, and a 16-year-old boy have appeared before Highbury magistrates, charged with arson, assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice. Milan Kaleja, 30, from Margate, and Mohamed Ahmed Ali, 24, from Hornsey, have also been charged with assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice. As yet nobody has been charged with the murder.

July 23 – Wayne Phillips, 58, was stabbed to death at the Star and Scorpion pub in Uxbridge Road, west Ealing, west London. Timothy Simon, 59, from north London, was jailed for life for murder at Isleworth Crown Court in April 2023. During trial the court heard how Wayne and two female companions had arrived at the pub for a birthday party. They brought presents from the boot of their car and entered the pub greeting people at the entrance. Within minutes of arrival at the venue Wayne was approached by Simon and the men fought briefly before Wayne collapsed having been stabbed in the chest.

July 22 – Madison Wright, 30, was wearing a pink top, black trousers and flip flops when she was last seen alive in Basildon, Essex. Her car, a black Vauxhall Astra, was found four days later in Brackendale Avenue. Her body was later found in Wat Tyler Country Park. Her boyfriend Garry Bennett, 36, was jailed for life (21 years) for murder. While in custody, messages were found on his phone indicating Madison had felt controlled within their relationship and wanted to leave him.

July 22 – Amber Culley, 43, and Mimi Kates, 49, were shot dead in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. Eric Shestalo, 50, who is believed to have been romantically involved with one of the women, was named as a suspect but he was found dead four days later in Bridal Falls, having apparently committed suicide.

July 19 – Daneche Tison, 26, shot outside a block of flats in Queens Park, north west London at around 2am. Seven men, aged between 21 and 27, were arrested on suspicion of murder and have been released under investigation. Police released a CCTV image of the prime suspect.

July 18 – Mamadou T, 38, was shot dead at a shisha bar in east Paris. Four others were injured. One gunman escaped – but was later arrested in Lyons – but the other, aged 16, was overpowered by customers. Detectives found links between a gun courier and the suspects in the shisha bar attack and concluded the killing was not a score-settling between rival gangs but a targeted murder by a network that had already accepted contracts. The gang was divided into hitmen, reconnaissance operatives and couriers. In March 2023 police rounded up nine suspects aged between 18 and 20 in the Paris suburbs, Brittany, eastern France and the southern towns of Nice and Nîmes. They have been charged with murder, attempted murder, being in an organised gang and possession of military weapons and munitions.

July 17 – Frankie Fitzgerald, 25, was found dead, with his throat slit, in a house in Havant, Hampshire. Shaye Groves, 26, from Havant, was jailed for life (23 years) for murder. The pair shared a mutual interest in BDSM and a camera was set up in Groves’ bedroom at her home in Havant, Hampshire, to record them having sex. Groves had framed pictures of serial killers on her walls, collected books about gangsters, including the notorious prisoner Charles Bronson, and watched true crime documentaries, Winchester Crown Court heard. Lauren White, 26, from Portsmouth, was charged under Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act for failing to comply with a section 49 notice to disclose the key to protected information.

July 17 – Marc Ash, 57, was stabbed to death at a house in Elliot’s Town, New Tredegar, South Wales. Rebecca Press, 31, was jailed for life (20 years) for murder. The trial at Cardiff Crown Court heard she had been drinking heavily and using drugs, including ecstasy and benzodiazepines, on the day of the killing. Press initially denied murder but changed her plea during her trial. Ash was her mother’s best friend. On the day of the murder, Press, had arrived to spend the weekend at her mother’s flat after splitting up with her boyfriend, Ashley Allan, after he discovered she had been having an affair. She left a voicemail message for her Allan, in which she said: “Ash it’s really bad. It’s really f****** bad. I’ve just stabbed someone and killed them. I’ve just murdered someone, please phone me now. F*** (screams). I’ve just murdered someone.”

July 16 – Samantha Murphy, 37, was stabbed in the leg and bled to death at a house in Margate, Kent. Her boyfriend Thomas Allen, 38, was jailed for life (27 years) for murder. The trial heard the pair had spent the evening with some neighbours drinking. They returned home, where he became violent towards her. She fled back to the neighbours’ house. He kicked a hole through the front door and then stabbed her through the hole. Kelsie Murphy, 26, from Ramsgate, was charged with assisting an offender but those charges were dropped. When Allen was about to be sentenced he lashed out and told the judge to “get on with it” and give him a life sentence.

July 14 – Ripudaman Singh Malik, 75, a Sikh businessman, was shot dead outside his business, Papillon Eastern Imports, in Surrey, British Columbia. Tanner Fox, 21, from Abbotsford, and Jose Lopez, 23, from New Westminster, were charged with murder and both pleaded guilty in October 2024, on the eve of their trial. Lopez attacked Fox during that hearing. Who hired them is not clear but it may have been the Indian government. Malik was acquitted, along with Ajaib Singh Bagri, in 2005 of carrying out the Air India bombing. A third man, Inderjit Singh Reyat, was jailed for five years after admitting helping to build the bomb but said he had no idea of the target. On June 23, 1985, Air India flight 182, carrying 329 people, including 268 Canadian citizens and 24 Indian nationals, flew from Toronto and stopped in Montreal from where it was en route to London and then onwards to its final destination, Mumbai. The plane was flying 31,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean when a suitcase bomb exploded in the front cargo, killing all on board. Another bomb was meant to be planted in an Air India flight scheduled to take off from Japan but it exploded at Tokyo’s Narita airport killing two baggage handlers.

July 13 – Keith Ford, 40, a self-employed gardener from Urmston, Manchester, was hit by a train at Gronant, near Prestatyn, north Wales. A 47-year-old man from Manchester was arrested on suspicion of murder but never charged.

July 11 – Margaret Barnes, 71, a retired factory worker from Birmingham, was dragged out of a house in Barmouth, Gwynedd, before being kicked and stamped to death. David Redfern, 46, was jailed for life (14 years) for murder. The trial heard he told his partner: “I didn’t mean to kill her”, jurors heard. His partner said: “You could have just escorted her out. It’s an old lady.” Barnes was also heard apologising to Mr Redfern on CCTV, which was shown to Caernarfon Crown Court. The court heard she had mistaken Redfern’s home for a B&B where she was staying and had gone to sleep in their bed. She suffered broken ribs and damage to her liver and died in the street. The court heard that the atmosphere changed when Mr Redfern called the police, and his fiancée spotted that Ms Barnes had seemingly put the ashes of their dead dog, Jake, into her bag. Redfern told the court he and his fiancée, Nikki Learoyd-Lewis had been out drinking on the evening of 10 July. He had had six or seven pints and a gin and tonic, and they had returned home and fallen asleep watching Antiques Roadshow on catch-up, he said. But when they headed to bed, they found their bedroom door locked. After gaining access to the room with the spare key, they saw Ms Barnes in their bed, her clothes “strewn around the room” and her false teeth on the dressing table. Redfern said in his evidence: “There was a lady lying in our bed, drinking and smoking.

July 11 – Lauie Michael Tagaloa, 24, died after he was stabbed in the neck during a fight at Fortitude Valley train station in Brisbane, Australia around 4am. Footage of the horrific incident was uploaded onto social media and showed Tagaloa collapsing and bleeding heavily after a young man from another group stabbed him as he and his friends confronted them. Seyram Kwami Djentuh, 20, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 9 – Timothy Reynolds, 48, was shot dead after confronting a group of youths who had been washing cars at traffic lights in the Inner Harbour, Baltimore, Maryland. A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder and awaits trial. Eyewitnesses said an enraged Reynolds, armed with a baseball bat, left his car and ran across eight lanes of traffic to confront three “squeegee” workers after an altercation. But a larger group surrounded him and hit him with a rock, before he was shot. Some social media users said squeegee mobs in Baltimore were out of control and were involved in crime towards motorists.

July 6 – Khurram Butt, 57, was stabbed to death at the junction of Cowley Road and The Greenway in Uxbridge, Middlesex. Khalid Khan, 49, from Frayslea, Uxbridge, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

July 4 – Seven people were shot dead during a US Independence Day celebration in Highland Park, Illinois. Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, 21, has been charged with seven counts of first degree murder. Crimo, is accused of firing 70 bullets from a high-powered rifle down on to the crowd and disguising himself as a woman so he could escape alongside fleeing victims.He apparently also considered carrying out a second massacre in Wisconsin but did not go through with it. The victims were Katherine Goldstein, 64, Irina McCarthy, 35 and her husband Kevin McCarthy, 37, Stephen Straus, 88, Jacquelyn “Jacki” Sundheim, 63, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78, who was from Morelos, Mexico, and Eduardo Uvaldo, 69, from Waukegan.

July 2 – Thomas Campbell, 38, a drug dealer, was tortured and killed at his home in Mossley, Greater Manchester. His ex-wife Coleen Campbell, 38, was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 13 years. Stephen Cleworth, 38, was also acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 12 years. Reece Steven, 29, was convicted of murder and conspiracy to rob and jailed for life (37 years). They went on trial at Bolton Crown Court in Jan 2023. The jury heard three men lay in wait at Mr Campbell’s home and tortured him. The alleged mastermind of the attack was John Belfield, 28, who is not before the court and is thought to have fled the country. He is said to have plotted to rob Campbell at his home after seeing a Manchester Evening News article about Campbell and his ex-wife’s ‘wealthy lifestyle’. The trial has heard Belfield befriended Mrs Campbell on Instagram and eventually met her. Jurors were told Belfield had tried to get in touch with Cleworth during the day, but was unsuccessful. After messages went unanswered, Mr Belfield texted him saying: “Yoooo this is what I mean about you mate, you can’t even work with you bro.” The jury has heard Cleworth was unavailable because he was ‘on a bender’ at a ‘swinger’s club’ in Rochdale. “Stephen Cleworth’s unavailability clearly presented a problem for John Belfield,” Nicholas de la Poer KC, prosecuting, said in his opening speech.

July 1 – Hina Bashir, 21, a student from Pakistan, was smothered with a face mask at a flat in Ilford, east London, and dumped in a suitcase in undergrowth by an industrial estate in Upminster, near the M25. Muhammad Arslan, 27, was jailed for life (20 years) for murder. Ms Bashir was studying at Coventry University’s London campus at the time of her death, having travelled to the UK from Pakistan in Nov 2021. The pair grew up in the same village in Pakistan and the defendant followed Ms Bashir to the UK months after she came to study in November 2021. He claimed he had only meant to quieten her after he confronted her over naked photographs of her that he had been sent. The prosecution rejected his explanation as “elaborate and concocted” and asserted he had killed her out of anger and jealousy. Judge Richard Marks told Arslan: “I am satisfied that your unrequited feelings for Hina boiled over and resulted in you taking hold of a facemask and forcing it into the back of her mouth which led to her collapse and ultimately to her death from asphyxiation.”

June 2022

Jun 30 – Captain Ralph Frasure, Deputy William Petry and dog handler Jacob Chaffins were shot dead after attending a domestic confrontation at a house in Allen, eastern Kentucky. K9 Drago, one of the dogs that Mr Chaffins handled, also died. Capt Frasure had been with the Prestonsburg, Kentucky, Police Department for 39 years. The department said he had served “with honour and glory up until the last second”. Lance Storz, 49, has been charged with 20 counts, including first degree murder. The shooting continued for nearly three hours before Storz was taken into custody, having surrendered after negotiations involving members of his family. Storz had a .308-caliber rifle and AR-15 assault rifles. Many civil rights groups pointed out to the fact that Storz -who was white – was arrested unhurt, while a young black man, Jayland Walker, had been shot multiple times by police in Akron, Ohio, after being stopped for a traffic violation.

June 29 – Ronan Kanda, 16, was stabbed near his home in Wolverhampton after he visited a friend’s house to buy a PlayStation controller in June 2022. Prabjeet Veadhesa, 17, was jailed for life (18 years) and Sukhman Shergill was jailed for life (16 years). Before passing sentence at Wolverhampton Crown Court, the judge, Mr Justice Choudhury, lifted reporting restrictions on naming the teenagers. The trial heard Veadhesa was owed money by Ronan’s friend – who was not named – but when he went to confront him he saw Ronan leaving the house and assumed he was the boy who owed him money. Earlier in the day, Veadhesa had collected a ninja sword set and a large machete from a local post office after buying them online using a fake name.

June 25 – Karamjeet Singh Reel, 31, a drug dealer, was stabbed to death outside his flat in Staines Road, Hounslow, west London. Wesley Angel, 32, from Brentford, was jailed for life (25 years) for murder and conspiracy to rob. His brother Nathan Angel, 23, was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy to rob and jailed for 9 years. Bobby Dunleavy, 26, was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter and conspiracy to rob. Police found £25,000 in cash and a large quantity of cocaine. Reel was targeted by the Angel brothers for the stash.

June 25 – David Toulson, 40, died after being held in a “guillotine chokehold” in a flat in Salford, Manchester. James Johnson, 29, an off-duty prison officer, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter. Johnson claimed he was forced to hold Toulson in the chokehold because he feared he was going to be ‘raped or sexually assaulted’ by Toulson, who was gay. The pair, and some female friends, returned to the flat after a ‘debauched’ celebration for Toulson’s 40^th birthday. The first day of his trial at Manchester Crown Court heard Johnson claims he acted in ‘self-defence’ after Mr Toulson ‘started dragging him towards the bedroom’ when he was being sick in the toilet. In the first of two 999 calls made by Mr Johnson, the court heard he said: “Someone tried to rape me and I’ve killed them”, adding in a second: “I think I’ve killed my friend.”

June 25 – Somaiya Begum, 20, was last seen at her home in Binnie Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire. Her body was discovered near Fitzwilliam Street a few days later. A metal spike was embedded in her back, which had penetrated her lung. Her uncle, Mohammed Taroos Khan, 52, was jailed for life (25 years) for murder. Ms Begum, a student at Leeds Beckett University, was subject to a Forced Marriage Protection Order at the time of her death due to attempts by her father to force her to marry a cousin “by threat of violence”. After attacking Miss Begum at another uncle’s home, Khan was seen on CCTV dragging her body from his car and dumping it on waste ground. An 81-year-old woman arrested in connection with the death was released on bail.

June 24 – Lee Woodward, 39, an Iraq War veteran, suffered brain damage after being attacked in the centre of Stoke-on-Trent. He died 10 months later in hospital. Gregory Twigg, 31, was later charged with murder. He will go on trial at Stafford Crown Court in July 2025.

June 23 – Zara Aleena, 35, was found dying in the street in Gants Hill, Ilford, east London at 2.44am. She had been bludgeoned over the head as she walked home from a night out. Jordan McSweeney, 29, admitted murder and was jailed for life (38 years). Zara was one of several women he followed after he was thrown out of a pub for being drunk. A report by the Inspectorate of Probation, published in Jan 2023, said McSweeney should have been perceived as a high-risk offender when he was released from prison days before he murdered Aleena. The Chief Inspector of Probation, Justin Russell, said: “Jordan McSweeney should have been considered a high risk of serious harm offender. If he had, more urgent action would have been taken to recall him to prison, after he missed his supervision appointments on release from custody.”

June 21 – Sakunthala Francis, 89, was killed at a house in Thornton Heath, south London. Her grandson Verushan Manoharan, 31, was charged with murder but admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility.

June 20 – Nathaniel “Natty” Wardle, 43, was stabbed to death in Wallsend, Tyneside. Mohammed Rabani, 19, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 12 years for manslaughter. Robbie Battista, was found not guilty of both murder and manslaughter but admitted being in possession of a knife and was given a suspended sentence. Newcastle Crown Court heard that Rabani, Battista and a third youth, known as BHV, had turned up looking for someone else for a “straightener” when Wardle returned home to Holy Cross, Wallsend. Within seconds of his arrival, Rabani stabbed Wardle fatally in the chest and he died at the scene in his front garden. BHV, who was 17, walked free during the trial after the judge ruled he had no case to answer.

June 20 – Kimesha Wright, 31; and her children Kimanda Smith, 15; Shara-Lee Smith, 10; Rafaella Smith, five; and 23-month-old Kishawn Henry, were stabbed to death in Cocoa Piece district, Clarendon, Jamaica. Kimesha’s cousin, Rushane ‘Jett’ Barnett pleaded guilty to five counts of murder when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston in July. The killings are alleged to have occurred between the night of June 20 and the early morning of June 21. The victims were reportedly found with stab wounds and their throats slashed. Barnett claimed his cousin, who ran a shop, had disrespected him in the days before the murder.

June 18 – Ali Baygoren, 17, was stabbed to death in Tottenham, north London, A 15-year-old boy was convicted of murder and faces a life sentence. The jury was not told that on 23 May, four weeks before the murder, the defendant had been made the subject of a knife prevention order banning him from carrying a knife in a public place, entering an exclusion zone in Haringey, and preventing him from being with certain named individuals. Mr Dawes told the court that in a separate incident, on 6 August 2021, the defendant had stabbed a 14-year-old boy, leaving a knife buried in the teenager’s chest. The boy survived following emergency treatment at the scene and then at the Royal London Hospital. The defendant was arrested the following morning. After being interviewed by police he was bailed pending further inquiries and released from the police station

June 18 – Mikey Harrison, 11, was found dead in Shipley Country Park, near Heanor, Derbyshire. His father, Michael Harrison, 41, from Mapperley, Nottingham, was jailed for life (21 years) for murder and engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour against a woman, between January 1, 2021 and July 1, 2022. He admitted causing Mikey’s death but denies murder and faces trial in January 2023. He initially claimed Mikey suffered the injuries when he fell out of a tree in the park. Mikey was under-nourished and only weighed 3st 11lbs at the time of the attack. Judge Shaun Smith KC said Harrison had hit and punched Mikey “many times”, including one blow that was “so hard it lacerated his liver”.

June 13 – The body of Subere Badade, 28, was found on fire in Belvue Park, Northolt, Middlesex. Samuel Stewart, 35, and David Pilgrim, 32, both from Northolt, were acquitted of murder but both were convicted of manslaughter at Isleworth Crown Court in May 2023. They both claimed Badade had refused to leave a property and died during a struggle.

June 11 – Adnan Saleh, 28, was stabbed in Paddington, west London. He suffered catastrophic damage to his brain due to severe blood loss and was in a coma until he died on 29 November 2022. After a trial in May 2023 Steven Woods, 27, was jailed for life (22 years), Majid Kebire, 22, was jailed for life (22 years) and Fadel Dabbous, 19, was jailed for life (18 years). All three were from the Lisson Grove estate. The court heard that a week prior to the attack, Adnan had received messages on Snapchat which alleged he was present during the stabbing of another man. Judge John Hillen said the link between the defendants and Mr Saleh was a long-established gang called the Lisson Green Men. He said: “In my judgment an internal gang dispute, and consequential punishment of one side by the other, forms the background to this murder.”He told the defendants: “I am satisfied so that I am sure that none of the three of you were the instigators, the prime planners or the directors of this violent attack upon Adnan Saleh.“All three of you were treated as expendable useful idiots by a senior or seniors, elders as they are called, of the Lisson Green Gang.”

June 9 – Jakub Szymanski, 15, was stabbed to death at a house in the Miles Platting area of Manchester. His mother, Katarzyna Bastek, 40, was also treated for serious stab wounds. Her ex-partner, Suleman Altaf, 44, was jailed for life (30 years) for murder and attempted murder. At his trial, jurors heard that after the killing Mr Altaf was seen fleeing the area before getting a taxi to Slough and then driving to the South Coast. He was later picked up by lifeguards from the RNLI as he tried to cross the English Channel.

June 6 – Jennifer Andrews, 32, was beaten to death at her home in Leeds. Her former boyfriend, Rawden Ibbitson, 32, was jailed for life (29 years) in May 2023. The court heard Jennifer’s body was found inside her home with 90 separate injuries which included extensive abrasions to her head, neck and body, a fractured jaw, bruising to her head with a bleed to the brain, 13 bite marks on her face, breast, abdomen, thigh and forearm. The court heard Ibbitson had become “fixated” with her. Ibbitson referred himself to the psychiatric services in January 2022 after telling staff he had taken an overdose. On January 5, he sent Jennifer a text saying: “I can’t block out my feelings about you, it’s hard for me not to come over and see you.” When Ibbitson was sentenced a court order prohibiting anyone identifying Jennifer was put in place – despite her already having been named by West Yorkshire Police following her murder. At the time, Jennifer’s family also provided a photograph and tributes to be used by the press, meaning her name and image was already out in the public domain prior to the order being made. Judge Tom Bayliss said the “horse had already bolted” but the order was still put in. Leeds Live challenged it and it was lifted a month later.

June 3 – Lamar Jackson, 32, a rapper better known as Hypo, was stabbed to death at a party in Woodford Green, east London. Laurie John-Phillip, 32, from Enfield, north London, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter at an Old Bailey trial in Aug 2023. John-Phillip, nicknamed ‘Bigga’ due to his height and build, was working as a security guard at the party. He claimed self-defence. Hypo’s tracks included Flex On My X, First Night and No L’s. He was the former boyfriend of pop star Emeli Sande.

June 1 – Dr Antonella Castelvedere, 52, a lecturer at the University of Suffolk, was killed at her home in Colchester, Essex. Her husband, an economics lecturer, Ertan Ersoy, 50, has been charged with murder. Dr Castelvedere was from Brescia in Italy and left behind a young daughter. He will go on trial in Oct 2023.

June 1 – Devon Jensen-Wallace, 25, was stabbed on the Stonebridge estate in north-west London. Jamal Grant, 31, and his father Elvis Grant, 51, were found guilty of murder and perverting the course of justice and jailed for life. Jamal’s brother, Lamar Grant, 25, was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter and perverting the course of justice.  The court had heard there was a history between the victim and Jamal Grant over an incident in 2018. In 2019 Mr Jensen-Wallace moved away but on the day of the killing he had returned to the estate where the Grants lived to visit a friend.

May or June – Kyran Durnin, 6, was last seen alive after his last day at St Nicholas’s Monastery National School in Dundalk, Republic of Ireland. But he was only reported missing from his home in Drogheda, in Aug 2024, along with his mother, Dayla Durnin, 24, who has since been located. The Commissioner of the Garda, Drew Harris, described the case as “extraordinary” and said he has never seen one like it in his 40-year career. Ireland’s Child and Family Agency, Tusla, said it had raised a “significant concern” around the missing child to gardai in August. The case has become a major political cause celebre. Nobody has been charged. It appears the family were planning to relocate to Northern Ireland, so when Kyran did not return to the school the following September, no immediate concerns arose.

May 2022

May 29 – Sidhu Moose Wala, 28, a prominent Punjabi singer and rapper, was shot dead in his car in Jawaharke village in Mansa district, Punjab, India. Hours after his assassination, Canada-based gangster Satinder Singh alias Goldy Brar claimed took to social media and claimed the responsibility for his murder. Goldy Brar is considered to be a close associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. The killing was allegedly to avenge the murder of Vicky Middukhera, an Akali leader, in 2021. Sidhu Moose Wala was born Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu and his death has made him “India’s Tupac”.

May 27 – Nicholas Sutin, 55, a homeless man, was attacked and killed in North Finchley, north London. Jermaine Myers, 37, admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was given a hospital order. Nicholas, who was sleeping rough, had been on a bench near the Tally Ho pub when he was approached by Myers who was armed with a knife. Myers stabbed Nicholas twice before picking up a concrete slab and striking him across the head, causing catastrophic injuries.

May 27 – Kerry Owen, 35, was found dead on a country lane in Hopwood, Worcestershire. Her boyfriend Alan Edney, 30, from Birmingham, was jailed for life (20 years) for murder at Worcester Crown Court.

May 27 – Zane Smart, 15, was stabbed to death during a prearranged fight in Reapers Walk, Pendeford, Wolverhampton. A 16-year-old – who was not named for legal reasons – was acquitted of murder in Jan 2023 but was jailed for 6 years for manslaughter. The trial heard the defendant was “irate” when Zane rode a bike near to where they would go on to clash.

May 24 – Aranit Lleshi, 32, from Tottenham, north London, was stabbed during a brawl in Bloomfield Road, Brislington, Bristol. Radian Lika, 36, and Brikel Palaj, 33, were both convicted of murder after a seven-week trial at Bristol Crown Court and jailed for life (20 years). Nikola Palaj, 29, was convicted of the manslaughter of Mr Lleshi and was sentenced to five years in prison. Kastriot Mhillaj, 35, admitted a charge of violent disorder and was jailed for 18 weeks. Rinush Behari 33, of Woolwich, London was acquitted of murder and violent disorder. Sadik Lleshi was acquitted of any involvement in the violent disorder that led to his sibling’s death. A murder charge against him was dropped during the trial. The trial heard cannabis was being grown in a rented house close to the scene of the fight. Lleshi and his brother Sadik were preparing to harvest £95,000 worth of cannabis when they were attacked by a rival gang of Albanians, also from London. After scoping out the property, Lika and Brikel Palaj drove to a nearby Sainsbury’s and bought four kitchen knives before returning. This was yet another cannabis farm murder.

May 20 – Eli Hart, six, was shot dead at his home in Orono, near Minneapolis, Minnesota. His mother, Julissa Thaler, was jailed for life without the possibility of parole in Feb 2023. Thaler called the judge “garbage” as she was sentenced. “I’m innocent. F*** you all. You’re garbage. That is all, your honour,” she said. She had been granted full custody of the child ten days previously after splitting with Eli’s father, Tory Hart. Police pulled her over after receiving reports of an individual driving without a tyre and with a destroyed back window. When they conducted a traffic stop, police found Thaler had flesh pieces on her and there was blood in her car. She claimed the blood was from a tampon and the flesh was from a deer that she had purchased from a butcher. After about half an hour, police escorted Thaler home. They later found the body of Eli in the trunk next to a shotgun. The child’s father, Tory Hart, had made several complaints regarding the mother’s previous drug use and mental health issues.

May 20 – David Faraj, a millionaire businessman, was shot dead in his car, which crashed into a roundabout in Örebro, Sweden.

May 10 – Aaisha Hasan, 32, was stabbed 26 times at her home in Canning Town, east London. Her husband Asim Hasan, 34, a traffic warden, was jailed for life (21 years) in Aug 2023. The trial heard she had refused to accept him taking another partner. He told the court he had joined a Muslim dating app just days before the killing and that their relationship broke down because he wanted two wives. Their two children, both aged under 10, were waiting to be taken to school when Hasan killed her.

May 18 – Rebecca Contois, 24, went missing and her body was dumped in a dumpster in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, also known as Crane River, located on the western shore of Lake Manitoba. Jeremy Skibicki, 35, was charged in Dec 2022 with her murder and three more counts of first-degree murder. Morgan Beatrice Harris, 39, was killed on or around May 1, while Marcedes Myran, 26, was killed on or around May 4. Both women were members of Long Plain First Nation, in south central Manitoba, but were living in Winnipeg. The fourth woman is believed to have been an Indigenous woman in her mid-20s. It’s believed she was killed on or around March 15.

May 17 – Ania Jedrkowiak, 21, was stabbed to death in an alleyway near Church Gardens, south Ealing, west London. Her former boyfriend Dennis Akpomedaye, 29, from Newport, Gwent, Wales, was jailed for life (29 years) for murder. The trial at Kingston Crown Court heard Akpomedaye, who was wearing a mask, suddenly attacked Jedrkowiak as she and her new boyfriend Jack Maskell took a shortcut behind a church just after midnight. Prosecutor Deanna Heer, KC, said Jedrkowiak was stabbed 40 times and one wound was so deep it gave the impression he may have been trying to “decapitate” her. The jury—who took just 45 minutes to find Akpomedaye guilty—heard Akpomedaye had left a voice note a week before the killing on an app called Stereo in which, apparently talking to himself, he said, “Thing is if you’re going to find her, kill her, stab her, monster.”

May 14 – Ten people, all of them African-Americans, were gunned down at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York. They were Roberta A. Drury, 32, who had moved to Buffalo to be with her brother, who had had a bone marrow transplant, Margus D. Morrison, 52, Andre Mackneil, 53, Aaron Salter, 55, a retired police officer who was working as a security guard in Top Friendly Mart grocery store, Geraldine Talley, 62, Celestine Chaney, 65, a devoted grandmother, Heyward Patterson, 67, a dedicated church-goer who drove people to and from the supermarket, Katherine Massey, 72, a community activist with a “beautiful soul”, according to her sister, Pearl Young, 77, who dedicated her Saturdays to working in a soup kitchen, and Ruth Whitfield, 86, who had just been to visit her husband in a care home. Payton Gendron, 18, from Conklin, New York, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. Gendron is a white supremacist who drove 200 miles to Buffalo and live streamed the attack on the gaming app Twitch.

May 13 – Lisa Fraser, 52, was discovered dead at a house on Military Road in Pembroke Dock, Wales. Matthew Harris,41, from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, was charged with her murder and threats to kill, robbery and criminal damage to a property in Neyland, Pembrokeshire. A few days later he hanged himself in his cell in Long Lartin prison.

May 12 – Carlo Giannini, 34, an Italian pizza chef, was stabbed to death in Manor Fields Park, Sheffield. Carlo had moved from Italy to Northern Europe to work in restaurants and that he opened his own pizzeria in Germany before travelling to the UK. Two teenagers were arrested.

May 12 – David Crawford, 59, a member of the Cornwall-based Red Chiefs Motorcycle Club, was killed when his Kawasaki motorbike was hit by a van on the A38 on-slip road at the St Budeaux junction in Plymouth. The Red Chiefs are affiliated to the Hells Angels. Benjamin Parry, Thomas Pawley and Chad Brading were acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter. Parry was jailed for 12 years and Pawley and Brading both got four years. They are members of the rival Bandidos gang. The trial heard Pawley presented a prepared statement in which he confirmed he was a member of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club and that he knew Parry through this group. He admitted he was in the company “of another male who I do not wish to name at this time” in his Mercedes car – although he later lets slip that it was Brading. He said he and the other man had gone up to the Hoe area as it was one of the Plymouth Bike Nights in that area, before then going to the Marsh Mills area. There they saw the Red Chiefs Motorcycle Club members, who he described as a “rival gang”. He confirmed the saw them heading towards the Tamar Bridge, with all but one going over the bridge into Cornwall and solitary rider turning around and heading east on the A38. He said that the person he was with “wanted to talk to him about not wearing colours in Plymouth”.

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May 11 – Olsi Kuka, 30, was stabbed to death at a flat in Barnet High Road, Whetstone, north London, around 3am. His cousin, Alush Kaka, survived. Ozan Seran, 27, Bulent Bakir, 26, Santana Thompson, 20, Daige Ramsey, 24, and Reuben Bernard, 18, went on trial accused of murder and robbery in April 2023. The trial heard Kuka was a drug dealer and the gang searched the flat for drugs and money before fleeing in two Mercedes cars.

May 11 – Moriah “Mo” Wilson, 25, a rising star in the gravel and mountain bike racing scene, was shot and killed inside a house in Austin, Texas. She was in Texas preparing for Gravel Locos, where she was favoured to win. Kaitlin Armstrong has been charged with murder. Armstrong had gone on the run after the shooting and was captured in June in Costa Rica. Armstrong was the estranged girlfriend of another pro gravel cyclist, Colin Strickland. Strickland and Wilson allegedly had a brief romantic relationship in 2021, while Strickland and his live-in girlfriend, Armstrong, were on a break. The motive was therefore jealousy. Armstrong denies murder.

May – Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and her sister Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, were found dead in separate beds at a house in the Sydney suburb of Canterbury on June 7. Police, who were called to the property for a welfare check, said the women are believed to have died in early May. The sisters were from Saudi Arabia and had arrived in Australia in 2017. The police cannot tell how they died. It was later reported one or both sisters may have been gay or queer and feared persecution in Saudi Arabia and also that they were heavily in debt and may have committed suicide together.

May 7 – Four Vietnamese nationals died in a fire in Bismark House Mill in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Their bodies were only discovered in July when the mill was being demolished. They were later identified as Uoc Van Nguyen, 31, Cuong Van Chu, 39, who arrived in the UK in June 2019, Duong Van Nguyen, 29, who arrived in the UK in 2021, and Nam Thanh Lee, 21, who arrived in the UK in January 2022. A murder investigation was only launched in August 2022.

May 7 – Liam Maloney, 30, was attacked in the street in Niddrie Marischal Road in east Edinburgh and died a few days later in hospital. Ryan McCabe, 48, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

May 6 – Ryan Watson, 24, was hit by a Ford Fiesta Zetec car in Rode Heath, Cheshire. His girlfriend, Alice Wood, 22, has been charged with murder and awaits trial at Chester Crown Court in December 2023.

May 1 – Jamie Kelly, from Leeds, was attacked outside the Vintage Rock Bar in Doncaster at around 9.40pm on the Sunday night before the May Bank Holiday. He died at the scene. A 40-year-old man from Worksop, a 26-year-old man from Nottingham and a 33-year-old man from Doncaster were arrested on suspicion of murder after they were arrested on suspicion of Section 18 assault at the scene.

April 2022

April – Katlego Bereng Mpholo, 30, went missing from his home in Bloemfontein, South Africa. But in April 2023 it was revealed he had been murdered and his body had been set on fire in a cell in Magaung prison, with the authorities being tricked into believing it was the body of convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester, who had actually escaped from prison in May 2022. Bester was serving time for the rape and murder in 2011 of his former girlfriend, Nomfundo Tyhulu. He was dubbed The Facebook Rapist. In April 2023 Bester was arrested in Tanzania, where he had fled with his lover Nandipha Magudumana, a celebrity doctor and social media influencer. The couple were extradited back to South Africa and await trial along with several other people, including Senohe Matsoara, who worked for G4S who ran the prison, and Magudumana’s father. This is of course a huge case in South Africa.

April 29 – Mark Franklin, 58, died of head injuries at a house in Norwich. Stephen Grimwood, 63, from Shipfield, Norwich, was jailed for life (18 years) for murder. The trial heard the pair were friends but the motive was money.

Apr 28 – Michael Ugwa, 29, from Rainham, east London, was fatally stabbed at a food court in Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock, Essex. Muhammad Khan, 21, from Ilford, was convicted of murder and affray and jailed for life (27 years). Brandon Lutchmunsing, 19, from Dagenham, east London, was jailed for 13 years for manslaughter. Judge Samantha Leigh said the murder was “over a throwaway flirtatious comment” Ugwa had made towards Lutchmunsing’s girlfriend, Shannon Weston. Weston, 21, of Canewdon, Essex, was found guilty of three counts of assisting an offender, which she had denied. She was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.

Apr 25 – Samantha Drummonds, 27, her mother Tanysha Drummonds, 45, grandmother Dolet Hill, 64, and Ms Hill’s husband Denton Burke, 68, were stabbed to death at their home in Delaford Road, Bermondsey, south London. Samantha’s boyfriend, Joshua Jacques, 28, admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility but the CPS rejected his plea. He was convicted of murder and jailed for life (46 years) on March 1, 2024. The prosecution proved he had “transient psychotic disorder” due to consumption of large amounts of strong cannabis. There is a link between cannabis with high THC levels and cannabis. The court also heard Ms Hill had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021 but had concluded chemotherapy sessions the day before she was murdered. She was killed despite “beating cancer”.

Apr 22 – Katie Kenyon, 33, from Padiham, was seen getting into a Ford Transit in Burnley at about 9.30am. Her body was found 10 days later in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire. Andrew Burfield, 50, was jailed for life (32 years) for murder after he changed his plea to guilty during his trial. Burfield’s trial at Preston Crown Court was told he had initially denied any knowledge of Ms Kenyon’s disappearance. He subsequently revealed to police that he had taken her to Gisburn Forest in the Forest of Bowland for a picnic and had “accidentally” killed her. Burfield claimed Ms Kenyon had “bet” him he could not hit a drinks can with an axe that he was using to chop wood. But a post mortem report pointed out she had suffered several other injuries so his story did not pan out.

April 10 – Aidan Moffitt, 42, an auctioneer and Fine Gael activist, was killed and mutilated in Cartron Heights, Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Michael Snee, 58, a retired healthcare worker, was murdered two days later. Yousef Palani, 23, an Iraqi refugee, admitted both murders at Dublin Central Criminal Court in Aug 2023. He also admitted causing serious harm to a third man, Anthony Burke, on April 9. He was later jailed for life. It is thought there may have been a homophobic motive.

April 9 – Mattias Tamer, 21, was shot dead when he visited his brother’s grave in a cemetery in Södertälje, Sweden. The brother, and two of his uncles, had been murdered in Södertälje’s gang conflict.

Apr 3 – James Whelan, 29, was shot dead in Finglas, west Dublin. Whelan has been named in court as being a member of an organised crime gang and is believed to have been killed by a gangster nicknamed Mr Flashy. Whelan was a relative of Ireland’s first convicted gangland killer ‘Cotton Eye’ Joe Delaney.

March 2022

Mar 28 – Fredrik Andersson, 54, a security guard, is shot dead as he trains at Delta Gym in Vasastan in central Stockholm, Sweden. Andersson intervened when the shooter tried to attack a famous Bandidos man and the background to it is suspected to be a conflict between the motorcycle gang and the criminal Bro network.

March 24 – Yasmin Begum, 40, was stabbed to death at a house in Bethnal Green, east London. Her estranged husband Quyum Miah, 40, from Homerton, was jailed for life (33 years) for murder, theft and two counts of fraud by false representation. School staff called police after Yasmin did not arrive to pick up her two children from primary school. Ms Begum was found collapsed inside her home on Globe Road after concerned school staff knocked at her home when she failed to collect her children. The trial heard her husband, a drug addict, killed her and stole her jewellery and bank card. He withdrew £800 to pay for drugs while the children were at school.

Mar 20 – Linus Bergh, 36, was shot dead in a biker clubhouse in Lidköping, Sweden. He had previously been a member of the Hells Angels but was expelled and then applied to join the rival Satudarah biker gang.

March 19 – Imran Isat, 30, was stabbed at his flat in Ilford, east London. Salah’din Kerbouba, 27, from Barkingside, Ronnie Haydon, 31, from Camden, Dwain Morrison, 33, from Harold Hill, Paul Higgins, 36, from Hornchurch, and Dominic Diop, 33, were charged with murder and went on trial in Nov 2022. At a retrial in July 2023 Morrison was convicted of murder and later jailed for life (33 years). Kerbouba, Haydon, Higgins and Diop were acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter. They were all jailed for life (16 years minimum). Kerbouba and Haydon were also found guilty of robbery while Higgins and Diop had pleaded guilty to robbery. The gang attacked Isat as he was in the living room of his home watching television with a couple of friends. On hearing the noise Mr Isat went to the living room door to try and keep the men out, but he couldn’t close it. The gang burst through the front door and one of the men, who was holding a large knife, managed to stab Mr Isat through the gap as he held the door closed, forcing him backwards. The robbers forced their way in armed with knives and machetes, they were shouting “where’s the stuff?” Mr Isat said something like “don’t hurt me – take what you want”, but one of the robbers stabbed him, while another struck one of his friends on the head with the flat blade of a knife. One of the robbers then shouted “we’ve found it”, and “let’s go” and they then ran from the scene. It is thought they took a stash of drugs.

March 19 – Sabita Thanwani, 19, a student, was stabbed in the neck at her university accommodation in Clerkenwell, central London. Her Tunisian boyfriend Maher Maaroufe, 23, was charged with murder but when he pleaded guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility the plea was accepted by the prosecution. The court heard Ms Thanwani was found with a serious neck injury lying under blankets and a duvet on the floor. Maaroufe was found by police asleep under a tarpaulin in a garden shed. He head-butted a police officer while being arrested. He was given an indefinite hospital order in Jan 2024. He who was suffering from schizoaffective disorder at the time.

March 19 – Mirko Naramcic, 31, was stabbed in Richmond, SW London and died after driving himself to a hospital A&E department. Two other men survived. Leone Davies, 18, from Twickenham, and Justin Romano, 19, from Kingston, were convicted of murder and later jailed for life. Steve Collis, 28, from Richmond, Kaia Davies, 20, from Kingston, Alfie McGilvary, 29, from Richmond, and Karlos Collins, 20, from Kingston, were all acquitted of murder and manslaughter. A 17-year-old girl has been charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to this investigation.

March 15 – Paul Hawkesford-Barnes, 57, was beaten to death with a guitar at his mother’s home in Coventry. His brother, Steven Barnes, 64, admitted manslaughter and was jailed. Their 90-year-old mother, who was suffering with dementia, was found with facial injuries. She has since died, but not as a result of her injuries. The brothers had rowed over their mother’s care.

March 14 – Tyler Hurley, 16, was stabbed to death with a zombie knife on a 173 bus in Chadwell Heath, east London. Carlton Tanueh, 18, was jailed for life for murder (26 years) and two counts of being in possession of an offensive weapon. In the weeks prior to the killing, Tyler and his friends had uploaded a music video to YouTube mocking a number of Tanueh’s friends.

Mar 12 – Thomas Roberts, 21, was stabbed to death outside a Subway diner in Bournemouth, Dorset. Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, an Afghan asylum seeker who believed he was 16, has been charged with murder. The court has ruled he is actually 21 years old. Abdulrahimzai arrived in the country in December 2019. His given age initially gave him the right to anonymity in the courts as a minor but these reporting restrictions have now been lifted by the judge, Mrs Justice Cutts, following an age determination hearing. Abdulrahimzai was moved from Feltham Young Offender Institution to an adult prison. He was convicted of murder and jailed for life (29 years) in Jan 2023. After he was convicted, the jury were told Abdulrahimzai had been convicted in absentia in Serbia of the murder of two fellow migrants who were shot dead with a Kalashnikov rifle in August 2018 after a dispute about people-trafficking. It has also emerged that he was convicted of a drugs offence in Italy but was given a non-custodial sentence. The Home Office ordered a full investigation into the case.

March 8 – Ian Kirwan, 53, an AI engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, was stabbed outside an Asda supermarket in Redditch, Worcestershire. A 15-year-old boy was convicted of murder after a trial at Worcester Crown Court. Two youths aged 14 and one of 16 were cleared of killing Mr Kirwan, but were found guilty of violent disorder. A fifth, 16, was cleared on all counts. The jury heard the killer was part of a masked gang from Birmingham that came down on the train and “terrorised” people.

March 7 – A 15-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a school in Des Moines, Iowa. Two young women, one 16 and one 18, were also shot and remain in critical condition. Six teenagers have been charged with murder. They are Octavio Lopez, 17, of Des Moines, Nyang Chamdual, 14, Manuel Buezo, 16, Romero Perdomo, 16, Alex Perdomo, and Henry Valladares-Amaya, 17 .

March 6 – På Ängö was shot dead in Kalmar, Sweden. The murder was linked to a gang war in the town.

March 5 – Gary Ruby, 73, was found encased in concrete in a bathtub at his home in Hawaii. His boyfriend, Juan Tejedor Baron, 23, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. He has previously admitted to killing Ruby after finding out he was HIV-positive in February, telling officers he strangled him and hid his body in a bathtub

Mar 3 – Clive Warrington, 67, and his ex-wife Valerie, 73, were killed at their homes in Bourton-on-the-Water and Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Their son, William Warrington, from Cheltenham, was charged with murder but admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was sent to Broadmoor.  Warrington had been detained under the Mental Health Act after being arrested on February 17 when he attacked his housemate with a knife. He was taken to the Wotton Lawn psychiatric unit in Gloucester. But he left there on March 1, took a taxi to his mother’s home, killed her and then took her car to Cheltenham and killed his  father.

March 1 – A nine-month-old boy, Harlow Collinge, was killed in a village in Hapton, Lancashire. Karen Foster, 61, has been charged with murder. She is also charged with a separate Section 47 assault on a one-year-old girl in Hapton on March 22, 2019. She is not related to either child and the two children are not related to one another.

February 2022

Feb 27 – Susan Leyden, 68, was killed and dismembered at an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Harvey Marcelin, 83, a transgender woman, has been charged with murder. Marcelin had previous convictions for murdering women in 1963 and 1983. He once told a parole board he “had a problem with women”.

Feb 25 – John Jones, 36, was shot in the chest at his home in Norton, near Stourbridge, West Midlands. He was known locally as one of the ‘Gummy Twins’. His younger brother Sebastian was stabbed but survived the attack. Ravi Talware, 32, Kevin Waldron, 41, Scott Garrington  51, and three youths went on trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court for murder in June 2023. At the trial the jury was shown a cache of weapons recovered following the shooting, including a gun cartridge magazine, a shortened dark brown single-load shotgun, an imitation Glock air pistol, two large knives and a black bag. All six defendants deny murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, wounding and possessing firearms. Talware, Waldron and Garrington, 51, also deny perverting the course of justice.

Feb 25 – Clair Ablewhite, 47, was stabbed in the neck and chest at her home in Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire. Her former boyfriend John Jessop, 26, was jailed for life (17 years) in Jan 2023. Jessop cycled around 17 miles from his home in Newark and was caught on CCTV before entering her home. Nottingham Crown Court was told he had been in a brief relationship with Ms Ablewhite and was unable to handle the rejection when she broke up with him over the age gap.

Feb 24 – Valerie Freer, 68, was killed on the driveway at her home in Whittington, Staffordshire. Alexander Verdu Munoz, 26, an Argentinian national, was charged with murder, two counts of aggravated burglary, one count of burglary, possession of a bladed article and dangerous driving. But he died in custody in HMP Strangeways in May 2022.

Feb 23 – Shad Thyrion, 24, was killed and dismembered at an apartment in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Taylor Schabusiness, 25, has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and sexual assault and is due to go on trial in May 2023. Schabusiness supposedly decapitated her partner while having sex on meth. According to police Schabusiness admitted giving oral sex and using a sex toy on her victim after he was dead. She attacked her own lawyer, Quinn Jolly of Green Bay, in court in Feb 2023 when a judge said a delay of her trial was needed.

Feb 19 – Kalman Tal, 66, died at Fitzgerald Park in Innisfail, northern Queensland, Australia after his leg was sawed off. John Yalu, 36, a farm worker from Vanuatu, has been charged with murder. Police said the two men were known to each other and the older man had agreed to have his leg amputated. Kalman Tal died of a cardiac arrest due to extreme blood loss outside a seafood takeaway shop after his lower left leg was sawn off in a park. He suffered from body dysmorphia and had asked Yalu to cut his leg off.

Feb 18 – Muhamoud Mohamed Mahdi, 28, who lived in Finchley Road, was stabbed to death in Burnt Oak, north London. Christian Adom Kuta-Dankwa, 18, from Rayners Lane, was jailed for life (13 years) for murder. A 16-year-old boy from Harrow was acquitted of murder and manslaughter. Kuta-Dankwa admitted in court his friend had been dealing cannabis just before Mahdi approached them, which was likely the cause of the dispute.

Feb 18 – Christopher Hughes, 37, from Wigan, vanished in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. His body was found four days later by a man walking his dog. He had been abducted off the street and stabbed 90 times. The trial heard his killers wrongly believed he had raped a teenage girl. Curtis Balbas, 30, pleaded guilty to murder on the eve of the trial.  Khalil Awla, 49, from Wigan, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 26 years. Erion Voja, 21, from London, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years. Razgar Mohammed, 41, from Wigan, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years. Alan Jaf, 52, from Wigan, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 26 years. Dean O’Neill-Davey, 30, from Wigan, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years. Erland Spahiu, 34, from Skelmersdale, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years. Martin Smith, 34, from Wigan, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 33 years. Curtis Balbas, 31, from Wigan, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 34 years. Alongside the sentences for murder, all eight were also given concurrent sentences for kidnap. Andrius Uzkuraitis, 27, from Wigan, was also sentenced to six years in prison for assisting an offender.

Feb 15 – Stephen Wallis, 50, a former soldier, was found dead at his flat in Fulham, west London. Gary Curran, 52, was originally charged with murder but the charge was dropped. He was instead convicted of GBH and jailed for a year. The pair were drug addicts and had fallen out over money or drugs. Stephen had become addicted after receiving life changing injuries while serving in the Gulf War.

Feb 14 – Naomi Hunte, 41, was stabbed to death at her home in Woolwich, south east London. A 63-year-old man has been charged with her murder and that of Fiona Holm (see June 2023).

Feb 13 – Keith Green, 40, was stabbed at a house in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Mark Meadows, 24, from Banbury, was jailed for life (23 years) and his friend Travis Gorton, 19, from Hook Norton, was jailed for life (17 years) for murder. Green’s partner, Louise Grieve, 38, was jailed for eight years for manslaughter. A teenage girl who cannot be named for legal reasons, was also convicted of manslaughter. The trial heard Grieve and Meadows had struck up a sexual relationship in 2021 which led to heated arguments between the men.

Feb 11 – Ahmednur Nuur, 16, was stabbed in the back as he ran away from a fight near Milton Keynes College in Milton Keynes. Justice Will-Mamah, 19, from Bletchley, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 11 years for manslaughter at Luton Crown Court. Will-Mamah became involved in the fight with Ahmednur’s group and the victim was described as “the weakest link”. Will-Mamah was struck on the forehead with a piece of concrete and was recorded on a resident’s CCTV going after the group. Ahmednur, who did not throw the concrete, was running away when he was stabbed in the left side of his back and he later collapsed and died.

Feb 11 – Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain, both 21, died when their car was forced off the A46 near Leicester. Mahek Bukhari, 23, a TikTok influencer from Stoke-on-Trent, her mother Ansreen Bukhari, 45, Mohammed Patel, 20, from Leicester, Natasha Akhtar, 21, from Birmingham, Raees Jamal, 21, from Loughborough, Rekan Karwan, 28, Sanaf Gulammustafa, 22, and Ameer Jamal, 27, all from, Leicester, deny murder and went on trial at Leicester Crown Court in Oct 2022. On the first day of the trial at Leicester Crown Court, the jury was told Mr Hussain had been threatening to send explicit videos and images of his lover to her husband after she broke off their three-year affair. The court was told the mother and daughter plotted with six others to set up Mr Hussain by getting him to meet them in a Leicester car park under false pretences. The trial collapsed and a retrial is due in 2023.

Feb 9 – Saul Murray, 33, was killed at his flat in Luton, Bedfordshire, after having been drugged with the sedative GHB. Ikem Affia, 31, was jailed for life (25 years). Affia was seen wearing a Moncler coat – worth more than £1,000 – that was one of only 69 sold in the UK. It had been stolen from Murray. Cleon Brown, 29, from Hackney, was jailed for 11 years for manslaughter. Surpreet Dhillon, 36, was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter. Temidawo Awe, 21, from Gillingham, was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter. The trial heard Dhillon contacted Murray on Instagram shortly after he posted pictures of himself posing with fake Rolex watches. She then messaged him on WhatsApp. Prosecutor Jane Bickerstaff KC told jurors Dhillon and Awe – who were honeytraps – met the victim outside his flat, shared brandy with him inside and performed some sort of sexual act before giving him GHB “to knock him out”. Murray was a plasterer but was portraying a life of wealth on Instagram which was not the reality. It got him killed.

Feb 8 – Bartosz Wyrzykowski, 21, was killed with a machete during an attack in Eltham, SE London. A boy who was 16 at the time of the attack was arrested in Feb 2022 at Heathrow airport – he was on his way to Ghana – convicted of murder and jailed for life (17 years). Yusuf Aydin, 21, Jack Davies, 19, and Benedict Paul, 18, were all convicted of manslaughter. Aydin got 12 years, Davies 11 years and Paul nine years.

Feb 7 – Donovan Allen, 18, was stabbed to death at a block of flats, Ayley Croft, Enfield, north London. Timothy Adeoye, 18, was jailed for life (23 years) for murder, attempted robbery and possession of an offensive weapon and threatening a person with a blade in a public place. The trial heard Adeoye – known as T-Trapz – wore a skull mask popularised by the Call of Duty video game. Prosecutors said there was no evidence Adeoye had “any issue” with Mr Allen, only with a friend he was with.

Feb 6 – Katy Harris, 52, a teacher, was stabbed to death at her home in Littleover, Derby. Her husband Conrad Iyayi, 46, was jailed for life (18 years) after admitting murder two days into his trial. Their 10-year-old son Theo was upstairs at the time. After his arrest Iyayi told officers that he could not remember what had happened after he had taken drugs he purchased on the dark web.

Feb 6 – Jayquan McKenley, 18, a drill rapper known as Chii Wvtzz, was shot dead outside an Airbnb in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York which had been converted into a recording studio. The Mayor of New York broke down as he talked about his death. He said: “I didn’t know Jayquan, but his death hit me hard because the more I found out about Jayquan’s story, the more I saw how many times he had been failed by a system that is supposed to help boys like him.” Adams then organised a summit of drill artists to discuss the genre’s links to gang violence in New York.

Feb 4 – Jimi “Slice” Sandhu, an Indian-born gangster from British Columbia, was shot dead in the car park of his rented beachfront villa on Rawai beach in Muang district, Phuket, Thailand. The alleged killers were Matthew Dupre and Gene Lahrkamp, both ex-soldiers from Canada. Lahrkamp, 36, died in a plane crash in Ontario in April 2022. Dupre was arrested on 28 Feb 2022 in Edmonton, Canada and faces extradition to Thailand.  Sandhu, who had been a member of the United Nations gang in Canada, was once charged with second-degree murder in 2014, in the death of Red Scorpion gangster Matt Campbell, who had been stabbed in the neck at a car rental business. Sandhu was deported to India in 2016 but in 2018 was charged with supplying ketamine. Sandhu had been travelling in and out of Phuket since 2016. At the time of his death, he was also wanted in India for trafficking, had just been banned from Malaysia, and had spent stretches of time in Vietnam. It is believed the killing was ordered by the Wolf Pack — a coalition made up of some Red Scorpions, some Hells Angels and some Independent Soldiers.

https://vancouversun.com/feature/murder-in-phuket-bc-gang-conflict-moves-overseas

Feb 2 – Tahjay Dobson, 22, a drill rapper known as Tdott Woo, was shot dead in Brooklyn, New York, just hours after signing a record contract. His death came five days after another Brooklyn rapper, Nasir Fisher, 22, aka Nas Blixky, was shot in the head and critically injured. Unsolved.

Feb 1 – Campus Police Officer John Painter and Campus Safety Officer JJ Jefferson were shot dead at Bridgewater College in Virginia, US. Multiple law enforcement agencies arrived on the campus of Bridgewater College around 1:20 pm (1820 GMT) in response to active shooter reports. Alexander Wyatt Campbell, 27, was later apprehended. He had a “non-life-threatening gunshot wound” which is believed to have been self-inflicted.

Feb 1 – Ashley Wadsworth, 19, was stabbed to death at a house in Tennyson Road, Chelmsford, Essex. Her boyfriend Jack Sepple, 23, was jailed for life (23 years) at Chelmsford Crown Court. Miss Wadsworth, from Vernon, British Columbia, moved to Chelmsford on a six-month tourist Visa. On the morning Miss Wadsworth was murdered she had frantically knocked on a neighbour’s door. She told the neighbour of an argument the couple had just had about Miss Wadsworth looking at a picture of a naked female on her phone, which led to Sepple beating her up. She also said that Sepple had threatened to kill her. The neighbour spoke with Sepple who apologised, and Miss Wadsworth went back. She was killed soon afterwards. Sepple then video called his sister as he lay in bed with the body.

January 2022

Jan 31 – Andrew McDiarmid, 64, was stabbed to death at his home in Heswall on the Wirral. He was a retired detective inspector who had served with Merseyside Police for 30 years. A 21-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of murder at the scene has been detained under the Mental Health Act and taken to hospital for assessment.

Jan 31 – Two German police officers, a 24-year-old female trainee and a 29-year-old inspector, were shot dead as they manned a roadblock on a rural road in Ulmet, near the Kusel district of western Rhineland-Palatinate state.  Andreas Schmitt, 38, who ran a game business, has been arrested and charged with murder. Police found 22 deer carcasses in his car. He is suspected of illegal deer hunting.

Jan 31 – A huge brawl broke out between between inmates belonging to MS13 and the Mexican Mafia aka La Eme in US Federal Penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas. Two inmates were killed – Guillermo Riojas, a 54-year-old who had been sentenced for violent crimes using a firearm, and Andrew Pineda, 34, who was said to be a member of the Mexican Mafia.

Jan 30 – Social media influencer Cristina Vita Aranda, 29, was shot at a music festival in Asuncion, Paraguay. Her husband was Paraguayan footballer Ivan Torres, who played for Club Olimpia. She was shot on Sunday when the couple were attending a music festival called Ja’umina Fest in Paraguayan capital Asuncion where gunfire broke out. Authorities said that the attackers were looking for José Luis Bogado Quevedo , alias “Kuré“, an alleged drug trafficker with an international arrest warrant.

Jan 30 – Alan Szelugowski, 17, was stabbed in Clowes Park, Broughton, near Salford, Greater Manchester. His body was discovered by a man walking his dog. A 17-year-old boy was jailed for life for murder. The trial heard Alan was killed after a row over a cannabis debt.

Jan 28 – Marena Shaban, 41, suffered multiple stab wounds at the apartment block in Bordesley Green, Birmingham. Mohammed Arfan, 42, was jailed for life (22 years). A witness described the attacker as having an afro but it is believed Arfan was wearing a wig.

Jan 28 – A former leader of the X-Team, a sub-group of the Bandidos motorbike gang, was shot dead in Linkoping, Sweden.

Jan 27 – Jamie Gilbey, 20, vanished from his home in Crystal Palace, south London, and was found dead in a lake in South Norwood six weeks later. He had been wanted for robbery. Dejour Jones, 24, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Jan 25 – David-Mario Lazar, 5, was stabbed to death at his home in Earlsdon, Coventry. Elena Anghel, 50, was charged with murder in Jan 2023 and was detained in a secure mental health facility pending her trial in June 2023. In a statement issued two days after the fatal incident, David-Mario’s parents, Cristina and Dorinel, said: “Our son, he was the most beautiful child in the world.”

Jan 23 – Lauren Malt, 19, was run over twice by a car in West Winch, Norfolk. Her father Nigel Malt, 44, was jailed for life (19 years) for murder but later had his tariff increased to 22 years. The jury heard Malt, was estranged from his wife and children and had been given bail with conditions not to turn up at their home or his wife’s workplace after she reported him for assault in April 2021. Prosecutor, Andrew Jackson, told jurors that while awaiting trial for that charge, Malt turned up at his wife and children’s home in Leete Way on 23 January, argued with his daughter and threatened her boyfriend, Arthur Marnell, with a crowbar. Mr Jackson said that after Malt “failed in his bid to inflict violence” on his daughter’s boyfriend, she told him to go home and “he was totally consumed with anger”. He reversed his car over his daughter then stopped and drove forward over her body.

Jan 23 – Vishal Gohel, 44, was found dead, with gaffer tape on his face, at his flat in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Six people were charged for murder. They are Tevin Leslie, 21, from south-east London, his cousin Sakeen Gordon, 20, of Uxbridge Road, Ealing, and Brandon Browne, 21, from Rochester, Kent, Georgia Bruce-Annan, 20, Faith Hoppie, 21, and Tianna Edwards-Hancock, 18, all from Barking. Their first trial at St Albans Crown Court in July 2022 collapsed due to the barristers’ strike. The second trial, in the spring of 2023, heard Gohel had been in touch with Bruce-Annan on Craigslist and was promised a sexual liaison with the women before three men burst into the property. Prosecutor Charlotte Newell QC said: “The female defendants created a honeytrap. They promised him a sexual liaison that never happened.” Leslie admitted manslaughter and conspiracy to rob and Bruce-Annan changed her plea to guilty to manslaughter and conspiracy to rob during the trial.

Jan 22 – Kennie Carter, 16, was stabbed to death in Stretford, Manchester.  Eight teenagers have been arrested and bailed. The stabbing took place shortly after a Man Utd v West Ham game at nearby Old Trafford.

Jan 21 – Robert James Dinh and Thomas Cherukara, both Canadians, were shot dead at the Xcaret Hotel between Playa del Carmen and Tulum, Quintana Roo state, Mexico. A Canadian woman, Ceara Jessica Sahadee Yari, 29, was wounded. Dinh was part of a Vietnamese crime syndicate operating in Canada and the United States, according to news reports. He was suspected of money laundering, using a false identity and other criminal activities, and was thought to be the right hand man to the gang’s leader Cong Dinh. Cherukara was suspected of a long list of criminal activities including drug trafficking, robbery, weapons possession and using a false identity, but it is not clear whether he belonged to the same organisation. Two people have been arrested, one is from Mexico City and the other is Canadian, and it seems that the crime was planned from Canada. In May 2022, the alleged mastermind of the hit, identified only as Oscar Ivan N, was arrested.

Jan 20 – Daniel Thompson, 19, was shot and killed in the car park of Whataburger in Hollister, north west Houston, Texas. Darius Sims has been charged with murder. Footage of the shooting went viral on social media. According to Sims’ family, Thompson, who may have been off work on the day of the shooting, was called to the restaurant by his brother to confront Sims, who showed up with his 5-year-old daughter. The family claims Thompson punched Sims and may have also hit his daughter in the process inside the restaurant.

Jan 15 – Freda Walker, 86, was tortured and killed at her home in Langwith Junction, Derbyshire. Her husband Ken, 88, a former district councillor, survived. Vasile Culea, 33, was jailed for life (34 years) for murder. Mr Walker had previously taken out £30,000 for home improvements and hidden it in various places around the house. It was not clear how Culea came to learn of this money. In his evidence, he said he went to find the home after hearing two strangers talking about a “wealthy house” in the area. He was more than £11,000 in debt, and had gambled away £280 at various betting shops on the day he attacked the pair.

Jan 14 – Michael Bastable, 56, was robbed, knocked to the ground and stamped on in an alleyway at the end of Shelbourne Road, Bournemouth. Hayden Johnson, 28, and his brother Damien Johnson, 30, admitted manslaughter and were both jailed for 22 years. Dominic MacDonald, 30, admitted manslaughter and was jailed for 18 years.

Jan 12 – Ashling Murphy, 23, an Irish school teacher, was attacked while out running along a canal near Tullamore, County Offaly. Jozef Puska, 31, a Slovak national, from Mucklagh in County Offaly, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. Large crowds gathered in the village of Mountbolus, Co Offaly, and outside St Brigid’s Church, where her funeral was held. Mourners included the Irish president, Michael D Higgins, and the taoiseach, Micheál Martin. Vigils were also held across Ireland and the world to remember Murphy, and to call for a change in tackling gender-based violence.

Jan 10 – A 27-year-old man who was part of the Headshotligan gang from Tensta, was shot dead in Jakobsberg, Stockholm, Sweden. The man was acquitted of a murder in Jakobsberg in 2019.

Jan 4 – Dariusz Wolosz, 46, was stabbed to death in High Street, Yiewsley, west London, just after midnight. Harley-Dee Thompson, 27, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Jan 3 – Aidan Mann, 28, a tattoo artist known as Zen Black, was stabbed 14 times in the street in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. His neighbour Barry Donnelly, 38, admitted manslaughter pleading diminished responsibility. He was given an indeterminate custodial sentence at Belfast Crown Court in July 2023. The judge said Donnelly must serve at least nine years in prison before he is eligible to be considered for release. Donnelly had been “actively psychotic” at the time of the attack. He also pleaded guilty to the offences of possession of offensive weapons and assault occasioning actual bodily harm relating to a previous attack on a mother and son in June 2021.

Jan 2 – Adam Anderson, 22, was run over by a car in a car park in Greenock, Scotland. Jordan Cunningham, 27, was jailed for 9 years for culpable homicide.

Jan 2 – Paul Wakefield, 65, was beaten and stabbed to death with a broken battle at his home in Folkestone, Kent. Shane Myles, 31, was jailed for life (22 years) and Kayleigh Halliday, 36, was jailed for life (21 years) at Maidstone Crown Court after being convicted of murder. The killers both had traces of Mr Wakefield’s blood on their shoes, and Myles was in possession of the victim’s bankcard. Halliday and Myles both tried to blame each other for the murder but Halliday changed her plea to guilty during the trial. The jury was told that the pair were seen at Folkestone West Station holding hands, caressing, laughing and walking with their arms around each other after the incident.

2021

Dec 4 – Xhovan Pepaj, 25, was stabbed to death at a house in Caley Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent which had been converted into a cannabis grow. Pepaj, who was guarding it, was stabbed upstairs after being locked in with the killers. Kelvin Amoako, 19, Ciaran Stewart, 19, and Bartosz Malawski, 28, were convicted of murder and jailed for life. Stewart – who had rung 999 and begged the police to come and help after an Albanian gang turned up and threatened them with a gun – was given a 26 year tariff. Amoako and Malawski got 22 years each. Nathan Rainforth, 22, Donte Simpson-Palmer, 19, and Ray Renda, 22, were convicted of manslaughter at a trial in a super-court in Loughborough in Feb 2023. Rainforth was jailed for 7 and a half years, Simpson-Palmer for 6 years. At a second trial at Lewes Crown Court (sitting in Brighton) in August 2023, Fabian Szymula, 20, from South Ockenden, Essex, Nathan Turner, 28, from Brentwood; Zach Cutting, 23, from Waltham Abbey; Glen Hough, 51, of Brentwood and Jonathan Hedges, 25, were acquitted of manslaughter (the murder charges having been dropped). All five were convicted of conspiracy to rob and will be sentenced in October 2023. The trial heard the gang arrived from Essex at 3am, determined to steal cannabis plants. Pepaj rang his Albanian accomplices, who arrived at the house as he was locked in upstairs with Stewart, Amoako and Malawski. Stewart rang 999, convinced the Albanians had a gun and were going to kill them.

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Dec 4 – Shane Thompson, 32, a carpenter, was stabbed numerous times at a house in Bartley Green, Birmingham. His workmate, Robert Goodwin, 32, was convicted of murder and was jailed for life in April 2023. The pair had spent the day working with his victim when the pair headed to the pub. The pair for some reason then returned to the home of Thompson’s girlfriend, Sophie. Goodwin then attacked him for some reason and chased him up the stairs. Sophie found Shane’s body on her bloodied bed. The court heard Sophie knew Shane had a cocaine habit that affected their relationship.

Dec 1 – Amandeep “Mickey” Singh Johal, 37, was stabbed to death in Rainham, Essex. A woman suffered a wrist injury. A 14-year-old boy was charged with murder. He went on trial at Southwark Crown Court from 7 June 2022 – to 17 June 2022. The jury deliberated for two days before returning a not guilty verdict on all counts.

November 2021

Nov 28 – Claire Inglis, 28, was beaten and strangled at her home in Stirling, Scotland. She sustained 76 injuries in the fatal attack, which left her with bleeding inside her skull and extensive injuries to her neck. Her boyfriend Chris McGowan, 28, was jailed for life (23 years) at the High Court in Edinburgh. He also burned her with a lighter and jammed a wet wipe down her throat. McGowan had 40 previous convictions, mostly for breaches of the peace and breaches of bail, as well as three convictions for assault. He killed her a few weeks after being released from jail.

Nov 27 – Fernanda Assis, 31, and her father Joanilson Souza De Assis, 61, were stabbed to death at home in Wood Green, north London. Fernanda’s boyfriend Achilleas Costa, 54, admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was given an indefinite hospital order. The court heard Costa suffered from “paranoid schizophrenia” and that cannabis use had been a “contributor” to his illness. At the time of the murders he believed Fernanda and her father had been replaced by “replicas”. Costa was apprehended by police after he was seen “behaving strangely” on the pavement outside a Wetherspoons pub in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, early on the morning of November 28. Police were called after Costa was seen “muttering” to himself, and was “kneeling to pray”.

Nov 26 – Amber Gibson, 16, vanished from her home in Hamilton, Scotland and her body was found in woods at Cadzow Glen a few days later. Her brother Connor Gibson, 19, was convicted of murder, sex offences and attempting to pervert the course of justice and was jailed for life in September 2023. Stephen Corrigan – who was unknown to both Amber and Connor Gibson – has been convicted of interfering with her body. The court heard Corrigan found her body, but rather than alert police, he inappropriately touched her and then concealed her remains. It later emerged that Gibson’s father, Peter Gibson, was jailed for 10 years for sexual abuse.

Nov 25 – Peshang Sleman, 22, a barber, was killed in Somercotes, Derby, during a brawl by men using knives, knuckle dusters, baseball bats, a cosh and other weapons. His brother Ibrahim Takmary survived. Five men went on trial at Leicester Crown Court in Feb 2023. They are Danyaal Panahi, Herish Zandi,Mohammed Rasulli, Sam Mohazeri, of and Mohamad Shekak. The trial heard there was a feud between two Kurdish barbers’ shops, SR Barbers and Pro Barbers.

Nov 25 – Ava White, 12, was stabbed in the neck in the centre of Liverpool while celebrating the switching on of the city’s Christmas lights about 8.40pm. She was with a group of her friends. A 14-year-old boy was jailed for life (13 years) for murder. Ava was with friends near the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool city centre when they were approached by a group of boys. A verbal argument followed after one of the boys filmed them, which he later shared on Snapchat. Ava told the boy to stop filming and delete the video and after the argument continued, Ava was stabbed in the neck on School Lane before making her way to nearby Church Alley.

Nov 25 – Malak Adabzadeh, 47, was stabbed to death at her home in Stoneycroft, Liverpool. Her husband Mohammad Ureza Azizi, 57, was jailed for life (16 years) for murder. The victim was Iranian.

Nov 24 – Rishmeet Singh, 16, was stabbed to death in Southall, west London. Vanushan Balakrishnan, 18, and Ilyas Suleiman, 18, both from Hillingdon, were jailed for life for murder. The trial heard Rishmeet came to the UK in October 2019 with his mother and grandmother from Jalalabad in Afghanistan, seeking asylum. His father was killed by the Taliban six months prior to that, and shortly after they tried to kidnap Rishmeet, forcing the family to flee to the UK. The court heard that at 9pm Rishmeet left his friends in a park in Southall and was walking home when his killers started running towards him. He ran back towards his friends and shouted ‘run, run.’ When Balakrishnan was arrested police recovered a notebook containing lyrics that he had written, with some describing unique features of Rishmeet’s murder, including Rishmeet running and tripping over. Further lyrics were also found on his mobile phone. Four days after the murder Balakrishnan wrote a note on his phone saying: “Saw news statement it says a good yute but he was out with paigions [enemies.]” “Stupid media it was a glide not for some stupid s*** he wears” A ‘glide’ is entering gang territory with the intention of using violence against a rival gang. However, the court heard that Rishmeet was not in a gang and the defendants were mistaken in their choice of target.

Nov 21 – June Fox-Roberts, 65, was attacked and then dismembered with an axe at her home in Llantwit Fardre, near Pontypridd, south Wales. Luke Deeley, 26, a university student, admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. Newport Crown Court heard Deeley entered the house through an unlocked door. He was a complete stranger who was living rough in a nearby container in a scrapyard. While in the house he dyed his hair blond in a bathroom sink. He left the body parts, including the head, in a number of bags, including a Cinderella Christmas bag in the lounge. Mrs Fox-Roberts’ body was discovered later by one of her daughters and a family friend who had become concerned they could not contact her. The court heard Deeley had previously been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and had for periods stopped taking his prescribed medication. In September 2021, he enrolled at the University of South Wales and moved into shared student accommodation in the Roath area of Cardiff. The murder featured in an ITV documentary called Code Blue in July 2023.

Nov 21 – Jennifer Chapple, 33, and her husband Stephen Chapple, 36, were stabbed to death at their home in Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, Somerset. Collin Reeves, 34, a neighbour and former soldier, was jailed for life (38 years) for murder. The Chapple’s two young children were upstairs at the time of the killing. There had been tensions between neighbours over parking in the cul-de-sac where they lived. During the trial, the court was told the neighbours’ rows escalated to the point both Reeves’ wife Kayley and Mrs Chapple had told their friends they were anxious about bumping into each other on the school run. On the night of the killing, Reeves climbed a fence and entered the Chapple house via their back door.

Nov 20 – Bobbi-Anne McLeod, 18, vanished from a bus stop on the Leigham estate in Plymouth, Devon. Her body was later found on the beach at Bovisand. Cody Ackland, 24, an indie rock musician, from Southway, Plymouth, was jailed for life (30 years) for murder. He was obsessed with serial killers.

Nov 18 – Jermaine Cools, 14, was stabbed to death in a fight near West Croydon railway station in south London. In May 2023 Marques Walker, who was 16 at the time of the attack, was jailed for life (19 years) after admitting murder. He became the first juvenile to be sentenced on television in England and Wales, following a successful legal challenge by several media outlets, which was supported by the victim’s parents. Judge Sarah Munro KC imposed a concurrent sentence for an attack on a fellow inmate which left him with brain damage. At the time of the killing Walker, then 16, was on bail for two offences of carrying a knife. A third charge of possessing a knife was dropped after a decision was made, in February 2022, that Walker had been a “victim of modern slavery” because of his involvement in a county lines drug gang in Welwyn Garden City. In January, on the eve of his trial, Walker pleaded guilty to murder and possession of a knife. He has also pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent after attacking a fellow inmate while on remand at Feltham young offenders’ institution in west London in July 2022.

Nov 14 – Alexandra Morgan, 34, from Sissinghurst, was last seen at a petrol station near Cranbrook in East Sussex. Mark Brown, 41, was charged with murdering her and also Leah Ware, 33, who vanished from Hastings in May 2021. Neither body has been found. Brown, from St Leonards, was jailed for life (49 years) for murder. The court heard Mr Brown had been having a relationship with Ms Ware, from Hastings, after he first met her as a client through the escort site Adult Work in 2018. Jurors have heard he went on to put her up at a caravan at premises he rented at Little Bridge Farm near Hastings and the prosecution claim he murdered her in May 2021 and disposed of the body. Mr Brown is also accused of murdering Miss Morgan, a single mother of two children who was a sex worker. Giving evidence Brown spoke of Ms Ware’s drug habits, as she was a regular user of marijuana, crack cocaine and heroin. He said he had bought her marijuana a few times but only purchased cocaine and heroin for her once. At this point Brown broke down crying in the stand and said this happened “on the day we lost the baby” – referring to a termination Ms Ware went through with on February 21 2020. Brown and Ware took the cocaine and heroin together on that date “for the pain”.

Nov 12 – Kieron Moore, 20, was stabbed to death in Aylestone, Leicester, Mason Mills, 25, from Wigston, was jailed for life (21 years) for murder in Feb 2023.

Nov 12 – Ali Abucar Ali, 20, was stabbed to death in Brentford, west London. Norris Henry, 37, was charged with murder and also with the attempted murder of an 82-year-old woman who survived. But he was found to be unfit for trial. He was found to have carried out the crime and was detained under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act and a Section 41 Restriction Order was imposed. Henry had paranoid schizophrenia.

Nov 10 – Anton O’Connor, 31, was stabbed to death after being lured to the Poets Corner pub in The Meadows, Nottingham. Several people were convicted of murder. Leonard Ward, 41, from Carlton, Nottingham, was jailed for life (32 years), Michael McGuire, 34, was jailed for life (32 years), Michael Mingoes, 19, from Manchester, was jailed for life (28 years), Joseph Boscombe, 39, was jailed for life (32 years), Joshua Agboola, 28, from Darwen, Lancashire, was jailed for life (31 years), Paula Usherwood, 37, from Beeston, was jailed for life (30 years), Carla McGuire, 51,  was jailed for life (20 years), Jerome Sheard, 29, was jailed for life (31 years) and Benjamin Taylor, 38, was jailed for life (32 years). Curtis Sheard, 23, and Rebecca Bell, 36, were acquitted. The dispute had started after a crime boss in Nottingham, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was released from prison and tried to wrest control of a profitable class A drug line from Ward and Sheard. Ward and Sheard contacted Taylor, who was their supplier in Manchester, a man who the court was told was “steeped in a history of extreme violence”, and he put together a hit squad, drawn from the ranks of Taylor’s drug dealers. A meeting with the rival boss – the intended target – was arranged at the Poets Corner pub in Nottingham, but the rival instead sent O’Connor, who owned a cosmetics clinic. He was ambushed by the gang, who were wearing balaclavas, outside the pub and stabbed to death.

Nov 6 – Mohammed Aqil Mahdi, 22, was stabbed to death in Bow, east London. Majed Ahmed, 18, and Muzahid Ali, 21, were jailed for life for murder. Abul Cashem, 28, was acquitted.

Nov 1 – Nicholas Billingham, 42, was stabbed and then buried in the back garden of a house in Kingsley, Northampton. His girlfriend Fiona Beal, 48, was arrested in Cumbria in March 2022 and charged with murder. Ms Beal was a primary school teacher at Eastfield Academy in Northampton.

October 2021

Oct 31 – Mohamed Muhiyidin, 28, from Southall, was shot dead and his body was found on Sipson Lane, Harlington, near Heathrow airport at 6.16am. Chiragh Amir Chiragh, 39, from Kenton, Bilal Ahmed, 43, from Hounslow, and Mohammed Ilyas Shakeel, 28, from Barking, denied manslaughter, possessing a firearm with intent to kill and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. They went on trial in September 2022 at Isleworth Crown Court. The trial heard the four men were friends and were about to embark on a “ride-out” to attack unknown targets when Chiragh suddenly shot Muhiyidin with an Agram 2002 submachine gun fitted with a silencer. Muhiyidin was sitting in the front seat of a Toyota Prius and the gunman got in the back seat. Muhiyidin was convicted of manslaugher. Shakeel was convicted of perverting the course of justice and admitted possessing a firearm. Ahmed was acquitted of manslaughter and Mustafa Malik, 66, from Harlington, west London, and James Connors, 45, from Hammersmith, west London, were acquitted of perverting the course of justice.

Oct 30 – Shumi Iskov, 53, and his son Per, 20, were shot dead in the city of Kiryat Motzkin, near Haifa, Israel. Iskov was known to the police as the leader of the so-called Kavkaz (Georgian) mafia in the Krayot area in northern Israel. Footage from the scene indicated that the men were found dead inside a car, on Zvulun Hammer street. Iskov and his brother, Shalom, survived a previous assassination attempt in 2011, in which they were both shot and moderately wounded. The assassination could be linked to a bomb attack in Nahariya in which Avi Moore, 31, and Elior Sharabi, 19, were seriously injured.

Oct 30 – Arjan Singh Vig, 86, died of a head injury at a house in Southgate, north London. His son Deekan Paul Singh Vig, 53, was jailed for life for murder in 2023. He was naked and surrounded by about 100 bottles of Champagne, including blood stained bottles of Veuve Cliquot and Bollinger. He said: “I killed my dad. I hit him over the head with a f***ing bloody bottle of Bollinger champagne.”

Oct 28 – Kamran Khalid, 18, was stabbed to death in the street in Ilford, east London, at 3.54am. Abubakar Binabdulaziz, 18, and a boy who was 15 at the time, were convicted of murder. Abubakar’s brother Ashraf Binabdulaziz, 24, was convicted of manslaughter. Kamran, a promising young footballer nicknamed Speedy Gonzalez, was murdered following a row with the group. His mother, Samina, insisted the killing was not gang-related.

Oct 28 – Amjad Hussain, 52, was found with serious injuries in his home in Watford, Herts. His son Husnein Amjad, 23, has been charged with murder and awaits trial at St Albans Crown Court.

Oct 28 – Josephine Smith, 88, died of smoke inhalation at her home in Harold Wood, east London, after a lit firework was put through her letterbox. Kai Cooper, 19, from Leatherhead, and a boy who was 15 at the time of the incident were convicted of manslaughter. Cooper was sentenced to eight and a half years’ imprisonment for manslaughter, arson and affray. The judge ruled the victim’s family should not make statements in open court to protect the ‘welfare and mental health’ of the two defendants. The younger youth, who was 17 at the time of sentencing, was jailed for three years and eight months for manslaughter, arson with recklessness as to whether life was endangered and affray.

Oct 27 – Dawn Walker, 52, was killed at her home in Lightcliffe, near Halifax on her wedding night and her body was found stuffed into a suitcase in a playground. Her new husband Thomas Nutt, 45, was jailed for life (21 years) for murder at Bradford Crown Court.

Oct 23 – Charlie Preston and Frankie Gater, both 16, from Romford, Essex, were stabbed to death in Brentwood, Essex. Frankie Watson, 19, from Orsett, Essex, was acquitted of murder and attempted murder of another boy who cannot be named for legal reasons. He was jailed for 18 months for being in possession of an offensive weapon. The court heard that all three were armed – Charlie Preston had a machete, Frank Gater had a knuckle duster, while Watson had a flick knife.

Oct 22 – Max Maguire, 23, a fisherman, was stabbed in a fight between groups at the Royal British Legion club in Lymington, Hampshire. Draven Jewell, 21, was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter at Winchester Crown Court. His brother Garon Jewell, 19, was acquitted after the CPS dropped the charges during the trial, which heard that “bickering” over a nitrous oxide canister led to a rise in tension before the fight. Two friends of the victim, Georgia Hole and Luke Gray, were also stabbed during the altercation.

Oct 21 – Einar, 19, a Swedish rapper whose full name was Nils Kurt Erik Einar Gronberg, was shot multiple times outside an apartment building in the southern Stockholm suburb of Hammarby Sjöstad shortly before 11pm. He was Sweden’s most streamed artist on Spotify in 2019 and released three chart-topping albums, winning several Swedish Grammys and other music awards. SVT claimed Einar was under police pressure to testify in a case against the so-called Vårby gang and had received death threats. In April 2020 he was kidnapped, beaten up and blackmailed for 3m Swedish kronor (about £250,000) by members of the Vårby gang, who had enlisted a rival rapper, Haval Khalil, to help lure him to a flat in the Swedish capital. Weeks earlier, the same gang had tried and failed to abduct Einar at a Stockholm music studio using another rapper, Yasin, Sweden’s artist and hip-hop artist of the year in 2020, as the bait. His death remains unsolved as of March 2025.

Oct 21 – Gary Mayhew, 25, from Camberwell, was shot dead in Brixton, south London, at around 6.15am. Trevin Campbell, 31 from Thornton Heath, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Oct 15 – Sir David Amess, 69, Conservative MP for Southend West, was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Ali Harbi Ali, 25, from north London, was jailed for life (whole life) for murder and plotting terrorist offences.

Oct 15 – Sergei Burenkov, 60, his wife Natalia, 58, and their daughters Nikita Belousov, 37, and Ekaterina Burenkova, 31, were found dead in the sauna at the Hotel Gloria in Qerret, Kavaja, Albania. The victims, all Russian tourists, are believed to have died of asphyxia while on holiday. It is not clear if foul play was involved.

Oct 13 – Agnes Tirop, 25, an Olympic long-distance runner and world record holder, was stabbed to death in Iten, in western Kenya. Her husband Ibrahim Rotich was arrested in Mombasa a few days later. Tirop’s body was found in a pool of blood with stab wounds in the abdomen.

Oct 12 – Hazrat Wali, 18, an Afghan refugee from Notting Hill, west London, was stabbed on a playing field in Craneford Way, Twickenham, SW London. A 16-year-old boy – who had been sentenced only hours before Hazrat’s death for possession of a knife – was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter in Jan 2023. Players in a rugby match between Richmond School and Hampton School watched as the mortally injured teenager picked up a branch before he collapsed. Jurors were told the killer, who was enrolled on a college course, was caught with a black knife at Southside shopping centre in Wandsworth on August 5, 2021. He pleaded guilty to possession of a bladed article and was given a youth rehabilitation order at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on the morning of October 12. Later that afternoon Wali was sitting in the park with Mariam Ahmadazai, a friend, when they were approached by the defendant and five other teenagers. The youth agreed he was hot headed and said it was “just anger”, and stabbing was “a way to release your anger”. At the time of the killing, the youth said he sometimes “felt unsafe” walking on the streets and would carry a knife for “protection” after incidents in which he, a cousin and a friend were attacked. The court was shown a photograph of the defendant’s hand, which needed stitches after he was attacked with a knife in New Cross in 2020. The defendant said he found out via Snapchat that a 16-year-old friend, Louis Johnson, had been killed in Croydon with a Zombie knife. He also described his fears after being involved in county lines drug dealing. In November 2020, some older boys put pressure on him to go to Wiltshire to sell drugs at a house, jurors were told.

Oct 12 – Katrina Rainey, 53, died after being set on fire in her car outside her home in Maghera, County Londonderry, as she prepared to set off for work. Her husband Thomas Rainey, 61, was jailed for life (18 years) for murder. Mrs Rainey, who had 6 children, suffered burns to 90% of her body in the “horrific” attack. She survived long enough to tell police about the nature of the attack, which she claimed was an act of revenge by her husband because of their pending divorce.

Oct 10 – Kian Tordoff, 19, was stabbed to death in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Matthew Page, 19, also known as Matthew Lowther, survived life-threatening injuries when he was stabbed in the chest and slashed across the stomach. Sheryar Khan, who was 16 at the time, was jailed for life (16 years) for murder but his tariff was increased on appeal to 19 years. His brother Arbaz Khan, 22, was jailed for 14 years for manslaughter. Mohammed Adil Hussain, 18, was jailed for 9 years for manslaughter. Adam Qayum, 22, Aizaz Khan, 26, and Amaad Shakiel, 20, were cleared of murder and manslaughter. The trial heard Mr Tordoff died in the street in the arms of three young women and he told them:”Tell my mum I love her.” His mother Danielle Laycock said her son had been torn between going out that night with friends or using the money to buy a new game for his PlayStation.

Oct 10 – Nicole Hurley, 37, was stabbed to death at a flat in Primrose Hill, north London. Her boyfriend Jason Bell, 40, was convicted of murder, false imprisonment in relation to a third party, driving a motor vehicle dangerously in the early hours of Sunday, 10 October, and driving while disqualified and with no insurance. He was jailed for life (22 years). The trial heard that after killing her with two knives Bell turned up at the house of a friend with a large army-style knife, accused him of sleeping with Ms Hurley, and used his van to drive through a police tape before checking himself into a mental health centre. The couple had been in a “difficult and volatile” relationship since Ms Hurley was in her teens. The violence in their relationship was “hidden from outside gaze” with the “rule” that what happened inside the home stayed there. Bell was later jailed for life.

Oct 6 – Matthew Boorman, 43, was stabbed to death in Walton Cardiff, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. A second man suffered serious stab wounds and was taken to Southmead Hospital in Bristol. A woman was also wounded in the leg and was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for treatment. A neighbour, Can Arslan, 51, was jailed for life (38 years). Arslan had been harassing his neighbours for 12 years.

Oct 2 – Leroy Mitchell, 35, was shot dead in the car park of a block of flats in Birdhurst Road, Croydon, south London around 5am. He had just left a silent disco, which had been taking place in the flats.  A £20,000 reward has been offered. Cimarron Dume-Gooden, 32, has been charged with murder and is due to go on trial in 2026.

September 2021

Sep 25 – Thomas Williamson, 30, was stabbed to death in an alley in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester. Kane Adamson, 19, Joshua Prescott, 20, and Ben Dawber, 19, have been charged with murder. Williamson, who suffered from mental health problems and was out for a walk to clear his head, was attacked in a case of mistaken identity. They went on trial in Jan 2023.

Sep 21 – Sharmake Mohamud, aged 22 from Newham, was shot dead in Green Lanes, Haringey, north London. Two other men survived. Ali Ceesay – who had been extradited from Gambia – pleaded guilty halfway through his trial in 2023. He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years and 275 days while Abdul Mohamed, 26, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 34 years and Mehdi Younes, 22, was also given a life sentence with a minimum term of 31 years. Two younger members of the gang, Jaymar Creary and Joyce Manzenza, who were both 16 at the time but have now turned 18, were sentenced to Her Majesty’s Pleasure and told they would not be released for at least 22 years. The trial heard the killers were from a Palmers Green gang and Sharmake and his friends were from the TPL gang in Turnpike Lane. After the shooting the gang were caught on a CCTV celebrating at the back of a car repair workshop. The victim’s mother Bilan Mohamud gave a victim impact statement in which she said: “The rivalries need to stop. You guys are not looking at the long-time pain.”

Sep 21 – Mohamed Ensser, 33, died after being stabbed during a fight in East Ferry Road on the Isle of Dogs, east London. Kwabena Boateng, 20, was jailed for life for murder. Ibrahim Taher, 22, and 64-year-old Kenneth McCreaner were cleared of “assisting an offender”.

Sep 18 – Vitali Skrypniak, 45, a lorry driver from Lviv oblast in Ukraine, was stabbed to death outside Belvedere railway station in Kent. Vitali had arrived in the UK on 15 August via Dover to transport goods for a logistics company.  Christopher Brownly-Otiede, 27, was charged with murder and went on trial at Croydon Crown Court in June 2023. But following a ruling by Judge Peter Gower KC the prosecution offered no evidence in light of the judge’s ruling. The jury therefore found Brownly-Otiede not guilty on the judge’s directions.

Sep 17 – Sabina Nessa, 28, a primary school teacher, was attacked with a motorist’s red emergency triangle sign as she took a shortcut through Cator Park from her home in Astell Road, Kidbrooke, SE London to a pub called The Depot in Pegler Square. Sabina never arrived at the pub and was murdered as she walked through the park. Her body was found close to the OneSpace community centre within the park at around 5.30pm the following day. Koci Selamaj, 38, pleaded guilty to murder and was jailed for life (38 years). He had driven up from Eastbourne, where he lived, to look for a female to attack.

Sep 16 – Liané Dickason, 6, and her 2-year-old twin sisters Maya and Karla, were smothered to death at their home in Timaru, south island, New Zealand. Their mother Lauren Dickason, 42, was convicted of murder in 2023 and jailed for life. She had admitted infanticide but claimed she was mentally disturbed at the time of the killings and did not know that what she was doing was wrong. Prosecutors, however, pointed to Dickason’s troubling phone messages and online history in the weeks before the killings, including comments about wanting to kill her children and Google searches for “most effective overdose in kids”.

Sep 14 – Paul Maurice, 51, was stabbed 22 times at his home in Bromley, south London. His son Sean Maurice, 29, was arrested on the roof of the house. He went on trial in Jan 2023. When he was captured, Maurice told officers: “I’ve got nothing to lose – you lot are trying to arrest me because I beat up my dad who abused me. He raped me.” He added: “You want to arrest me? What kind of f***ing justice is that?”, jurors heard Maurice has admitted manslaughter but denies murder, arguing the stabbing happened due to “loss of control”.

Sep 12 – Sherona Whyte, 25, Tashawna Whyte, 33, Michael Soloman, 27, and 19-year-old Luke Newman were shot dead in Havannah Heights, Clarendon, Jamaica. The victims were two sisters, a nephew, and a boyfriend of one of the sisters. Two men – Oral Richards, 38, otherwise called ‘Creamy’, and Andre ‘Hamma’ Bennett, 24, have both been charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition and four counts of murder. Both men were from Cherry Tree Lane, Four Paths in Clarendon. It is thought the killing may have sparked the Cherry Tree Lane massacre in August 2024.

Sep 12 – Chino Johnson, 27, was shot dead in Ferrey Mews, Brixton, south London. A 29-year-old woman survived gunshot wounds. A few days later drill rapper SD, from the Harlem Spartans crew, was among four men arrested at London’s Heathrow airport as they prepared to board a plane. Nobody has been charged. Unsolved.

Sep 11 – Denzil McKenzie, 56, was tortured and stabbed 23 times and his friend Fahad Hossain Pramanik, 27, was stabbed to death. Both were then mutilated at McKenzie’s house in Easton, Bristol. Ionut-Valentin Boboc, 22, and Jacob-Bebe Chers, 46, went on trial in March 2022 but the trial collapsed and they went on trial again in Nov 2022. They were both jailed for life. Boboc was sentenced to a minimum tariff of 37 years and six months, and Chers to a minimum tariff of 40 years. The defendants, who lived in Hillfields, had met McKenzie through their work at an abattoir near Bristol, where their job involved making incisions in the bellies of pigs. The trial was told the murders were a “gruesome echo” of their slaughterhouse work. The defendants allegedly tried to clean up the scene by wiping blood off the walls and other surfaces, while thick black car paint had been sprayed on the bodies and all around the house. The pair were arrested when Mr Boboc told his family what he and Chers had allegedly done.They initially thought he was joking or drunk, but later decided to call the police.

Sep 10 – Steven Fry, 33, was stabbed at a house in Canning Town, east London. His friend Georgie Ferrier, 36, was jailed for 14 years for manslaughter. The dispute stemmed from Steven driving his girlfriend’s car while under the influence of alcohol.

Sep 8 – Abdirahim Mohamed, 18, a drug dealer, was stabbed to death in Melbourne Street, Highfields, Leicester. Rizwan Gul, 26, and Mohammed Hansrod, 30, were jailed for life (28 years each) for murder, Israfeel Gul, 28, and Zakir Brant, 26, jailed for life (25 years each) for murder in Nov 2022. Daniel Pollard, 30; and Bhavic Parmar, 26, were acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter and both jailed for 14 years. Fahad Ali Saleem, 26, was found guilty of assisting an offender in connection with the incident. Muhamad Firoz Khan, 34, had previously pleaded guilty to assisting an offender. Abdul Suleman, 59, was found not guilty of murder and not guilty of manslaughter. Adam Brant, 29, and Khatib Gul, 58, were found not guilty of assisting an offender. The trial heard it was a turf war and Abdirahim was “set up” and “lured” to a street in Highfields, in the city, by one of the alleged killers who was posing as a client wanting drugs. He was allegedly ambushed by assailants who arrived in cars with weapons. The prosecutor claimed Abdirahim, and those with him, robbed Rizwan Gul of his car keys. They took his car and mobile phones. One handset contained customer contact details, said to have been useful for Abdirahim and his associates to take over supplying to their rivals’ clients.

Sep 2 – Robert Smethurst, 36, was punched at the Luxe Lounge bar in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of the morning. Robert Greenhalgh, 31, was jailed for 15 years for manslaughter. Manchester Crown Court heard how, in a series of messages to others before the attack Greenhalgh had boasted of the violence he had previously used in work as a debt collector and described himself as “The hardest c*** in the North West”. And he claimed to have spent £50,000 on cocaine in six months. As his drug addiction spiralled friends described him as a “wired mess” and “smack rat and just months before the killing his mother warned him that his behaviour would end in death.

Sep 1 – Alex Ajanaku, 18, was shot dead as he sat on a bench outside an illegal rave on the Beaumont estate in Leyton, east London, at 1.25am. The killers escaped in a black Kia Sportage which had been stolen from Chingford shortly before midnight on 16 August 2021. On 3 September 2021, it was found abandoned and fire damaged in Walthamstow. A £20,000 reward was offered in September 2022. Unsolved.

August 2021

Aug 30 – Gabby Petito, 22, a travel blogger, went missing in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Her body was found in a remote area of Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park and the Bridger-Teton National Forest on 19 September. Gabby had embarked on a road trip in July with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, 23.  They were in a cross-country camper van. But Mr Laundrie returned home to Florida without her. He then fled, saying he was going hiking. The last time Ms Petito’s family heard from her was a text message on 30 August that read: “No service in Yosemite”, a reference to the national park in California. The FBI issued a federal arrest warrant for Laundrie, charging him with fraudulently using a debit card after Ms Petito’s death but his body was later found in Florida. He had killed himself.

Aug 28 – Matthew Carroll, 50, known as Matty, was attacked in the centre of Birmingham at 1.30am when a fight broke out. He was out with his son. He was killed with one punch. Matthew Mahony, 33, admitted manslaughter and was jailed for five years.

Aug 28 – Frank McKeever, 63, was last seen along Highbury Park, close to the junction of Highbury Grange, London. Police believe his body is buried in the East Midlands. Surie Suksiri, 31, from Islington, north London; and Juned Sheikh, 48, of Camberwell, south London, both denied murdering 63-year-old Frank McKeever. The pair also denied preventing the “lawful decent burial of a body”. In June 2023 the Metropolitan Police began searching two areas – Lutterworth Road in Leicestershire and Welford Truck Stop in Northamptonshire – in an attempt to find Mr McKeever’s remains. The trial is in October 2023.

Aug 27 – Maddie Durdant-Hollamby, 22, from Wimblington near the town of March, Cambridgeshire, was found dead in a house in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Her boyfriend Benjamin Green, 41, was also found dead. He stabbed her and then himself.

Aug 26 – Conor O’Brien, 19, was killed in the driveway of a house in Enfield, County Meath in the Republic of Ireland. Earl McKevitt, 50, from Mullhuddart in Dublin, has been charged with murder and awaits trial.

Aug 26 – Jade Marsh, 27, also know as Jade Ward, was stabbed and strangled at her home in Shotton, Flintshire, Wales. Her husband Russell Marsh, 29, admitted manslaughter but was convicted of murder at Mold Crown Court and was jailed for life (25 years). He attacked her the week after she had left him. Her body was found under a pile of clothes in a bedroom. After the case the government introduced legislation known as Jade’s Law which meant that someone who kills their children’s other parent loses their parental rights. This was brought after Jade’s parents complained that Marsh had certain rights over his children despite being in prison for murder.

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Aug 23 – Babita Deokaran, who worked at Gauteng Department of Health as the acting chief director financial accounting officer, was shot dead at 8am as she returned home after taking her children to school. She was targeted because she was a witness in an ongoing investigation into fraudulent contracts worth 332m rand (£17m) awarded by her department to buy personal protective equipment to help stop the spread of coronavirus. Phakamani Hadebe, Zitha Hadebe, Nhlangano Ndlovu, Sanele Mbhele, Simphiwe Mazibuko and Phakanyiswa Dladla were all convicted in connection with the murder Hadebe and Mbhele were sentenced to 22 years imprisonment on charges of murder. Radebe and Mazibuko were sentenced to 15 years for murder. Radebe claimed former health minister Zweli Mkhize paid them 400,000 rand each for the hit, but later retracted the statement.

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Aug 22 – Abdi Khadar Adan, 32, was stabbed to death at a house in Leyton, east London. Kieran McHugh, 30, and Mahi Noor, 23, have been charged with murder and went on trial in Oct 2022. The court heard Adan was living at the hostel, which provides accommodation for authorities needing to find houses for people, and tried to purchase cannabis and cocaine from Noor. Text messages revealed Adan said he would ‘bust’ Noor’s head, before saying ‘I’ll rob you for your little pack. N****z dnt want beef, they vegetarian.’

Aug 21 – Kai Davis, 22, from Hounslow, was stabbed to death outside the Pryzm nightlubc in the centre of Kingston-upon-Thames, SW London around 3.45am. Ben Myles, 22, from Hammersmith was jailed for life (26 years) for murder. Joseph Barker, 22, from Uxbridge, was jailed for 11 years for manslaughter. Conrad Adams, 18, was acquitted.

Aug 19 – Sharon Pickles, 45, was stabbed in the neck at her flat in Ashbridge Street on the Lisson Grove estate in central London. At 2.15am (in the early hours of the 20^th) the ambulance service attended another flat in nearby Jerome Crescent and found Clinton Ashmore, 59, who had also been stabbed in the neck. Lee Peacock, 49, was named as a person of interest. A week later he was arrested after cutting his own throat on a canal barge near Ferrymead Avenue, Greenford, west London. Peacock was jailed for life (39 years) in Feb 2023. The Old Bailey heard Peacock, who had been released from prison on 4 June 2021, “lashed out at Sharon in a fit of rage, jealous of her sexual relationship with another man”, while a bedridden man she cared for slept in another room. Peacock refused to attend his sentencing hearing.

August 19 – Norma Girolami, 70, disappeared from her home in Highgate, north London after a day trip to Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Serkan Kaygusuz, 41, from Islington, has been charged with her murder and with theft. Her remains were found at a churchyard in Friern Barnet Lane in North Finchley in Oct 2022. Girolami, of Highgate, north London, was reported missing in September 2021 after communication from her stopped. She was last known to have made a day trip from London to Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, a place she enjoyed visiting. The trial heard Kaygusuz had befriended her at a local swimming baths and allegedly planned her “cold-blooded” killing after she gave him nearly £300,000 but then turned off the “money tap”.

Aug 18 – Mehmood Shamshi, 61, was hit over the head in Staines Road, Hounslow at around 10.30pm and was found dying in the street just after midnight. A teenage boy was arrested but not charged. In Feb 2023 a 16-year-old boy was charged with murder. He awaits trial.

Aug 18 – Otas Sarkus, 20, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Upton Park, east London. The killer escaped in a Volvo SUV. Bristan Williams, 18, survived and was found on a 238 bus in Plashet Grove. Dean Adams, 31, an underworld hitman, from East Ham, was jailed for life (29 years) in Aug 2023. Deon Brisport, 29, from Hackney, were convicted of murder and jailed for life (32 years) in December 2022. The court heard how the Volvo used in the attack was dumped and set alight just over half a mile away in an effort to conceal evidence. It was also found to be displaying cloned number plates. Shaquiel Samuels, 28, was only charged in October 2022 and was due to go on trial in 2023.

Aug 16 – Ranjith ‘Roy’ KanKanamalage, 50, was found dead in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park around 6.30am. He had been violently attacked in what was initially believed to have been a homophobic attack. He was described by police as a gentle, friendly man who travelled to the UK from Sri Lanka. Roy was a Buddhist. Eric Feld, 36, was jailed for life (28 years) for murder. The judge at the Old Bailey said Feld had a “long held fantasy” to kill a stranger with a hammer. 

Aug 15 – Eileen Barrott, 50, was found with serious injuries by her son Joel, 21, at her home in Naburn Fold, Whinmoor, Leeds. Her husband Mark Barrott, 54, left Leeds by train arriving at Edinburgh Waverley at 4pm the same day. He was later arrested in Elgin, Scotland. He was convicted of murder and jailed for life (21 years). The sentencing was delayed after Barrott was transported to A&E from the psychiatric hospital he was staying in due to a potential overdose.

Aug 13 – Sebastian Kalinowski, 15, died as a result of untreated rib fractures, which led to an infection, at his home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. His mother, Agnieszka Kalinowska and her boyfriend Andrzej Latoszewski were both convicted murdering Sebastian at Leeds Crown Court in June 2022. Andrzej had admitted manslaughter. Prosecutor Jason Pitter QC told jurors Sebastian came to the UK from Poland in October 2020, and Ms Kalinowska initially appeared thrilled to be united with her son. He said both defendants had come to see the boy as a “hindrance” and began to mete out “cruel” disciplinary measures for minor wrongs. Sebastian was also verbally abused by the couple and ordered to address Latozsewski as Mr or Sir. On the day the boy died Latoszewski waited more than two hours after finding him unconscious before calling for an ambulance. He later claimed Sebastian had drowned in the bath and that his injuries had been the result of a fall from a tree or a fight. Sebastian was beaten with a bed slat, whipped with an extension cable and stabbed with a needle. They are due to be sentenced in October 2022.

Aug 12 – Maxine Davison, 51, Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66, were shot dead in Keyham, Plymouth, along with father and daughter Lee Martyn, 43, and Sophie Martyn, three. The perpetrator, Jake Davison, 22, then shot himself behind a hair salon. It emerged that he had a shotgun licence and had his guns returned to him by police a few months before. Maxine was his mother. Davison, a YouTuber, suffered from mental health problems and was an incel.

Aug 10 – Stelios Averkiou, 16, was stabbed to death in Lordship Recreation Ground in Tottenham, north London. Kyi-Riece Sylvester, who was 16 at the time, was jailed for life (19 years) in Jan 2023. Leon Gruber, 18, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 34 months for robbery. The trial heard Sylvester stabbed Stelios in the leg after stealing his mobile phone. He was convicted of several other robberies. The judge said the robbery of Stelios came with “extra excitement” because he had gone to the same school and was associated with a rival gang to Sylvester.

Aug 7 – Megan Newborough, 23, from Nuneaton, was raped and murdered and her body was dumped in a country lane near Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire. Ross McCullam, 29, a lab technician, from Coalville, admitted manslaughter but was convicted of murder at Leicester Crown Court and jailed for life (23 years). The trial heard he watched porn after killing her.  The pair worked together at Ibstock Brick and began dating. They agreed to meet up, apparently to have sex, but instead he killed her. Megan’s sister Claire told McCullam she hoped Megan haunts him forever and she said: “The definition of a monster is cruel, frightening and evil – and it is to my relief the defendant has been recognised as a monster. You are an unpredictable menace, a danger to women, obsessed with serial killers.”

Aug 7 – Casey Badhams, 20, was stabbed in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Jake Wilkinson, 20, was jailed for life (22 years) for murder. Wilkinson had been drinking and taking cocaine when he armed himself with a large knife and attacked Badhams in an “act of revenge” after a row.

Aug 6 – Michael Fadeyibi, 23, was stabbed with a machete in Newham, east London. Christopher Owens-Wright – 23, was found guilty of murder and section 18 GBH relating to a second man following the conclusion of the trial at Inner London Crown Court in July 2022. He was jailed for life (27 years). Following his conviction, police are appealing for information to locate and trace 26-year-old Ryan Igbinovia and offered a £10,000 reward.

Aug 5 – Dylan Holliday, 16, was stabbed 13 times in the street on the Queensway estate in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. A 15-year-old was taken to hospital with stab wounds. Jamal Waddell, who was 16 at the time, was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 12 years in Aug 2022. Another boy was acquitted of murder but convicted of GBH to another boy. The trial heard social workers unwittingly took Waddell to Wellingborough when he had a knife on him. A safeguarding review, published in June, found it was not clear “appropriate multi-agency planning took place”. The review said there was “substantial, ongoing concern by children’s services that Waddell was suffering child exploitation”.

Aug 4 – Miroslaw Iwaniuk, 50, a Polish lorry driver, was found dead at Astmoor Industrial Estate in Runcorn suffering from neck injuries. Rafal Seremak, 44, of Wolomin in Poland, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter. The trial heard he had been trying to calm Iwaniuk down. Earlier that evening Mr Iwaniuk and Rafal Seremak had been drinking and eating with fellow lorry drivers near the rest and recreation area of the yard. Prosecutor John Benson, QC, said there had been what might be described as “horse play” involving Mr Iwaniuk and other drivers, who “goaded” Mr Iwaniuk. After Mr Iwaniuk became more disgruntled, there was an incident in which the defendant offered Mr Iwaniuk a vape device, and used this as a “distraction” to sweep Mr Iwaniuk’s leg, lower him to the ground and pin him there in a “headlock”. Mr Iwaniuk did not regain consciousness.

July 2021

July 31 – Yordanos Brhane, 19, was strangled and stabbed 15 times at her home in Hockley, Birmingham. Her friend Halefom Weldeyohannes, 25, from Sheffield, was jailed for life (21 years) in Aug 2022. Both were originally from Eritrea. The trial heard he made a pass at her but she rejected his advances, saying she saw him as “like a brother”.

July 31 – Logan Mwangi, five, was found in the Ogmore river in Bridgend, south Wales. Police officers found Logan partially submerged in the river in Pandy Park, just 250m from his home. He was wearing his dinosaur pyjama bottoms and a Spider-Man top. His stepfather John Cole, 39, was convicted of murder and perverting the course of justice and was jailed for life (29 years). Logan’s mother Angharad Williamson, 30, was convicted of murder and perverting the course of justice and was jailed for life (28 years). Cole’s adopted son, Craig Mulligan, who was 13 at the time, was jailed for life (15 years) for murder. The family had been self-isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mulligan, who was named for the first time at sentencing, is not the biological son of Cole but he raised him from the age of nine months and considered himself a father figure. On 20 July, Logan tested positive for Covid-19 and he was shut in his bedroom for 10 days with a baby gate stopping him from leaving. Logan’s stammer is said to have worsened, becoming particularly bad around Cole, the jury was told, and he wet himself more frequently and began self-harming. The jury were played extensive CCTV footage from nearby houses which showed Cole and Mulligan at 02:43 BST on 31 July moving Logan’s body in a sports bag to the nearby river, where they dumped it. Mulligan was a seriously psychotic child. A support worker once heard him singing: “I love to punch kids in the head, it’s orgasmic.”

July 31 – Amanda Selby, 15, was asphyxiated in a caravan at the Ty Mawr caravan site in Towyn, near Abergele, north Wales. Her brother Matthew Selby, 19, from Ashto-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, was charged with murder but admitted to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was jailed for five years. He had autism and mental health conditions that triggered the attack.

July 31 – Reece Williams, 29, was stabbed to death at a party in Greenwich, SE London. Robbie Munoz, 20, from Wallington, was jailed for life (22 years) for murder. He had claimed self-defence. The pair got into a confrontation, which saw Williams punch Munoz, but he walked away and thought the dispute was over right before he was stabbed.

July 27 – Liam O’Keefe, two months old, was stabbed to death at his home in the Ardoyne, north Belfast. His mother, Romanian-born Raluca Tagani has been charged with murder and attempted murder of a two-year-old child, who was taken to hospital. Tagani was also taken to hospital for treatment for injuries. She awaits trial. Her lawyer David Jones said: “The actions in this case are not in dispute, it’s really the why.”

July 26 – Anthony Bird, 50, was kicked and punched in Victoria Park, Tipton, West Midlands and died three weeks later. Steven Bennett, 39, and Suni Singh Gill, 34, were both jailed for life (18 years). His attack had no motive and was “completely senseless”. Bird had been visiting his niece, who lived nearby, and was heading home through the park when Bennett and Gill found him.

July 26 – Louise Kam, 71, from Borehamwood, went missing after driving to a house she owned in Gallants Farm Road, Barnet. Her body was found in a wheelie bin on the drive of a house in Harrow in early August. Mohamed El Abboud, 26, from Barnet, and Kusai Al-Jundi, 23, from Wood End Road, south Harrow, were both jailed for life (35 years) for murder in Feb 2023. The trial heard Al-Jundi, a Syrian, planned to swindle her out of £5m worth of property and claim she had gone to live in China. El-Abboud, a Romanian national, confessed to his friend, Maria Amariucai, during a car journey from London to Coventry.

July 25 – Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, a BMW worker, was attacked as he walked home after a boozy night out in the centre of Oxford. Scarlet Blake, 26, was jailed for life (24 years) in Feb 2024 for murder. She was a complete stranger who went out looking for a victim between 3am and 5am, knowing the city’s nightclubs had just reopened after the lockdown. She led him to a secluded riverbank, Parsons Pleasure, where she hit him on the back of the head with a vodka bottle, strangled him and then pushed into the River Cherwell, where he drowned. Blake was born male in China and after coming to England as a child decided she was transgender. Four months before killing Mr Carreno she had livestreamed the torture of a cat, having copied what Luka Magnotta did (in 2010) in the Netflix documentary Don’t Fuck With The Cats. At her trial Blake tried to blame her ex-girlfriend, Ashlyn Bell, who was also transgender. Bell, who lives in Colorado, US, said Blake confessed to her that she killed Mr Carreno.

July 23 – Marius Lakavicius, 44, was punched “many times” in Dagenham, east London. His friend and workmate, Airidas Janavicius, 38, was charged with murder but admitted manslaughter and perverting the course of justice and was jailed for 12 years. The court heard the pair had been drinking together. Janavicius humiliated Marius, who was very drunk, by taking a photo of him covered in blood without any trousers on.

July 23 – Beatrice Cenusa, 36, was stabbed at home in Brixton, south London. Her ex-husband Stony Stoica, 44, a lorry driver, was jailed for life (18 years) for murder. The court heard he killed her out of jealousy after she posted a video on TikTok of her blowing a kiss to her lover, Claudiu Miteatu. The pair married in Romania but divoced in 2009 over his gambling addiction. A neighbour found Ms Cenusa lying in a pool of blood with a kitchen knife sticking out of her chest. He asked her who did it and she said it was her husband. While lying on the floor Ms Cenusa video-called Mr Miteatu and said: “Claudiu, he barged in and stabbed me.”

July 21 – Shane Jerome, 23, from Thornton Heath, was stabbed to death near Brixton Tube station as he performed in a music video in front of his girlfriend Seleka Gathercole. Jerome was part of a convoy of vehicles, including green and red Lamborghinis, featuring in the film for rap artist Chariffe Greaves, who goes by stage name Reef. Brandon McNeil, 18, was jailed for life (24 years) for attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon. The trial heard McNeil was associated with the “7” or “L” gang. He made rap videos bragging about his life of crime and boasted of his skill with knives in a film made a week after the murder. He apparently assumed Jerome was part of a rival gang who were making the video.

July 13 – Sandra See was “callously doused” with a milk bottle full of petrol and set alight in the lounge of her home in Gorton, Manchester. Her son Mark See, 34, was jailed for life for murder. In the hours before the murder See had been increasingly abusive to his mother and pregnant fiancee. See, who was drunk at the time of the attack, filled a six-pint bottle with petrol from a lawnmower and set the fire, police said.

July 13 – Kim Gagné was hit with a hammer at her home in Toronto. Her boyfriend Bronson Lake, 32, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. According to an agreed statement of facts, a nurse at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health called police on July 14, 2021 after speaking to Lake, who had walked in to the hospital. The nurse reported to police Lake admitted he had hit his girlfriend in the head with a hammer, that she had lost consciousness and was losing blood. Lake was detained under the Mental Health Act after telling the doctor he intended to kill his girlfriend and himself.

July 12 – Mauricio Nascimento, aged 44, from Croydon, was killed in Rush Common, Clapham, south London. He had suffered extensive injuries from a brutal attack, including a broken nose, fractured skull and neck and almost all of his ribs were broken. In Jan 2023 Arturas Ptickinas, 28, and Ernestas Aleksandrovas, 29, were convicted of murder and jailed for life. They were convicted largely on DNA evidence. The motive for the killing was never ascertained.

July 10 – Londre Sylvester, 31, better known as KTS Dre and Kutthroat Dreko, a drill rapper, was shot 64 times after he was bailed from Cook County Jail in Chicago. The drive-by shooting took place as he was standing with a 60-year-old woman in the 2700 block of South California Avenue. His fiancé had just posted the $5,000 bail money. Sylvester was a member of the Lakeside faction of the Gangster Disciples, and mugshots show he had the words “Kill To Survive” tattooed on his neck beneath what appeared to be a gun sight. Unsolved

July 9 – Nick Cameron, 39, was beaten to death in the car park of his apartment block in Melbourne, Australia. His girlfriend Heide Victoria Bos, 37, a dominatrix, was jailed for six years for manslaughter. She admitted persuading one of her “slaves” to attack Cameron. Bos and the man had met on FetLife website under the online names of ‘Hedonistic Siren’ and ‘Slave Pinto’. Over 11 horrifying minutes, Cameron was beaten with a hammer and stabbed in an attack so ferocious it set off his car alarm. Neighbours were alerted by his screams for help and called police, who nabbed the alleged attacker as he attempted to flee. Slave Pinto – who has not been publicly named – is due to go on trial later in 2023.

July 7 – Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise, 53, was assassinated at his home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, causing political turmoil and gang-led anarchy. John Joel Joseph, a Haitian senator, was jailed for life in Miami, Florida, in Dec 2023. The trial heard a plot was hatched in Haiti and Florida to hire mercenaries to kidnap or kill Mr Moise. Joseph, an opponent of the Moise’s Tet Kale party, was extradited from Jamaica in June 2023 to face charges of conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside the US and providing material support resulting in death, knowing or intending that such material support would be used to prepare for or carry out the conspiracy to kill or kidnap. He later signed a plea agreement with the US government, hoping to get a reduction in his sentence. In exchange, he promised he would co-operate with the investigation. But Federal Judge Jose E Martinez handed down the maximum sentence. Joseph told the court: “It turned out that the plan got overwhelmed, out of hand, The plan changed to kill the president ‘but it was never my intention’.” he added. Two of the other plotters, Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar and retired Colombian army officer German Alejandro Rivera Garcia, were noth sentenced to life in prison. Joseph Vincent, a dual Haitian-American citizen and former confidential informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, pleaded guilty this month and was due to be sentenced in February 2024. Seven more defendants are awaiting trial next year in Florida. The killing was carried out by 20 former Colombian soldiers.

July 5 – Tamim Ian Habimana, 15, from Eltham, was stabbed to death in Woolwich New Road, SE London. His friend survived. A 16-year-old boy was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter in Dec 2022. Daryl Bethel, 19, from Gravesend, Lewis Bollen, 18, and two youths aged 14 and 15 were acquitted of murder and manslaughter. Opening the trial, the prosecution said the defendants went to Woolwich Arsenal Station to carry out a revenge attack for a stabbing which they believed Tamim’s friend had committed in Dartford nine days earlier. The older boy, now 17, was convicted of having an offensive weapon and conspiracy to commit violent disorder. He was given an 18-month young offenders rehabilitation order and a 55 hour activity requirement. He was given an electronic curfew for three months between 8pm and 6am. The younger boy, now 15, was convicted of wounding the second victim, possession of an offensive weapon and conspiracy to commit violent disorder. He was sentenced to an 18-month young offenders rehabilitation order.

July 5 – Marek Smalec, 48, was killed at his home in Hillingdon Hill, Uxbridge, NW London. His flatmate Damien Lenihan, 37, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Harrow Crown Court and was jailed for six years. Marek died of a brain injury after being struck over the head during an argument.

July 3 – Elise Pinder, 66, died in a fire at her home in Southend, Essex. Her son Andrew Wilding, 42, was jailed for life (27 years) for her murder. The trial heard he had searched on the internet for details of life insurance payouts. He was her sole carer at the time of her death. After setting fire to the house he went to a McDonald’s nearby to buy a drink. When he returned he claimed the fire must have been started by a battery he had been charging in the hallway. But detectives found that in the lead-up to the fire the defendant had searched online for ‘fires’, ‘arsons’, ‘murders’ and life insurance.

July 1 – Stephen Dempsey, 60, was stabbed outside the Microsoft shop at Oxford Circus, central London. Tedi Fanta Hagos, 25, an Eritrean refugee from Ravenhill, Swansea, was charged with murder but was mentally unfit for trial. A jury ruled he had been responsible for killing Mr Dempsey. The court heard Fanta, who arrived in Britain in 2014, had previous convictions for criminal damage, assaulting a police constable and an emergency worker, and was on bail for possession of a saw at the time he killed Dempsey. Fanta, who had been granted asylum in 2019, was living in Swansea at the time of the attack. A drop-in centre volunteer in Swansea who knew Fanta well gave a statement to police in which she said she had noticed a “rapid deterioration” in his mental health in the weeks before the attack. Patrick Upward, defending, told the court his client’s parents had both died in Eritrea when he was a child and he was then conscripted into the Eritrean army at the age of 12. He said he was shot and also tortured during his time in the army before he eventually deserted, spent time in Zimbabwe, before crossing the Sahara Desert and again being tortured while in Libya. A coroner ruled there was no point having an inquest into Mr Dempsey’s death, despite a string of unanswered questions.

July 1 – Camron Smith, 15, was stabbed at his home on The Shrublands estate in Croydon, south London in the early hours. He was wearing just his underwear at the time. Romain LaPierre, 20, from Brent, was jailed for life (28 years) for murder, Jordan Tcheuko, 19, from Wembley, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 15 years for manslaughter. Sako Amoniba-Burnley, 21, from Norbury; and a 16-year-old youth, were acquitted of murder and manslaughter. Allison Scott, 55, from Croydon, denies assisting an offender. An Old Bailey trial in July 2022 heard Camron’s killing came amid a crime wave on the streets of Croydon, overnight on June 30 and July 1 last year.Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said the four defendants had set out with others, on a moped and in a hijacked car, to track down those they had linked to the stabbing of an associate. He said they acted as a group, entering three homes in rapid succession. The first was no longer occupied by anyone they were looking for and was, instead, home to a woman who awoke to find a masked male in her bedroom.

June 2021

June 26 – Jason Nyarko, 26, was stabbed at an End of Lockdown Party rave in an industrial unit in Stockholm Road, Bermondsey, near Millwall FC’s ground. A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jailed for four years and six months after pleading guilty to manslaughter and possession of a bladed article at the Old Bailey.

June 25 – Tashawn Watt, 19, was stabbed in Sydenham, south east London. Romello Harley, 19, was jailed for life at Inner London Crown Court.  Harley had been involved in an argument with a relative of Tashawn’s at the Watt’s family home a short time before the incident which resulted in Harley being asked to leave. He then went to arm himself with a knife before returning to the area and tried to lure Tashawn to an alleyway, but Tashawn refused to go with him. Harley then stabbed Tashawn in front of his family.

June 20 – Kimani Martin, 18, was a passenger in a taxi when a shotgun was fired at it from a VW Golf hatchback in Tividale, West Midlands. Kisharne Campbell, a drug dealer, 23, was jailed for life (30 years) for Kimani’s murder. The court heard it was revenge after Kimani robbed him of his phone, gold chain, cash and car less than an hour before. Atif Khan, 25, was jailed for life (27 years). The trial heard Campbell had recruited Khan, who drove the stolen Volkswagen Golf into position for him to pull the trigger from no more than three metres away. Usman Amjad, 21, who was a backseat passenger in the Golf, was jailed for 18 years for manslaughter. Luke Adams, 19, was acquitted. Campbell had claimed he had met up with Martin and two unidentified associates to purchase cocaine, but was ‘double-crossed’, robbed of his belongings and dumped in the boot of his own car.

June 20 – Neil Charles, 47, was stabbed to death in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. David King, 55, and his 19-year-old son Edward King were found guilty of murder. Charles had a number of previous convictions for theft and burglary, and had been trying car door and house handles on the night he was fatally stabbed by the vigilante pair. They were jailed for life.

June 18 – Gracie Spinks, 23,was stabbed in the neck at Blue Lodge Farm in Duckmanton, Derbyshire, where she kept her horse, Paddy. Her former colleague Michael Sellers was found dead nearby. Inquests opened into the deaths of both Ms Spinks and Sellers at Chesterfield Coroner’s Court. The IOPC is investigating the case after it emerged Gracie had told Derbyshire Police she was being stalked prior to her death.

June 17 – Matthias Poleon, 27, was shot dead near to his home in Bedford Hill, Balham around 10.50pm. Unsolved.

June 16 – Leigh Smith, 48, was stabbed multiple times at his assisted-living flat in Eccles, Manchester. Jacob Cookson, 18, was jailed for life (19 years) and Logan Eaton, 17, was jailed for life (17 years). Cookson was the leader of a  gang who “cuckooed” Smith, who was vulnerable. Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court was told they believed Mr Smith, whose home they had taken over, had set up an attack on Cookson. Another 17-year-old boy was found not guilty of Mr Smith’s murder. Cuckooing is a term used for a practice whereby gangs “take over what is usually a vulnerable person’s home” and use it for criminal purposes, such as storing or dealing drugs.”

June 15 – Usifo Ataga, 50, Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, was stabbed to death at a rented apartment in Lagos, Nigeria. Chidinma Ojukwu, a 21-yr-old undergraduate, has admitted killing him. She was his mistress. She and Ataga were “having fun” when an argument broke out and she stabbed him twice after which she withdrew N380,000 from his account using his ATM card. Both were high on Rohypnol.

June 13 – Jason D’Aguilar was kicked and punched to death in Birmingham city centre after the UEFA Euro 2020 match between England and Croatia. Jordan Haines, 27, and Ben Wiggett, 29, were convicted of murder and jailed for life. West Midlands Police said one of his killers, Jordan Haines, sniggered when shown video of the “vicious” assault during an interview. Wiggett handed himself in to police the day after the attack and told officers he had drunk up to nine pints of alcohol that day. He said he believed a bottle had been thrown at his group of friends by a group that included Mr D’Aguilar.

June 11 – Mee Kuen Chong, 67, known to friends as Deborah, went missing from her home in Wembley and her headless body was found by holidaymakers in an area of woodland near to Bennett Road in Salcombe, South Devon on Monday, 27 June. She had been decapitated and her head was found later. Mee was originally from Malaysia but has been living in Wembley for over 30 years. Jemma Mitchell, 36, a property developer from Brondesbury Park, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (34 years) at the Old Bailey in Oct 2022. The court heard Mitchell had falsified Chong’s will in an attempt to get money from her. Chong was a devout Christian and Mitchell befriended her at a church.

June 11 – Jalan Woods-Bell, 15, was stabbed with a ‘Rambo’ knife as he walked to school with friends in Hayes, west London. has been jailed for 10 years. A 16-year-old boy was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter. The killer was caught on CCTV armed with the large knife as he followed Jalan and his friends, slashing the boy across the face and stabbing him in the chest. Jalan, who was unarmed, attempted to use a traffic cone to defend himself. The killer, who cannot be identified, was from the Ngang gang from Northolt.

June 10 – Toni Butler, 25, was stabbed at a house in Thornaby, Teesside. Keegan Barnes, 28, was acquitted of murder and jailed for 8 years for manslaughter .The court heard Barnes had been on a three-day drugs binge and claimed she had been asleep in bed when Ms Butler attacked her, with the fatal wounds caused in the ensuing struggle.

June 10 – Ryan ‘Apple’ Connor, 26, was stabbed to death as he walked home in Always, Newport, Gwent. He was attacked by a gang from Cardiff who wanted to steal his Gucci bag. The gang were armed with giant 15-inch knives. They were chased by police and crashed their stolen Ford Fiesta car after a Stinger device was deployed. Joseph Jeremy, who was 17 at the time, boasted “I’ve yinged him.” Joseph was jailed for life (24 years) for murder and robbery. Lewis Aquilina, 20, was jailed for life (22 years) for murder and robbery.  Kyle Raisis, 18, jailed for 12 years for manslaughter. Ethan Strickland, 19, was convicted only of robbery.  Elliot Fiteni, 20, was cleared of all charges.

June 10 – Denardo Samuels-Brooks, aged 17, was stabbed in Prentis Road, Streatham, south London. Umar Salami, 18, from Croydon, Denzel Kwateng from New Addington, Andre Headley, 18, from Streatham, and a 17-year-old boy called Blake were originally charged with murder. But that charge was dropped and they were convicted of violent disorder. Headley was detained in a young offenders’ institution for 21 months. Salami got 18 months and Kwateng and Blake both got 17 months.

June 8 – Taylor Cox, 19, from Barnet, was shot dead in Hornsey Rise Gardens, Crouch Hill, north London. Jaden McGibbon, 19, Sichem Mangituka-Mpelo, 20, and Robel Michael, 20, were charged with murder and went on trial in 2023. After a hung jury they were tried again in Oct 2023 and were convicted of murder and jailed for life. McGibbon’s then-girlfriend Dunila Idrissi Oukili, 21, from Camden, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice. The Old Bailey was told the victim was a member of the “A Team”, a group associated with the N19 postcode of London. He and his friend were riding together, each armed with a knife. The killers found out Cox and his friend were close by and set out to attack them armed with at least one gun. During the shooting, at least four .32 calibre bullets were fired from the same gun, likely to be a revolver.

June 8 – Humza Hussain, 16, was stabbed in the street near Challney High School for Boys in Luton. Ibrahim Khan, 16, was jailed for life (16 years) for murder.

June 7 – Maggie Murdaugh, 22, and her son Paul, 22, were shot dead at their home, set in 1,700 acres, in Islandton, South Carolina. Alex Murdaugh, 54, claims he returned home from visiting his elderly mother to find his wife and son dead, their bodies in the dog kennels. He went on trial in January 2023 with the prosecution claiming he did it to distract from a series of scandals he was facing. Murdaugh was a wealthy lawyer. From 1920 to 2006, three generations of Murdaughs served consecutively as chief prosecutors for the area, while their private family litigation firm earned them a small fortune. Three weeks after the killings Murdaugh hired Curtis Eddie Smith – known as Cousin Eddie – to shoot himself on a rural road. Murdaugh has admitted he organised the botched hit on himself so that his surviving son could collect $10m in life insurance payments.

June 6 – Salman Afzaal, 46, his 44-year-old wife Madiha Salman, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna Salman and her 74-year-old grandmother, Talat Afzaal were killed when they were hit by a pick-up truck in London, Ontario. The couple’s son, Fayez, is recovering in hospital. Nathaniel Veltman, 20, has been charged with four counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted murder. If found guilty he faces life in prison. It is believed to have been an Islamophobic incident. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called it a “terrorist attack.” Veltman will go on trial in Windsor, Ontario in Sep 2023.

June 5 – Robert Gary Spohr, 70, and his wife, Wendy Wood, were shot dead at home on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California. After a two-year investigation, former professional baseball player Danny Serafini, 49, and Samantha Scott, 33, were arrested in Nevada and charged with murder. Serafini was a Major League Baseball pitcher who was drafted in 1992 and whose career spanned 11 years with multiple teams, including the Minnesota Twins, the Chicago Cubs, the San Diego Padres, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Cincinnati Reds and the Colorado Rockies.

June 4 – Turgay Özcan, 33, was stabbed to death in a flat in Stamford Hill, north London. Katarzyna Poniatowska, 31, was acquitted of murder after a short trial at Wood Green Crown Court.

June 2 – Nathaniel Eyewu-Ago, 35, a drug dealer, was chased, robbed and stabbed to death in broad daylight in Barge Walk, Greenwich, south east London. Ernesto Elliott, 45, and his son Nico Elliott, 23, were both jailed for life for murder and robbery. Ernesto got a minimum term of 26 years and Nico 22 years. Justin Elliott, 19, was acquitted of murder but was convicted of robbery and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in a Young Offenders Institution. Nicholas Elliott, 26, was acquitted of murder and robbery. A video of the clash between Eyewu-Ago and the Elliotts was taken by a local resident and sold to The Sun newspaper, where it went viral. It appears to show Eyewu-Ago, who is not wearing a shirt, is armed and is holding off his attackers but at some point, after the video, he became disarmed and was then chased and killed. It later emerged that Ernesto Elliott was due to be deported to Jamaica in Dec 2020 but had been taken off the flight after human rights groups appealed.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15145043/thugs-slash-giant-blades-greenwich-battle-fighting-life/

May 2021

May 31 – Bethany Vincent, 29, and her nine-year-old son Darren Henson were stabbed to death in Louth, Lincolnshire. Her ex-boyfriend Daniel Boulton, 29, was jailed for life (40 years). A 10-month-old baby was found unharmed in the house. Boulton had pleaded guilty to manslaughter mid-trial but had continued to deny murder, claiming he was suffering from a mental health condition at the time. The trial heard he walked 28 miles to the house to commit the crime.

May 31 – Al-Sadiq Mohamed Ishaq-Adam, 22, was stabbed to death during a brawl between young men in Colindale, north west London. He was known to friends in London as Azadeeq Mohamed but close family overseas confirmed his full name. Nick Kaneza, 19, from, Hemel Hempstead, has been charged with murder. Mohammed Yusuf, 18, from Colindale, and Amani Williams, who was 17 at the time, have been charged with robbery. They await trial.

May 31 – Dea-John Reid, 14, was stabbed to death in Kingstanding, Birmingham. George Khan, 39, and Michael Shields, 36, and two teenagers were acquitted of all charges. A boy who was 14 at the time was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for six years. The jury heard Reid, who was black, was “hunted down” by a group shouting racial slurs and stabbed in front of multiple witnesses, following a confrontation over a bag. His mother, Joan Morris, later said she received no justice. She pointed out the jury at Birmingham Crown Court was made up of 11 white people and one of south Asian heritage. All of the defendants were white or Asian. During sentencing, Mr Justice Johnson told him: “If an adult did what you did it would almost certainly be murder and they would be sentenced to life imprisonment.” A lawyer for the 15-year old accepted his client had caused Dea-John’s death, but told the jury he had not intended to kill him and had been acting in self-defence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-61996309

May 29 – Marc Williams, 18, was reported missing in Uckfield, East Sussex after travelling to Maresfield. Two days later his body was found in woodland in the Heron’s Ghyll area. He had been stabbed. Lewis Ashdown, 19, of from Uckfield, was jailed for life (27 years) Lewes Crown Court. It emerged that the pair were friends who had agreed to drink together in the woods.

May 29 – Tony Eastlake, 55, was stabbed from behind as he walked along a street in Islington, north London. His late girlfriend’s son James Peppiatt, 23, was jailed for life (20 years) for murder at the Old Bailey in Aug 2023. The trial heard he separated from his long-term partner in 2018 and began a relationship with Peppiatt’s mother Alisha Callaghan. On April 11, 2021, Alisha Callaghan took her own life. Peppiatt blamed Eastlake for his mother’s death. After working on his flower stall Eastlake met up with Peppiatt in the street and a fight broke out after Mr Eastlake allegedly said: “Don’t piss me off. I took a lot. I kept quiet.”

May 29 – Danny Humble, 35, beaten to death in an underpass in Cramlington, Northumberland around 1am as he walked home from a night out. Alistair Dickson, 18, was jailed for life for murder. Bailey Wilson, 18, Ethan Scott, 18, from Blyth, Kyros Robinson, who was 17, and a 17-year-old boy were convicted of manslaughter. Two other teenagers were acquitted.

May 28 – Esther Brown, 67, was raped, punched, kicked and stamped to death in her flat in the Woodlands area of Glasgow. Jordan Graham, 30, was jailed for life (19 years) for her murder. Graham had been released on a non-parole licence in June 2018 after being jailed for raping a woman in 2013. A case review in 2023 concluded the death could “not have been predicted or prevented”. Tim Cowen, manager of Woodlands Community Development Trust, said the result would not “alleviate the anger” among Ms Brown’s friends.

May 28 – Christopher Martin, 74, was beaten to death at his home in New Cross, south London and left in a cupboard. His grandson Jack Forde, 23, was charged with murder but admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. The court heard he punched, stamped, stabbed and poured boiling water on his grandfather. Forde was “disconnected from reality” at the time of the attack and believed that he was his sister Anushka. Forde moved in with his grandad – whose wife had recently died from COVID-19 – when he was released from prison in March 2021, just months after he had stabbed two strangers. Those attacks took place in September 2020 when a man from Peckham woke up at 5.30am to find that Forde had broken into his home and was sitting opposite him, speaking incoherently. Forde then took a knife from the man’s kitchen, chased him and stabbed him multiple times. He then fled the scene and boarded a bus where he stabbed a 79-year-old man in the neck, causing a wound which needed 40 stitches. A jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity and Forde was released back into the community under a supervision order requiring him to take epilepsy medication. The court heard Mr Martin began sleeping with a knife under his pillow to protect himself from his grandson. At around 4am on May 28, 2021, Forde used his grandad’s phone to FaceTime his partner. He was hitting himself and said “Anushka get out, get out” before opening a cupboard door to reveal his grandad inside.

May 25 – Rayon Pennycook, 16, was stabbed to death on the Hazel Leys estate in Corby, Northamptonshire. Stefan Draca, who was 17 at the time of the attack, was jailed for life (15 years). The trial heard both men had knives. The jury heard the confrontation between Draca and Rayon had followed a fight between two women. The judge told Draca that although Rayon “was the initial aggressor I have concluded you did not act in self-defence”.

May 17 – Tim Hipperson, 39, was stabbed to death in an alley in Richmond, SW London. Oliver Muldowney, 34, was jailed for life for murder (25 years) and being concerned in the supply of cocaine and heroin. Jonathon Nash, 35, was jailed for three years and six months’ imprisonment after he was found guilty of two counts of being concerned with the supply of heroin and crack cocaine. Natalie Stevens, 37, was acquitted of assisting an offender. The trial heard that Hipperson and a friend were buying drugs from Muldowney who had convinced himself Hipperson was sleeping with his girlfriend. Before he died Hipperson told police he had been stabbed by “Olly”. After killing Tim, Muldowney offered Tim’s friend, and witness to the murder, drugs and money to leave the area. Tim’s friend instead helped police with their investigation.

May 13 – Armend Xhika, 22, was stabbed in the chest in Sheffield. Marsid Senia, 25, and Mentor Selmani, 28, were convicted of manslaughter. Selmani was jailed for 20 years and Senia for 13 years. The pair arranged a meeting with Xhika to settle a row over a car crash that had happened earlier that day. South Yorkshire Police is still seeking two brothers Eljaso Cela, 28, and 26-year-old Mateo Cela in connection with Xhika’s death.

May 13 – Maria Chavez, was strangled at her home in Ilford, east London. Her husband Muhammad Ilyas, 41, was jailed for life for murder. Ilyas had killed Maria during the afternoon when the couple’s three children were out of the house at school. The couple had moved the UK in 2019 and Maria was attending a college course to learn English at the time of her death. Ilyas was working on a market stall in Stratford.

May 11 – Caroline Crouch, 20, was suffocated to death at her home in Glyka Nera, outside Athens, Greece. Her Greek husband Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, a helicopter pilot and instructor, was convicted of murder and jailed for life in May 2022. He originally claimed that robbers broke into the couple’s home and tied up and gagged the wife and husband in their bedroom, prompting the police to issue a 300,000 euro reward for information about the crime. The couple’s infant daughter was found unharmed, and the family dog choked to death on its leash, authorities said. But examination of mobile devices, a smartwatch, and cameras had established a timeline that revealed inconsistencies in the pilot’s account. He was picked up after attending his late wife’s memorial service on the island of Alonnisos. He then confessed. Crouch, was born in the UK and moved with her parents to the picturesque Aegean island of Alonnisos as a child. National TV interrupted coverage of the Euro 2020 football championships on Thursday night to bring details of the confession.

May 9 – Karman Singh Grewal, 28, who was associated to the United Nations gang, was gunned down outside the international departures at Vancouver International Airport. He was very close to UN gangster Jimi Sandhu, who was deported to India in 2016 for “serious criminality.” Grewal had faced drug trafficking charges in Grand Prairie, Alberta, in 2016. And he had convictions in British Columbia for failure to stop at the scene of an accident, wilfully resisting a police officer and driving a vehicle while disqualified. His UN gang has been locked in a bloody war with rivals from the Brothers Keepers and Red Scorpion gangs for years. One high-profile Brothers Keepers posted a cryptic message on his Instagram after the shooting suggesting it was in retaliation for the hit on BK member Harb Dhaliwal in April 2021. In July 2022 Dhaliwal’s brother Meninder was killed in Whistler, possibly in revenge for the Grewal murder.

May 8 – Patrick Anzy, 31, was shot three times with a MAC11 sub-machine gun at Gillett Square in Dalston, east London. Jermaine Jackson, 36, was jailed for life (33 years) for murder, Oshane Hartley, 26, was jailed for 12 years for possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and Mohamed Abrar, 25, was jailed for three years for assisting an offender.

May 7 – Daniel Laskos, 16, was stabbed to death in Harold Wood, east London. Rakeem Green-Matthews and Joshua Kerr, both 19, Callum Hands, 20, and a 16-year-old boy were all convicted of murder. Kerr was sentenced to life with a minimum of 24 years, Hands received 22 years, Green-Matthews got 21 years and the teenager was given 14 years behind bars. Loushawn Barnes, 18, and Renee Saint Ange, 18, were acquitted.

May 6 – Abdirizak Hassan, 24, a drug dealer, was stabbed to death after being lured to a flat in Roehampton, SW London. Elijah Roye, 18, from Wandsworth, was jailed for life (18 years) for murder at Kingston Crown Court. Muhammad Danso, 18, was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter and a 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jailed for seven years for manslaughter. The group arrived at the property on May 5 and used a woman’s phone to call Abdi up and claim she wanted to buy drugs from him. When he arrived they ambushed him and stole his drugs.

May 4 – Gedeon Ngwendema, 21, was stabbed to death during a brawl in Brent Cross Shopping Centre in north London. Bhoniefas Rexson, 18, was acquitted of murder but jailed for life (14 years) for manslaughter due to “loss of control”. The trial heard Rexson, a YouTube rapper who was a member of the Thugs For Life gang, came across the victim, who was associated with the rival A9 gang, outside a JD Sports shop ‘by chance’. Rexson was a ‘committed and active’ member of Thugs For Life and operated the gang’s Instagram account, which featured people with guns. He also ran a Snapchat account and featured as a named artist in YouTube music videos with violent lyrics.

May 4 – Maria Rawlings, 45, an alcoholic from Chelmsford, Essex, was killed in Romford, east London. Her body was found the following morning by a man walking his dog. Valentin Lazar, 21, was jailed for life (23 years). Ms Rawlings had attended the King George Hospital in Goodmayes, Ilford, east London, before leaving on foot to Barley Lane in the direction of the A12. The cause of death was neck compression and possible blunt-force head trauma. Lazar battered Maria Rawlings with a wooden stick embedded with nails and strangled her after she got off the bus.

May 2 – James Gibbons, 34, was stabbed in the street at Iris Mews in Laindon, near Basildon in Essex, at 9.30pm. Police believe the self-employed plumber had gone to the aid of another man and died during an argument that followed. Joshuah Sparks, 16, was jailed for life (13 years) for murder. Sparks killed James Gibbons after he confronted a group of youths who tried to steal food from the homeless man outside his house in Laindon, Essex on 2 May. Mr Gibbons had given the man some food from his daughters’ birthday party. Sparks was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court.

May 1 – Bikramdeep Singh Randhawa, 29, a prison officer, was shot in his silver Audi in the parking lot of a Walmart on 120th Street in Delta, Surrey, British Columbia. Bikram had just finished his shopping after working out that afternoon at the Flex gym he regularly attended across the street. Within hours of Bikram’s slaying, rumours circulated the killers had been targeting someone in the UN gang who drove a similar car. There was also fear that Bikram might have been killed because he worked at the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre that houses warring gangsters among its prisoner population. Postmedia News revealed in 2023 he had been killed in a mistaken identity and the real target was United Nations gangster Amarpreet (Chucky) Samra, shot to death outside Vancouver’s Fraserview Hall on May 28, 2-2023. Unsolved.

https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/bc-unsolved-murder-gang-shooting-correctional-officer

April 2021

April 30 – Saman Abbas, 18, vanished from her home in Novellara, Italy. Abbas had reportedly refused to an arranged marriage in Pakistan, the country her parents had emigrated from. The police have released CCTV footage from 29 April – the day before authorities believe she was murdered – which shows three of the suspects walking with spades, a crowbar and a blue bag. The following day, separate footage shows the missing teenager leaving the house with her parents. Her uncle, Danish Hasnain, 33, is accused of killing Saman and burying her body at an unknown location in the Italian city of Novellara on the night between April 30 and May 1. Her parents Shabbar Abbas, 46, and Nazia Shaheen, 47, and her cousin Nomanulhaq Nomanulhaq, 33, are believed to have fled to Pakistan. Another cousin, Ijaz Ikram, 28, has been arrested in France and is awaiting her extradition.

April 29 – Michael Fadayomi, 40, was stabbed in Willesden, NW London. Marcus Griffiths, 42, was jailed for life (32 years) for murder. Griffiths had told a fellow bus passenger: “I’m going to f*****g kill someone today. If you’re not careful I’m going to kill you.” Shortly after this, two 15-year-old boys boarded the 260 bus heading to Willesden High Road and sat close to Griffiths on the top deck. For no reason he became aggressive towards them. The pair got off the bus shortly after 5pm at Willesden Bus Garage which was the next stop. Griffiths followed the teenage boys off the bus and without warning began to attack Mr Fadayomi’s son with a lock knife. The teenager managed to swerve the knife directed at his head twice and he and his friend ran off and called Mr Fadayomi who made his way to them.  After hearing about the attack Mr Fadayomi verbally confronted Griffiths who had boarded the stationary bus again. He then exited and Griffiths followed him. Without warning, Griffiths attacked Mr Fadayomi from behind with a knife as he walked away.

April 27 – Julia James, 53, a police community support officer, was attacked with a 3kg railway jack as she walked her dog in Akholt Wood, Snowdown, near Dover, Kent just after 4pm. She had been off duty at the time. Home Secretary Priti Patel said she had been “so saddened” to learn of the death. Callum Wheeler, 22, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (37 years). Prosecutor Alison Morgan QC said the finding of the defendant’s DNA on the breast area of the white vest top Julia James was wearing meant the defendant “must have touched her.” “Given the location of that touching, it must have been sexual in nature,” Ms Morgan said. Wheeler was “highly sexualised” and had searched for words on the internet including “rape” just days before the attack, she said.

April 26 – Abubakkar ‘Junior’ Jah, 18, was shot and stabbed in Coolfin Road, Custom House, east London in what is believed to have been a gang attack. It occurred a mile away from where Faares Matou was killed four days earlier. Asad Sharif, 28, of Manor Park, Newham, Awadh Saleh, 24, of Plaistow, and Rio Burton-Devine, 24, of Islington, have all been charged with murder. Marcel Burton, 19, Zyon Francis, 23, Ahmed Kassim, 30, and Makhil Osman, 23, have been charged with assisting an offender. Jessica Hilton 22, of Dartford, Kent and Dino Hamza, 25, of Newham, have been charged conspiracy to steal motor vehicles. They are all due to go on trial at the Old Bailey in Feb 2024. The victim’s brother Ahmed Deen-Jah, 21, was killed in Custom House in 2017.

April 23 – Fares Maatou, 14, was stabbed in the street in broad daylight in Newham, east London. Two boys, aged 14 and 15, were jailed for life (11 years) for murder but Judge Sarah Munro decided against lifting reporting restrictions on their names.

April 22 – Ellen Marshall, 43, suffered 80% full-thickness burns to her torso, face, and limbs which required skin grafts, after being doused with petrol and set on fire as she sat in an armchair during an argument at their home in Skegness, Lincolnshire. Her boyfriend Leigh Pateman, 45, was jailed for 17 years for GBH. Ellen died of her injuries on 11 March 2023. Pateman was then charged with murder and in December 2024 he was jailed for life (23 years) after being convicted at Lincoln Crown Court. Pateman, who had mixed personality disorder traits, had an alcohol dependence from the age of nine or 10 and regularly used drugs.

April 22 – Muhammed ‘Muj’ Mujahid Hussain, 19, was stabbed to death in Duckworth Lane, Bradford. Hashim Sajjad, 20, from Daisy Hill, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter on the grounds of self-defence. Sajjad was later jailed for three years for GBH after a separate incident two weeks earlier.

April 12 – Hamza Djouhoud, 34, was shot dead opposite Henri Dunant Hospital in Paris. A woman survived. He was described as being a gangster from the Comoros who was based in Marseille. The French press claim he committed a murder in 2011 and was suspected of the assassination of Mourad Boughanmi, a gang boss the Bricarde in Marseille in May 2016. In retaliation, a relative of Djouhoud was riddled with Kalashnikov bullets eight months later by a an assassin who escaped in a BMW.

April 10 – Khuram Javed, 30, a solicitor, was shot dead in Clough Road, near Bramall Lane, Sheffield. Another man was injured. Mr Javed had been a practising solicitor for 18 months after joining Alison Law Solicitors four years ago as a paralegal. Samsul Mohamed, 20, was jailed for life (minimum of 32 years). He was the gunman. Tinashe Kampira, 20, was also jailed for life (minimum term of 26 years). Samsul’s brothers, Saydul Mohamed, 23, and Sohidul Mohamed, 24, from Greenhill, were found guilty of assisting an offender and jailed for three years. Javed had been socialising with friends in a flat shortly before his death. They had been due to travel to Bradford to eat but, as they prepared to leave, received a call to say someone was loitering near one of their cars. As he confronted the killers they shot him with a blank-firing gun which had been converted to fire ball bearings.

April 10 – Joanna Carrillo, 3, her two-year-old brother Terry and 6-month-old sister Sierra were drowned at home in Reseda, Los Angeles. Their mother Liliana Carrillo, 30, has been charged with murder and awaits trial. Carrillo told a TV station she had hugged, kissed and apologised as she drowned her children to save them from what she said would be a lifetime of sexual abuse. She said she wanted to “protect” her kids from their father amid a bitter custody battle. Carrillo has alleged that the father, her ex-boyfriend Erik Denton is part of a sex trafficking ring that she claimed runs rampant in Porterville, a small city in central California where the family lived until the end of February. Denton has denied Carrillo’s allegations and wrote in court papers seeking custody that she was delusional. Carrillo was arrested later that day in Tulare County, nearly 200 miles north after a carjacking in Kern County.

April 10 – Levi Ernest-Morrison, 17, was stabbed to death in Sydenham, south east London. Nichola Leighton, 36, was jailed for life (23 years) for murder and her son Tyreese Ulysses, 19, was jailed for 13 years for manlaughter. Alex Sprules, 17, who stabbed Levi in the groin after he fell on the ground, was jailed for life (20 years). A 16-year-old boy who cannot be identified for legal grounds was jailed for life (16 years). Ulysses has since been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was driven by a desire to protect his mother, who was becoming increasingly agitated by youths knocking at her door. The trial heard Levi was associated with a gang called Block 6 and they had a beef with LDG, a smaller group which Ulysses and Sprules were in. Nicola Leighton rang her son and then drove him and his friends to hunt down their rivals.

April 9 – Giorgos Karavaiz, a popular crime reporter on the Greek TV network STAR, was shot six times outside his home in Athens, Greece. The gunman, using an automatic weapon, was a pillion passenger on a motorbike. There were reports that he was investigating a paedophile theatre director linked to the Greek prime minister. But colleagues said Karaivaz had not received death threats and had no idea he might have been on a hitlist.

April 9 – Loretta Herman, 85, was killed at her home in Ilford, east London. Her son Mark Herman, 54, was charged with murder and was initially held at Pentonville prison but was transferred to the John Howard Centre, a mental health facility, on 16 June over concerns he had expressed suicidal thoughts. On 1 July he was found hanged. Herman was a former Ibiza music promoter and friend of celebrities like Meg Matthews and Patsy Palmer.

April 9 – Sir Richard Sutton, 83, a multi-millionaire hotelier and one of the UK’s richest men, was stabbed to death at his home in Higher Langham, near Gillingham, Dorset. His partner, Anne Schreiber, was also stabbed and was in a critical condition. His stepson Thomas Schreiber, who was arrested in London, was convicted of murder, attempted murder and dangerous driving. He was jailed for life (36 years).

April 4 – Constanta Bunea, 49, was stabbed to death with a pair of scissors at her home in Plumstead, SE London. Her boyfriend Vasile Bratu, 39, was jailed for life (21 years).

April 4 – Bardhok Pllanaj, 46, known as Kumbari, was gunned down on on the road from the city of Shkodra in northern Albania to his home in the suburb of Dobraç. Pllanaj had been tried and convicted in absentia in Belgium for people trafficking and has been reportedly involved in drug smuggling.

March 2021

March 30 – Reece Young, 23, was stabbed to death in a street fight in Croydon, south London. Ronald Kissaka, 34, has been charged with murder. Dwaine Harris, 39, has been charged with murder, escaping lawful custody and two counts of assaulting an emergency worker. Mr Young was fatally stabbed as he and friends paid their respects at the wake for 19-year-old knife victim Tai O’Donnell, who was killed on 3 March.

March 26 – Ten people, including a police officer, were killed in a shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, a Syrian-American, has been charged with ten counts of first degree murder. He used a legally purchased gun, a semiautomatic Ruger AR-556 pistol. In April 2022 a judge declared him mentally incompetent to stand trial.

March 25 – Phyllis Nelson, 76, was killed at her home in a block of flats in Plaistow, east London. Her grandson Donovan Miller, 30, was initially charged with murder but was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and given an indefinite hospital order. It emerged that he had sex with her corpse twice. Described as a ‘matriarch of the community’ and regular churchgoer by neighbours, Ms Grant had recently been released from hospital after recovering from Covid. Three psychiatric reports were written, and it was agreed by three experts that Miller was suffering from “an abnormality of mind” at the time of the attack.

March 22 – Renato Geci, 21, was stabbed to death at a house being used as a cannabis factory in Hounslow, west London. Vilson Geci, 29, survived. Shaddai Smith, 32, from Romford, and Jason Sebran, 38, from Stanford-le-Hope, were jailed for life (19 years each) for murder. Smith and Sebran climbed up a ladder and through a bathroom window, only to find the house occupied by the brothers, who confronted them. They were hoping to steal £100,000 worth of cannabis plants.

March 17 – Hussain Chaudhry, 18, was stabbed in Walthamstow, east London. Alexis Morris, 18, from Seven Kings, and Marvin Ward, 18, from Ilford, were both jailed for 16 years for manslaughter. Anthony Nguyen, 18, from Belvedere, Kent, was convicted of assisting an offender. It emerged during the proceedings that Ward and Morris went to Hussain’s house on the pretext of buying a designer jacket. Despite initially appearing willing to pay for the jacket, the pair then threatened Hussain and attempted to flee with the stolen item. Upon hearing the commotion, Hussain’s two brothers intervened and managed to detain Morris. An ensuing altercation spilled into the street, during which Ward inflicted the fatal blow to Hussain’s neck, which the judge said “almost went straight through his body”.

March 16 – Eight people were killed in shootings at massage parlours near Atlanta, Georgia. The victims have been named as Ashley Yaun, 33, Paul Andre Michels, 54, Xiaojie Tan, 49, Daoyou Feng, 44, Soon C. Park, 74; Hyun J. Grant, 51; Suncha Kim, 69; and Yong A. Yue, 63. Family members identified Grant by her maiden name, Hyun Jung Kim. Elcias R Hernandez-Ortiz survived. Robert Long, 21, from Woodstock, Georgia, was arrested by police 150 miles away and has been charged with murder. The first shooting took place at Young’s Asian Massage parlour in Acworth. An hour later there were more shootings at Gold’s Spa and Aromatherapy Spa in Buckhead. It has been reported that the gunman shouted: “I’m going to kill all Asians” before opening fire. But it has also been reported that he was a “sex addict” who killed the women to remove “temptation.”

March 8 – Nikolai Vandev, 19, was stabbed to death in Tottenham, north London. Ali Tasyurdu, 18, and a boy aged 16 were convicted of murder at Wood Green Crown Court in Feb 2022. They were also convicted of GBH towards Vandev’s 19-year-old friend. The court heard Vandev’s friend had a feud with Tasyurdu on social media over a girl. Threats were exchanged on 7 March 2021 and the following day Vandev’s friend was attacked on his way to college. Vandev tried to intervene but was fatally stabbed. The killers threw the murder weapon – a Rambo knife – in Tottenham Marshes.

March 6 – Mazaza Owusu-Mensah, 18, was stabbed to death in Abbey Wood, SE London. Mohammed Al-Shihabi, 25, was acquitted of murder but jailed for 9 years for manslaughter.

March 6 – Victoria Amaning, 34, Ezra Okobia, 14 and Joseph Okobia, 5, died in a “deliberate” fire at their maisonette in Lewisham, south London. Detectives from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command investigated. While the fire was thought to have been started deliberately, no persons outside of those deceased were sought in connection with the investigation.

March 5 – Wenjing Lin, 16, was stabbed to death at the Blue Sky Chinese takeaway restaurant in Treorchy, in the Rhondda valley, south Wales. Family friend Chun Xu, 32, was jailed for life for murder. He had denied murder but admitted manslaughter. During the trial at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court, jurors heard he said he “did not mean to hurt the little girl. I wanted revenge on her mother”. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of Wenjing’s stepfather Yongquan Jiang. During the trial the court heard Xu was regarded as a nephew to the teenager’s mother, although there had been disagreements between their families in the past. In December 2020, the family entrusted Xu with £20,000 that he said he would send back to China for them to pay a friend who had loaned them money to start their business in the UK. Xu only sent some of the money back and gambled away £14,000, which he had then begun paying back.

Mar 3 – Tai O’Donnell, 19, was stabbed in the legs and left for dead on a sofa in Croydon, south London. His girlfriend Kamila Ahmad, 22, from Mitcham, was jailed for life (23 years) for murder at Croydon Crown Court in March 2023. Ahmad was also found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm in an attack on another man in 2015 and was sentenced to seven years, to be served concurrently.

March 3 – Sarah Everard, 33, went missing as she walked from a friend’s house in Clapham to her home in Brixton, south London, on a Wednesday evening around 9pm. Her body was found a week later in woods near Ashford, Kent. Wayne Couzens, 48, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, from Deal, Kent, admitted murder, rape and kidnap and was jailed for life (whole life). He worked as a diplomatic protection officer. He had abducted Sarah in a hire car, driven her to Dover, transferred her to his own car, raped her and then killed her and set her body on fire. Moments later he rang the vet to arrange an appointment for his pet dog.

February 2021

Feb 28 – Tyler Pratt, 39, was shot dead in Stoney Creek, Ontario. His pregnant fiancee was also shot. She survived but lost her baby. Tyler was from British Columbia but was planning to move to Toronto. Oliver Karafa, 28, and  his girlfriend Yun (Lucy) Lu Li, 25, were arrested in Budapest, Hungary in June 2021 and extradited in 2022. They are due to go on trial in 2023. Before the shooting, Ms Li appears to have been a social media influencer, and can be seen posing with her triplet sisters in multiple Instagram posts and TikTok videos. Her family told Chinese media: “We are deeply shocked, disturbed and puzzled by Lucy’s involvement in the unfortunate incident.”

Feb 26 – Ahmed Beker, 19, was stabbed to death by two men in Paddington Green, west London. His cousin, Ahmed Al-Shammry survived. Jaden Forde, 18, from Wembley, NW London, and Omar Ahmed, 19, went on trial for murder in Sep 2022. The trial heard Beker was not in a gang but was identified by his assailants as “Little D’s cousin”, a reference to his Yousif Beker who was murdered outside a KFC in Edgware Road on September 10 2019. Yousif Beker was linked to a gang known as the Lisson Green Men which was in rivalry with the Harrow Road Boys.

Feb 26 – Luke Bellfield, 18, was stabbed to death near the Peterboat pub in the high street of Old Leigh, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Alfie Pollard, 18, admitted carrying a knife during the incident and possession of cannabis but denies murder. The local MP, Sir David Amess, wrote to the prime minister about knife crime in the wake of the murder. Ironically he himself was stabbed to death in October 2021.

Feb 22 – Tyreke Watson, 21, was stabbed to death in Tottenham, north London. Momodu Samura, 21, was jailed for life (23 years) for murder. He will also serve a concurrent 13 month sentence for possession with intent to supply cocaine and heroin.

Feb 20 – Bennylyn Burke, 25, and her daughter Jellica, two, were killed at a house in Dundee, Scotland. Their bodies were later found beneath floorboards of the kitchen at the house. Andrew Innes, 51, has been charged with murder and awaits trial at the High Court in Glasgow. Innes is also accused of raping a seven-year-old child.

Feb 18 – Alan Murphy, 39, was stabbed in the street in Moston, Manchester. William Doleman, 27, was jailed for life for murder. His friend, Ademola Efunnuga, 26, was acquitted of murder. Jurors heard Doleman had arranged to meet ‘love rival’ Mr Murphy for a fight in the early hours, after exchanging threats. Lisa Hough, 43, who was in relationship with Mr Murphy and was an ex-partner of Doleman, was convicted of assisting an offender by allegedly helping Doleman ‘cover his tracks’. Hough went with him to Tesco to buy a new mobile phone and ‘posed’ as a couple with the pair holding hands in a scene captured on CCTV. The judge said she must have derived some “twisted pleasure” from the men fighting over her. Doleman’s older brother, Grant Doleman, tried to help the killer by misleading police at the beginning of their murder investigation. He too was jailed after admitting perverting the course of justice. During the trial Doleman tried to blame Efunnuga.

Feb 18 – Drekwon Patterson, 16, was stabbed in Wembley, NW London. Five men were arrested but have not been charged. Drekwon was a member of the A9 gang and strayed onto the territory of a gang who attacked him. Unsolved.

Feb 18 – Robert Ion, a six-month-old baby boy, died in hospital after suffering a skull fracture and an irreversible brain injury at his home in Widnes, Cheshire.At Liverpool Crown Court, his father Mihai-Catalin Gulie, 28, was jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years for his murder. Robert’s mother Gabriela Ion, 35, was found guilty of causing or allowing his death and jailed for three years. The pair both pleaded not guilty but were convicted by a jury. On the day the baby was injured, Ion had left the house on Mersey Road to go to the shop before returning a few minutes later. Cheshire Police said Gulie told her that Robert appeared to be unwell and the pair began splashing water on his face and tapping his back in an attempt to revive him. The pair were both Romanian.

February 18 – Alfie Steele, 9, died at his home in Droitwich, Worcestershire. His mother Carla Scott, 35, and her fiance Dirk Howell, 41, went on trial at Worcester Crown Court in May 2023. Scott denies murder, manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of Alfie and child cruelty offences against her son and other children. Howell had admitted cruelty offences against other children before the trial, but denies murder, manslaughter, cruelty or causing or allowing the death of Alfie. The prosecution claimed Alfie was “repeatedly assaulted, beaten”, and “held” in a cold bath as punishment by the couple. Alfie Steele, who was covered in bruises, had been subjected to a cruel and “sinister” regime of correction by the couple, the jury was told. Alfie had 50 injuries all over his body. Scott had Alfie during a previous relationship – in which children’s services had involvement – with the boy’s father, and which broke up in 2017. On the day of Alfie’s death, , Scott rang 999 at 2.24pm, claiming “Alfie had fallen asleep in the bath”. Police noted that Alfie was lifeless already, he was not breathing and he was cold to the touch, so already cold, just six minutes after that 999 call.

Feb 17 – Gabriel Bringye, 37, a Bolt taxi driver, was stabbed to death and found in a car in Haringey, north London. David Adeyanju, 18, and a 17 year old were convicted of manslaughter. Three teenagers were acquitted. The trial heard that the gang planned to rob Mr Bringye.

Feb 15 – Jack Ampadu, 37, was stabbed to death at a block of flats in Kentish Town, north London. Dwayne Stewart-Akers, 38, was jailed for life (25 years) at Harrow Crown Court. The trial heard Jack had been friends with Stewart-Akers. On the evening of the murder, he had gone to visit him but an argument broke out between the two and he was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife.

Feb 12 – Claudine Roberts, 44, homeless, was stabbed to death on a subway train in New York. A 40-year-old man was also killed. Two other people survived the stabbing spree. Rigoberto Lopez, 21, also homeless, has been charged but is awaiting psychiatric evaluation.

Feb 11 – Hani Solomon, 18, was stabbed to death in Parsons Green, south west London. Abdallah Awil, 19, was acquitted of murder in 2022 but was convicted of manslaughter after a retrial. Ahmed Fatah, 18, and Yousef Chamint, 19, both admitted manslaughter. All will be sentenced in Feb 2023.

Feb 7 – Tyrone Jones, 37, was shot dead in Queens, New York. Isaiah Stokes, 41, has been charged with second degree murder. Stokes, an actor, has appeared on Law & Order, The Americans, and Power. Video surveillance from that day shows Stokes exited a vehicle before unloading 11 gunshots into a parked white Jeep Grand Cherokee, hitting Jones who later died of his injuries. The fatal shooting took place in broad daylight and about a mile and a half from where the victim lived.

Feb 6 – Sven Badzak, 22, was stabbed near a Tesco Express in Kilburn, north west London after being chased by six men from the South Side Killy gang from the south Kilburn estate. His friend, Bobby, who was 16, was also stabbed and needed open heart surgery but survived. The pair were not gang members and had been targeted at “random”. At the time Sven’s mother, Jasna Badzak, called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for whom she campaigned during the 2008 London mayoral race, to “help get justice for Sven”. Mrs Badzak said her son, who was planning on becoming a lawyer, had been in the Willesden Lane area “to buy some orange juice and get a bagel”. She said: “Sven was the person everyone was saying was going to be the prime minster.” In August 2023 Rashid Gedel, by then 22, and Shiroh Ambersley, 23, were jailed for life (27 years) for murder. Harvey Canavan, 19, who admitted manslaughter, was jailed for 7 and a half years. A fourth suspect, Lior Agbayan, has fled abroad. The two other members of the gang, Suspect 4 and Suspect 5, remain unidentified. Gedel was a drill rapper known as Broadayyay and Ambersley was a drill artist known as Shodyest or Shox. The pair had made several songs in which they sang about chings (knives) and chinging (stabbing). Gedel had four convictions for possession of a bladed article, the last of which was in March 2020 and had led to a 27 week sentence.

Feb 5 – Lavaun Witter, 22, was stabbed to death in the street in Croydon, south London. A 16-year-old boy survived. Julian Russell, 22, and Tyreece Wolfries-Parkin, 18, were both convicted of murder and jailed for life after a trial at the Old Bailey in 2023. Russell was locked up for a minimum of 24 years and Wolfries-Parkin got 20 years. Alex Pasley, 25, from Coulsdon, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 17 years. At a retrial in Nov 2024 Tyreece Riggon, 20, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter and convicted of attempted GBH and jailed for 6 years. At the trials it emerged that Witter – who was known by the street name Lavz – had been robbed of a Louis Vuitton bag.

Feb 4 – Emma Robertson Coupland, 39, an NHS worker, was stabbed in the car park of University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock at 7.45pm. Around 20 minutes later her daughter, Nicole Anderson, 24, was fatally stabbed on Portland Street, about two miles away. The prime suspect – Steven Robertson, 40, died when he drove his car into a tree at 8.30pm.

Feb 2 – FBI Special Agents Laura Schwartzenberger and Daniel Alfin were shot dead when they went to search a house in Sunrise, Florida. David Lee Huber, 55, a computer consultant who was suspected of viewing child pornography, shot himself after killing the agents and injuring several others. Huber, described by neighbours as a “loner”, had surveillance cameras at his apartment.

January 2021

Jan 31 – Mohammed Haroon Zeb, a taxi firm manager, was shot dead in a drive-by shooting in Dudley, West Midlands just after midnight on his 39^th birthday. In June 2022 eight men were charged with conspiracy to murder. In Jan 2023 two men were convicted – Hassan Tasleem, 23, who was the shooter, and Gurdeep Sandhu, 23, who was the driver of the car and involved in the plot. They were jailed for life. Shamraz Ali, 21, was convicted of perverting the course of justice. The killing was part of an ongoing feud between families dating back to at least 2018, including men being mown down by cars and a man stabbed to death. A man was jailed over that murder in 2019. Zeb – who ran Midland Taxis – was not believed to have been actively involved in the feud, but a follower of what was going on, and the reason he was specifically targeted remains unknown. Umar Ali, 20, Mohammed Rafiq, 19, Akarsh Tasleem, 25, and Choudhary Naheim Rashid, 47, were acquitted of conspiracy to murder. There was a hung jury in the case of Choudhary Akeel Hussain, 21.

Jan 29 – N’Taya Cleverley-Elliott, 20, was strangled at her home in Wavertree, Liverpool. She was left under a duvet on the bed next to her four-month-old baby which was in a cot. Her boyfriend Mohammed Diakite, 20, was jailed for life for murder. Diakite told the support worker Ms Cleverley-Elliott had been drinking and had beaten him, but toxicology tests carried out later did not support his claim. He also told the woman he was going to jail because Ms Cleverley-Elliott was leaving him.

Jan 28 – Tomasz Waga, 23, who was originally from Poland but was living in Essex, was found unconscious by a dog walker in Penylan, Cardiff, just before midnight. He died in hospital. Josif Nushi, 27, was jailed for life (20 years) and Mihal Dhana, 29, was jailed for life (16 years) for murder. Hysland Aliaj, also 31, was jailed for 10 years for manslaughter. All three had been extradited from Germany. During the trial in December 2022, Newport Crown Court heard Waga and a second man, Carl Davies, had travelled to Cardiff from London to break into a cannabis factory at 319 Newport Road and try to steal £120,000 worth of cannabis. An Albanian gang who ran the factory were tipped off and arrived. Waga was beaten with a baseball bat, a bamboo cane and half a house brick before being dragged out of the house and thrown into a silver Mercedes and then dumped in Penylan. Mario Qato, 25, from Tottenham, London, and Gledis Mehalla, 20, were acquitted of all charges. Mehalla had been extradited from Albania. A murder charge were dropped against Damjano Velo, 23, from Whitchurch, Cardiff, while Behar Kaci, 29, was charged with drugs offences and money laundering. Two others are still wanted in connection with  Waga’s death, they are Artan Pelluci, 29, also of Cathays, and Elidon Elezi, 22, of East Finchley, London.

Jan 25 – Romario Opia, 15, was stabbed to death in Islington, north London. O’Neil Cameron, who was 17 at the time, was cleared of murdering Romario Opia but convicted of his manslaughter. During a row between two armed groups, Romario was killed by Cameron, who ran away, chased by Romario’s two friends.

Jan 24 – Tiprat Argatu, 43, was found dead at her home in Whitechapel, east London. David Cheres, 19, was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Cheres was having an affair with Argatu, whose husband, Silviu, was his good friend. Cheres and Silviu Argatu shared a house with two other Romanians. The trial heard Silviu found Cheres in bed with his Thai-born wife. Afterwards Cheres could not sleep because he was depressed about the loss of his friendship. He spent the night praying and watching violent anime cartoons including ‘Angels and Demons’. He then attacked Tiprat. Cheres stamped on her neck, breaking bones in her larynx and stabbed her with a pair of scissors with so much force they bent in half. He then hid naked in a nearby bin store before he was arrested by police. Cheres said he had applied to join the British Army the day before and believed he was being ‘tested’. He went running, read rules about Covid-19 and tried to repair a clothing rack as ‘part of the test’. He felt he was “going crazy”.

Jan 21 – Keon Lincoln, 15, was stabbed to death after being “set upon” in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital. The attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Yussuf Mustapha, 14, was jailed for life (16 years) in November 2021. Tahjgeem Breakenridge, 18, from Oldfield Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham and Michael Ugochukwu, 18, from Twyning Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, were both sentenced to life with a minimum term of 19 years. A 16-year-old Walsall youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was ordered to be detained for at least 17 years. Kieron Donaldson, 19, of Aston Lane, Perry Barr, Birmingham, was sentenced to a 12-year custodial term for Keon’s manslaughter, having supplied weapons to those involved in the attack. Keon’s mother, Sharmaine Lincoln, who had been at home when her son was attacked, called the convicted teens “heartless, evil monsters”.

Jan 20 – Urantsetseg Tserendorj, 49, a Mongolian immigrant, was stabbed in the neck during a bungled mugging in an alley between George’s Dock and Custom House Quay in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, as she walked home from work. A boy, who was 14 when he carried out the murder, was convicted of murder after admitting only manslaughter. The court heard he has 31 previous convictions, including those related to robbery, violence and drugs. “Humans lack humans, we lack each other’s love, what we share is happiness and sorrows, but now it is very hard to live,” said the victim’s husband Ulambayer Surenkhor.

Jan 19 – Connor Lyons, 17, was discovered dead on an embankment near Ennerdale, Hull. His ‘friend’ Cole Jarvis, 21, was jailed for life (24 years) for murder in Nov 2021. The trial heard Cole bullied and belittled the teenager and on the night of Connor’s death, Jarvis lured him out to a field to go hunting for rabbits when he attacked him to rob him of his phone and bracelet, before dumping his body in the River Hull.

Jan 20 – Anas Mezenner, 17, was found with stab injuries in West Green Road, Haringey, north London, around 9pm. His friend Hikmet Budak survived. Anas was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead at 4.25am. Javanie Morris, who was 16 at the time, was convicted of murder and jailed for life (18 years). Tiani Gaynes, who was also 16, was convicted of manslaughter and unlawful wounding and sentenced to 11 years’ detention in a young offenders’ institution. Shimar Williams, also 16, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years’ detention in a young offenders’ institution. A 14-year-old boy was acquitted. The trial at the Old Bailey heard that while on remand awaiting trial one of the killers let slip in a recorded phone call that he had wanted “my first little juice on my blade”. Anas expected a “little scrap” over a friend’s missing phone but it escalated when it emerged at least three of the opposing group had armed themselves with large knives, jurors were told.

Jan 19 – David Oliver, 74, was stabbed to death in West Park, Greenwich, SE London. His grandson Ben Oliver, 23, from Bexleyheath, was jailed for life (10 years) in July 2022. He admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. He was cleared of murder. When he was sentenced at the Old Bailey it made legal history as it  was the first time a sentencing hearing had been televised in England and Wales. Only Judge Sarah Munro QC appeared on screen. The trial heard he attacked his bedbound grandfather as he lay “helpless” in his bedroom following a stroke. Prosecutor Louis Mably QC said Oliver had become “very angry” after learning of allegations against his grandfather of historic sexual abuse of girls. In 2016, Ben Oliver was convicted of sexual offences against a young girl when he was aged 15, the court was told. Judge Munro said this was “learned behaviour from your own childhood”. Psychologists appointed by the court described Oliver as “a very damaged man who will require psychological work in the longer term”, Judge Munro said.

Jan 13 – Paul Dalton, 41, a resident, was stabbed in the leg at a hostel in The Broadway, Wimbledon, south west London and bled to death. A fellow resident, Mongo ‘Ed’ Bolili, 33, was jailed for life (23 years) for murder. The trial heard Dalton was killed simply because he had slammed a door, which annoyed Bolili, Danny Webster, 30, and Ian Matu, 26, were acquitted of perverting the course of justice.

Jan 11 – Leon Street, 48, a delivery driver, was stabbed in Neasden, north west London. Amine Laouar, 20, was jailed for life (38 years) for murder and was also convicted of attacking Mirvais Khan in Neasden Lane 10 minutes before killing Street. He was also convicted of an attack six days later on Mitul Karaniya, also in Neasden Lane. After Street was killed a Section 60 was authorised for Barn Hill, Welsh Harp, Tokyngton, Preston and Stonebridge following the attacks but it turned out the killings were not gang-related. In fact the victims were chosen at random and there was no obvious motive. Giving evidence, Laouar claimed he had been framed by the real killer and the prosecution had the wrong man.

Jan 11 – Lewis Williams, 20, was shot in Mexborough, South Yorkshire. The gunman, Taylor Meanley, 17, was jailed for life (21 years) at Sheffield Crown Court in Nov 2021. Jack Parkes, 21, was jailed for life (27 years) for murder while Joe Anderton, 18, from Doncaster, and Arlind Nika, 16, from London, were jailed for 12 years for manslaughter. The court heard Mr Williams was targeted due to his links with a gang known as the Pitsmoor Shotta Boys.  During the trial, jurors heard that the four defendants toured the area in a Jaguar car looking for Mr Williams. The mothers of Meanley and Parkes had been subjected to attacks which drove these defendants to seek revenge on the gang they held responsible.

Jan 10 – Dainius Kulboka, 44, and Jonas Semenas, 45, Lithuanian nationals, were stabbed to death at a flat in Ilford, east London. Vepkhvia Laliashivili, a former police detective in Georgia who was also known as Vytautas Garmus, 51, was jailed for life (35 years) for murder. The trial heard he killed them after a drunken party to celebrate the Russian New Year in which they had together drunk eight bottles of vodka. He worked as a detective for the Georgian ministry of internal affairs before moving to the UK in 2005. The trial heard Laliashivili owed the two dead men £30,000. The sounds of the attack could be heard on a doorbell camera opposite the house, with one victim pleading for it to stop. His girlfriend Aurika Sivolova, 53, from Plaistow, was convicted of perverting the course of justice. After the killings he called her and she entered the house and witnessed the two men on the ground, before leaving with her partner and later helping him by dumping his blood-stained clothes in a black bin bag into a neighbour’s bin.

Jan 9 – Dean Ramsey, 30, was choked to death in his cell in HMP Glenochil near Alloa, Scotland. James O’Rourke, 52, admitted murder and was jailed for life (23 years). The High Court in Glasgow heard O’Rourke was seen shaking hands with other prisoners afterwards. He boasted: “Just because I am old, he thinks I am dafty. Well, it cost him his life.” After his arrest he told police: “I am guilty here. No fucking doubt.” O’Rourke had been in prison since 1992, when he was jailed for murdering a man in Airdrie. In 1997, he was then sentenced to six years after a prison officer and a nurse were held hostage during an earlier stint at Glenochil. O’Rourke was given another eight years in 2002 for assault and abduction then four years for further attack in 2004. He was next sentenced to eight years in 2005 for stabbing a prison escort and a senior jail official at HMP Kilmarnock.

Jan 6 – Brian D. Sicknick, 40, a US Capitol Police officer, was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump during the siege of the Capitol in Washington DC. He died 24 hours later. On the same day one of the protesters, US Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, was shot dead by a police officer as she tried to climb through a broken window into the heart of the Capitol, where congressmen and women were being evacuated. In March 2021 Julian Khater and George Tanios were arrested by federal authorities and charged with crimes that included assault of Officer Sicknick with a chemical spray. There could not be a charge of homicide because the cause of death had not been determined. Autopsy results were still pending almost 10 weeks after Sicknick’s death.

Jan 4 – Eileen Dean, 93, a resident, was beaten to death with a walking stick at the Fieldside care home in Catford, south London. Alexander Rawson, 62, another resident of the home, was charged with murder but was given an indefinite hospital order. It was reported that she was hit so hard that the stick’s broken handle was found embedded in her neck. The court heard how he had been been placed in the room next door to Mrs Dean after being moved into the home from a mental health unit a few days before Christmas. He was suffering from twin mental health conditions linked to alcohol dependency. Rawson had been in the care of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. During his time in hospital he had threatened staff with a knife and scissors. After being moved into Fieldside Care Home in Catford, he was distressed and he frightened a member of staff by swearing and waving a walking stick at her. Mrs Dean’s family have demanded answers from the Trust.

Jan 3 – Oliver ‘Olly’ Stephens, 13, was stabbed to death at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, Reading, Berkshire. Four boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, went on trial for conspiracy to commit murder. Two boys, both 14, deny murder. A girl, also 14, and one of the boys, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The younger boy, sentenced for murder, is given a minimum 13 years in prison.  The older boy, sentenced for murder, two counts of perverting the course of justice for deleting apps from his mobile phone, which he admitted, and for throwing away clothes worn during the attack, which he had denied but was convicted of is given a minimum prison sentence of 12 years. The 14-year-old girl who admitted manslaughter and perverting the course of justice was sentenced at Reading Crown Court to three years and two months in a young offenders institution. Judge refused to lift restrictions on identifying the killers.

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