# List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (2000–present)
## 2000s

| Year | Victim(s) | Location of body or bodies | Notes |
| January 2000 | Lola Shenkoya | Body not found | Shenkoya was a 27-year-old woman who vanished from Ealing Broadway on 3 January 2000. Police believe her to have been killed by serial sex offender and suspected serial killer Andrzej Kunowski, who murdered a 12-year-old girl nearby in 1997 and is also the prime suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Chau, who disappeared from almost the exact same location as Shenkoya some months earlier. Kunowski was known to have been working in a dry-cleaning shop on the Uxbridge Road the day Chau was last seen walking past Ealing police station. Although he was questioned over both disappearances, no concrete evidence was found to link either of them to him before he died in prison in 2009. |
| January 2000 | Roger Ormsby | Manchester | Ormsby's body was in the driver's seat of his BMW when it was discovered burning in an alley in Whalley Range on 5 January 2000. The 35-year-old businessman had been shot in the back of his head. |
| January 2000 | Gabriel Egharevba | Manchester | 17-year-old Egharevba was shot when he and a friend were being chased by two men on motorcycles whilst riding their bicycles through Longsight on 12 January 2000. Detectives thought it was a case of mistaken identity. |
| February 2000 | Bill Malcolm | Manor Park, London | Malcolm, a 46-year-old with convictions for sexual offences against children, was shot in the head on the doorstep of his Manor Park flat in a suspected case of vigilantism on 17 February 2000. |
| March 2000 | Craig Mirfield | Leeds | Mirfield, a 34-year-old car dealer, was shot in his car in Gipton, Leeds, on 15 March 2000 while trying to drive away from a gunman. A man was prosecuted for Mirfield's murder, but his trial ended early due to reservations about the reliability of the two main witnesses. |
| April 2000 | Sarah Benford | Body not found | 14-year-old Benford vanished in April 2000 and although her body has never been found, her disappearance is being treated as a murder. Benford was described by police as a "troubled teenager"; she was in care and ran away from Welford House children's home in Welford Road, Northampton on 4 April. She visited her mother in Kettering on 6 April and there were various other sightings of her in Kettering that day. During 2003, a number of people were arrested and properties were searched but then the investigation stalled. In 2016, police searched woods near Warkton in Northamptonshire – an area known to have been used by acquaintances of Benford for storing stolen goods and other items. |
| May 2000 | Nicola Ray | Body not found | Ray has not been seen since she parted company with a friend in Basildon, Essex, in the early hours of 2 May 2000 following a night out. She was 29 or 30 years old at the time. Ray's fiancé was arrested twice on suspicion of her murder, but neither arrest led to any charges. |
| May 2000 | Frank McPhee | Maryhill, Glasgow | McPhee, a 51-year-old gangster himself twice acquitted of murder, was shot by a sniper in a block of flats opposite his own as he returned home on 10 May 2000. |
| May 2000 | Cheryll Grover | Newbury, Berkshire | Grover, 21, was last seen alive by a visitor to her home on Audley Close, Turnpike, Newbury, at 10:30 p.m. on Friday 12 May 2000. She spoke to a friend on the telephone at 2:35 a.m. on Saturday 13 May, but efforts made by her estranged husband to contact her later that same day came to nothing. Concerned for Grover's welfare, he and his mother visited Grover's home at 3:30 p.m. and he climbed the drainpipe to reach the first floor bedroom window. Inside, Grover was found dead in her bedroom, having been strangled with a dressing gown cord. Police suspected that she had been selling drugs from her home and an appeal led to a number of people coming forward. A 32-year-old man was arrested but released without charge. Although Grover's death was investigated as a murder, the inquest returned an open verdict. In May 2006, Thames Valley Police announced that her death was being reviewed by a cold case team. |
| May 2000 | Clifton Bryan and Dennis Wilson | Leeds | The bodies of Bryan, 29, and Wilson, 32, were found in a car in Leeds on 15 May 2000. Scientific evidence revealed that they had been shot dead in a house in Manchester before being taken out of the city. In 2001 a man was cleared of the killings, which were thought to have been gang-related. |
| June 2000 | Jaap Bornkamp | Attacked in New Cross, London, died in hospital | Bornkamp, a 52-year-old Dutchman who lived in the Norbury area of south London and worked as a florist, was stabbed in an attack that was believed to have been homophobic while walking along New Cross Road with a male companion in the early hours of 4 June 2000. |
| June 2000 | Shkelquim Brakka | King's Lynn, Norfolk | Brakka died on 4 June 2000 from a stab wound received outside a nightclub. A person charged with the 26-year-old Kosovan's murder was acquitted at trial. |
| June 2000 | Kellie Pratt | Body not found | Pratt became a sex worker to help pay for a drug habit after moving to Great Yarmouth from her home city of Newcastle in 1998. She was last seen on the phone standing outside a pub in the red-light district of Norwich on 11 June 2000, and soon afterwards the 28-year-old told an associate who had phoned her that she was with a client whose identity has not been established. Pratt's disappearance has led to a police murder investigation despite the fact that her body has not been discovered. A link has been suggested to serial East Anglia prostitute killer Steve Wright. |
| June 2000 | Karen Chandler | Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire | A cause of death could not be established for 40-year-old Chandler because her car was set alight with her body inside. Police charged a man in his 60s with her murder. At the trial, the prosecution alleged that he killed Chandler because he was infatuated with her but saw no chance of a relationship developing. The man acknowledged that he was riding his bicycle on Salisbury Plain on the day she disappeared (20 June 2000) but denied any involvement in her death. With the evidence against him being entirely circumstantial, the jury found him not guilty. |
| June 2000 | Menelik Robinson | Clapton, London | Robinson was driving along Upper Clapton Road on 25 June 2000 when two motorcycles forced him to stop. A passenger then dismounted and shot the 20-year-old several times. |
| July 2000 | Mark Corley | Near Bolam, County Durham | Grantham man Corley was fatally shot in the head, probably within days of leaving his home town on 7 July 2000. His skeletal remains were discovered in a rural area of County Durham in December 2000. Five men were due to go on trial in early 2002 over the 23-year-old's murder, but a judge called off the trial after finding that the police had unlawfully bugged conversations between those men and their solicitors. |
| July 2000 | Iwona Kaminska | Body not found | 20-year-old Polish woman Kaminska disappeared after leaving her workplace in Hammersmith, London, on 13 July 2000. Her case is being treated as a possible murder. Over the previous year, two other young women had disappeared from the street in Ealing four miles away, and the prime suspect in those cases was Polish serial sex offender and suspected serial killer Andrzej Kunowski, who died in 2009. Kunowski has also been linked to Kaminska's disappearance and in 1997 had murdered a girl near where Kaminska vanished in Hammersmith. |
| July 2000 | Beatrice Wilson | Poole, Dorset | Wilson, 74, was knifed to death in her sheltered accommodation on 21 July 2000. A boy who was 15 at the time of the killing was charged with her murder. The prosecution claimed at the subsequent trial that he killed Wilson while burgling her flat and later confessed to a friend. The jury acquitted him. |
| August 2000 | Greg Watson | London | 21-year-old Watson died in hospital after a nighttime attack on Kensal Road on 28 August, when he was stabbed whilst intervening in an attempt to stop a group of youths trying to accost his female cousin. The Notting Hill Carnival was on in the area at the time. Crimewatch later showed footage of the incident, which CCTV had recorded in low quality. |
| August 2000 | Ronald Fuller | Attacked in Grays, died in hospital in Basildon (both in Essex) | 30-year-old Fuller was shot twice in the head and twice in the chest outside his bungalow on 29 August 2000 by a man who left the scene on a motor scooter. |
| August 2000 | Abdul Bhatti | London | 28-year-old Bhatti was punched and kicked at the Notting Hill Carnival at around 7:30 p.m. on 28 August 2000 after intervening when a friend was being assaulted by gang members, and died in hospital on the evening of 29 August. Nine men were jailed for taking part in the violence that culminated in the fatal attack, but no one has been convicted of his murder. |
| September 2000 | Susan Kelly | Liverpool | Kelly, 38, was a sex worker in Liverpool when she was murdered on the night of 3–4 September 2000. Her body was found in an alley off Blessington Road, Anfield, and she had suffered a number of violent injuries. A man was cleared of Kelly's murder in 2003 and others have since been arrested and released. |
| September 2000 | Clifford Clarke | Uppingham, Rutland | The body of the former plumber and hospital porter was discovered in his flat by his brother on 10 September 2000. He had been stabbed in the chest and neck, and it was noted at the inquest that his death could have occurred between two and four days prior to his body being found. Fifteen years after the 56-year-old's murder, two men were arrested in connection with it, but to date no one has been charged with the crime. |
| September 2000 | Thomas Ramsey | Manchester | 16-year-old Ramsey's body was found with two gunshot wounds – one to the head, the other to the neck – in a park in Levenshulme on 19 September 2000. His crime boss was acquitted of his murder but convicted of the murder of a man from another gang. Ramsey had been acquitted himself of the October 1999 murder of Judah Dewar – a murder linked to Ramsey due to the discovery of one of his fingerprints on the victim's car. |
| September 2000 | Vicky Glass | Danby, North Yorkshire | 21-year-old Glass went missing from Middlesbrough town centre on 24 September 2000. Her body was found 20 miles away in a stream in Danby on the North York Moors approximately six weeks later. Glass was a sex worker at the time of her death. In 2018, a specialist police team was set up to revisit the murders of Glass, Donna Keogh and Rachel Wilson. A Home Office review of all three cases said: "It is generally accepted that initial enquiries and investigations were inadequate." Cleveland Police believe there could be a link to serial prostitute killer Steve Wright, whose known victims were all found in streams or near water. In September 2021, police announced a re-investigation by a historical crimes unit into Glass's murder, only two months after Wright had been arrested for another historical murder, that of Victoria Hall in 1999. |
| October 2000 | Alan Decabral | Ashford, Kent | 40-year-old Decabral was shot dead on 5 October as he sat in the passenger seat of a car in a busy car park. It happened six months after he gave evidence that helped convict Kenneth Noye of a fatal road-rage attack, and the idea that the gunman was acting on Noye's orders was considered. However, it has also been noted by detectives investigating the case that the shooting could have been carried out because of a disagreement with an associate in the criminal world. |
| October 2000 | Raymond Isaacs | Attacked in Hounslow, London, died in hospital | Isaacs, 21, was set upon by about 10 people after leaving a café on 16 October 2000. He was punched, kicked, stabbed in the leg, and fatally stabbed in the heart. Some of those people were found guilty of offences relating to the incident, but nobody has been found guilty of Isaacs's killing. |
| October 2000 | Clay Benjamin | Liverpool | The 24-year-old was stabbed in the heart while at a blues party in Toxteth on 21 October 2000. A man in his 30s was cleared of his murder. |
| November 2000 | Kenneth Beagle | Romford, London | 55-year-old Beagle was from Billericay in Essex and had convictions for drug dealing and kidnapping. He was shot in the head at point-blank range at about 10:05 p.m. on 1 November 2000 while paying for a parking ticket in the car park of a hospital in Romford, and was thought to have gone there after taking a telephone call made solely for the purpose of luring him to the spot to kill him. |
| November 2000 | Wade Hewitt | Attacked in Barking, London, died in hospital | 26-year-old Hewitt was stabbed in the abdomen when two youths approached him on the upper deck of a bus travelling through Barking in the early hours of 3 November 2000. The youths then alighted and ran off, and Hewitt died the following day. |
| November 2000 | Steve Jindu | Greenford, London | Jindu, a 25-year-old warehouse driver, was found stabbed to death on Horsenden Hill on 14 November 2000. He had last been seen three days previously, when he visited a wine bar in Ealing by himself and went outside to use his mobile phone several times whilst at the establishment. |
| November 2000 | Vincent Clay | Salford, Greater Manchester | Two men shot 27-year-old Clay while he was talking to his girlfriend in Amersham Street, Salford. Police charged a man over his death, but the trial was terminated when the court was informed that the prosecution would not be offering any more evidence. |
| December 2000 | Zoe Parker | Chelsea Harbour, River Thames, London | 24-year-old Parker was last seen with two men in Hounslow, west London, on 6 December 2000. She had learning difficulties and no fixed address, staying with friends and at hostels in various places such as London, Colchester and Bournemouth. Parker was known to engage in sex work. Shortly before her death she changed her name to Cathy Dennis. The upper part of Parker's body was discovered in the River Thames on 17 December; her body had been sawn in half before being dumped in the river, and it is not known what happened to the lower half. Police suspect she could have been a victim of Anthony Hardy (the "Camden Ripper"), who dismembered his known victims after killing them in a nearby area between January and December 2002. |
| December 2000 | Anthony Rose-Windon | Clapton, London | 25-year-old Rose-Windon was shot after leaving a nightclub on Lower Clapton Road, Clapton, on 16 December 2000, and died after crawling to neighbouring Kenninghall Road. |
| December 2000 | Douglas McPherson | Attacked in Hackney, London, died in hospital | 42-year-old McPherson died four days after a Boxing Day attack in which he was battered with a baseball bat in the London Tavern when four men in balaclavas entered the Hackney pub. A man who was evicted from there earlier that day for hogging the punch was arraigned on a murder charge for allegedly being one of the assailant's accomplices. Only one witness could place him at the crime scene, however, and his mother – a judo expert – testified that she was holding him down at home at the time of the beating to prevent him from going back out to cause further trouble. The defendant was cleared and claimed that his missing half-brother was involved in the killing. |
| January 2001 | Andrew Williams | Peckham, London | On 29 January 2001, 30-year-old Williams was killed in Peckham and a friend was seriously injured there in an early hours street shooting preceded by an altercation with a group of other men. The victims had just left a nightclub in the vicinity when the trouble began. |
| February 2001 | Peter Beaumont-Gowling | Newcastle | Beaumont-Gowling had not long been out of prison for money laundering when he was shot dead on Valentine's Day on the doorstep of his flat in Jesmond. Two suspects caught on CCTV were never identified. A theory developed that the 52-year-old had been killed for refusing to compensate people for money not received by them as a consequence of over £500,000 in drug money being seized at the time of his arrest. |
| March 2001 | Ian Dowling | Grantham, Lincolnshire | 39-year-old Dowling died on 15 March 2001 after being shot outside his house. A former close friend was accused in court of hiring a hitman to carry out the killing because Dowling was having an affair with his wife. He was convicted in 2003 of conspiracy to murder, but the conviction was overturned by appeal judges in 2005 on the grounds that it was unsafe because it hinged largely on the illegal bugging of conversations between him and his solicitors by the police. |
| March 2001 | Stuart Lubbock | Roydon, Essex | Lubbock, 31, died during a party at the home of entertainer Michael Barrymore on 31 March 2001. Initially his death was treated as an accidental drowning, but an inquest found he had suffered injuries consistent with sexual assault. In a documentary, Barrymore: The Body in the Pool, shown on Channel 4 on 6 February 2020, Detective Chief Inspector Stephen Jennings of Essex Police stated that mistakes had been made in the original investigation and that he believed Lubbock had been raped and murdered. |
| April 2001 | Rebecca Hall | Bradford, West Yorkshire | 19-year-old Hall went missing from her home in Little Horton, Bradford on 13 April 2001. Her body was found in Thornton Street on 26 April; she had suffered severe head injuries. Hall was a sex worker and had a four-month-old son. Police reopened the investigation into her murder after local killer John Taylor's conviction for the murder of Leanne Tiernan in 2000, in part because Hall's body appeared to have been stored for a period and this was a hallmark of Taylor. Hall's murder has also been linked to Bradford serial killer Stephen Griffiths, who lived 800 metres (875 yd) from where she was found dead, and he was interviewed by police about her murder in 2010 yet refused to answer any of their questions. In January 2019, police arrested a 37-year-old woman and then released her under investigation. |
| April 2001 | Corey Wright and Wayne Henry | Clapton, London | 20-year-old Wright was a passenger in 19-year-old Henry's car when shots were fired at it as it was being driven away from the Chimes nightclub in Clapton on Saturday 21 April 2001, killing both of them. Wright had been convicted along with five other youths of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm against Kingsley Iyasara, a 16-year-old boy beaten and fatally shot in the Finsbury Park district of London in 1997. |
| May 2001 | Don Banfield | Body not found | 63-year-old Banfield went missing from his home in the northwest London suburb of Harrow on 11 May 2001. In April 2012 his wife and daughter, having earlier pleaded guilty to forgery, conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, were convicted of his murder after being accused of lying about seeing him in 2008 and being found to have gained financially from his disappearance. However, they were released on appeal in July 2013 – even though a lawyer representing the mother at that hearing acknowledged that the likelihood was that Banfield was murdered by one or other of the women – as they were convicted under joint enterprise and the appeal judges ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prove that they acted together to kill him. |
| May 2001 | Andre Jan Aylward | London | 27-year-old Aylward was driving his black E28 5 Series BMW along Valleyfield Road in Streatham at around 2:10 a.m. on 12 May 2001 when six bullets were fired at it from a handgun. After the shooting, he lost control of the car and crashed. He had been hit twice in the head and neck and was taken to King's College Hospital, where he died at around 4:00 a.m. A grey 7 Series BMW had been seen next to Aylward's vehicle a few minutes before he was shot and the police said that they were seeking to identify it. It was thought that the attack might have been a case of road rage or mistaken identity. The police also said that they had found nothing in Aylward's background to suggest that he had been involved in any criminal activity. The murder was featured on Crimewatch in July 2001. |
| May 2001 | Stephen Lawlor | Liverpool | 34-year-old Stephen Lawlor was shot dead close to his Netherley residence as he left a party on 19 May 2001. Five months later his brother Tony Lawlor was shot dead in this area of Liverpool too. Peter Clarke was convicted of Stephen's murder in December 2001 but found not guilty after being retried at Manchester Crown Court. |
| May 2001 | Richard Rayner | Bow, London | Rayner, a 43-year-old plumber, was shot at the River Bank Cafe in Bow on 25 May 2001. A man who initially walked away from the scene then ran towards the A12 and possibly got onto a motorcycle. |
| 26 May 2001 | Keith Rogers | Died in hospital in Harlow in Essex from the effects of a fire in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire | 40-year-old Rogers managed to escape the fire at his first-floor flat by jumping from a window but died in hospital four weeks later from organ failure caused by smoke inhalation. The fire had been started in the early hours of 29 April by igniting petrol that had been poured through the flat's letterbox. |
| May 2001 | Hasan Mamali and Sami Mustafa | Islington, London | 23-year-old Mamali was shot in the back of a car and 26-year-old Mustafa was shot after getting out of it in a bid to escape on 27 May 2001. Police are yet to trace the driver or the front seat passenger, both of whom abandoned the vehicle a short distance away with Mamali still in the back. Mamali and Mustafa were Turkish Cypriots who investigators thought might have been hoping to secure a drug deal. |
| June 2001 | Christopher Hewitt | Bristol | Hewitt, an 18-year-old who had recently arrived in Britain from Jamaica, was stabbed outside a pub in Easton on 10 June 2001 in an incident thought to have involved up to several assailants. Many people witnessed the incident but did not come forward. |
| June 2001 | Jody Burns | Attacked in Runcorn, Cheshire, died at Whiston Hospital | 27-year-old Burns sustained a fatal head injury during a disturbance in Runcorn town centre in the early hours of 15 June 2001. The disturbance involved up to 60 people and he was said to have been trying to act as peacemaker. Police charged five men with violent disorder relating to the brawl, but nobody has been charged with Burns's murder. |
| July 2001 | Mithat Lleshi | Northampton | 23-year-old Albanian Lleshi and a 28-year-old friend from the same country were set upon by a group of six men and stabbed outside the Grosvenor Centre on 7 July 2001. The older victim survived his injuries. It was believed that the group was made up of fellow Albanians and in 2005 three men were arrested in Albania in connection with the incident, but a Northamptonshire Telegraph article from 2017 has Lleshi's murder as one of the county's still-unsolved crimes. |
| July 2001 | Oguzhin Ozdemir | South Tottenham, London | Ozdemir was found shot dead next to the River Lea on 14 July 2001, having been kidnapped. His phone had been used by his captors earlier that day to warn friends of his that the 26-year-old, a small-time drug dealer who owed money, would be killed if the people holding him hostage did not receive money or goods. Three men involved in the kidnap were handed sentences of between 10 and 14 years in 2005, but none of the sentences was for murder because it had not been determined who had shot Ozdemir. |
| July 2001 | Daniel Dale | Manchester | 18-year-old Dale was killed and another youth hit in the hand when shots were fired at their group as they chatted in the street in Miles Platting on the evening of 25 July 2001. A man was found guilty of murder in April 2002, but advances in forensic science led to the quashing of his conviction in 2014. |
| July 2001 | Richie Clayton | Liverpool | 30-year-old Clayton, a father-of-two, was shot on Belgrave Road, Aigburth, just before 8:00 p.m. on 25 July 2001. The gunman and his accomplice had arrived in a green Ford Mondeo which was later found on fire. |
| August 2001 | Alphonso Madden | Manchester | Shots were fired from the pavement at 27-year-old Madden's car as he drove through Longsight on 14 August 2001. The car then crashed into bollards, but the cause of his death was a bullet wound to the chest. |
| August 2001 | Patrick Pasipanodya | Edmonton, London | 29-year-old Pasipanodya, an actor who had appeared as an extra in Minder and The Bill, was shot from a motorcycle on 21 August 2001 as he drove along Picketts Lock Lane, Edmonton. |
| August 2001 | Carlton McDonald | Camberwell, London | 21-year-old McDonald was stabbed during the early hours of 26 August 2001 after going out and heading to Camberwell's Warner Road to meet an acquaintance who had phoned him to say he had been attacked and robbed. Youths had been causing trouble in that road and the adjoining Camberwell New Road since around midnight. |
| September 2001 | Yasser Nazir | Bradford, West Yorkshire | 16-year-old Nazir was fatally shot in his car by a masked gunman as he drove out of a petrol station in Heaton, Bradford, on 5 September 2001. It was believed that he was killed in revenge for the shooting of a rival gang member. |
| September 2001 | Lindsey Scholes | Died in hospital from the effects of a fire in Royston, South Yorkshire | Scholes, 17, suffered burns and smoke inhalation in a fire which was deliberately started at a house in Milgate Street, Royston, near Barnsley, in the early hours of 8 September 2001. She was rescued by firefighters but died two days later in hospital. |
| September 2001 | Joyce Large | Cambridge | Large, 88, suffered heart failure at her home in Minerva Way, King's Hedges, on 13 September 2001 after a break-in during which money was demanded from her. She had a head injury and had also been threatened in the same area of Cambridge a couple of hours earlier. |
| September 2001 | Ian Clarke | Liverpool | Ian Clarke, a 32-year-old doorman, was shot from a passing car when his own car stopped at traffic lights in Tuebrook, Liverpool, on 8 September 2001. The car from which the shots were fired – a Ford Mondeo found burnt out in Redbrook Street, Anfield, sometime later – then did a U-turn and he was shot from it again before dying on 13 September. Because the killing followed his brother Peter Clarke being charged with the May 2001 murder of Stephen Lawlor, a revenge attack for the earlier crime was suspected. |
| September 2001 | "Adam" | River Thames, London | Unknown boy; also known as the "Torso in the Thames" case. |
| October 2001 | John Hall and David McIntosh | Larkhall, South Lanarkshire | The bodies of Hall, 45, and McIntosh, 33, were found at a former scrapyard on 3 October 2001. The last time they were seen alive was on 2 October at a greyhound track in the border town of Gretna, and they are thought to have been shot dead because they had gangland debts. |
| October 2001 | Dean Eccleston | Manchester | Father-of-three Eccleston, 24, was hit by several bullets in a street in Chorlton-on-Medlock while wearing a bulletproof vest on 8 October 2001. |
| October 2001 | Tony Lawlor | Liverpool | 45-year-old Tony Lawlor was shot repeatedly in front of his mother on 11 October 2001 by a masked man who had got out of a transit van that had pulled up outside shops in Netherley. The victim was the brother of Stephen Lawlor, a 34-year-old shot dead five months previously in another killing that remains unsolved. |
| October 2001 | Tyrone Rowe | Attacked in Tottenham, London, died in hospital | 18-year-old Rowe was in a car with three friends in Caradon Way during the early hours of 7 October 2001 when a group of men approached the vehicle and 11 bullets were fired into it from handguns. The driver was hit in the chest by one of the bullets, but he survived, while the fatal injury from which Rowe died four days after the attack was a gunshot wound to the head. Rowe was not involved in criminality and might have been shot in a case of mistaken identity. |
| October 2001 | Michael Madden | Port Glasgow, Inverclyde | Madden, a 44-year-old loan shark, was shot dead at the front door of his home on 13 October 2001. The 2003 trial of a man accused of his murder ended with a "not proven" verdict. |
| October 2001 | Brian Metcalfe | Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire | 43-year-old Metcalfe was found dead under a bridge on Station Road in Wath, near Rotherham, on Sunday 14 October 2001. He had been assaulted and may have died up to two days earlier. Police appealed for anyone who was out in Wath that weekend to come forward. |
| c. 20 October 2001 | Hugh Cameron | River Skeagh, Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland | Cameron's body was found in the river about a month after he had gone missing. He had been beaten and stabbed. It is believed the Ulster Defence Association was behind the 36-year-old's murder, but nobody has ever been charged with it. |
| 24 October 2001 | Jimmy Millen | Hastings, East Sussex | Millen was a 27-year-old boxer from Taylor Close in Hastings who was shot four times by the passenger of a black motorcycle while working on his car in nearby Tile Barn Road. Both passenger and rider were dressed in black and had blacked-out visors. Following Millen's death, his family revealed his involvement in the murder of Jason Martin-Smith and named those they believed had killed Millen because of it. |
| 30 October 2001 | Dwayne Bertrand | Bloomsbury, London | The 21-year-old Holloway resident drove to Bloomsbury and was fatally wounded there by one or more bullets fired at the car he was in. |
| 31 October 2001 | George Lynch | Manchester | Lynch was a 36-year-old father-of-six who was fatally shot in the passenger seat of a car being driven along Plymouth Grove in the Longsight area of Manchester. The driver crashed into a tree seconds later but was not badly injured. |
| 1 November 2001 | Paul Easton | Grimsby, Lincolnshire | Easton's body was found at an address in Hainton Avenue, Grimsby. He had been held in a headlock for half an hour, bringing about death by suffocation. |
| 5 November 2001 | Michaela Hague | Sheffield | Hague was a 25-year-old sex worker. She was stabbed 19 times and then dumped on wasteland at Spitalfields, near Sheffield city centre. Before dying, Hague managed to give a description of her attacker to a police officer. She said her attacker was a white clean-shaven man who had fair hair, drove a blue Ford Sierra with a roof rack and had a wedding ring on. |
| 16 November 2001 | Brian Perry | Bermondsey, London | Perry, a 63-year-old who had helped to launder money from the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, died after being hit by three bullets at around 1:00 p.m. outside his taxi office in Bermondsey. Two men were charged over his murder and acquitted at their 2006 trial. |
| 16 November 2001 | Raymond Scott | Body not found | Scott, a 47-year-old self-employed odd job man, disappeared in suspicious circumstances. He left his brother's house in Wealdstone (north west London) in his white Ford Transit van after doing some DIY. Two weeks later his van was found abandoned, and on 28 April 2002 a man phoned one of Scott's brothers from South Harrow tube station in a "menacing" call. Police believed the call to be significant to the investigation. The Scott case and footage of the caller at South Harrow station featured on Crimewatch in April 2014, which showed the individual coming back to the phone box moments later. Police say Scott had no reason to go missing and his brother has appealed for information on where his body is. |
| 21 November 2001 | Brian Hardwick | Colne Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire | Hardwick, 50, was shot in the head and chest with a small-calibre weapon at his place of work, Huddersfield Car Electrical Services, after returning there sometime after 5:30 p.m. to change a flat tyre on his car, but his body was not found until just before 8:00 a.m. the following day. Police said the tyre was punctured deliberately. Hardwick's leather wallet, popper purse, work keys, gold necklace and bank card were taken, and his card was used minutes later to withdraw £350 from a cash machine at Asda in Bradford Road. There have been arrests over this murder but no convictions. |
| 28 November 2001 | Rajnikant Pandya | Sutton, London | 31-year-old Pandya was shot dead in his off-licence in Sutton by a man said to have been wearing an animal mask. The culprit entered the shop at around 9:10 p.m. and Pandya took up a piece of wood in an apparent act of self-defence before the shot that killed him was fired. Although it did not appear that anything was missing, Detective Chief Inspector Gary Richardson nevertheless opined that theft might have been the motive. |
| December 2001 | Glenda Chambers | Died in hospital from the effects of a fire in Walworth, London | 70-year-old Chambers died a week after a fire at her Olney Road maisonette. Police charged a taxi driver who had fallen out with her family because of his conduct with two daughters he had been in relationships with over a four-year period, but there was no forensic evidence or witness testimonies against him and he was ultimately found not guilty. |
| December 2001 | Donald Marlow Harriot | Clapton, London | 28-year-old Harriot was found beaten to death with a heavy blunt instrument at his home on Powerscroft Road, Clapton, in the early hours of 30 December 2001. |
| January 2002 | Michael French | London | French was stabbed with a concealed knife at a New Year's Eve party in a flat in Clapham, damaging an artery in his chest, after an alleged theft of money. Emergency services were called and an air ambulance took him to King's College Hospital, where he was pronounced dead after dawn on 1 January. A man was charged with French's murder. He claimed at the trial that he left the party to get drugs before the attack and was acquitted. |
| January 2002 | Abdulkalaq Hussain Ali | Shepherd's Bush, London | Ali was stabbed to death on 9 January 2002 outside a house where he and others had met for a party. A man was later acquitted. The prosecution had claimed that he had murdered Ali for starting a rumour alleging that members of the defendant's tribe had raped men at a party in his native Somalia because no women had turned up to it. |
| January 2002 | Jacqueline Nyeko | Kennington, London | Left in a storage area of a block of flats after being murdered, Nyeko was discovered there by two boys on 13 January 2002. Head injuries had caused her death, and detectives tracing the 24-year-old Brixton woman's final movements found the last sighting of her to have been in St John's Crescent at about 10:00 p.m. on 10 January. |
| January 2002 | Vera Cooper | Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire | 80-year-old Cooper was found deceased at her bungalow in Greenbank Walk on 24 January 2002. Her death was officially regarded as non-suspicious until a second post mortem took place after her family reported that items were missing from there, and the second examination revealed that she was strangled. |
| January 2002 | Lyndon Nowell | Body not found | Nowell is thought to have come to harm as a result of his association with a criminal group. A 28-year-old Liverpool resident at the time, he was last seen on the evening of 24 January 2002, when he visited a pub on the city's Childwall Valley Road. Nowell's car was discovered burnt out the next day in Swinton, Greater Manchester. |
| January 2002 | Darren Carley | Charnock Richard, Lancashire | Carley, then aged 24, went missing after leaving his mother's home in Swindon, Wiltshire, on 24 January 2002, and his skeletal remains were discovered near the Lancashire town of Chorley six months later. He had suffered blunt force trauma to his head. |
| January 2002 | Brynmor Lindop | Goodmayes, London | 54-year-old Lindop was shot on 26 January 2002 as he got out of his car outside his home in Goodmayes. He was said to have supplied guns to the underworld and to have been a police informer. |
| February 2002 | Brian Francis | Oxford | 51-year-old Francis was found beaten to death at his flat in Blackbird Leys on 7 February 2002. Drug users paid frequent visits to the property. Police had a phone box removed from Merlin Road so it could be analysed by forensic scientists, as it was believed that a 999 call about the incident was made from there. |
| February 2002 | Delroy Barnes | Battersea, London | 26-year-old Barnes was murdered on the A3220 road in London on 7 February 2002 when a car pulled up next to the one he was a passenger in and a man in the other vehicle fired shots at him from a submachine gun. His body was then dumped outside Battersea police station. The driver of the vehicle in which Barnes died was thought to have been the intended target. |
| March 2002 | Exmoor Body in the Bag | Winsford Hill, Winsford, Somerset | The man's badly decomposed corpse was found wrapped in bin bags, a single green bed sheet and a single duvet on 13 March 2002. Also wrapped in them were a white pillowcase and a stereo wire, which Detective Superintendent Barrie Douglas said the victim might have been tied up with. He is thought to have died two to three years before being found, and it is not clear if the body was brought into the UK from abroad. In May 2002, detectives appealed on Crimewatch UK in the hope someone would recognise him, but without success. In September of that year, a new reconstruction of the man's head was released in a fresh appeal to identify him. He had black or dark brown hair and was 25–35 years old, approximately 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall, wearing a gold chain that had a 22-carat pendant with verse 225 of the Koran inscribed in Arabic across it, and thought to have been Mediterranean, Middle Eastern or North African. A funeral was held for the mystery victim in September 2006. |
| March 2002 | Evan Jones | Bristol | Punched, kicked and attacked with a chain, the 46-year-old father-of-two was left for dead on Bristol's busy York Road at about 11:00 p.m. on 13 March 2002. He died at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. The weapon, believed to have been a bicycle chain or a large dog chain, was never found. |
| March 2002 | Edward Donnelly | Body not found | 53-year-old Donnelly disappeared from his home in Sacriston, County Durham, on 25 March 2002, and there has been no proof of life since. Durham Constabulary lists his case as an unsolved murder. |
| March 2002 | Michelle Bettles | Near Dereham, Norfolk | A Norwich sex worker and mother of three small children, none of whom were in her care, 22-year-old Bettles disappeared from the city's red-light area on 28 March 2002. Her fully clothed body was found three days later on Podmore Lane at Scarning. A man was arrested in April 2003 after DNA testing showed his samples matched ones taken from Bettles after she had been strangled to death, and although the man admitted having picked her up for sex two days before she disappeared, he was later released due to insufficient evidence. In 2012 David Wilson, a criminologist, suggested that serial prostitute killer Steve Wright was likely to have been the culprit, but police said they had found no evidence to link Wright to the crime. |
| April 2002 | Aeon Shirley | Manchester | A member of a rival gang shot 18-year-old Shirley four times on 11 April 2002, piercing his heart with one of the bullets. Officers investigating the Longsight shooting found that witnesses to it were reluctant to assist them. |
| April 2002 | Les Bate | Near Wadebridge, Cornwall | Bate, a 71-year-old millionaire, farmer and widower, was found dead in the utility room of his home in the Cornish countryside on Sunday 14 April 2002. He had been beaten in an attack that triggered a cardiac episode, and his wallet was stolen and has never been found. Bate had last been seen on Friday 12 April at the pub in the nearby village of Chapel Amble. His home had been targeted in a burglary seven months earlier, when thieves stole £47,000 in property and cash from his safe. |
| April 2002 | Edward Smith | Battersea, London | 42-year-old Smith was found strangled in bushes in Batten Street near Clapham Junction railway station on 23 April 2002. He was unemployed, single, and lived in Leatherhead in Surrey. |
| April 2002 | Mohammed Saeed | Birmingham | 54-year-old Saeed was stabbed in the abdomen outside his home on Clodeshall Road, Birmingham, during the early hours of 24 April 2002. A suspect in the crime was his nephew, who CIA reports suggest was killed in Pakistan by a US drone in November 2008. He had left the UK following his uncle's murder and was said to have become involved in the planning of terrorist attacks. |
| April 2002 | Terry Morgan | Rugby, Warwickshire | 69-year-old grandfather Morgan was shot in the chest on the driveway of his home in Brownsover on 24 April 2002. Police thought it was a contract killing. Morgan was said to have been an anti-drugs campaigner for the local area and neighbours believed his murder was connected to that. There were arrests over the killing, but all those arrested were released without charge. |
| 3 May 2002 | Leonard Farrar | Leeds | 71-year-old Farrar was stabbed to death in his house on Cardinal Road, Beeston, after a struggle and apparent torture. The house had been burgled a few weeks earlier and on the night before the murder his car was set on fire. |
| 20 May 2002 | Sydney Baldwin | Newcastle | A window cleaner spotted the 44-year-old's body in his flat in Heaton the day after he was fatally bludgeoned. Because the assailant appeared not to have used force to gain access to the flat, detectives believed that it was someone Baldwin knew. A suspect was arrested but died in a road traffic collision before the police were able to bring any charges against him. |
| 23 May 2002 | Zennen Blackburn | Manchester | A man got out of a car and shot 27-year-old Blackburn dead in Moston late in the afternoon. Investigators still do not know why the crime was committed, but rumour has it that it was to settle a debt owed to a criminal with whom Blackburn had fallen out. |
| 26 June 2002 | Geoffrey Windsor | Beaulieu Heights, London | 57-year-old Windsor was beaten to death with a car aerial in Beaulieu Heights, a park between the districts of Upper Norwood and South Norwood. Homophobia was suspected to have motivated the attack. |
| 27 June 2002 | Alexander Blue | Glasgow | Blue, a 41-year-old businessman from Glasgow's west end, was found outside his Dowanhill home with head injuries. He died at the Southern General Hospital two days later. |
| July 2002 | Joseph Byrne | Attacked in Oxford, died in hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire | Paramedics attending a flat in Littlemore on 7 May 2002 were told by 61-year-old Byrne that he had had a liquid thrown at him. The liquid was a chemical that had caused his skin to become tightly stretched and his head to swell to twice its normal size, and he died at Stoke Mandeville Hospital on 1 July after breathing difficulties brought on by swelling in his airways triggered a heart attack. At Byrne's inquest, the assistant deputy coroner and a detective were critical of hospital staff for not informing the police of the assault sooner. |
| July 2002 | Jonathan McMurray | Attacked in Wood Green, London, died in hospital | 20-year-old McMurray had left a pub to walk home when he was stabbed at the junction of Gladstone Avenue and Pelham Road during an altercation between the people he was with and another group. The incident happened on 17 July after the pub had closed, and McMurray died at North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton about two hours later. |
| July 2002 | Damian Cope | London | Cope, 22, was shot in the abdomen outside Browns, a nightclub on Great Queen Street in central London, on 29 July 2002. According to two friends, he told them who the shooter was before dying, and though one of them would not reveal that person's identity to detectives, the other gave the police a name. The alleged shooter was acquitted because Cope's friends refused to testify and two doctors independently concluded that the nature of his injuries made it highly unlikely that Cope would have been able to communicate by speech seven minutes after sustaining them, as claimed by one of his friends. The acquitted man was himself murdered in 2006. |
| August 2002 | Monica Flaherty | Bradford, West Yorkshire | Flaherty, a 62-year-old grandmother who had discovered her murdered daughter's body in 1990, was stabbed in the chest during a street brawl on 3 August 2002 and managed to make her way to her home in Manningham's Priestman Street before dying there. West Yorkshire Police charged a 35-year-old man over the stabbing but later dropped the charge. |
| August 2002 | Lorraine Turner | Norwich, Norfolk | The 37-year-old former newspaper journalist's 10-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter found her murdered at her home in Old Catton on 17 August 2002. A 21-year-old roofer was charged with the killing before being cleared in May 2003. |
| August 2002 | Darren Birt | Glasgow | Birt, 22, died from injuries sustained in an attack in Barlanark on 28 August 2002. He was chased from Edinburgh Road to Burnett Road and was found lying in the road in Calvay Place. In March 2022, police announced that they were reinvestigating the case. |
| September 2002 | Kevin Nunes | Pattingham, Staffordshire | On 19 September 2002, Nunes's body was found dumped in a country lane about two miles from the outskirts of his home city of Wolverhampton after he had been shot five times. Though five men went to prison in 2008 for the murder of the 20-year-old drug dealer and amateur footballer, they were released in 2012 because of failures to do with disclosure to the defence. The disclosure failures concerned information relating to the key prosecution witness. |
| October 2002 | Julie Dorsett | Walthamstow, London | Dorsett, a 33-year-old sex worker, vanished in early October 2002 and her skull and upper body were discovered buried in an allotment in 2008. It is believed her remains were placed there shortly after she disappeared. In 2012 Dorsett's former partner was cleared of killing her and of burying her body. |
| 8 October 2002 | Billy Sibbald | Near Musselburgh, Midlothian | Father-of-three Sibbald, 48, went missing from Joppa, Edinburgh, on 8 October 2002 after telling his wife he was meeting business associates. Three months later, his decomposing body was found in woodland by a lay-by on the A1 near Musselburgh. There have been various theories for the pub landlord's murder, including one that he may have been the victim of a gangland killing. The police got no useful leads in their hunt for his killer(s). |
| 11 October 2002 | David Draycott | Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire | The 40-year-old was shot on 7 October as he was about to get out of his car after returning home. A neighbour gave him first aid and called an ambulance, but he died in King's Mill Hospital four days later. The discovery at the crime scene of cartridges from two semi-automatic weapons led detectives to infer that there had been two shooters. In December 2018, Robert Dawes, a drug baron and former Sutton-in-Ashfield resident whom British police wanted to interview about Draycott's murder, was handed a 22-year jail sentence by a French court for drug trafficking and smuggling, among other offences. |
| 15 October 2002 | Devon Brown | Shepherd's Bush, London | Brown, a 39-year-old Jamaican-born father-of-two, was shot dead in Shepherd's Bush on the afternoon of 15 October. Operation Trident investigated the murder. |
| 7 November 2002 | John Shippam | Nottingham | Shippam was found dead in his Bestwood flat from gunshot wounds. The 25-year-old had been assaulted at The Anchor Inn in Gunthorpe two days previously, and police believed the incidents were probably linked. |
| 7/8 November 2002 | Andrew Brown | Streatham, London | 28-year-old Brown ran a scooter shop on Streatham's Westcote Road and was discovered stabbed to death in his nearby flat after his girlfriend had a locksmith open its door because nobody had seen or heard from him since the previous evening. |
| 9 November 2002 | Theresa Jacobs | Nottingham | In front of about 40 people and within minutes of leaving a Radford nightclub in the early hours, Jacobs, 33, was shot point-blank in a crime thought to have been committed by a hitman with links to Nottingham's drug-supply network. She was pronounced dead at the Queen's Medical Centre later that day. |
| 9 November 2002 | Alisan Dogan | Harringay, London | 43-year-old Dogan was stabbed to death and others were injured when a café on Green Lanes was stormed by a gang. A man was acquitted of his murder in a case allegedly arising from extortion disputes between groups of Turkish and Kurdish people. |
| 10 November 2002 | Martin Gorman | Attacked in Tottenham, London, died in hospital | 24-year-old Gorman and a friend were outside White Hart Lane railway station when Gorman was stabbed by a man with whom he had been arguing. The man was with a female companion and they fled in the direction of Great Cambridge Road. |
| 13 November 2002 | Jason Spence | Attacked in Great Barr, Birmingham, died in hospital in West Bromwich | 31-year-old Spence was shot by an occupant of a silver Mitsubishi Galant estate car travelling along Cardington Avenue. The two people in the car had been seen arguing with him a few minutes earlier outside a nearby pub he had just left. |
| 23 November 2002 | Martin Simpson | Leicester | 59-year-old Simpson, a well-liked regular at various Leicester pubs, bars and betting shops, was assaulted in the city centre on the night of 22–23 November. Finding him unconscious in the middle of Albion Street, a taxi driver raised the alarm, but it was discovered upon his arrival at a nearby hospital that Simpson had already died from his injuries. Detectives were keen to trace two young men captured on CCTV near the scene during the night in question. |
| 30 November 2002 | Tony Nicholls | Brixton, London | A 44-year-old of no fixed address, Nicholls was shot shortly before 5:00 p.m. in a stationary car near the junction of Tulse Hill and Brixton Water Lane, Brixton. |
| 1 December 2002 | Susan McDonald | Broughton Astley, Leicestershire | A fire that was started in a wheelie bin outside 47-year-old McDonald's house resulted in her death when it trapped her in her bedroom, having spread to that room via the hall and stairway after burning through the front door. |
| 5 December 2002 | Wayne Trotter | Attacked in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, died in hospital in London | 30-year-old Trotter was walking home from work just after midnight on 5 December 2002 when he was doused with petrol and set on fire. He suffered 90% burns and was heard to say: "They threw something at me. I was blinded and couldn't see a thing." He was attacked on Dales Path, Farriers Way Estate. |
| 7 December 2002 | Debbie Remorozo | Oldham, Lancashire | Remorozo was stabbed to death in her flat in Oldham on 7 December 2002. She was attacked with two knives from her kitchen and her body was left in a crucifix position with her face covered with a tablecloth. A man and a woman were arrested in April 2003 and released without charge the following month. Remorozo was a 26-year-old nurse who worked at the Royal Oldham Hospital and was originally from the Philippines. |
| 12 December 2002 | Daniel Regan | Haydock, Merseyside | 25-year-old Regan was found dead in his house on Station Road with a gunshot wound to the chest. Nearby was the burnt-out shell of the vehicle the killer is thought to have arrived in: a stolen grey or silver Rover. |
| 15 December 2002 | Selorn Gbesemete and Mohamed Korneh | Southall, London | Gbesemete, 21, was shot in the neck and Korneh, also 21, was shot in the head at the Tudor Rose nightclub in Southall during an event whose aim was to discourage young black men from carrying guns. Rapper Dizzee Rascal performed at the event. A suspect was acquitted in May 2009 – 13 months after another suspect was himself shot dead. |
| 15 December 2002 | Carl Seaton | Liverpool | 28-year-old Seaton was shot after leaving Edge Hill's Weighing Machine pub. A man was charged but his trial was stopped because too many witnesses were absent. Seaton had appeared in a 1998 film about the increase in gun crime in inner-city areas of Britain, in which he portrayed a man who practised with a gun bought for self-defence. |
| 26 December 2002 | Mario O'Brien Clarke | Hackney, London | 25-year-old Clarke, an off-duty soldier, was shot dead outside his home. Police believed him to have been a victim of mistaken identity. |
| 3 January 2003 | Edward Byrne | Attacked in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, died at Whiston Hospital | A lone gunman shot 66-year-old Byrne in a pub in front of a number of people. Investigators believe that someone other than him was meant to be targeted. |
| 13 January 2003 | David Warrilow | Chelmsley Wood, West Midlands | The 37-year-old welder and father-of-two suffered serious head injuries when he was run over as he tried to stop thieves taking his van from outside GB Singh's newsagents in Willow Way, Chelmsley Wood. His murder was featured on Crimewatch in February 2003. |
| 14 January 2003 | Brenda Wynne | Liverpool | 63-year-old Wynne died three days after being pushed over in a robbery on Castlefield Road, West Derby, Liverpool, on 11 January 2003. The attackers were two men in their early 20s and Wynne's handbag was stolen. |
| 18 January 2003 | Kevin Clark | Glasgow | 22-year-old Clark was discovered dead on waste ground in Carntyne with his head slashed and a gunshot wound to his back. In February of the following year a 24-year-old man was acquitted of murder and his father of cutting up the murder suspect's clothes. |
| 29 January 2003 | Domicela Skiera | Ealing, London | The 85-year-old Polish widow was beaten to death in her house on Ranelagh Road in Ealing and the property was ransacked. A hunt soon commenced for a Polish man who began lodging there on 27 January 2003 and disappeared on the day of the murder. |
| 3 February 2003 | Margaret Muller | Victoria Park, London | Muller, 27, was fatally stabbed while jogging in the park. Police suspect she may have been killed in a robbery gone wrong. |
| 4 February 2003 | Paul Savage | Attacked in Mold, Flintshire, died in hospital in Wrexham | Postman Savage, 30, died after being attacked while on his round in Mold, Flintshire. He was beaten with a wooden baton and found lying in a pool of blood on Clayton Road. The police later said that they knew the reason Savage was killed, but did not divulge it. There is a £100,000 reward for information. |
| 6 February 2003 | Beverley Brinkley | Attacked in Harlow, Essex, died at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge | Brinkley, a 35-year-old woman with three children, died four days after being severely assaulted by two men in the lobby of the third floor of the block of flats she lived in. |
| 14 February 2003 | Mohammed Mahmood | Slough, Berkshire | 25-year-old Mahmood died at Wexham Park Hospital after a police car took him there because he was seen in an injured state as the vehicle was passing through the area. The cause of his death was a stab wound to the chest inflicted during the theft of his friend's car by a group of four men. |
| March 2003 | Andrew Jones | Liverpool | 18-year-old Jones was punched to the ground in Liverpool's Hanover Street at night on 9 March 2003 when he encountered a group of people there after becoming separated from friends. A man who was in that group was acquitted of his manslaughter. |
| March 2003 | Shaham Ali | Birmingham | Ali, 30, was shot on 17 March 2003 whilst using a public telephone in Small Heath, and died seven days later in hospital. Four men charged over his death were accused at their trial of targeting him because of his support for the secretary of Birmingham's main mosque, who was suspected of impregnating the wife of its imam. The two accused of Ali's murder were both found not guilty of that charge, although one of them was, along with the two other defendants, convicted of assaulting and unlawfully imprisoning him. A second man injured in the same shooting – Azmat Yaqub – was shot dead in July 2004 in a murder that is also yet to be solved. |
| March 2003 | Peter Singleton | Wirral, Merseyside | A masked gunman shot 26-year-old Singleton in front of his girlfriend and young son as they got out of a car in Column Road, West Kirby, on 27 March 2003. Singleton suffered injuries to his head and stomach and died at Arrowe Park Hospital in Woodchurch. |
| April 2003 | Stephen Colby | Great Yarmouth, Norfolk | 47-year-old Colby was battered to death in the terraced house in which he lived on his own. His two sons said they discovered his body in the property on 11 April 2003 – nothing was missing – and the following year, one of them was tried for his murder but not found guilty. Because there were claims that Colby told people he was now wealthier thanks to money left to him in his aunt's will, an early line of inquiry pursued the theory that the murder was a result of a failed burglary. |
| May 2003 | Viola Mead | Attacked in Wendover, died in hospital in Aylesbury (both in Buckinghamshire) | Mead, 85, of Dobbins Lane in Wendover, was attacked in her home by two men in late April 2003. She was found semi-conscious in her kitchen by a family friend on 28 April and died on 13 May in Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Mead gave a description of one of her attackers before she died: he was 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall, slim, had a narrow face with a dark yellowish complexion, and was wearing a black jumper with a yellow motif on the left. |
| May 2003 | Otis Taylor | Peckham, London | 33-year-old Taylor was shot in the head during the early hours of 21 May 2003 in Sassoon House, a block of flats on St Mary's Road in Peckham. It happened in the stairwell and the month before he and his pregnant fiancée were due to get married. |
| June 2003 | Balkaran Deep Singh | Southall, London | On 7 June 2003, 25-year-old Singh was beaten about the head and stabbed six times in Western Road, Southall, after crouching down – apparently to retrieve something from his inside pocket – while he and four companions were being chased by a larger group. Verbal hostility between the two groups had preceded the chase. Nobody was charged with Singh's murder, but four people were found guilty of threatening behaviour. |
| June 2003 | Neil Nortrop (a.k.a. Neil McGarthland) | Body not found | 32-year-old Nortrop left his home in Brixham, Devon, on 10 June 2003 to visit a friend in Greenwich or Dartford. He called his mother two days later but was never heard from again. The case was investigated as murder by police, and a man and woman, both from Greenwich, were arrested in 2005, but no charges were brought. Nortrop was driving a blue Ford Mondeo at the time; police said in 2005 that the car disappeared with him. |
| August 2003 | Frank Bayley | Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire | Three men went to court for alleged complicity in the murder of 66-year-old Bayley, but all of them were acquitted. Bayley had been asphyxiated at his Hartshill Road off-licence on 18 August 2003. |
| August 2003 | Naveed Saleem | Birmingham | 32-year-old Saleem's fiancée found him stabbed to death in his Range Rover early on 26 August 2003. He had left her home the previous night to drive back to his and been set upon as he got into the vehicle. Saleem's Rolex watch was not taken, nor was any of the £250 he had in his wallet. Two men were cleared of his murder in 2005. |
| August 2003 | Justin Maynard | Manchester | 19-year-old Maynard was fatally shot in Tugford Close, Moss Side, on 26 August 2003. He died of his injures at the scene. |
| September 2003 | Natalie Putt | Body not found | 17-year-old Putt disappeared from her home in Lower Gornal, Dudley, on 1 September 2003, and police believe she was murdered. She had given birth to a baby 11 weeks earlier but had recently told the father that she wanted to end their relationship and had started seeing another man. The father was with Putt at her home on the day but claimed she went out to buy cigarettes and never returned, leaving him to care for their child. An inquest in January 2019 noted that police had found a T-shirt with two tiny drops of her blood on it in her loft, and concluded that she had died at the home or nearby on 1 September 2003. The father has been interviewed by police a number of times, but there has never been sufficient evidence to charge anyone. |
| September 2003 | Shumin Hussain | St Albans, Hertfordshire | Hussain, 29, fell to his death from a window of a ninth-floor flat on 7 September 2003 during a fracas in which a number of people were involved. |
| September 2003 | Stephen Henry | Bristol | 32-year-old Henry was shot dead in an apparent contract killing during the early hours of 14 September 2003 as he was about to get into his car after leaving a nightclub. He was said to have been an underworld enforcer. Nine people were acquitted in 2005 of charges ranging from murder to perverting the course of justice. |
| September/October 2003 | James Brodie | Body not found | Brodie was involved in a robbery at an Arnold jewellery shop in which Marian Bates, the woman who co-owned the shop with her husband, was shot dead. Brodie, who was 19 and is believed to have been the one who pulled the trigger, disappeared soon afterwards, and it is thought that his criminal associates killed him because the robbery had not gone as planned. Brodie had an accomplice when he was in the shop, and in 2005 that man went to prison for Bates's murder, as well as for conspiracy to rob, possession of a firearm with intent to use it and beating her husband with a crowbar. In February 2013, another man who had been jailed for conspiring to rob the shop was charged with Brodie's murder, but failure to gather enough evidence against him led to the charge being dropped in late April of that year. Police made unsuccessful searches for Brodie's remains at a farm and in a canal in Lincolnshire. |
| October 2003 | Michael Jones | Bermondsey, London | 53-year-old Jones received 13 gunshot wounds in the early hours of 16 October 2003 at Bromleigh House, Abbey Street, Bermondsey – apparently after answering the door to his home there. He was shot in the head and abdomen and died at the scene. |
| October 2003 | Eamonn Bloodworth | Leicester | 46-year-old Bloodworth died on 18 October 2003 after being kicked and stamped on, and his body was found at the junction of Ravensbridge Drive and Blackbird Road. A man who stood trial in 2004 for the murder was cleared of any involvement in it. |
| November 2003 | Charlene Downes | Body not found | 14-year-old Downes went missing from Blackpool town centre on the night of 1 November 2003. Police believe she was a victim of local grooming and child sexual exploitation. Two men were tried in connection with her death in 2007, but the jury failed to reach a verdict. A re-trial planned for 2008 collapsed. |
| November 2003 | Jason Stock | Hull, East Yorkshire | 33-year-old Stock was found with 66 separate injuries in a ground floor flat on Alexandra Road, Hull, in the early hours of 2 November 2003. He died that afternoon at Hull Royal Infirmary, the cause of death being a blow to the head. Stock had been out drinking on the night of the attack. His girlfriend and two men were arrested for his murder but later released due to lack of evidence. The case is still open in hope that new information may one day come to light. |
| November 2003 | Omar Watson | Nottingham | Watson, 24, was shot in a Radford hair salon and died at the Queen's Medical Centre on 7 November 2003. It was the second time that year that he had been the victim of a gun attack, with the earlier, non-fatal attack having taken place in August. |
| November 2003 | Sandra Gant | Body not found | Mother-of-four Gant was last seen leaving an address in Hayes Road, Clacton, Essex, on 15 November 2003. Although she has not been found, Essex Police believe the 48-year-old was murdered. Four people have been arrested over Gant's murder, including an 18-year-old, but no one has ever been charged. |
| November 2003 | Gamal Fares Mallwi | Attacked in West Kensington, London, died in hospital | Mallwi, a 44-year-old Egyptian locally known as George, was fatally shot at the junction of North End Road and Thaxton Road on 28 November 2003 as he was about to get into a car. Near to the scene was a fish bar he owned. Mallwi's younger brother was shot in the incident as well, but he survived and later returned to Egypt. |
| December 2003 | Peter Stone | Attacked in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, died in hospital | Postman Stone, a 37-year-old father-of-two from Cottenham, was attacked near The Chequers pub, where he had been drinking on the night of Saturday 29 November 2003. He was found with serious head injuries in the early hours of the following morning and taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital, where he died on 1 December. |
| December 2003 | Joanne Broome | Renton, West Dunbartonshire | 18-year-old Broome was last seen alive on 3 December 2003. Her body was discovered the following day in a flat which had been set alight on Main Street, Renton, about three miles (5 km) from her home in Dumbarton. She had died from stab wounds. A man in his 40s was acquitted of Broome's murder in August 2004. |
| December 2003 | Leon Forbes | Attacked in Clapham, London, died in hospital | Forbes, a 21-year-old music producer, was shot on 7 December 2003 while driving his mother's car out of a car park with a passenger just after 12:15 a.m. |
| December 2003 | Kenneth Broughton | Derby | 24-year-old Broughton and his 26-year-old brother had a ground floor flat into which petrol was poured via the letterbox and lit at around 4:00 a.m. on 7 December 2003. The resulting blaze at the property in the Derby suburb of Mackworth killed Broughton but not his brother. Two youths were found not guilty the following year. |
| December 2003 | Evelyn Jackson | Manchester | 97-year-old Jackson was punched and kicked at her flat in the Longsight area of Manchester on 28 November 2003, and her Christmas savings of £1,000 were stolen. She died from her injuries at a hospital in the city 12 days later. |
| January 2004 | Richard Barrington | Attacked in Brundall, Norfolk, died at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital | Barrington was pushed into a brick pillar and received a fatal blow to the head or chest as he and some friends were returning to a New Year's Eve party, although it was not witnessed by his companions. The friends claimed that they and Barrington were first set upon by another group of youths after leaving the party to get some tobacco from his home, and that they took a rake, a copper pipe and a baseball bat from there too in case they needed them to defend themselves whilst heading back. The death of 17-year-old Barrington sparked a murder inquiry, but the police later decided that because he was carrying the rake when assaulted, the inquiry would have to be dropped. His inquest, however, found that he was unlawfully killed nonetheless. |
| January 2004 | Danny McDonald | Liverpool | 20-year-old McDonald, a key member of a gang known as the Crocky Crew or the Crocky Young Guns, was in a pub in West Derby on New Year's Day when a masked man walked over to him and shot him and a 19-year-old friend, who survived. Joey Thompson, who is now himself the victim of an unsolved murder, was a suspect. |
| January 2004 | Nureni Sheikh | Manchester | Sheikh, a 19-year-old London student on a visit to Manchester for a wedding, was shot in the upper body outside a Moss Side café on 10 January 2004, likely as a result of being mistaken for another youth. |
| January 2004 | Orville Donovan Gordon | Beachy Head, East Sussex | 39-year-old Gordon's body was discovered on 17 January 2004 in a barrel which had been pushed off the cliffs at Beachy Head. Gordon was from south London; he had been stabbed and his blood was found in a disused restaurant in Brixton. Police believed his murder was revenge for a robbery and three men were arrested, but getting information from witnesses proved very difficult. |
| February 2004 | John Luper | Leeds | Businessman Luper was walking his dog near his home in Alwoodley late on 16 February 2004 when a four- or five-strong gang forced him into the property before stealing about £100,000 worth of cash and valuables. Luper, whose wife, daughter and au pair were tied up during the burglary, was 57 years old and died from asphyxiation. |
| February 2004 | Craig Eaton | Liverpool | 22-year-old Eaton worked at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and was shot shortly after getting off a bus in Molyneux Road, Kensington, Liverpool, on 24 February 2004. Merseyside Police believe his murder was a case of mistaken identity. |
| March 2004 | Camille Gordon | London | 23-year-old Gordon was stabbed at her workplace, the Blue Bunny Club in Archer Street, Soho, on 1 March 2004. A man had visited the club and become involved in a dispute about the payment of his bill, after which he attacked Gordon in the doorway of the club and ran away. She died later that evening at University College Hospital. |
| May 2004 | Elijah Fagan | Birmingham | Fagan, 24, was punched to the ground and shot in the abdomen on 2 May 2004 after becoming involved in an argument with another cyclist in Foxglove Way, Handsworth. The gunman was then seen riding off in the direction of Alexandra Avenue. |
| May 2004 | Cheung Shing Cheung | Birkenhead, Merseyside | 51-year-old Cheung Shing Cheung was officially unemployed but made a living by lending money and charging interest. He left a casino in Liverpool on 13 May 2004 and later spoke to a neighbour before his strangled and battered body was found in his flat on 15 May. Raised voices and a scream were said to have been heard coming from the property during the early hours of 14 May. Two men alleged to have argued with the victim that night were cleared of murder in December 2009. |
| June 2004 | Adrian Marriott | Brixton, London | 20-year-old Marriott was shot five times in the head in a park off Barrington Road, Brixton, on 9 June 2004. It was claimed at the trial of three gang members accused of plotting to murder him that they did so because of his refusal to convert to Islam, but the trial came to a premature end when a prosecutor revealed that new evidence meant there was no longer a realistic prospect of any convictions for conspiracy to murder. |
| June 2004 | Nicholas Davies | Clapham, London | A single bullet had penetrated 25-year-old Davies's lungs and heart when he was found lifeless in an alley off Landor Road on 12 June 2004. A man who was to be acquitted of murder said that the crime had been committed because the victim had developed a habit of attacking and robbing other drug dealers. |
| June 2004 | Kevin Lavelle | Banbury, Oxfordshire | Lavelle, a 29-year-old father-of-two from Bootle on Merseyside, was in Banbury on a work contract when he was beaten with a dumbbell at a pub on 24 June 2004. In 2006, a trial was halted and a man found not guilty after the judge had come to the conclusion that it had not been demonstrated that any fatal blows had been delivered by him. |
| June 2004 | Martin Toner | Langbank, Renfrewshire | A farmer found the stabbed body of Toner – a 34-year-old missing for two weeks – while using a tractor to remove bales of hay from a field on 13 July 2004. Two men were accused and acquitted of his murder at a 2015 trial. A drug-related motive is suspected. |
| July 2004 | Azmat Yaqub | Birmingham | Yaqub, 35, was in a gym in Sparkhill on 29 July when two men with machine guns entered the building and one of them shot him dead. Detectives were unable to find a link between this incident and a shooting in March 2003 that Yaqub survived. |
| July 2004 | Richard Clarke | Leeds | Clarke, 32, was shot at point-blank range as he slept at his home in Moorland Avenue, Leeds, on the night of 29 July 2004. The weapon used was a 12-bore shotgun. Clarke's girlfriend was sleeping next to him at the time of the attack and her three teenage sons were also in the house. |
| August 2004 | Tom Brown | Southgate, London | The 27-year-old BBC library assistant was stabbed to death while walking home along Southgate High Street in the early hours of 21 August 2004, but none of his belongings were stolen. An e-fit of the suspected perpetrator was issued. |
| c. September 2004 | Aivaras Danilevičius | Bracknell, Berkshire | A body was found wrapped in bin bags and a blanket in Hawthorn Lane, Bracknell, on 24 July 2015. The skull was found to have two injuries indicating blunt-force trauma. The man was thought to have been 30–40 years old at the time of his death, but it is still not known how his body got to Hawthorn Lane or who put it there. In July 2016 he was identified as Danilevičius, a Lithuanian who had gone missing towards the end of the summer of 2004. |
| September 2004 | Natasha Derby | High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire | Derby, 23, was shot at a reggae night at High Wycombe's Multi-Racial Centre in the early hours of Saturday 4 September. A gun was fired while Derby was on the dancefloor, and she died at Wycombe Hospital the following day. In 2009 a man was cleared of her manslaughter and two women were cleared of perverting the course of justice. Derby's killing remains unsolved. |
| September 2004 | Patrick Devine | Claudy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland | Devine was found shot dead in his home at Stranagalwilly on 13 September 2004. The 51-year-old was a sheep farmer and part-time nurse. He was shot six times through a window as he ate his dinner and then at point-blank range three times in the head with a .22 rifle. |
| September 2004 | Daniel Blackett | Attacked in Thorpe Green, died in hospital in Chertsey (both in Surrey) | Blackett, a 36-year-old millionaire, was shot five times on his 4-acre (1.6 ha) estate on 18 September 2004, despite having recently had a 10-foot (3.0 m) fence put up around the edge of it along with signs warning of guard dogs and CCTV. It was a murder believed to have been committed or ordered by someone keen for him to be eliminated as a rival in crime. |
| September 2004 | Mick Love | Swindon, Wiltshire | Love, a 40-year-old postal worker, was stabbed to death in the street in Swindon's Old Town in the early hours of 27 September 2004 less than half an hour after he and a friend had parted company. When his body was discovered, money that he had had on him was now missing, as was his mobile phone. A man charged with Love's murder and with robbery was not found guilty of either. |
| October 2004 | Warren Graham | Attacked in Clapton, London, died in hospital | 18-year-old Graham was stabbed in Lower Clapton Road's Palace Pavilion nightclub on 26 October 2004 after a row about control of the microphone started between a friend of his and other youths on the stage. |
| November 2004 | Paul Mooney | Liverpool | A gunshot fired from close range killed 35-year-old Mooney at a friend's bungalow in Croxteth on 13 November 2004. Three men were found not guilty of murdering or conspiring to murder Mooney, and in October 2016, one of the acquitted men – Blake Brown – was himself shot dead. The killing of Brown is likewise an unsolved murder at present. |
| November 2004 | Alistair Wilson | Attacked in Nairn, died in hospital in Inverness (both in the Scottish Highlands) | 30-year-old Wilson was shot on the doorstep of his home in Crescent Road, Nairn, near Inverness, in the evening of 28 November 2004 after his wife opened their front door to the killer. Police were not aware of a motive. Detectives remain puzzled by some peculiarities of the case. Prior to shooting Wilson, the killer asked for him by name, then handed him an empty envelope with "Paul" written on it. Wilson took it inside and showed it to his wife before returning to the door where he was gunned down. The envelope was taken away by the killer when he fled. Police revealed that the weapon was a rare 1920s CG Haenel Waffen pistol, referred to as a "ladies' gun", and manufactured in Suhl, Germany. In April 2022, Police Scotland announced that Wilson's involvement in a local planning dispute was a likely motive for his murder. |
| December 2004 | Courtney Davies | Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire | A burnt body discovered in the Forest of Dean on 20 December 2004 was that of 53-year-old Davies, a violent career criminal previously jailed for robbery. The body had over 70 stab wounds. A 32-year-old man was charged with murder following the discovery of his DNA on a cigarette end recovered at the scene, but proceedings ended and he was acquitted at a preliminary hearing in April 2006. He had admitted driving the deceased to the forest on 19 December 2004 but always denied involvement in his death. |
| December 2004 | Joey Peloe | Attacked in Speke, Liverpool, died at Whiston Hospital | 45-year-old Peloe was shot on 28 December 2004 at the front door of his house on Little Heath Road. In 2006, two men – one of whom had a girlfriend for whom Peloe was said to have been a love rival – were acquitted of his murder and a third of incitement to cause grievous bodily harm. |
| December 2004 | Solomon Martin | Thornton Heath, London | 24-year-old Martin died when the Renault Clio he was a backseat passenger in was shot at repeatedly on New Year's Eve. Police believed that the gunmen actually meant to kill the driver, who was not harmed in the attack. |
| January 2005 | Benjamin Onwuka | Attacked in North Kensington, London, died in hospital | 24-year-old Onwuka was shot in the head in Maxilla Walk, North Kensington, on the afternoon of 2 January 2005. Four arrests took place of men in London and Surrey and a reward of £10,000 was offered, but the case is still unsolved. |
| January 2005 | Khang Tho Nguyen | Wembley, London | 42-year-old Nguyen was stabbed in the neck about two weeks before being found dead on 15 January 2005 at a house that was used as a cannabis factory. The Vietnamese victim did not reside at the property but was believed to have had some involvement in the drug's cultivation there. |
| January 2005 | Sher "Lenny" Afzal | Reading, Berkshire | Afzal, a 38-year-old drug dealer, died three days after being wounded on 14 January 2005 in a drive-by shooting at Cemetery Junction in Reading. Two men faced two trials for his murder, with the final trial coming to an end in July 2008 when no evidence was offered by the prosecution and the jury was ordered by the judge to find both suspects not guilty. The judge voiced concerns over the disclosure process, too. |
| January 2005 | Junior Edwards | Archway, London | 30-year-old Edwards died at Whittington Hospital in Archway on the evening of 18 January 2005 about an hour after being found injured in nearby Spears Road following a fight with two men described as being in the 20–30 age bracket. A single stab wound was the cause of his death, but he had also been punched and knocked to the ground. |
| January 2005 | Jennifer Kiely | Eastbourne, East Sussex | 35-year-old Kiely was found dead in a shelter on the lower promenade at Holywell, Eastbourne, in the early hours of 22 January 2005. She had been stabbed multiple times and set on fire. Witnesses reported seeing a woman who matched Kiely's description arguing with a man the previous evening. Two men were arrested but released on bail. Kiely's murder was featured on Crimewatch in March 2005. |
| January 2005 | Robert McCartney | Belfast, Northern Ireland | On 30 January 2005, 33-year-old McCartney and a friend were followed outside from a bar in Belfast city centre and then beaten and stabbed in the area's Market Street after a fight in the establishment. McCartney died nine hours later, but his friend survived. Allegations have been made, particularly by relatives of McCartney, that members of the IRA were involved in both the murder and a subsequent cover-up. |
| February 2005 | Justin Bernier | Clapham, London | 20-year-old Bernier was found stabbed to death in his flat on Clapham Road on Monday 21 February 2005. A police appeal three days later stressed the importance of speaking to those who had been in the area late the previous Saturday or early on the Sunday that followed. |
| March 2005 | Bruno Hrela | Enfield, London | 33-year-old Hrela was shot twice in the head and discovered next to his Mercedes in Cedar Avenue, Enfield, on 5 March 2005. He was thought to have been murdered in a contract killing and to have been involved in the sale of stolen goods. |
| March 2005 | Shaun Stanislas | Stonebridge, London | 24-year-old Stanislas was shot dead in Stonebridge on 22 March 2005. The attack was said to have been carried out because he was rumoured to have been responsible for the non-fatal shooting of a man the previous month. A man was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison in September 2007 for being complicit in the fatal July 2006 shooting of a suspect in Stanislas's murder. |
| March 2005 | Orville Davidson | New Cross, London | Purley resident Davidson, 25, was found in Knoyle Street, New Cross, on 27 March 2005 (Easter Sunday) after being shot through the heart. His death preceded by four months the murder of his friend Peter Buahin – another unsolved case. |
| April 2005 | Wayne Kelly | West Hendon, London | 21-year-old Kelly fell and hit his head outside the Harp pub in West Hendon on 10 April 2005 after being punched by a bouncer. He fell as he was being chased following his intervention in an argument between bouncers and two other men, and although three men were later arrested on suspicion of his murder, there was not enough evidence to try any of them. |
| April 2005 | Chamlong Allen | Notting Hill, London | Allen was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a lockup garage on Lonsdale Mews on 27 April 2005. The garage was close to the site of Portobello Market, where the 49-year-old Thai woman had sold food from a stall for a living. Allen's estranged husband, a retired actor who she had told people had abused her and whom she had been fighting for custody of their three daughters, was charged with her murder within days of the crime coming to the attention of the police, but he was acquitted at the Old Bailey after prosecutors had ceased to offer evidence. |
| May 2005 | Vikki Preston and Rhona Schofield | Salford, Greater Manchester | Preston and Schofield, both 19, were best friends who were killed by toxic fumes from a fire in the terraced house where they were staying in the early hours of 10 May 2005. The property was on King Street, Higher Broughton, Salford, and the victims were in an upstairs bedroom when the blaze was triggered by furniture being lit downstairs at around 4:00 a.m. Preston and another woman had a violent row the day before and that woman was said to have later uttered a threat against the pair, but she denied any role in the blaze when she attended their inquest hearing. |
| June 2005 | June Thrussell | Dagenham, London | 56-year-old Thrussell was found strangled to death in her home on Friday 17 June 2005 after one of her colleagues had informed the police that she had not turned up for her work as a secretary since Tuesday of that week. A man who had been convicted in 1976 of a murder committed the year before was cleared of Thrussell's murder but went back to prison despite that because there were concerns that he was still a danger to others. |
| June 2005 | Troy Robinson | Stonebridge, London | A group of people were standing outside James Dudson Court in Wyborne Way, Stonebridge, at around 9:45 p.m. on 19 June 2005 when one or more men got out of a car that had just pulled up and randomly fired bullets at them. 19-year-old Robinson was shot in the chest and pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital; two other men in their late teens received gunshot wounds to their legs and survived. A man was paralysed from the neck down a year later in a shooting suspected to have been a revenge attack for Robinson's murder. |
| June 2005 | Bill Marney | Crayford, London | 39-year-old Marney lived in Mill Place in Crayford and was shot outside his home on 23 June 2005 by a man in a dark hatchback that was probably a Rover 45 or a Peugeot. There was another man in the vehicle besides the shooter. |
| July 2005 | Peter Buahin | New Cross, London | Buahin, 23, was shot in the head on 25 July 2005 after being approached by two men as he sat on his bicycle in Woodpecker Road, New Cross. The murder happened after that of Orville Davidson – a friend of his – in March 2005, and both remain unsolved. |
| July/August 2005 | Newton Thompson | Paddington, London | Thompson was a 61-year-old Australian who was found dead from blows to the head in his room at the Comfort Inn hotel on 1 August 2005. Property belonging to him had been taken, too. Because a child sex abuser who was also from Australia and had also recently come to the UK bore a strong resemblance to Thompson, it was believed that the murder might have been a case of mistaken identity. |
| August 2005 | Lucy Hargreaves | Liverpool | Three masked men armed with a sawn-off shotgun forced their way into 22-year-old Hargreaves's house on Lambourne Road, Walton, on 3 August 2005 while she was asleep on the living room sofa. She was then shot twice in the abdomen and once in the head at point-blank range before petrol was poured at various locations downstairs and ignited. Hargreaves's boyfriend, who it is thought might have been the intended target, escaped from the burning property by jumping with the couple's youngest daughter from an upstairs window. They were asleep upstairs when the perpetrators gained access. |
| August 2005 | James Tomlin | Shipley, West Yorkshire | Tomlin, 36, went into cardiac arrest and died during the early hours of 15 August after jumping from a bedroom window at his home in Windhill to escape a fire that began when kerosene was poured through the letterbox and ignited. However, it was not heart failure or his fall that caused his death, but the inhaling of smoke and poisonous gasses. Also inside the property were Tomlin's pregnant 26-year-old partner and their two sons, who all escaped and survived. Because the arson attack was a seemingly motiveless crime against a family with no criminal ties, detectives considered it a possibility that the property was not the intended target. |
| September 2005 | Kenneth Nunn | Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire | 85-year-old Nunn died in an apparent arson attack on his home on the night of 6–7 September 2005. A motive for starting the fire continues to evade the police. |
| September 2005 | Elsie Hughes | Attacked in Abermorddu, Flintshire, died in hospital in Wrexham | 90-year-old Hughes was found injured at her home on Hawarden Road, Caergwrle, at 9:00 p.m. on 8 September 2005. She died of her injuries early the following day in Wrexham Maelor Hospital. It is believed that Hughes was murdered by intruders who stole £200. |
| September 2005 | Anne Marie Foy | Liverpool | 46-year-old Foy was killed at around 5:30 a.m. on 15 September 2005. Her body was found in bushes at the junction of Crown Street and West Derby Street in Liverpool; she had been battered to death. Foy was a sex worker and a man stood trial for her murder in 2012 but was found not guilty. |
| September/October 2005 | George Willis | Peckham, London | Willis's bus pass and flying jacket appeared to have been taken from his Torridge Gardens home when he was discovered tied up and dead from head injuries there on 6 October 2005. He was last seen alive eight days previously, arguing on his doorstep with a man thought to have been in his 20s. It came to be suspected that the murder of 84-year-old Willis, a bachelor who often tried to make friends by giving money to strangers, might have been a homophobic crime carried out by people who assumed that being a lifelong unmarried man meant he was gay. |
| October 2005 | Anthony Cavanagh | Liverpool | 22-year-old Cavanagh was knocked to the ground in a single punch on Saturday 24 September 2005 after bumping into another man in a bar in central Liverpool earlier in the night, and his death occurred in hospital 11 days later. An arrest over Cavanagh's murder was made in 2015, but the arrested man was not charged. |
| October 2005 | Nora Tait | Doncaster, South Yorkshire | Tait was 69 when she was bludgeoned at her home in Stone Close Avenue, Hexthorpe, on 12 October 2005. She was murdered shortly after she had bought fish and chips, which were untouched on her dining table when a friend found her dead the following day. Police made a new appeal for information on the 10th anniversary of Tait's murder in 2015. |
| October 2005 | Alexandre Marques | Luton, Bedfordshire | Marques, 61, was last seen at his home in Clanricarde Gardens, Notting Hill, London, on Sunday 16 October 2005. His remains were found on 2 January 2006 on the grass verge of Woodside Road, Luton. CCTV images showed a man using Marques's bank card in west and northwest London shortly after his disappearance. In January 2021, police reported that they had a new forensic lead and that a £20,000 reward was still available. |
| October 2005 | Isaiah Young-Sam | Birmingham | 23-year-old Young-Sam and three companions were in a backstreet in Lozells on 22 October 2005 when a group of Asian men confronted them and one of them fatally stabbed him in the chest. Race riots were going on in the area at the time, triggered by an unsubstantiated rumour that Asians had gang-raped a black girl. Two trials resulted in four convictions for Young-Sam's murder, but each conviction was overturned by April 2011. |
| November 2005 | Andrea Daly | Southend, Essex | 40-year-old Daly died when her house on Rochford Road, Southend, was set alight at nighttime on 10 November 2005. Her sons, who were aged 17 and 20, managed to escape from the smoke and flames by jumping from a first-floor window. Police could not find a motive. |
| November 2005 | Michael Grey | Newcastle | 45-year-old care worker Grey was walking to the home of an elderly person he cared for on 11 November 2005 when he was attacked on Ellesmere Road in Newcastle's West End at around 8:00 p.m. Grey's wallet was taken during the attack. He managed to get to his feet afterwards and sought treatment at Newcastle General Hospital, but he fell into a coma and died 10 days later. Three people were charged with theft from Grey, but no one was charged with his murder. |
| December 2005 | Kamila Garsztka | Bedford | Garsztka was 26 when she went missing in mid-December 2005. Her body was found by canoeists in Priory Lake, Bedford, in January 2006. Garsztka's boyfriend was found guilty of her murder in 2007, but his conviction was quashed in 2009 and he went on to win a libel action against Bedfordshire Police in 2012, being awarded £125,000. |
| December 2005 | Hallam Tennyson | Highgate, London | Tennyson, 85, a retired author and former BBC employee, was stabbed to death in his home on 21 December 2005 shortly after being filmed by CCTV at two London tube stations. He was the great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, a 19th-century poet laureate. |
| January 2006 | Barrington Williams-Samuels | Clapton, London | Williams-Samuels, 19, was shot and killed in his car outside the Palace Pavilion, a nightclub on Lower Clapton Road, early on Monday 2 January 2006. Not long before that incident, he and one of the car's two passengers (a male friend; the other was Williams-Samuels's sister) had tried unsuccessfully to get into the club, and an altercation with someone at the entrance is said to have occurred. A court acquitted a man of murder in 2008 after the evidence against him was found to be insufficient. |
| January 2006 | Ralph Platten | Attacked in Sutton, Norfolk, died at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital | A group of men pushed past the 95-year-old war veteran and beat him when he opened his front door on 3 January 2006; he died of heart failure the next day. Five people charged in relation to the incident did not go to court over it because the Crown Prosecution Service found that there was not enough evidence to link any of them to it. |
| January 2006 | Subramaniam Sivakumar | Willesden, London | Likely the victim of a ritual killing, 44-year-old Sivakumar was found dead in his shop with a shoelace around his neck and wounds behind one of his ears on 5 January 2006. |
| January 2006 | Richard Zephaniah | Basildon, Essex | 39-year-old Zephaniah was stabbed outside his flat in Bockingham Green, Basildon, on 6 January 2006. Three men were arrested on suspicion of his murder, but in 2007 the Crown Prosecution Service ruled there was insufficient evidence to pursue a prosecution. |
| January 2006 | Joyce Sutton | Skewen, Wales | Sutton, 65, was found dead in her bed at her home in Winifred Road, Skewen, on 11 January 2006. She had been beaten to death. Sutton's partner stood trial for her murder in 2008 but was found not guilty. |
| January 2006 | Rebwar Samin | Leicester | Samin, 21, was stabbed in Clyde Street, Leicester, at around 5:00 p.m. on 11 January 2006 when he and another man were involved in a confrontation with two men that had escalated. Police suspected early on in their investigation into his murder that the two people they most wanted to speak to about it (men who were Iraqi nationals, as was Samin) did not live in Leicestershire any longer. |
| January 2006 | Sukhwinder Singh | Epsom, Surrey | 27-year-old Singh was strangled and his body left in the car park of Epsom Downs Racecourse, where it was found on the morning of 21 January 2006. In October 2010, a 36-year-old man was arrested in Barcelona in connection with the murder before being released on bail while inquiries continued. |
| February 2006 | Mehar Singh Kataria | East Ham, London | On 3 February 2006, the 68-year-old widower was battered to death with a blunt object and then repeatedly stabbed at his house on Byron Avenue in East Ham, and an envelope containing approximately £200 was stolen. Because he was careful about whom he let in there and no signs of forced entry were found, police thought there was a strong possibility that he knew his attacker(s). |
| March 2006 | Jamie Campbell | Glasgow | Four men were convicted in 2022 of the April 2018 gun murder of Kenneth Reilly in Glasgow's Maryhill area, but one of them was acquitted at the same trial of shooting dead 47-year-old Campbell in the Drumchapel area of the city on 4 March 2006. Lawyers acting for the man acquitted of this offence claimed that another murdered man – gangster Kevin Carroll, who died in 2010 – was Campbell's killer. Campbell and his son were acquitted in 2004 over the January 2003 murder of Kevin Clark. At that trial, the son was accused of killing Clark and Campbell was accused of cutting up the son's football top and tracksuit bottoms. |
| March 2006 | Jordan Jackson and Leyla Djemal-Northcott | Upper Norwood, London | 20-year-old Jackson and 21-year-old Djemal-Northcott, Jackson's girlfriend, were shot dead in their flat in Menlo Gardens, Upper Norwood, on 7 March 2006 when Jackson, who was said to have stolen £5,000 from a violent drug dealer, answered the door to two men wearing ski masks. Jackson's brother was shot too but survived, and the girlfriend of this brother, who was likewise at the flat that day, hid from the gunmen and was not found by them. Four men were charged with murder in 2011. Two of the suspects were identical twins, with one alleged to have been one of the shooters and the other to have acted as a lookout, and the police tried to train witnesses to tell them apart by creating sets of virtual twins for those witnesses to study – a measure that a judge found "intelligent and imaginative" but "ultimately deficient", prompting him to throw the case out. |
| March 2006 | Carlton Alveranga and Richard Austin | Salford, Greater Manchester | Alveranga, 20, and Austin, 19, were recruited to murder David Totton, and entered Salford's Brass Handles pub on Sunday 12 March 2006 to carry out their task. Although Totton was shot, he survived. His assailants were then disarmed and shot dead with their own guns. Alveranga and Austin's clients were convicted of conspiracy to murder in 2007, but the killer or killers of their would-be hitmen remain unidentified. |
| March 2006 | Michael Shipton | Sheering, Essex | Shipton, known as Joe, was 61 when he was found dead at his home in The Plashets, Sheering, on 25 March 2006. He had died from head injuries and there was no sign of forced entry to the house. |
| April 2006 | Fabian Ricketts | Attacked in Battersea, London, died in hospital | Ricketts, 18, was shot in the chest at The Battersea Bar in York Road on 17 April 2006 (Easter Monday) after a friend of his made a signal to someone he thought he knew which was mistaken for a gun gesture. Three men were put on trial, but the judge dismissed the case on the grounds of shortage of evidence. The shooting was witnessed by James Andre Smartt-Ford, a 16-year-old who was himself shot dead in February 2007; his murder also remains unsolved. |
| April/May 2006 | Philip Salmon | Farnborough, Hampshire | Salmon disappeared aged 41 at the end of April 2006 and his burnt corpse was found on a golf course on 16 June. A post mortem failed to establish a cause of death but did find that a flammable liquid was used to help start the fire. |
| May 2006 | Aaron Watson | Leeds | Watson, 27, was shot in the Creation nightclub on Cookridge Street, Leeds, on 1 May 2006, and died from his injuries in hospital nine days later. Police believed his killers were from the Manchester area. |
| May 2006 | Luke Durbin | Body not found | 19-year-old Durbin left an Ipswich nightclub on his own in the early hours of Friday 12 May 2006 when he had become separated from a friend, and later tried – unsuccessfully because he did not have any money on him – to get a taxi back to his home in the Suffolk village of Hollesley. CCTV footage showed him walking towards a bus station in Ipswich town centre at around 4:00 a.m., but his movements after then are a mystery. In 2012, two men aged 41 and 26 were arrested on suspicion of being connected with Durbin's murder, but neither was charged. In 2020, it was disclosed that Durbin may have been in debt to drug dealers. |
| June 2006 | Neil Davies | Neath, Wales | 27-year-old Davies was stabbed in the chest during a barbecue at his home on Caederwen Road, Neath, on 25 June 2006. His wife stood trial for his murder in 2007 but was found not guilty. |
| July 2006 | Ernest Gifford | Manchester | Small-time drug dealer Gifford, 45, was shot in the thigh by one of three masked men during a failed robbery at his house in Moss Side on 4 July 2006. A man had his murder conviction quashed after arguing that the presence of his DNA on a glove print in the house might have been due to someone borrowing his gloves for the robbery, and that footprints there that matched the tread of a pair of trainers he owned could not have been his because he did not buy the trainers until after the killing. |
| July 2006 | Jim Stanton | Liverpool | At around 6:00 p.m. on the evening of Monday 24 July 2006, two armed men burst into the car showroom where 58-year-old Stanton worked as a salesman, and opened fire. Although his colleagues managed to escape to safety, Stanton was stuck behind his desk metres from the back wall of the showroom and was shot several times. Merseyside Police suspect that he might not have been the intended target of the attack, and have offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the convictions of those behind it. |
| July 2006 | Beata Bryl | Wooburn, Buckinghamshire | 23-year-old Bryl was captured on CCTV at Leytonstone tube station, east London, on 28 July 2006. Her burnt remains were found by a motorist 50 miles away in woodland near Hedsor Lane, Wooburn, Buckinghamshire, the following day. She had been bludgeoned to death. Bryl was originally from Poland and came to the UK in 2003. Her mother believed her daughter was in an unhappy relationship with an older, controlling man. |
| August 2006 | Roy Helm | Oxford | The 40-year-old window cleaner suffered rib fractures and a damaged liver before being found lifeless in his flat on 12 August 2006. A man on trial the following April was alleged to have attacked Helm for calling his girlfriend – who was also Helm's ex-girlfriend – a name, but a defence lawyer said that the girlfriend's description of the assault was at odds with the victim's fatal injuries and that she was the one who inflicted them. The man was acquitted and his girlfriend was not charged with anything in relation to Helm's death. |
| August 2006 | George "Goofy" Docherty | Glasgow | 46-year-old Docherty, a career criminal once sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in an attempted murder, was repeatedly run over and then stabbed multiple times in a daytime attack in Glasgow's Glenshee Street on 28 August 2006. |
| September 2006 | Jessie James | Manchester | 15-year-old James was shot dead in Broadfield Park, Moss Side, in the early hours of 9 September 2006 by a person or people who had been hiding in the bushes. It is believed his murder may have been a case of mistaken identity. Police have been worried about the lack of witnesses coming forward, possibly due to fear of the repercussions. |
| September 2006 | Duncan Frame | Thamesmead, London | Frame, 52, suffered head injuries and heart failure after getting caught up in a nighttime brawl at the Cutty Sark pub in Thamesmead on Saturday 9 September 2006. Fans of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and Charlton Athletic F.C. had gathered there, but the latter of these clubs later issued a statement denying that the brawl was to do with football. |
| September 2006 | Dean Myles | Bristol | Myles was shot in a Bristol nightclub on Saturday 16 September 2006 during a visit to the city from London. Four men were tried for the murder of the 19-year-old, and one of them was acquitted. Because the jury could not reach a verdict on any of the other three, a retrial was ordered, but the case against them ended up being dropped because the Court of Appeal would not permit statements from anonymous witnesses to be read out in court in their absence. |
| September 2006 | Jason Gale-Bent | Attacked in New Cross, London, died in hospital | Gale-Bent, 29, was outside with his brother and a friend on 17 September 2006 when a gang of youths who were not known to them approached and attacked him. As well as being beaten, he was hit with an airgun pellet and received two stab wounds, one of which penetrated his heart and was the fatal injury. Police considered the incident to be possibly linked to one involving a man being chased and stabbed in Deptford later on the same day. |
| September 2006 | Dean Jeffery | Bristol | 39-year-old Jeffery died on 28 September 2006 after being attacked a week earlier as he walked back to his home near Fishponds Road in Bristol from a trip to a local shop. |
| October 2006 | Antoine Smith | Clapham, London | Two youths on bicycles shot 24-year-old Smith near a pizza takeaway in Clapham on 20 October 2006 in what was thought to have been a gangland slaying. |
| October 2006 | David Lees | Manchester | A silver Vauxhall Vectra was deliberately driven into 23-year-old Lees in Middleton Road, Prestwich, on the night of 27/28 October 2006 after an altercation between his group and a group of Asian men at a petrol station on that road. Two men were arrested on suspicion of murder in 2016. |
| October 2006 | Jerome Vassell | Haringey, London | 19-year-old Vassell was shot in the head on 28 October 2006 as he sat in a car in the car park of the West Indian Cultural Centre in Clarendon Road, Haringey. He initially survived the attack and was treated in hospital, but was left with brain damage and partial paralysis. In March 2007 Vassell was discharged, but on 27 December 2007 he collapsed at his home in Harringay Road and died. Vassell's case then became a murder one and the Metropolitan Police offered a £20,000 reward to anyone who had information leading to a conviction. |
| November 2006 | Jamail Newton | Camberwell, London | 19-year-old Newton was shot several times on 1 November 2006 whilst outside a Camberwell Green nightclub with friends. |
| November 2006 | Christopher Elliott | Leeds | Elliott's burnt body was found near Roundhay Road on 20 November 2006 after he was taken from his Bramley flat and battered to death. Four men were charged with but not convicted of the murder of the 39-year-old. |
| December 2006 | Jimoh Plunkett | Ipswich, Suffolk | The 24-year-old from London was shot in the chest in an Ipswich nightclub and pronounced dead at the town's main hospital on Saturday 9 December 2006. In October 2008, a man who had become one of two prime suspects in the killing – fellow Londoner Errol Davis – died in very similar circumstances in another murder that has not been solved. |
| January 2007 | Paul Kelly | Bath, Somerset | Following an argument that had started in a pub and continued in an adjoining alley during the early hours of New Year's Day, 32-year-old Kelly was hit over the head with a mobile phone and then knifed. Kelly fell, hitting his head on a concrete bollard, and was kicked whilst he lay on the ground. Nathan Dixon was charged with his murder but later acquitted in court. |
| January 2007 | Atiyebi Omuaru | Barking, London | 25-year-old Omuaru went to a garage on River Road in Barking to pick up his serviced car on 2 January 2007 and was shot dead in the reception after diving behind the counter following earlier shots and a struggle. The dark Vauxhall Omega saloon in which the two culprits left had arrived at the garage nearly two hours before Omuaru did. |
| January 2007 | Robert Pride-McLeod | Harrogate, North Yorkshire | Pride-McLeod's body was found in the cellar of a homeless hostel on 21 January 2007 following a severe assault on the 49-year-old. The assault probably took place within a few days of his arrival at the hostel on 12 January. |
| January 2007 | Dean Tully | Brentford, London | 37-year-old Tully died and another man and a Staffordshire bull terrier were wounded when two men burst into the Brentford flat they were in on 25 January 2007 and sprayed it with bullets from a submachine gun for about three minutes. A nearby CCTV camera captured the gunmen leaving the scene, but the footage was of very poor quality. The shooting was believed to have been part of a turf war between an established drug-dealing gang and one trying to move in on its territory. Tully's background suggested he was not an intended target but was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. |
| January 2007 | John Iveson | Body not found | The 36-year-old's wife was pregnant with his fifth child when he vanished from Nantwich, Cheshire, on 30 January 2007, and his disappearance is being treated as murder. In April 2012, two men were found not guilty of Iveson's murder; the trial heard that he owed almost £250,000 to his brother-in-law. |
| February 2007 | James Andre Smartt-Ford | London | At approximately 10:55 p.m. on 3 February 2007, the Metropolitan Police received a call about a shooting at an ice-skating rink known as Streatham Ice Arena. A youth had shot 17-year-old Smartt-Ford, who then staggered onto the ice from the area at the bottom of a stairway and collapsed. He died at around midnight in hospital. Although there were multiple witnesses, the killer has not been identified. |
| February 2007 | Chamberlain Igwemba | Peckham, London | Drug baron Igwemba, 47, and his accountant were shot at a flat on Clayton Road in Peckham on 4 February 2007, but the accountant survived. Two Jamaican men were acquitted. |
| February 2007 | Sajid Saddique | Body not found | 32-year-old Saddique, a father-of-three, met a friend in the car park of an Asda supermarket in Shipley, West Yorkshire, on 14 February 2007 and was never seen again. He was declared dead in 2014 and his disappearance began to be treated as murder later that same year. Saddique had been involved in disputes over money at the time of his disappearance and the investigation has seen two men arrested but not charged. A second inquest into his death in December 2020 ruled that he had been unlawfully killed, and the murder investigation remains ongoing. |
| February 2007 | Billy Cox | Clapham, London | Cox's 13-year-old sister arrived home from school and found the 15-year-old dying from bullet wounds in his bedroom on 14 February 2007. Their home was in Clapham's Fenwick Place, and no evidence of anyone having broken and entered the property was discovered. Two men were arrested over Cox's death in 2019. |
| March 2007 | Terry McSpadden | Body not found | 24-year-old McSpadden told people prior to vanishing on 2 March 2007 that he feared he was going to be murdered because he had recently woken up on the sofa in a friend's cottage to find himself encased in industrial-style cling film before being rescued from suffocation by his friend coming home and cutting through the material. The cottage was in Elm, a village on the Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border. McSpadden's friend was charged with murder in November 2012, but a judge at Norwich Crown Court ruled that the evidence pointing towards his guilt was too inadequate for proceedings against him to continue. |
| March 2007 | Tyno Kavuala | College Park, London | Kavuala, 20, was shot dead in his car near the northern end of Scrubs Lane on 4 March 2007, and the shooting appeared to have been gang-related. A 22-year-old man murdered in London in May 2010 – Daniel Smith – was thought to have been targeted because he looked like Kavuala's suspected assailant. |
| March 2007 | Callum Bland | Wellingborough, Northamptonshire | Three-year-old Bland was killed on 19 March 2007 by smoke from a fire that had spread to the interior of his home after being started in a wheelie bin next to one of the property's external doors. His mother, her partner and three other children escaped. Two boys in their mid-teens were apprehended and released four years later. |
| March 2007 | Mustapha Charkaui | Attacked in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, later died in hospital in Oxford | Charkaui, 57, and his wife were attacked at their home in Dunsham Lane on 12 March 2007. Two men broke in and beat them with a spade. The wife survived, but Charkaui died of his injuries on 23 March. Police were unable to establish a motive for the attack. |
| April 2007 | Robert Keetley | Nottingham | 37-year-old Keetley's body was recovered from the River Trent on 8 May 2007 after he had disappeared on 29 April. His wallet, mobile phone and gold chain were missing, and it is believed that he either ended up in the river while being chased by robbers or was pushed into it. |
| May 2007 | Lavinia Branch | Murrow, Cambridgeshire | 71-year-old Lavinia Branch and her 77-year-old husband were beaten with a blunt object at their caravan on 12 May 2007 before it was set on fire with them still inside. A critically injured Mr Branch then emerged from the caravan, which was on a travellers' site in the village of Murrow. Their son was charged with the murder of his mother and the attempted murder of his father, but he protested his innocence and was found not guilty at a hearing where his father claimed via TV link that he had recollections of him attacking them after asking Mrs Branch for money and not being given any by her. |
| June 2007 | Ashley Dighton | Ashford, Kent | 19-year-old Dighton was last seen alive at Sainsbury's supermarket on Simone Weil Avenue, Ashford, on 11 June 2007. His body was found a month later, buried beneath branches in woodland close to the supermarket. He had been decapitated. Dighton's father made an appeal for new information on the 11th anniversary of his son's murder. |
| June 2007 | Ben Hitchcock | Attacked in Beckenham, London, died in hospital | 16-year-old Hitchcock died on 24 June 2007 from a stab wound to the back, having sustained the wound after being surrounded by members of a rival gang in Southend Road the previous day. Hitchcock and members of his own gang had earlier tried to gatecrash a party attended by people belonging to the other gang, leading to tension which escalated before culminating in the stabbing. Four youths were acquitted of murder in 2009. |
| June 2007 | Abu Shahin | Ilford, London | 18-year-old Shahin was stabbed in the early hours of 26 June 2007 during an attack by two men in Ramsgill Drive, Ilford. He was from nearby Manor Park. A suspect was charged with murder, but the Crown Prosecution Service abandoned the case. |
| July 2007 | Albert "Taffy" Bishop | Ashford, Kent | 74-year-old Bishop died at Ashford's William Harvey Hospital on 13 July 2007 after being beaten with a hammer on 18 March when he entered his home on the town's Hythe Road. He died from a fractured femur sustained in a fall at the property on 30 June, and a Home Office pathologist ruled that because the fall was a result of the assault suffered three and a half months previously, his death should be treated as murder. |
| July 2007 | Abukar Mahamud | Stockwell, London | 16-year-old Mahamud died from a gunshot wound to the neck on the Stockwell Gardens estate when youths had been chasing him on bicycles on 26 July 2007. A 20-year-old suspect had a murder charge against him dropped two months later. |
| July 2007 | Xiong Zhang | Attacked in Barking, London, died in hospital | The 33-year-old Chinese national made a living by selling DVDs on the street, but did not have any with him when two plain-clothes police officers found him injured on a Barking towpath near to where he was seen hawking hours previously, suggesting that the motive was robbery. He was taken to hospital, where it was discovered that he had a brain injury, and this injury led to his death on 29 July – eight days after the attack that caused it. |
| August 2007 | Ray Shearwood | Body not found | Shearwood's disappearance on 19 August 2007 may have been gang-related and connected to a drug debt. A 36-year-old former boxer and convicted money launderer at the time, he was last seen walking towards a Volkswagen Golf parked outside a pub in the Merseyside town of Maghull. |
| September 2007 | Moses Ssendawula | Camberwell, London | 41-year-old Ssendawula was shot in the back and shoulder whilst walking through Burgess Park in Camberwell during the early hours of 8 September 2007. He was a voluntary worker and it appeared that the slaying was a case of mistaken identity. |
| September 2007 | Edvin Johnson | Camberwell, London | Johnson, 19, was stabbed in the groin when five youths attacked him and a friend in the stairwell of a block of flats on 16 September 2007. It is not believed that either of them was an intended target. |
| September 2007 | Daniel Denis | Attacked in Acton, London, died in hospital | 26-year-old Denis died in Hammersmith's Charing Cross Hospital a few hours after being shot from a car as he drove his own along Acton's Brassie Avenue at night on 18 September 2007. Five people were arrested and released. |
| October 2007 | Philip Poru | Attacked in Plumstead, London, died in hospital | 18-year-old Poru was shot in a parked car in Long Walk on 14 October 2007 after two men approached it and were told that its occupants were from Peckham. Another person in the vehicle was shot as well, but he recovered. Poru was a Kingston University student and did not appear to have been a member of any gang. CCTV captured two suspects in a nearby alleyway about 15 minutes before the shooting. |
| 17 October 2007 | Jonathan Matondo | Sheffield | Matondo moved from the Democratic Republic of Congo to England at the age of six and was shot dead at 16 near a children's play area in Sheffield by someone presumed by police to have been from a rival postcode gang. A man formally accused of Matondo's murder was found not guilty at a second trial after the jury at his first one failed to reach a verdict. |
| November 2007 | Colin Smith | Liverpool | Smith, cleared in 1993 of being complicit in a conspiracy to import a large amount of cocaine into Britain from Venezuela, was shot dead aged 40 outside a gym in Speke on 13 November 2007. |
| November 2007 | Margaret Hawkins | Orpington, London | Following a burglary and an assault on Hawkins at the 87-year-old's bungalow on Charterhouse Road, Orpington on 16 November 2007, the police started to class her as a murder victim when, after collapsing due to shock while telling officers about her ordeal, she died in hospital on 18 November. There were two perpetrators – both of whom were male and thought to be between 25 and 40 years of age. Hawkins's handbag was discovered under a tree at a garden centre in Chislehurst. It was handed to the police on Christmas Eve 2007, but the tiny amount of DNA found on it did not have any evidential value. |
| December 2007 | Dipo Seweje | Walworth, London | Seweje was fatally shot in a stairwell of a block of flats on 26 December 2007 and police found his body in a nearby communal garden the day after when investigating reports of the shooting. The gun used to kill the 20-year-old student was also used to kill ex-professional boxer James Oyebola five months previously. |
| January 2008 | Sarah Melia | Horwich, Lancashire | Melia, 34, was stabbed six times in the back at her home on Catherine Street West, Horwich, near Bolton, on 14 January 2008. Her body was found by her teenage daughter at the foot of the stairs. Melia's brother stood trial for her murder twice, but both trials collapsed and he was found not guilty. |
| January 2008 | Halton McCollin | Manchester | 20-year-old McCollin died in hospital on 22 January after he was shot in the head in a Chinese takeaway in Stretford when mistaken for a gang member. A reward of £50,000 is on offer for information resulting in a conviction. |
| February 2008 | Louis Brathwaite | Manchester | 16-year-old Brathwaite died 12 days after two bullets hit him when a gunman indiscriminately fired shots into a betting shop in Withington, Manchester. The gunman was driven away from the scene in a Volkswagen Golf. |
| February 2008 | Steven Bates | Battersea, London | Three men in their 20s were acquitted of the murder of 36-year-old Bates, a father-of-five hit by a car and fatally stabbed in Battersea's Tennyson Street on 14 February 2008. Two of the acquitted – one earlier cleared of the still-unsolved 2006 killing of Fabian Ricketts – were the sons of a woman who was having an affair with the deceased at the time of his death. |
| February 2008 | Ade Pukeliene | Mugged in Beckton, London, died in hospital | Pukeliene, a 57-year-old Lithuanian, fell to the ground and had her handbag stolen in a mugging that occurred after she finished a cleaning shift at a bank in Canary Wharf and caught a train home. She was found near her house in Emerald Close in Beckton at dawn on 28 February 2008 and later died from head injuries at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Two suspects were seen on a scooter or motorcycle heading towards Jasper Road. |
| 1 March 2008 | David O'Leary | Lydden, Kent | A gunman fired two shots at O'Leary, a scaffolder aged 31, within moments of him returning to his Lydden home from a night out with his girlfriend, hitting him in the chest and neck. The crime had hallmarks of a professional killing, but a motive for it remains undetermined. |
| March 2008 | Harun Khan | Tipton, West Midlands | Taxi driver Khan, 39, was shot dead outside his home in Tudor Street, Tipton, on 3 March 2008. Police have treated the crime as a suspected honour killing. |
| March 2008 | Syed Mehdi | Attacked in Ilford, London, died in hospital | 23-year-old Mehdi and a 37-year-old man were shot at Cranbrook Road's Blue Ice Bar on 1 March 2008 while Mehdi was on duty as a doorman. The gunman approached and shot them after waiting for two females to enter the establishment, then ran off towards the High Street. Mehdi died four days later, but the 37-year-old survived. |
| March 2008 | Clare Brown | Manchester | 25-year-old Brown's brother discovered her strangled to death at her home in Miles Platting on 9 March 2008. Her former boyfriend was acquitted of her murder the following November. |
| March 2008 | Nicholas Clarke | Attacked in Brixton, London, died in hospital | 19-year-old Clarke, known as "Ratty", was shot in the head on the Myatt's Fields Estate in the early hours of 15 March 2008. He was with a group of friends, and the shot was fired from a distance. |
| April 2008 | Matthew Demko | Ashtead, Surrey | Demko, 25, was killed with a metal barbell on 4 April 2008. He died in the garage of the home of a friend who was later tried for murder, the prosecution claiming that the killing occurred because of an outstanding debt. The friend was found not guilty. |
| April 2008 | Margaret Briers | Attacked in St Helens, died in hospital in Whiston (both in Merseyside) | 82-year-old Briers was fatally injured by an intruder at her home in Caldbeck Grove, Carr Mill, on 30 March 2008. The intruder stole just £16. Briers was found 12 hours after the attack and died in hospital a week later. |
| May 2008 | Kuldeep Sidhu | Birmingham | 25-year-old Sidhu was found dead after a fire at her home on Glyn Farm Road, Quinton, on 14 May 2008. She was in the early stages of pregnancy at the time of her death. The scene had been staged to make it look like Sidhu had killed herself, with a note purporting to have been written by her and a noose around her neck. In May 2010, a coroner ruled that she had been unlawfully killed by someone known to her. |
| May 2008 | Joyce Cregeen | Epsom, Surrey | 81-year-old Cregeen was found stabbed to death at her home on Sefton Road, Epsom, on 15 May 2008. A woman stood trial for her murder the following year but was found not guilty. In 2018 the case was reopened by the Surrey and Sussex major crime team to investigate new lines of enquiry. |
| May 2008 | Victoria Couchman | St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex | The skull of 19-year-old single mother Couchman was found in Redgeland Wood on 13 October 2008. It had reportedly been photographed and played with by children. A detailed search uncovered a femur and pelvis. Couchman had been missing since mid-May 2008. Her father was charged but killed himself in prison two days before he was due to stand trial at Lewes Crown Court. |
| June 2008 | Adam Chadwick | Leeds | When Chadwick, a 20-year-old father-of-one, was at his sister's house in Harehills on 24 June 2008, a woman knocked on the door and asked for "Michelle". The woman, described as being in her late 20s and around 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) tall with dark brown hair, dark eyes and olive skin, then knocked again, whereupon three masked men tried to force their way in. Chadwick was shot in the ensuing struggle, possibly in a case of mistaken identity, and died two days later in hospital. The male culprits were described as black and wearing camouflaged clothing as well as masks. Nobody has been brought to justice for Chadwick's murder, despite a reconstruction on Crimewatch, extensive appeals and a £10,000 reward. |
| July 2008 | John Rouse | Hull, East Yorkshire | A former pub landlord from London was acquitted of the 45-year-old drug dealer's murder the year after his mother found him shot dead in his shower on 31 July 2008. A prosecutor at the trial argued that Rouse knew the culprit very well, felt comfortable with them, and was killed by them because they owed him money. No one else has been charged with the murder. |
| August 2008 | Ezcekiel Ojo | Walworth, London | 24-year-old Ojo was found unconscious in Penrose Street, Walworth, in the early hours of 22 August 2008. He had been shot in the chest in what later appeared to be a possible case of mistaken identity. |
| September 2008 | Paul Duckenfield | Body not found | Duckenfield, 41, was last seen at the Palm Trees restaurant near Great Saling, near Braintree, Essex, on 15 September 2008. Although his body has not been found, police believe he was murdered on or around 16 September. Investigations revealed a possible link with the dealing of anabolic steroids. |
| September 2008 | Lucan Gordon | Brixton, London | 23-year-old Gordon was stabbed outside a club in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, on 19 September 2008. A man arrived suddenly and stabbed the West Norwood resident once in the neck before fleeing on foot. |
| September 2008 | Clive Enkel | Romford, Essex | 53-year-old Enkel was beaten at the home he shared with his elderly father on Alderwood Drive, Abridge, Essex, by men with baseball bats on 25 September 2008. He died in Queen's Hospital, Romford, two days later. Police investigated a group of men who were knocking on doors looking for casual work. Two men were arrested but released without charge. |
| October 2008 | Surjit Takhar | Telford, Shropshire | Takhar's remains were found by roadworkers at a motorway junction on the outskirts of Telford in 2015. He had not been seen since early October 2008 and had phoned the police days before going missing to report an unwanted person at his home in Oldbury, West Midlands. The 37-year-old delivery driver's death might have been to do with money he owed. |
| October 2008 | Errol Davis | London | 24-year-old Davis, a prime suspect in the murder of 24-year-old Jimoh Plunkett in Ipswich, died at the Royal London Hospital on Sunday 5 October 2008 about six hours after receiving a single shot to the head in the seOne nightclub on Weston Street, Southwark. A man tried at the Old Bailey in 2011 for Davis's murder and the February 2009 killing of 25-year-old Larry Safie was acquitted of these crimes but jailed for another shooting. |
| October 2008 | Daniel King | Ditton, Kent | 51-year-old King was shot dead in his house on Medina Road, Ditton, in the early hours of 17 October 2008. The police investigation that followed probed the theory of a connection between this crime and one in November 2006 in which his lounge window was shot out. |
| October 2008 | Ashley Kemete | Kennington, London | Kemete, a 20-year-old known to the police, was shot four times in White Hart Street, Kennington, on 17 October 2008 at around 9:10 p.m. after three men approached him on foot outside his residence there. |
| November 2008 | Nathan Douglas | Wandsworth, London | 20-year-old Douglas was stabbed in the neck on 3 November 2008 after travelling to Lebanon Road in Wandsworth by car with friends and leaving the vehicle at around 11:15 p.m. to buy drugs. The Camberwell man's inquest heard that the police had two suspects but not enough evidence for the Crown Prosecution Service to put either on trial. |
| November 2008 | Lea Brooke | Wakefield, West Yorkshire | Brooke, 81, died when her home on Walton Lane, Wakefield, was set on fire on 10 November. In a case which police believe was one of mistaken identity, white spirit was poured through the letterbox and set alight. Brooke's murder was featured on Crimewatch. |
| November 2008 | Andrew Cresswell | Pluckley, Kent | Creswell was found dead on 11 November 2008 at a café on an industrial estate; the cause of death was a blow to the head. He was the owner of the café and police thought the assailant might have been there to burgle it. Five people have been arrested but not charged over the murder of the 51-year-old aviation archaeologist, who also had a mobile home on that estate. |
| December 2008 | Andrew Cunningham | Earlsfield, London | On 10 December 2008, 52-year-old Cunningham, a convicted child sex offender, was found dead – stabbed and with his genitals mutilated – in his caravan outside the haulage yard where he worked. £6,000 in cash was missing from the caravan, but police thought the slaying might have been a vigilante attack. Despite over 500 witness statements and a £20,000 reward, the perpetrator has not been found. |
| January 2009 | Sean Finnan | Liverpool | 22-year-old Finnan was struck with a metal bar and stabbed after encountering a gang in Barons Hey, Stockbridge Village, on 5 January 2009. He died four days later. Finnan had gone to the area to try to recover a stolen bicycle belonging to his brother. |
| January 2009 | Molly Morgan | Harrow, London | Morgan, 81, had her handbag snatched from her as she walked along Streatfield Road, Harrow, on 15 January 2009. She fell during the attack and hit her head, and died in hospital the following day. The handbag had contained nothing of any value. Four men were arrested but released without charge. On the 10th anniversary of Morgan's death, a £20,000 reward for information was offered. |
| January 2009 | Ryan Quinn | Portrush, County Antrim | Quinn, 14, was assaulted then chased onto a railway line by a group of teenagers after an argument on 30 January 2009. His hand became trapped in a cattle grid near Dhu Varren and he was hit by a train. Two suspects were named in a police file, but the Public Prosecution Service said there was not enough evidence to charge either of them. |
| February 2009 | David Currier | Bromsgrove, Worcestershire | An intruder who probably entered 35-year-old Currier's house with accomplices killed him there in the early hours of 7 February by stabbing him in the leg. The victim's six-year-old son was also in the house. |
| February 2009 | Shawn Callum | Stonebridge, London | 26-year-old Callum was shot dead in Stonebridge as he left a party at a primary school in the early hours of 8 February 2009. Two men were cleared of murder the following February at a trial where it was alleged that the shooting was connected to a row involving the deceased and his cousin. One of the accused – a 22-year-old deliberately misidentified by a witness as the gunman, according to a defence lawyer – told the court that he was at the party but making a phone call when the offence was committed. |
| February 2009 | Damion Blair | Attacked in Tottenham, London, died in hospital | 26-year-old Blair was shot four times outside a Caribbean café on Tottenham High Road at around 1:15 a.m. on 13 February 2009. It was an incident that followed a heated argument between him and his assailant. Two men were charged with murder, but the charges were withdrawn ahead of trial. |
| February 2009 | Rhys Davies | Cardiff | 17-year-old Davies was involved in an altercation while shopping with a friend on St Mary Street, Cardiff, on 13 February 2009 at 6:40 p.m. He suffered head injuries and died the following day. Four men were arrested for Davies's murder but released without charge because of lack of evidence. |
| February 2009 | Larry Safie | East Dulwich, London | 25-year-old Safie was shot once in the back of the head whilst walking along East Dulwich's Barry Road, where he lived, on 22 February 2009. A man tried at the Old Bailey in 2011 for his murder and the October 2008 killing of 24-year-old Errol Davis was acquitted of these crimes but jailed for another shooting. |
| March 2009 | AbdulKarim Boudiaf | Tottenham, London | 18-year-old Boudiaf had plans to study law at the University of Northampton when he was shot on Broadwater Road, close to the Elmhurst Hotel in Tottenham, at 10:00 p.m. on 14 March 2009. A man stood trial for murder and two people were also tried for assisting an offender, but all three were acquitted in November 2009. In 2017, Boudiaf's family called for the case to be re-investigated with the support of the MP for Tottenham, David Lammy. He stated that the case had "echoes" of the Stephen Lawrence case. |
| March 2009 | Claudia Lawrence | Body not found | Although Lawrence's body has not been found, North Yorkshire Police are treating her disappearance as a suspected murder. Lawrence was 35 years old when she was last seen on 18 March 2009 after her day's work as a chef at the University of York. She sent a text message to a friend at 8:23 p.m. and was reported missing when she failed to arrive for work the following day. In the years since Lawrence's disappearance, nine people have been arrested or interviewed under caution over it. |
| March 2009 | Ian Newtion | Greenford, London | 45-year-old Newtion was found dead on 22 March 2009 in a passageway beneath a roundabout. His throat had been cut – possibly with a piece of a smashed beer bottle – but he had not been robbed. Newtion had been performing at a 60th birthday party prior to the attack and, under the stage name Scoobie Santino and with fellow artist Sweetie Irie, had had a single in 1990 titled "Money Honey". |
| April 2009 | Damian Clough | Keighley, West Yorkshire | Twelve-year-old Clough died in a fire at his home at Kinara Close, Stockbridge, Keighley, on 4 April 2009. A group of people visited the house that evening and two fires were started before 10:00 p.m. Two teenagers stood trial for Clough's manslaughter in 2010 but were found not guilty. |
| April 2009 | David Weaver | Birmingham | 45-year-old Weaver was battered at a murdered man's wake at a pub in Erdington on 22 November 2008 after stepping in to try to calm things down when a fight had started. He died on 26 April 2009 in hospital. |
| June 2009 | Anthony Otton | Fulham, London | 28-year-old Otton was killed by a single bullet to the heart as he left Geranium House, Fulham Court, London, on 4 June 2009 – the day of the wake for Darcy Austin-Bruce, who was gunned down outside Wandsworth Prison on 1 May 2009. Police believed Otton was the victim of a revenge shooting and offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to a prosecution. |
| June 2009 | Ali Toprak | Attacked in West Kensington, London, died in hospital | 33-year-old Toprak was stabbed in the heart with a screwdriver outside a nightclub on 21 June 2009 during a disturbance said to have been triggered by a man pestering his cousin to use her mobile phone to take a picture of him. A man was tried for murder at the Old Bailey and acquitted. |
| July 2009 | James Kamara | Sheffield | Kamara was a 22-year-old who died on 1 July 2009 after bullets fired from a passing vehicle hit him and others while he was sitting in a car in Brunswick Street, Sheffield. It is thought that the slaying was gang-related but that he was not the intended target. Four men were found not guilty of involvement in the crime. |
| July 2009 | Nathan Williams | Attacked in New Cross, London, died in hospital | University student Williams, 24, was shot in his car in Ludwick Mews on 28 July 2009 after driving there to pick up his girlfriend. |
| August 2009 | Marek Pudlowski | Bognor Regis, West Sussex | Pudlowski, aged 51 and originally from Poland, was found dead on a bench near the seaside town's pier on 3 August 2009. Though the post mortem could not determine exactly how he had died, it did reveal that he had suffered an extensive assault immediately prior to his death. Pudlowski had seemed anxious when he was in a Bognor bank on the day he was killed. |
| August 2009 | Daniel Herbert | Attacked in Bermondsey, London, died in hospital | In an episode of violence said to have been in retaliation for Herbert and his friends burgling a Bermondsey property where cannabis was grown, the 27-year-old nightclub promoter from Orpington in southeast London was chased by four men before being beaten and shot in the Bermondsey area on 17 August 2009. He died the next day. Two men – one of whom lived at the burgled residence – were acquitted of murder but convicted of grievous bodily harm. |
| August 2009 | Richard Clarke | Attacked in Eye, Suffolk, died at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | A couple saw Clarke holding the back of his head on the driveway of his home in Eye on the evening of 21 August 2009. He was pronounced dead in hospital the following morning less than two hours after a dog walker had found the 73-year-old former thatcher collapsed where the couple had seen him, and a forensic pathologist believed he had been dragged to the ground and punched. |
| August 2009 | Paula Hounslea | Liverpool | A dog walker discovered Hounslea's body in a fire pit near the loop line cycle path in Fazakerley on 5 May 2012. She had been missing since 22 August 2009, when she was 37 years old, and her body was identified using her medical and dental records. |
| August 2009 | Safrajur Jahangir | Sheffield | On 28 August 2009, 23-year-old takeaway owner Jahangir was lured to where he was shot dead – Scraith Wood Drive in Sheffield's Shirecliffe district – by someone pretending they wanted a curry delivered there. Six men were charged with conspiracy to murder, but their trial in 2010 was discontinued following the revelation that South Yorkshire Police had withheld vital information from the defence. A man thought to have been the actual hitman fatally overdosed on heroin before the police had enough evidence to charge him. |
| September 2009 | Larry Malone | West Norwood, London | Malone, 24, was shot dead through a window on 3 September 2009 while sitting on a sofa in his aunt's home on Harpenden Road, West Norwood. The crime was allegedly to do with drugs. Although two men were acquitted of Malone's murder in late 2011, they and three other people did receive sentences for possession of a submachine gun used in the act. |
| October 2009 | Oktay Erbasli | Attacked in Tottenham, London, died in hospital | 23-year-old Erbasli was shot in his car when a motorcycle pulled up to it on 2 October 2009. His girlfriend and her five-year-old son were in the car as well but were unharmed. Erbasli, who ran the local Pound Stop Shop, was thought to have been involved with a gang known as the Tottenham Boys, and it was believed that his murder – one in an apparent string of tit-for-tat crimes – was connected to the rival Bombacilar gang. |
| October 2009 | Alan Wood | Lound, Lincolnshire | On 24 October 2009, three days after he was last seen alive, 50-year-old Wood was found dead in his home, tortured – possibly for financial details – and with head wounds and a slit throat. A £60,000 reward, televised appeals and the recovery of a suspect's DNA have not resulted in a prosecution. Lincolnshire Police was pursuing fresh leads in December 2019 after an appeal in October of that year. |
| October 2009 | Jeannie Smith | Airdrie, North Lanarkshire | 41-year-old Smith's heart was fatally penetrated by a knife on 31 October 2009 while she was in the driveway of her home on Oronsay Road, Airdrie. It happened during a period of large-scale fighting in the locality, and other people were seriously hurt as well, including one of Smith's sons, who was punched, stabbed in the face and kicked. This son identified as his mother's killer a man who would be convicted of her murder in September 2010, but the following year, his evidence was deemed unreliable and the conviction was quashed. |
| November 2009 | Daniel Duke | Attacked in Walworth, London, died in hospital | Duke, a 22-year-old described as a small-time drug dealer, died on 3 November 2009 after being shot in Alberta Street the day before. A silver Ford Mondeo matching a car seen at the scene was found burnt out in south London's Peckham district. Three men were cleared of murder at the Old Bailey, but one of them was jailed for possession of the murder weapon. He claimed that police discovered it during a search of his home because it was being hidden at the request of an unknown man. |
| December 2009 | Philip Silvester | Kidbrooke, London | Police found Silvester dead from head and chest injuries in his home on Kellaway Road on 13 December 2009. The 62-year-old had not been seen since his visit to a nearby shop 11 days earlier. |
| December 2009 | Grzegorz Witkowski | Body not found | Witkowski was a Polish resident of Leicester who, at age 48, vanished after leaving a party in the city at around 10:30 p.m. on 12 December 2009 and speaking a little while later to family in Poland. His case has been classed as one of murder since 2012. |

## 2010s

| Year | Victim(s) | Location of body or bodies | Notes |
| January 2010 | Antoine Denis | Chatham, Kent | Denis, 66, was found dead at his flat in Copperfield House, New Road, Chatham, on 9 January 2010. Murder was not suspected until a knife in his back was discovered when his body was about to be moved by undertakers. A woman was charged with Denis's murder, but the charge was dropped in March 2010. |
| January 2010 | Sukhwinder Singh | Attacked in Barking, London, died in hospital | 31-year-old Singh was stabbed in the heart in Uphall Road after chasing two men who had just robbed a woman of her handbag and mobile phone in nearby Loxford Road. He died in hospital the following day, on 9 January. |
| January 2010 | Mohamed Abdul Kadir | Liverpool | 19-year-old Kadir died in hospital three days after suffering a head injury during a street attack in Toxteth – an attack that took place on 26 January. A local person was withholding information that would help find the killer(s), police believed. |
| March 2010 | Donavan Van Lill | Body not found | Van Lill, a 29-year-old fitness instructor who lived and worked in the Wiltshire town of Chippenham, went missing on 3 March 2010. A 41-year-old swimming instructor who worked with him at a leisure centre was charged with his murder later that month. It was alleged at trial that he began plotting to kill Van Lill after they fell out whilst on holiday in Van Lill's native South Africa in 2006, with the prosecution also drawing attention to a list found at the defendant's home of methods to kill and ways to get rid of evidence and the body following a killing – a list he maintained was just fantasy and did not contain anything he intended to put into practice. The defence in turn drew attention to the failure of forensic scientists to link him to Van Lill's disappearance, and after more than 12 hours of deliberation, the jury cleared him. |
| March 2010 | Nigel Price | Southampton | Price lapsed into a semi-coma following a beating he had suffered on Southampton Common on 13/14 November 2009, and died on 23 March 2010. Police were not sure whether the attack on the 58-year-old was homophobic. |
| April 2010 | Errol McKenzie | Leyton, London | McKenzie, 37, was shot on 11 April 2010 in a playing field off Seymour Road after returning to Leyton from a work-related visit to Tottenham. Police did not establish a motive. |
| April 2010 | Niamh and Cayden Adams | Buxton, Derbyshire | Five-year-old Niamh and two-year-old Cayden died in a house fire at night on 23 April 2010. Police suspected the fire was started by their mother, who escaped it by jumping from an upstairs window with her third child, and she was charged. She was later cleared at Nottingham Crown Court of causing the children's deaths, as well as arson and inflicting grievous bodily harm. After the verdicts, Derbyshire Constabulary said it would set up an independent review team. |
| April 2010 | Barry Rubery | Iron Acton, near Bristol | Rubery, a grandfather aged 68, was restrained with cable ties and beaten to death at his cottage in Iron Acton on 28 April 2010. Various items were stolen from the cottage too, including a gold Masonic pocket watch, a Makita drill and a Nokia 3310 mobile phone. |
| April 2010 | Nicky Ayers | Liverpool | Ayers, a 46-year-old who managed a football team called Western Approaches, was shot in South Cantril Avenue, West Derby, on 29 April 2010. He was known to the police and had been in prison for his part in a plot to have the drug MDMA supplied in Jersey. It has been claimed that Ayers's murder and that of Karl Bradley in March 2013 were ordered by the same drug boss. |
| May 2010 | Daniel Smith | Maida Vale, London | Smith, a 22-year-old electrician, was shot on 22 May 2010 as he left a takeaway on Harrow Road. The killing was thought to have been a case of mistaken identity. Two years later a jury cleared three people of Smith's murder. |
| June 2010 | James Davis | Norwich, Norfolk | The 25-year-old care worker was stabbed in the heart, thigh and buttocks on 3 June 2010 after travelling from London to Norwich with three other people to take property from one of the occupants of a house on Old Palace Road. Seven people have been arrested but nobody has been charged in connection with the fatal attack. |
| June 2010 | Paul Pike | Liverpool | Pike, 23, was killed and his girlfriend suffered minor injuries when his van was hit by bullets after stopping at traffic lights on Crosby Road North, Waterloo, on 5 June 2010. No motive for the shooting is known. |
| July 2010 | Wayne Powell | Attacked in Chingford, London, died in hospital | Powell, a 39-year-old DJ, was shot four times after getting out of his car in Higham Station Avenue on 5 July 2010. The gunman walked away calmly following the shooting. |
| September 2010 | Ricardo Cunha | West Norwood, London | 23-year-old Cunha heard a knock on the front door of his block of flats after sitting down to watch TV with his girlfriend on 11 September 2010, and leaned out of a window to investigate. A bullet fired by someone outside then hit him in the head and killed him, but police believe it was meant for another person. |
| September 2010 | Imran Farooq | Edgware, London | Farooq died outside his home in Green Lane, Edgware, north London, on 16 September from multiple stab wounds and head injuries. The 50-year-old exile was a high-ranking member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a political group that had its origins in his native Pakistan as an opposition party, and his murder was believed to have been politically motivated. |
| September 2010 | Colin Hughes | Liverpool | Hughes, a 42-year-old chef, was stabbed in the chest in the garden of his Old Swan home on 21 September 2010 after going outside to investigate because the back door glass had been smashed. A man seen in a nearby alley shortly before the nighttime incident has not been traced and was described as being slim, white, and about 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall. |
| 19 October 2010 | Edith Stuart | Attacked in Cleveleys, died in hospital in Blackpool (both in Lancashire) | Stuart, 96, died in Blackpool Victoria Hospital the day after the care home bed in which she was sleeping was set fire to. |
| October 2010 | Samuel Adelagun | Plaistow, London | Two men shot at 16-year-old Adelagun's group at the junction of Chesterton Road and Upper Road, Plaistow, on 23 October 2010. Adelagun was hit in the chest and died, while a companion was hit in the abdomen and survived. |
| November 2010 | Andrew Crawford | Leeds | 44-year-old Crawford was involved in an argument after a Motörhead concert in Leeds on 25 November 2010. Crawford and his cousin were punched to the ground during the argument and Crawford died the following day from blunt force trauma injuries to the head. An inquest the following year found that no one was likely to be charged over his death as it could not be known who had struck the fatal blow. |
| December 2010 | Wayne Bassnett | Attacked in Hale, Cheshire, died in hospital | Bassnett, 30, was shot dead on 22 December 2010, and a man was acquitted of the act in March 2013. Police believe another man to have been involved in the shooting in some way, but his whereabouts are unknown. Bassnett had been arrested over the January 2002 disappearance of Lyndon Nowell. |
| January 2011 | Eddie Pybis | Liverpool | 20-year-old Pybis was shot on 3 January 2011 whilst in the passenger seat of a Volvo being driven through Anfield. He is believed to have also been the front seat passenger of a silver Ford Focus when there was an altercation in Larkhill Close involving the people in the Focus and another car earlier in the day. |
| January 2011 | Adrian Milner | Attacked in Sittingbourne, Kent, died in hospital in London | Father-of-two Milner, 48, was punched as he walked along Church Road, Murston, Sittingbourne, just before 8:00 p.m. on 28 December 2010. The attack was unprovoked; Milner hit his head on the pavement and died in hospital 12 days later. |
| January 2011 | Joseph Cummins | Liverpool | Cummins, 25, was shot in the back in Longmoor Lane, Fazakerley, on 20 January 2011. The case was dubbed "murder in the mist" because of foggy conditions, and a £20,000 reward was on offer for information that led to his killers being prosecuted. |
| February 2011 | Samuel Guidera | Attacked in Sydenham, London, died in hospital | Guidera, a 24-year-old university student, was stabbed in the heart and had his wallet stolen after getting off a train at Penge East railway station on 12 February 2011. Minutes before he was found injured near the station, his mobile phone had been used to dial an inactive and unregistered number. |
| February 2011 | Lee Duncan | Edinburgh | 31-year-old Duncan's body was discovered on 25 February 2011 in his flat in Lauriston Place, near Edinburgh city centre. He had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer. His neighbour was tried for the murder but found not guilty. |
| April 2011 | Damian Chlywka | Warlingham, Surrey | Two gardeners found the body of a man wrapped in tarpaulin in a garden well at Audley Drive, Warlingham, on 15 November 2013. The body was later identified as that of Chlywka, 32, who was last seen alive at his home in Thornton Heath on 17 April 2011. Although the cause of death could not be ascertained, it was clear that Chlywka suffered a brutal assault and died about two-and-a-half years previously. The case featured on Crimewatch in February 2014 and several men have been arrested and released without charge. |
| May 2011 | Adeniyi Lateef Shode | Attacked in Northolt, London, died in hospital | 21-year-old Shode was found collapsed and stabbed near the junction of Rowdell Road, Ealing Road and Kensington Road in Northolt on 2 May 2011. Nine arrests over his death were made between that month and October 2016. |
| May 2011 | Randy Osei-Boateng | West Kensington, London | Osei-Boateng, a 27-year-old Ghanaian living in Streatham, was shot on the afternoon of 9 May 2011 as he sat behind the wheel of a car parked in Lakeside Road, West Kensington. Within a few days it was reported that two people arrested – a 17-year-old and a 19-year-old – had both been released on bail. |
| May 2011 | Scott Fletcher | Body not found | Police suspicions that the missing Hartlepool man was unlawfully killed, and that it may have been because he owed money, caused a murder inquiry to be launched in 2015 – a year that saw five men arrested in connection with the inquiry and then released without charge. Two more were arrested and released in 2016. 27-year-old Fletcher was last seen on 11 May 2011 near a garage at Wheatley Hill in County Durham. |
| June 2011 | David Gower | Bulkington, Warwickshire | 37-year-old Gower was shot and stabbed in an outbuilding at a friend's home in Bulkington on 26 June 2011. Nine men stood trial for Gower's murder and conspiracy to inflict grievous bodily harm on his friend, but the judge ordered the acquittal of each defendant after a claim had been made that the friend – a key prosecution witness – had fired a gun prior to escaping from his property and Gower's assailants. The murder was alleged to have happened because Gower had got in the way of an attack planned on his friend for revenge. |
| July 2011 | Karoly Varga | Wellingborough, Northamptonshire | Varga was beaten to death with a small axe or similar at his home in Cannon Street, Wellingborough, in late July 2011. He was 76 and had moved to England from his native country of Hungary during the 1950s. A friend of Varga was charged with murder before having the case against him withdrawn. |
| August 2011 | Stuart Horsman | Winchester, Hampshire | Homeless Horsman, 34, became unwell at Winchester railway station on 3 August 2011 and died a few hours later from internal bleeding. Police think the bleeding was a consequence of an attack suffered up to several days previously. |
| 9 August 2011 | Trevor Ellis | Attacked in Croydon, London, died in hospital | 26-year-old Ellis was shot in the head shortly after he and friends got caught up in a car chase with a group of looters during the 2011 riots in London. |
| August 2011 | Alisa Dmitrijeva | Anmer, Norfolk | The 17-year-old Latvian from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire disappeared on 31 August 2011 after she was spotted in a car with two men in King's Lynn, Norfolk. Her body was found on the Sandringham Estate on 1 January 2012, but the cause of her death could not be determined. Police have not charged anyone with Dmitrijeva's murder but had questioned two men over it by September 2014. |
| September 2011 | Isobel Dobson | Hessle, West Yorkshire | Two-year-old Dobson died in a fire at Hessle Farm, Hessle, a hamlet near Wakefield, on 30 September 2011. A barn had been deliberately set on fire, with the fire then spreading to a van which Dobson and her half-sister were in. The other girl was rescued from the blaze. The inquest into Dobson's death found that her stepfather could have started the fire; he had already been arrested over it but the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to proceed. |
| October 2011 | Akilakumar Kanthasamy | Mitcham, London | Kanthasamy, 28, was stabbed in the heart on 22 October 2011 during a fight in the car park of a community centre where a party was being held. Guests had been having money demanded off them at knifepoint by a group of people outside the building, witnesses later said. A man charged with murder claimed to have run away from the community centre before the stabbing and was cleared because of that and because there was not much scientific evidence to connect him to the offence. |
| November 2011 | Azezur "Ronnie" Khan | East Dulwich, London | 21-year-old Khan was shot in an apparent gangland attack on 3 November 2011 as he left Camberwell Old Cemetery following the funeral of an old school friend. Khan himself was not affiliated with any gangs, but his deceased friend had been a member of one with rivals whose territory the cemetery was located in. |
| December 2011 | Justin Hague | Rotherham, South Yorkshire | 40-year-old Hague was stabbed in Godric Drive, Brinsworth, Rotherham, on 3 December 2011. By the end of February 2012, two men had been arrested on suspicion of murder and released pending further inquiries, and four people – including Hague's 19-year-old son – had appeared in court on charges of aggravated burglary. |
| December 2011 | John Lee Barrett | Attacked in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, died in hospital | Barrett, 31, was punched, kicked and stabbed in a nightclub on Christmas Day in a brawl sparked by him bumping into someone there. He died from the stab wound on 27 December. Twelve men were convicted of offences to do with the brawl, but it is not known who killed Barrett. In 2015, one of the convicted men himself died after being stabbed at a nightclub. |
| December 2011 | Richard Williams | Birmingham | Williams, a homeless 58-year-old, was fatally beaten at a bus stop in Dudley Road, Birmingham, on 30 December 2011. The trial of a 35-year-old Russian man alleged to have been the perpetrator was halted when the prosecution offered no evidence against him. |
| January 2012 | Joshua Green | Sheffield | 27-year-old Green was stabbed in the neck during the early hours of New Year's Day whilst on the dance floor of the Stars Suite on Queens Road, Sheffield. It was an offence committed in the wake of an argument. |
| February 2012 | Ali Armagan | Wood Green, London | The 32-year-old suspected gang boss was shot in his car when it was parked near Turnpike Lane tube station on 1 February 2012. Six men were acquitted of murder, but three of them admitted to conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm. |
| February 2012 | Earl Warburton | Lewisham, London | 59-year-old Warburton was dragged into his bathroom and killed by a combination of compression to the neck and blows to the head after four men entered his flat on Loampit Hill, Lewisham, in the early hours of 15 February 2012. The flat was used as a brothel, and four female sex workers who were in it at the time were ordered to lie down and not look at the killers, who ransacked whilst there too and demanded to know where the money was kept as they searched. |
| March 2012 | Tafadzwa "Taffy" Khan | Bawburgh, near Norwich, Norfolk | 25-year-old Khan was stabbed to death on 18 March 2012 during a party at former boxing champion Herbie Hide's mansion. A fellow partygoer was charged with murder, but the charge against him was dropped. |
| April 2012 | Connie French | Attacked in Colne, Lancashire, died in hospital | 80-year-old French suffered acute bruising to her neck and chest at her home in North Street, Colne, when the property was being burgled on 27 March 2012. Although critically injured, she remained alive for a further 17 days and, due to damage to her larynx, communicated with detectives by writing on a notepad and mouthing answers whilst in a hospital bed. Police charged French's granddaughter's boyfriend first with burglary and causing grievous bodily harm and then, following the victim's death on 13 April, with murder, but he claimed at his trial that she had mistaken the culprit for him and was cleared. After the acquittal, police released a statement saying they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the crime. |
| May 2012 | Emma Winnall | Birmingham | 93-year-old Winnall was attacked in her bed at her home in Moseley on 30 April or 1 May 2012. She died in hospital from her injuries on 29 May. No motive could be established, and police said the attacker had entered with a key. |
| June 2012 | Marvin Hogan | London | 28-year-old Hogan was stabbed in the heart in Leyton during an attempt to stop one of a group of three men taking a keyring with his car key on it. A passer-by stopped and put a rucksack under Hogan's head before the emergency services arrived, but he died at the Royal London Hospital on the morning of 5 June. |
| June 2012 | Joey Thompson | Liverpool | 32-year-old Thompson, a senior member of the Strand Gang, was shot dead on 14 June in Ravensthorpe Green, a street in the Liverpool district of Norris Green. Police wanted to speak to whoever was in a dark Citroen C4 seen driving through the district at around the time of the incident. Thompson was a suspect in the unsolved murder of Danny McDonald, a man from a rival gang who was killed in a pub shooting on New Year's Day 2004. |
| July 2012 | Tom Kirwan | Wolverhampton, West Midlands | Kirwan was stabbed in the back and through the heart on 8 July 2012 during a brawl outside a Wolverhampton nightclub. Five people were later jailed for affray, but who was behind the 23-year-old's death is still a mystery. |
| July 2012 | Pamela Wheeler | Thamesmead, London | 76-year-old Wheeler was found dead at her home on Newacres Road, Thamesmead, in July 2012. She is last known to have been seen on 9 July and was attacked in an apparent robbery. Wheeler's wrists and ankles were bound and she died from suffocation and a head injury. |
| August 2012 | Kestutis Mickevicius | Beckton, London | 44-year-old Mickevicius, a Lithuanian, was found dead on wasteland off Spur Road on 17 August 2012. He had worked at a carwash at a garden centre in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Police traced Mickevicius's mobile phone and that of a colleague of his to the site where the body had been left and the colleague was subsequently tried for both murder and manslaughter, but the court did not convict him of either crime. |
| September 2012 | Kyle Sheehan | Birmingham | 16-year-old Sheehan died a week after an incident on 21 September in which he was stabbed in the leg in a park in Birmingham's Bartley Green district. |
| October 2012 | Sabah Usmani, Hira Shakoor, Sohaib Shakoor, Muneeb Shakoor, Rayyan Shakoor, Maheen Shakoor | Harlow, Essex | Usmani, 44, and her five children (Hira, 12, Sohaib, 11, Muneeb, 9, Rayyan, 6, and Maheen, 3) died in an arson attack at their home in Barn Mead, Harlow, in the early hours of 15 October 2012. Usmani's husband, Abdul Shakoor, managed to escape and raise the alarm, but the fire spread too quickly for anyone else to survive. A car in the road was set on fire at the same time. An appeal for information in 2017 did not yield any new leads. |
| October 2012 | Teon Palmer | Edmonton, London | 28-year-old Palmer was stabbed once in the chest on 20 October 2012 following the slashing of all four of his car tyres, and was found in Edmonton's Montagu Road. Up to seven males were seen leaving the scene, some of them on bicycles. Three men were arrested in 2013 and released without charge. |
| 2 December 2012 | Jamie Starkey | Liverpool | 21-year-old Starkey was fatally shot outside his house in Fazakerley just after telling his seven-year-old sister that he was going to help her put up a Christmas tree the next day. Starkey had non-fatally shot a drug dealer at the age of 16. |
| 16 December 2012 | John Roberts | Winlaton, Tyne and Wear | John "The Badge" Roberts, a father-of-one, was well known for selling pin badges on Newcastle United match days. On 16 December two police officers passing his home on Park Terrace, Winlaton, noticed that his front door had been left open, and found the 32-year-old dead inside with serious head injuries. Six people were arrested over his murder during the course of 2013, but all were released without charge. |
| 17 December 2012 | David "Les" Ross | Corby, Northamptonshire | Ross, a 39-year-old nightclub partner and doorman who also worked as a taxi driver, choked to death on his own vomit in his hotel room after being badly beaten there in the early hours. A prime suspect twice apprehended in connection with his murder was killed in a road traffic collision in 2020. |
| 30 December 2012 | Kyle Vaughan | Body not found | 24-year-old Vaughan, from Newbridge in Caerphilly County, was last seen on 30 December 2012. Later that night, his silver Peugeot 306 car was found on the A467 between Risca and Crosskeys; it is not known if he was driving it at that time. Gwent Police was soon treating Vaughan's disappearance as murder and arrested eight people in connection with his disappearance, including two on suspicion of murder, but all were later released without charge. In 2023 Crimestoppers increased its reward to £20,000, for information leading to finding out what happened to Vaughan. The same year, Gwent Police renewed its appeal for information and confirmed that its investigation into Vaughan's case "remains very much active". |
| January 2013 | Robert Duff | Body not found | 37-year-old Duff was last seen at a flat in Bredgar Road, Archway, north London, on 12 January 2013. He failed to turn up for his daughter's 18th birthday party that day and police believe he was killed in a fight. Two men were arrested on suspicion of his murder in May 2018 but were released. In November 2020, police divers searched the Highgate No. 1 Pond on Hampstead Heath in response to new information. |
| February 2013 | Joseph Burke-Monerville | Attacked in Clapton, London, died in hospital | Burke-Monerville, 19, was shot as he sat in the back of a car in Hindrey Road, Clapton, on 16 February 2013. Three men stood trial for his murder but were acquitted in 2015. Burke-Monerville's brother Trevor was murdered in 1994 and nobody has been convicted of that killing either. Another brother, David, was murdered in June 2019. |
| March 2013 | Karl Bradley | Liverpool | 31-year-old Karl Bradley, brother of underworld figure Kirk Bradley, was discovered dead with gunshot wounds in Penshaw Close, West Derby, on 22 March 2013. It has been claimed that this murder and that of Nicky Ayers in April 2010 were ordered by the same drug boss. |
| April 2013 | Paul Foster | Luton, Bedfordshire | 46-year-old Foster was shot on the Lewsey Farm estate on 9 April 2013. Some of his friends and acquaintances were involved with the criminal world, and it seemed that the incident – one of 27 shootings in Luton over a period of a year – was part of a feud between people from that world. |
| April 2013 | Samuel Harry | Attacked in Bromham, Bedfordshire, died in hospital | 19-month-old Harry died at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on 22 April 2013 after suffering a bleed on his brain. The inquest into his death found that his injuries were caused by a "substantial blow" to the head and the coroner stated that he was unlawfully killed. Harry's mother and her partner gave conflicting accounts of what happened and the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute. |
| May 2013 | Xhem Krasniqi | Attacked in Hove, East Sussex, died in hospital in Brighton | 31-year-old Kransniqi was with his brother and nephew in Church Road, Hove, on 18 May 2013 when the trio were shot at. Kransniqi died in the early hours of 19 May and the other two narrowly avoided injury. A 32-year-old man was cleared of murder, two attempted murders, and possessing a gun illegally at a trial that concluded in February 2014. |
| June 2013 | Vasilijs Ransevs | Lincoln | A friend found the body of the 33-year-old Latvian in his flat on 16 June 2013. He had suffered head injuries and arrests later took place, but no charges followed any of them. |
| July 2013 | James Baillie | Attacked in Hamilton, died in hospital in East Kilbride (both in South Lanarkshire) | 41-year-old Baillie suffered a fatal head injury and his 64-year-old mother suffered non-fatal arm, head and facial injuries after they got involved in a row with a group of people in Buchanan Crescent, Hamilton, on 23 July 2013. Baillie died three days later, and the following summer a former featherweight boxing champion was acquitted of his murder and the mother's attempted murder. |
| September 2013 | Adeyemi Olugbuyi | Northampton | Olugbuyi's skeletal remains were found in January 2016 under a hedge not far from where, according to two female witnesses, he was stabbed on 13 September 2013 by one of a group of men. Four men arrested over the murder of the 31-year-old drug dealer were all released. |
| September 2013 | Kyle McDonald | Battersea, London | McDonald, 19, collapsed and died in Coppock Close in Battersea on 18 September after being shot outside a primary school a few roads away. A plumber was charged because CCTV had captured his van in the area, but the Old Bailey cleared him of the offence. |
| November 2013 | Ismail Essa | Park Royal, London | 33-year-old Essa was stabbed to death on 3 November 2013 whilst embroiled in a disturbance outside a café on Gorst Road, Park Royal. In July 2014 a man who slashed another's face during the disturbance was cleared of murder but found guilty of violent disorder and wounding with intent. |
| December 2013 | Antonio Rodney-Cole | Attacked in Stoke Newington, London, died in hospital | Rodney-Cole, 22, was stabbed in the leg on 2 December 2013. After the attack, he tried to drive away from the scene but collapsed at the wheel of his car in Stoke Newington's Marton Road, where an off-duty doctor treated him before paramedics arrived and took over. Five people were arrested and released. |
| December 2013 | Rowan Thomas-Williams | London | 20-year-old Thomas-Williams was shot at a party in Mulberry Court, Elgar Avenue, Neasden, in the early hours of 6 December 2013, and died after being taken to hospital by friends. A £20,000 reward was offered for information leading to a conviction. |
| February 2014 | Angela Millington | Foulness Island, Essex | Of no fixed abode when she disappeared in early February 2014 at the age of 33, Millington's skeletal remains were discovered washed up on Foulness Island in June of that year. Though a cause of death could not be determined, foul play was nonetheless apparent from indications that a gaffer tape mask found close to the remains had been attached to her face. |
| February 2014 | Mashboor Hussain | Tooting, London | Hussain, 73, died after two men forced their way into his home on Selkirk Road, Tooting, at around 11:45 a.m. on 11 February 2014. One of the men was armed with a gun and Hussain collapsed after a scuffle. Although he had coronary heart disease, Hussain's death was attributed to the break-in and his case was treated as murder. |
| June 2014 | Floarea Nicolae | Attacked in Edmonton, London, died in hospital | 20-year-old Nicolae was found stabbed on Grove Street, Edmonton, after midnight on 1 June 2014, and died at a hospital in east London. A woman stood trial for her murder in December but was acquitted. |
| June 2014 | Robert Hutchinson | Body not found | 56-year-old Hutchinson vanished within a day of driving away from his Sunderland home on 23 June, and detectives are treating his disappearance as murder even though his body is yet to be discovered. His blue Nissan Micra was found in Stewart Street in the city. |
| August 2014 | Aqeel Khan | Watford, Hertfordshire | Khan, 18, was stabbed in Croxley View, Watford, on 22 August 2014. Luton Crown Court was told that Khan and another youth fought after a group led by Khan chased him. A 17-year-old alleged to have been the other youth denied being present when the murder was committed and was acquitted. |
| October 2014 | Pragaret "Charlie" Singh | Manchester | Singh, 35, was shot outside his food business in Openshaw on 31 October 2014, and around £28,000 in takings was stolen. A detective chief inspector believed that the culprit was being shielded by a "small group of people". |
| November 2014 | Dale Gordon | Manchester | Gordon was fatally beaten in Netherbury Close, Gorton on 15 November 2014 after riding there on his moped. He was a 20-year-old singer and rapper whose stage name was Deezy and he had auditioned for The X Factor. |
| December 2014 | Luke Jackson | Pimlico, London | Jackson, 33, was stabbed to death at his mother's flat in Pimlico on 19 December 2014. A number of people have been arrested and released without charge. |
| February 2015 | Redwan El-Ghaidouni | Uxbridge, London | 38-year-old El-Ghaidouni was shot in his car on the driveway of his home in Vine Lane, Uxbridge, on the evening of 3 February. CCTV filmed a suspect near the property that day, as well as on numerous occasions in the days leading up to it during what are thought to have been the same gunman's failed earlier missions. El-Ghaidouni had been released from jail the previous July after being sentenced in relation to the importation and possession of cannabis. |
| February 2015 | Kevin Wilson | Liverpool | 17-year-old Wilson was shot in the back at around 8:30 p.m. on 7 February 2015. The incident took place at the junction of Smithdown Road and Holmes Street in Wavertree, and he died later in hospital. Thirteen people have been arrested over Wilson's murder, but police say the investigation is still ongoing. A new appeal for information was made on the fifth anniversary of his death. |
| February 2015 | Terry Isaacs | Attacked in Tulse Hill, London, died in hospital | Isaacs, 56, was found in Bannister Close, Tulse Hill, with serious head injuries on 19 February 2015, and died five days later. Two mobile phones, his wallet, and his tobacco tin had been stolen. |
| March 2015 | Jamie Connelly | Glasgow | 28-year-old Connelly died at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow on 8 March 2015 after being stabbed in the heart outside his home in Greenhill Road, Rutherglen. His best friend, with whom he had apparently fallen out over a £600 debt Connelly owed him, was acquitted on a verdict of not proven. Connelly's father had testified that he had seen the friend lunge at Connelly that evening, but while the friend admitted that the two of them had fought in his car shortly before Connelly was stabbed, he rejected the allegation that he had been behind the stabbing. |
| April 2015 | Martin Hamilton | West Lothian | When Hamilton's skull and parts of his spine were discovered in remote woodland on 17 December 2015, he had not been seen since 16 April. A man in custody awaiting trial to face allegations of shooting the 53-year-old violent career criminal before inflicting sharp and blunt-force injuries to his head, was released in March 2017 after being found to have terminal cancer. Glasgow's district of Blackhill had been one of Hamilton's main areas of operation prior to his 1992 imprisonment and subsequent relocation to Edinburgh. |
| April 2015 | Ola Raji | Peckham, London | 20-year-old Raji was shot and stabbed by two men who confronted him as he cycled onto the East Surrey Grove Estate, Commercial Way, Peckham, on 21 April 2015. There have been arrests but no one has been charged with his murder. |
| April 2015 | Luiri "Laura" El-Hagrasi | Body not found | El-Hagrasi, originally from Latvia, disappeared after going to Heathrow Airport with family members on 22 April 2015 to catch a plane. Though it is still not known precisely why the 33-year-old failed to board the aircraft or what has become of her, Kent Police have nonetheless added her name to their list of victims of murders that have not been solved. El-Hagrasi was living in the Cliftonville area of Margate when she went missing. |
| June 2015 | Lukey Maxwell | Tottenham, London | Maxwell, 22, was stabbed in the back in a road known as Northumberland Park and then discovered there shortly after midnight on 5 June 2015. Police charged a man with murder two days later, but prosecutors did not find the case against him sufficient to commit him to trial. |
| June 2015 | Margaret Quinn | Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire | 36-year-old Quinn sustained a stab wound to the back that pierced her heart at an address in Skye Road, Cathkin, on 12 June 2015. A man was charged with her murder and the attempted murder of a male cousin of hers, but the latter charge was withdrawn and the former found not proven. Partway through the suspect's trial, Quinn's cousin ran from the witness box and lunged at him, causing the other man to suffer a swollen forehead along with grazes at the top of his head and on the bridge of his nose. The cousin was sentenced to three years and four months for this attack and for threatening the suspect's partner. |
| June 2015 | Christian Bagley | Hereford | 30-year-old Bagley was walking under the Hunderton Bridge in Hereford when someone stabbed him to death on 21 June 2015. West Mercia Police made four arrests relating to his murder but has not charged anyone over it. |
| June 2015 | John Palmer | South Weald, Essex | John "Goldfinger" Palmer, 64, was reputed to have once been Britain's richest criminal. He was shot six times at close range in the garden of his home in South Weald on 24 June 2015. Police believe his murder was a contract killing and a reward of £100,000 was offered. |
| July 2015 | Erdogan Guzel | Wood Green, London | 42-year-old Guzel was one of three people shot as he sat outside his bakery on Lordship Lane on 10 July 2015, but the other two survived. The shots were fired from a black Honda Civic with a fake registration number. |
| August 2015 | Albert Williams | Southend, Essex | On 8 August 2015, at his flat in Cedar Close in Southend, 67-year-old Williams was strangled and had his chest flattened – probably as a result of being stamped on – by one or more burglars who stole approximately £10,000 before his body was burnt. It came just seven days after a previous burglary there during which he was assaulted. Two men in their 40s were tried for both burglaries and attacks but found guilty of the earlier ones only, for which they were each sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. Another man in his 40s has also been a suspect in the second burglary and fatal assault, but was never charged with either offence. |
| August 2015 | Marvin Couson | Attacked in Shoreditch, London, died 13 years later | Couson was 26 when he was shot outside the Lime Bar in Shoreditch on 12 May 2002. His injuries left him paralysed and unable to communicate and were the cause of his death on 8 August 2015. Police arrested a man in May 2019. |
| September 2015 | Tadas Jarusevicius | Plumstead, London | 29-year-old Jarusevicius was found dead beneath a bridge in Plumstead High Street on 23 September 2015. He had been living there with a group of people, and died from blunt-force trauma to the head and neck. Several people have been arrested and released without charge. |
| September 2015 | David Brickwood | Northampton | 74-year-old Brickwood was fatally stabbed in his Northampton home during a burglary on 26 September 2015. In April 2021, a judge told the jurors at a 27-year-old man's trial that because his DNA at the crime scene could have been due to secondary transfer, they were to acquit him of both murder and burglary. |
| October 2015 | Samuel Marriott-Gray | Attacked in Oxford, died nine years later | 21-year-old Marriott-Gray was knifed outside a blues night after-party in Blackbird Leys on 19 August 2006 during a brawl that followed a dispute about paying £5 to get in. The weapon was thrust into his neck and entered his brain, and he became persistently vegetative as a result. A man was convicted of attempted murder in 2007, but at a 2017 murder trial after Marriott-Gray's death on 31 October 2015, he was cleared. A defence lawyer at the 2007 trial acknowledged that Marriott-Gray named the suspected knifeman as the perpetrator but said he could have been mistaken in doing so, and added that family members of Marriott-Gray who were present at the scene might have lied or embellished to help secure a conviction against the man whose culpability they believed in. |
| November 2015 | Ladimeji Benson | Chelmsford, Essex | 27-year-old Benson, a Colchester resident who ran a trainer shop in Southend, died in hospital after he was stabbed in Chelmsford city centre when he got into an argument. Although at least three arrests have since been made in connection with his murder, police have yet to charge anybody with it. |
| November 2015 | Clocaenog Forest Man | Clocaenog Forest, Wales | On the evening of 14 November 2015, two brothers out camping in woodland found part of the skull of a man who had lain dead for up to 20 years. Detectives believe he died after being struck on the head at another location and was then taken to the woods between 1995 and 2005. |
| December 2015 | Mumtaz Member | Leicester | Member was a 56-year-old grandmother who died from head injuries on 12 December at her home in Holmfield Avenue, Stoneygate. Three people – the dead woman's sons and the wife of one of them – were charged with her murder, but the charges against them were all dropped. An inquest was scheduled for July 2023. |
| January 2016 | Harjit Singh Dulai | Hayes, London | Dulai, 44, was stabbed in the chest near a tennis court in Rosedale Park, Hayes, on 27 January 2016. A 16-year-old boy stood trial for his murder but was acquitted in July 2017. Several other people have been arrested and released without charge. |
| February 2016 | Tommy Ward | Rotherham, South Yorkshire | 80-year-old Ward, a retired miner, suffered a severe beating at his Maltby home on 1 October 2015 and died on 23 February 2016 in Rotherham Hospital. His life savings of £30,000 were stolen. Several people have been arrested but without any charges. |
| March 2016 | Junior Nelson | Northolt, London | The remains of Nelson, 52, were found on an overgrown embankment on Rabournmead Drive, Northolt, on 13 March 2016. Nelson lived in Kilburn and was last seen the previous year on 17 August. Although the post-mortem results were inconclusive, police believe he died violently. |
| March 2016 | Robyn Mercer | Molesey, Surrey | 50-year-old Mercer was found bludgeoned to death outside her Walton Road home on 14 March 2016. Several people have been arrested over the antique dealer's death, but nobody has been convicted except her ex-partner for forging a will in her name. |
| April 2016 | Unidentified male | Forest Gate, London | The skeletal remains of a man were found in a disused factory on 29 April 2016. He died from blunt-force trauma to the skull, was aged between 29 and 35, and most likely came from the Indian subcontinent. He was murdered between 2003 and 2006. The remains were in a sleeping bag and partially wrapped in a bin bag. Blood matched to his DNA was found in a first-floor room in the factory, leading police to believe that was where the killing took place. |
| May 2016 | Rukevwe Tadafe | Attacked in Bermondsey, died in hospital in another part of London | 21-year-old Tadafe was stabbed during a fight on Trundley's Walk, Bermondsey, on 30 April 2016. A man stood trial for his murder later that year but was acquitted. |
| May 2016 | Abdi Gutale | Leyton, London | Minicab driver Gutale, 24, was shot as he drove his Vauxhall Zafira at the junction of Melbourne Road and Capworth Street, Leyton, in the early hours of 14 May 2016. Five men were arrested but released without charge. |
| June 2016 | Matthew Kitandwe | Battersea, London | 18-year-old Kitandwe was stabbed outside his flat on Wayford Street, Battersea, at 4:16 p.m. on 21 June 2016. Kitandwe was a talented footballer and police found no evidence that he had criminal connections. Eight people have been arrested and released. |
| July 2016 | Ricardo Hunter | Headley, Surrey | 34-year-old Hunter, known as "Forty", was shot dead during a party at a house on Church Lane, Headley, in the early hours of 25 July 2016. Hunter was from south London and was one of around 400 guests at the event. Three people have been arrested and released without charge, and a £10,000 reward has been offered. |
| August 2016 | Andrew Oteng-Owusu | Attacked in New Cross, London, died in hospital | 19-year-old Oteng-Owusu died from a single stab wound to his leg after an attack at the junction of Hornshay Street and Lovelinch Close on 3 August 2016. He returned to his home in Upnall House, Sharratt Street, where he was found by his mother. A reward of £20,000 was offered. |
| August 2016 | Gary Weir | Glasgow | 24-year-old Weir was stabbed in the heart during a fight between two groups of people in east Glasgow on 7 August 2016. Five men were cleared in late 2017 of his murder and the attempted murders of three men who were with him on the night he was killed. |
| August 2016 | David Robinson | Archway, London | David "Dawood" Robinson, 25, was shot four times at Big House 101 recording studio on Sunnyside Road, Archway, on 20 August 2016. Despite there being witnesses to the crime, no one has been prosecuted for it. In February 2018, at the inquest into Robinson's death, his mother confronted the man who she believed carried out the shooting. |
| October 2016 | Kacper Latuszek | Walthamstow, London | Latuszek, 31, was found dead at a house on Forest Road, Walthamstow, on 8 October 2016. A post-mortem found that his death was caused by internal bleeding. Two men were arrested but released. |
| October 2016 | Jodie Wilkinson | Newcastle | In Arthur's Hill in Newcastle on the afternoon of 17 October 2016, a man barged into and then racially abused a man in the group 27-year-old Wilkinson was a part of. Following a remonstration from the other man and some aggressive posturing, things calmed down and he and Wilkinson left the scene, but trouble started again when he went back to look for legal highs he had dropped and people decided to attack him and his companions. A short while later, Wilkinson and another person in her group received stab wounds. The other victim survived but Wilkinson died after phoning the emergency services. A man tried for her murder was acquitted of any wrongdoing, but four other men pleaded guilty to and were jailed for violent disorder. |
| October 2016 | Blake Brown | Liverpool | Brown, a 30-year-old acquitted at the age of 19 of the November 2004 murder of Paul Mooney, was fatally shot near St Michaels railway station in Liverpool on 24 October 2016. One man was cleared of being involved in any plot to kill or hurt Brown, and two brothers each received a suspended sentence for perverting the course of justice in relation to murder. |
| October 2016 | Ziggy Worrell-Owusu | London | 19-year-old Worrell-Owusu was stabbed at an 18th birthday party at The Basement Shisha Lounge, Goodmayes Road, Ilford, in the early hours of 27 October 2016, and died in an east London hospital. He was reportedly trying to break up a fight when he was attacked. Three people were arrested and released without charge. |
| November 2016 | James Owusu-Agyekum | Harlesden, London | 22-year-old Owusu-Agyekum was shot dead on 2 November 2016 by someone who fired through his open front door. The gunman and an accomplice are thought to have fled to the nearby Stonebridge Estate on bicycles after the attack, which police believed was likely a case of mistaken identity. A reward of £20,000 was offered. |
| November 2016 | Michael Currer | Norwich, Norfolk | 59-year-old Currer was found dead in his flat on 12 November 2016. His body had multiple injuries, but no weapon appeared to have been used on him and there was no sign of forced entry. Currer had phoned the police on 9 November, but did not want them to come to his residence; when officers went there anyway, he refused them entry and told them to leave. In February 2017, Currer's on-off partner confessed to killing him and was arrested, but the Crown Prosecution Service found there was insufficient evidence to prosecute her. At the inquest into Currer's death, she denied killing him. |
| November 2016 | Mohamed Kakay | Camberwell, London | 33-year-old Kakay was stabbed in gardens at the back of St Giles' Church, Camberwell, at 9:00 a.m. on 19 November 2016. He collapsed in Camberwell Church Street, and is believed to have been attacked by two people. Several suspects have been arrested, but no one has been charged. Two years after Kakay's death a £20,000 reward was offered. |
| December 2016 | Thomas Roberts | Glasgow | A 35-year-old man was tried for the murder of 43-year-old Roberts and an assault on a 50-year-old friend of his in the early hours of 25 December 2016, but was found guilty only of the latter offence, with a verdict of not proven over the murder. The defendant claimed in court that, far from being responsible for the attack that led to Roberts's death, he actually intervened to try to stop it and that Roberts was killed by his friend. Roberts's friend, however, maintained that the defendant alone was the assailant. The attack happened in a communal area of the district of Milton and much of it was witnessed by people in flats overlooking the area. |
| January 2017 | Thomas Baker | Liverpool | 44-year-old Baker was shot in a car park after leaving the gym at Liverpool's Stanley Meat Market on 27 January 2017. CCTV captured a car that the police think was being driven by the gunman as it headed away from there – a silver Volkswagen Polo also caught on CCTV at other locations in the city. |
| February 2017 | Aaron Lewis | Liverpool | Lewis, 26, was fatally shot outside the Anna Jungs chip shop on Grosvenor Road, Wavertree, on 1 February 2017. A friend who was with him was also shot in the attack but survived. Eight people were arrested and released without charge. |
| February 2017 | Hang Yin Leung | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire | 64-year-old Leung was beaten by intruders who burgled her home in Orne Gardens, Bolbeck Park, on 31 January 2017. She died in hospital 11 days later. Four men were arrested, but there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone. The case was featured on the Channel 4 documentary Catching a Killer in May 2018. |
| February 2017 | Jonathon "JJ" McPhillips | Islington, London | 28-year-old McPhillips was stabbed in the chest in Upper Street, Islington on 25 February 2017 when a group of males armed with knives attacked the group he was part of. A man was due to stand trial for the murder in August 2018, but the case collapsed. |
| March 2017 | Craig Kearney | East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire | 24-year-old Kearney was discovered fatally injured in the road on 5 March 2017 after getting out of a taxi whose driver he had been arguing with. A murder charge against the driver was found by a jury to be not proven. He had maintained that his vehicle had only clipped Kearney as he drove away from where he had dropped him and his girlfriend off, and not mown him down as the charge alleged. Kearney's girlfriend did not witness him receiving his injuries as she had started to walk home without him. |
| March 2017 | David Adegbite | Barking, London | 18-year-old Adegbite, known as Dutch, was shot in the head as he cycled through an estate in St Ann's, Barking, on 19 March 2017. A number of men were arrested but no one has been charged in relation to his murder. |
| March 2017 | Malachi Brooks | Battersea, London | Brooks, 21, was attacked in the early hours of 28 March 2017 in Surrey Lane, Battersea. Four masked men pulled up in a vehicle and three of them attacked Brooks, who died from a stab wound to the heart. Three men were convicted of perverting the course of justice, but no one has been convicted of Brooks's murder. A £20,000 reward was offered on the second anniversary of his death. |
| April 2017 | Ahmed Deen-Jah | Custom House, London | Deen-Jah, 21, was fatally stabbed on Freemason's Road, Custom House, on 2 April 2017. A black Mercedes car believed to have been involved in the crime was later found burnt out. Two men were charged with Deen-Jah's murder in October 2024. |
| April 2017 | Bjorn Brown | Attacked in Croydon, London, died in hospital | CCTV captured 23-year-old Brown talking to two suspects in Bensham Lane, Croydon, on 29 March 2017. He then went with them into Kelling Gardens, where he was knifed off camera. Following the stabbing, the suspects fled while the fatally injured Brown rode his bicycle away before collapsing. He died on 3 April. Crimestoppers offered a £20,000 reward for information resulting in a prosecution. |
| April 2017 | Karim Samms | North Woolwich, London | 16-year-old Samms died from a gunshot wound to the chest on Roebourne Way, North Woolwich, on the evening of 7 April 2017. CCTV revealed two suspects approaching a group of people which included Samms; they fled in a car after the shooting. |
| April 2017 | Abdullah Hammia | Wandsworth, London | 24-year-old Hammia was fatally stabbed during an altercation on Melody Road, Wandsworth, close to the junction with Allfarthing Lane, on 25 April 2017. Later the same year, two men were jailed for perverting the course of justice. Two men were charged with Hammia's murder, but the charges were dropped. |
| May 2017 | Patricia Finnie | Body not found | Finnie has not been seen since 11 May 2017, when the then 64-year-old went missing after visiting a friend at an address elsewhere in Southend, Essex. A man was bailed in June 2023 following his arrest on suspicion of her murder. |
| May 2017 | Mohanna Abdhou | Kilburn, London | 20-year-old Abdhou, known as Montana, was shot on the South Kilburn Estate on 26 May 2017. She was caught in gunfire from two masked men on bicycles and was hit by a bullet which ricocheted off a wall. Two men and a 17-year-old boy stood trial for murder and manslaughter in 2018 but were found not guilty. |
| May 2017 | Jaymie Hall | Edinburgh | 35-year-old Hall was fatally stabbed on 27 May 2017 at his flat in Wester Hailes. A friend of his was tried for murder and acquitted on a not proven verdict. He claimed while on trial that another man was the killer, asserting that the other man, who died in late 2017, stabbed Hall following a physical confrontation. Allegedly the other man came off worse in the confrontation and that was his motive for the knife attack. |
| June 2017 | Yusuf Sonko | Liverpool | 18-year-old Sonko was shot in the head while he stood with a group of friends in Tagus Street, Toxteth, on 2 June 2017. The killer had approached the group on a bicycle and it is believed that Sonko was not the intended target. Nine people were questioned soon after the killing and in 2019 police released the name of an individual of interest. A £20,000 reward has been offered. |
| June 2017 | Abdirahman Mohamed | Peckham, London | Mohamed died within half an hour of being stabbed in the chest at around 11:00 p.m. on 2 June 2017. At the murder trial of two young men several months later, it was alleged that the 17-year-old had been killed because he had made fun of one of the accused for having been arrested for possession of a samurai sword. The suspects were found not guilty. Later that year, one of those men was himself fatally stabbed, but the person who dealt the blow was cleared on the grounds of self-defence. |
| June 2017 | Mahad Ali | Attacked in Park Royal, London, died in hospital | 18-year-old Ali was fatally stabbed at a warehouse party in Coronation Road, Park Royal, on 29 June 2017. The case against a man charged with his murder was dropped in January 2018. |
| August 2017 | Joshua Bwalya | Barking, London | 16-year-old Bwalya was fatally stabbed in Movers Lane, Barking, on 2 August 2017. He had attended a school leavers' party and was attacked by a group of youths on bicycles. |
| August 2017 | Cafer Aslan | Edmonton, London | On 23 August 2017, 54-year-old Aslan was found with fatal gunshot injuries in a part of Westminster Road close to the junction with Bounces Road. His cousin Bulent Kabala was shot dead six months later, in February 2018. Police have described both murders as contract killings and offered a £20,000 reward. |
| September 2017 | Corey Junior Davis | Attacked in Forest Gate, London, died in hospital | 14-year-old Davis, known as CJ, died after a drive-by shooting in Moore Walk, Forest Gate, at 3:08 p.m. on 4 September 2017. His mother claimed that he was being groomed by a drugs gang. In August 2018, a serious case review found that Davis and his mother were failed by local agencies which could have protected them from gang culture. |
| September 2017 | Jude Gayle | West Norwood, London | Gayle, 30, was fatally stabbed when he visited a shop in West Norwood on 24 September 2017 to buy a bottle of ketchup for lunch with his mother. Three men stood trial for his murder but were found not guilty. |
| September 2017 | Unidentified male | Wimbledon, London | The skeletal remains of an unknown male were found in a shallow grave in the back garden of a house on Cowdrey Road on 28 September 2017. The man, wearing a shirt, a red silk tie, trousers, shoes and socks, had been killed by a blow to the head and then dismembered. He was aged 35 to 55, 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall and of a muscular build, and was likely Asian. Carbon dating suggested he had been killed in the early 1960s. |
| October 2017 | Jamie Perkins | Gilfach Goch, South Wales | The body of Perkins, a father-of-one who had once boxed for Wales, was found in a culvert in Gilfach Goch on 1 November 2017. He had not been seen since 8 October, when he was living in a hotel in nearby Tonyrefail. Four arrests over the 41-year-old's murder were made within several weeks of his body being discovered, but none of the people arrested was charged. |
| November 2017 | Adam Ellison | Prescot, Merseyside | 29-year-old Ellison became involved in an argument with people on a motorcycle in a pedestrianised area of Prescot on 4 November 2017. He was fatally stabbed. The distinctive Kawasaki motorcycle was recovered and is believed to have links to Plymouth. |
| November 2017 | Anthony Nicholls | Birmingham | 56-year-old Nicholls and his partner were having a meal in their home in Birchtrees Drive, Birmingham, on 2 November 2017 when intruders broke in and a large firework was set off, triggering a blaze. Nicholls suffered severe burns and smoke inhalation before being rescued by firefighters, and died on 7 November. His partner managed to escape by jumping from a first floor window, suffering a broken leg. |
| November 2017 | Jordan Ajobo | Attacked in North Woolwich, London, died in hospital | 21-year-old Ajobo was fatally stabbed in Pier Road, North Woolwich, on the evening of 8 November 2017. Police named two men they were searching for in connection with his death, one of whom was later detained by officers in Exeter for an unrelated matter and then released. |
| November 2017 | Piotr Woroniecki | Clapham, London | 32-year-old Woroniecki was pronounced dead in Parma Crescent, Clapham, on 23 November 2017. A post mortem found he had died from compression to the neck and police believed he had been held in a headlock for a long time. Three men have been arrested and released. |
| December 2017 | Janet Moore | Struck by a car in West Molesey, Surrey, died in hospital six days later | During the early hours of 26 November 2017, shouting was heard and a car was seen speeding away from The Hurst Pool's car park. First responders found 54-year-old Moore there with serious injuries caused by vehicle impact, which proved fatal. A man arrested in January 2018 was still a person of interest four months later. |
| December 2017 | Alex Vanderpuye | Hackney, London | 24-year-old Vanderpuye was stabbed to death at the junction of Cassland Road and Christie Road, Hackney, on 7 December 2017. A number of people have been arrested and released. In 2019, police offered a £20,000 reward for information. |
| December 2017 | Taofeek Lamidi | West Ham, London | 20-year-old Lamidi was fatally stabbed on Memorial Avenue, West Ham, on the evening of 31 December 2017. Police said he was with a number of other people at the time of the attack. |
| January 2018 | Harun Jama | Oxford | 16-year-old Jama, a Birmingham resident visiting Oxford, was stabbed in Friars Wharf on 3 January 2018. Several arrests have been made over his murder but no charges filed. |
| January 2018 | Yaya Mbye | Attacked in Stoke Newington, London, died in hospital | 26-year-old Mbye was found stabbed on the George Downing Estate in Stoke Newington on 28 January 2018. Police believe three males were behind the attack and that they left the scene in a silver car. |
| February 2018 | Bulent Kabala | Barnet, London | 41-year-old Kabala was shot dead on Mount Pleasant, near Edgeworth Road, Cockfosters, at about 11:45 p.m. on 12 February 2018. His car had been hit by a Ford Transit van which had been following him and he was shot when he got out of his vehicle. A man was arrested but later released. Kabala's cousin Cafer Aslan had been murdered six months previously, in August 2017. Police have described both murders as contract killings and offered a £20,000 reward. |
| March 2018 | Georgina Gharsallah | Body not found | Gharsallah, 30, disappeared from her home town of Worthing in West Sussex on 7 March 2018. CCTV recorded someone who appeared to be her walking with a woman along the town's Chapel Road that afternoon, but neither woman's identity has been determined. Gharsallah's case was reclassified as one of murder in August 2019. |
| March 2018 | Kelvin Odunuyi | Attacked in Wood Green, London, died in hospital | Odunuyi, 19, was fatally shot on 8 March 2018 outside the Vue cinema in Wood Green. It is believed that the killing was a revenge attack for the murder of Kwabena "Kobi" Nelson in Tottenham in February 2018. |
| March 2018 | Nikolay Glushkov | New Malden, London | Glushkov, 68, was found dead at his home in Clarence Avenue, New Malden, on 12 March 2018. The cause of death was determined to be strangulation. There was no sign of forced entry at the property and the murder allegedly bore the hallmarks of a contract killing. Glushkov was Russian and a prominent critic of the Kremlin, and had been granted political asylum in the UK in 2004. |
| March 2018 | Jermaine Johnson | Walthamstow, London | 41-year-old Johnson was stabbed to death at his flat on Vallentin Road, Walthamstow, on 19 March 2018. His partner's 16-year-old son surrendered himself to police custody three days later after refusing to answer questions, and in June 2018, the case against him was discontinued. |
| March 2018 | Johnny Robbins, Daniel Shaw | Coventry, West Midlands | 28-year-old Shaw was shot dead near his home in Tile Hill a few days after the disappearance of 33-year-old Tile Hill resident Robbins, who remains unaccounted for. The police believe that Robbins was murdered as well and have linked the deaths of the two men. A suspect in the killings went missing soon after they took place and may have been murdered himself, while another suspect was bailed in late 2018 following his arrest in Spain. |
| March 2018 | Abraham Badru | Hackney, London | 26-year-old Badru was shot dead as he opened the boot of his car in Ferncliff Road, Hackney, on 25 March 2018. Investigators were unsure of the motive; one possibility is mistaken identity. A reward of £20,000 was offered. |
| March 2018 | Reece Tshoma | Attacked in Plumstead, London, died in hospital | 23-year-old Tshoma was stabbed in the neck near Plumstead railway station on 29 March 2018 and died in hospital sometime after 8:37 p.m. that day after being driven there by a friend he had called. |
| April 2018 | Devoy Burton-Stapleton | Earlsfield, London | 20-year-old Burton-Stapleton, a college student, suffered a fatal street stabbing in the early hours of 1 April 2018 after exiting a bar near Wandsworth Common. A man charged with murder had his case dismissed before his trial was due to commence. |
| April 2018 | Tanesha Melbourne-Blake | Tottenham, London | Melbourne-Blake, 17, was fatally shot as she stood with friends on Chalgrove Road at 9.35 pm on 2 April. She had no links to any gangs, and police believed her death was related to an ongoing territory dispute. In 2020, police made a new appeal for information and announced that the gun used to kill Melbourne-Blake had been found and that it had also been used in the murder of Joseph Williams-Torres in Walthamstow on 14 March 2018. Three men were jailed for Williams-Torres's murder, which was a case of mistaken identity. Police believed the gun was passed between gangs and had arrested and released five men in connection with Melbourne-Blake's death as of January 2020. Two men were charged with her murder in July 2024 and are due to go on trial in March 2025. |
| April 2018 | Amaan Shakoor | Attacked in Walthamstow, London, died in hospital | In what may have been a gangland killing, 16-year-old Shakoor was shot in the face outside Walthamstow Leisure Centre on 2 April 2018 and died of his injuries in an east London hospital. |
| April 2018 | Sami Sidhom | Forest Gate, London | Sidhom, an 18-year-old history and law student, was stabbed to death in Chestnut Avenue, Forest Gate while on his way home from a football match on 16 April 2018. He is believed to have been targeted in a case of mistaken identity. Ten males between the ages of 15 and 35 have been arrested over the attack but no one has been charged. |
| April 2018 | Kwasi Anim-Boadu | Finsbury Park, London | 20-year-old Anim-Boadu was stabbed to death outside a house party in Roth Walk, Finsbury Park during the early hours of 21 April 2018. |
| May 2018 | Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton | Camberwell, London | Barton, 17, was shot while playing football on the evening of 5 May 2018. He died shortly after the attack and his body was found on Warham Street, Camberwell. |
| May 2018 | Fatah Warsame | Liverpool | 20-year-old Warsame, from Cardiff, was fatally stabbed in Liverpool city centre whilst on a night out on 6 May 2018. A man was arrested on suspicion of his murder and released without charge. |
| May 2018 | Naheed Khan | Body not found | The body of 43-year-old Khan has not been found, but police are treating her disappearance in Middlesbrough as murder. Khan was last seen on 4 May 2018. Money was withdrawn from her bank account from a cash machine in central Middlesbrough two days later; the account has remained untouched since. Crimestoppers is offering an award of £10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Five men have been arrested and released without charge. In June 2020, police announced that they were scaling back the investigation. |
| May 2018 | Annalise Johnstone | Dunning, Perthshire | Johnstone, 22, was killed at Maggie Wall's memorial on 10 May 2018. Her throat was cut. Johnstone's brother stood trial over her death; although he admitted dumping her body, he denied murder and the jury reached a verdict of not proven. A woman also faced charges but was acquitted of them all. |
| June 2018 | Mark Tremain | Attacked in Stockwell, London, died later in hospital | Tremain, 52, suffered serious facial injuries during a fight in Albert Square, Stockwell, on 31 May 2018. He died in hospital two weeks later, on 14 June. |
| June 2018 | Ishak Tacine | Edmonton, London | 20-year-old Tacine was fatally stabbed in a fight on Cavendish Road, Edmonton, in the early evening of 27 June 2018. He died at the scene. |
| July 2018 | Latwaan Griffiths | Attacked in Brixton, London, died later in hospital | Drill rapper Griffiths, 18, was stabbed in Minet Road, Brixton, on the evening of 25 July 2018. A moped rider then took him to Denmark Road in Camberwell, where he was left and where members of the public gave him first aid, and he died in hospital shortly after midnight. |
| August 2018 | Joel Urhie | Deptford, London | Seven-year-old Urhie died in an arson attack on his family's home in Adolphus Street, Deptford, on 7 August 2018. His mother and sister managed to escape. An appeal was made on Crimewatch Roadshow in March 2019, and two men have been arrested and released without charge. |
| August 2018 | Kavan Brissett | Sheffield | 21-year-old Brissett died in hospital four days after he was stabbed in a car park in Upperthorpe on 14 August. Four men have been charged with conspiracy to rob him, but a man whom police still want to question about his death has been missing since September 2018 and is feared to have left the country. |
| September 2018 | Fidel Glasgow | Coventry, West Midlands | 21-year-old Glasgow was stabbed on Saturday 1 September 2018 during a brawl near Club M in Coventry. Nobody has been charged with his murder, but nine men have been sentenced for other crimes relating to the street disturbance. |
| September 2018 | Ismail Tanrikulu | Tottenham, London | Tanrikulu, 22, was shot in Tottenham Cemetery on 3 September 2018. A man stood trial for his murder in March 2019 and was acquitted. |
| September 2018 | Elyon Poku | Attacked in Stamford Hill, London, died in hospital | 20-year-old Poku was stabbed while DJing at an 18th birthday party on 22 September 2018. Those who attended have been reluctant to tell the police about anything they saw or heard there. |
| September 2018 | Guled Farah | Attacked in Walthamstow, London, died in hospital | 19-year-old Farah was shot from a car in Vallentin Road soon after 11:00 p.m. on 22 September 2018. A man in his mid-20s was acquitted the following September when the case was abandoned by the Crown Prosecution Service. |
| October 2018 | Carl Russell | Liverpool | Russell, 27, was shot as he and his partner got out of their car in Cornwood Close, Belle Vale, at around 11:30 a.m. on 7 October 2018. Three men were arrested but police made a new appeal for information on the second anniversary of Russell's death. |
| October 2018 | Leroy Ottey | Liverpool | Ottey, 25, was shot in the back when returning to his home in Alderson Road, Wavertree, on the night of 17 October 2018. A black Audi which sped from the scene was later found burnt out nearby in Abbeystead Road. |
| October 2018 | Tyrone Mulinde | Bridgwater, Somerset | Mulinde, a 20-year-old Ugandan national, was stabbed in the arm and heart on 20 October 2018 at a flat in a Bridgwater hostel known as Dampiet House. It was a flat that belonged to someone else but had been taken over by Mulinde and fellow drug dealers. A man and a woman from London were charged and committed to trial, with the man accused of stabbing Mulinde over money issues and the woman of helping her co-defendant carry out the act, but both were acquitted. |
| October 2018 | Ethan Nedd-Bruce | Greenwich, London | 18-year-old Nedd-Bruce was shot outside Collins House, Armitage Road, Greenwich, on the evening of 22 October 2018, having been involved in an altercation with a group of men in neighbouring Woolwich Road shortly beforehand. In October 2020, police made a new appeal for information and offered a £20,000 reward. |
| November 2018 | John Ogunjobi | Brixton, London | 16-year-old Ogunjobi was fatally stabbed on the evening of 5 November 2018 in Greenleaf Close, on Brixton's Tulse Hill Estate. CCTV footage was released of two vehicles which could be linked to the murder. A year after Ogunjobi's death, police made a new appeal for information and offered a reward of £20,000. |
| November 2018 | Valerie Kneale | Blackpool, Lancashire | 75-year-old Kneale suffered a sexual assault, non-medical internal injuries and a fatal haemorrhage whilst a patient at Blackpool Victoria Hospital on 16 November 2018. She had been admitted to the hospital following a stroke. |
| November 2018 | Peter Gouldstone | Attacked in Bounds Green, London, died in hospital | A violent burglary took place at 98-year-old Gouldstone's home on 6 November 2018. He died from his injuries on 30 November. Two suspects were captured on CCTV and two men were arrested but not charged. |
| December 2018 | Shane Fox | Wellingborough, Northamptonshire | 26-year-old Fox was making his way back to his flat on foot in the early hours of 1 December 2018 when an unknown person stabbed him in the chest as he neared the property on Wellingborough's Nest Farm Crescent. Detectives wanted to question someone caught on CCTV about five minutes before the incident occurred. |
| December 2018 | Richard Odunze-Dim | Edmonton, London | 20-year-old Odunze-Dim was shot in a property on St Joseph's Road, Edmonton, on 18 December 2018. Believed to be connected to the incident is a black Audi that someone was driving nearby at about the time it took place. |
| April 2019 | Calvin Bungisa | Kentish Town, London | 22-year-old Bungisa was stabbed to death in a possibly gang-related street killing on 1 April 2019 after being chased by a group of men. A car believed to have been the getaway vehicle was later found abandoned and burnt out in Court Gardens, Highbury. |
| April 2019 | Tony Ferns | Glasgow | Ferns, 33, was fatally stabbed while in his car in Crebar Street, Thornliebank on 18 April 2019. A man approached his vehicle while it was stopped at a junction and asked to speak to him before attacking him. Ferns managed to drive to his home in nearby Roukenburn Street before dying from his injuries. Four men are due to go on trial for his murder in August 2025. |
| May 2019 | Amanda Gretton | Blackheath, London | Gretton, 57, was reported missing on 15 May 2019 and found murdered near garages on Prendergast Road, Blackheath, on 5 July. A man and a woman in a white van were captured on CCTV at around the time of the murder. |
| July 2019 | Cabdullahi Hassan | Attacked in South Hampstead, London, died in hospital | 20-year-old Hassan and a man aged 22 were stabbed on Boundary Road on 25 July 2019, but the 22-year-old survived. Two cousins, one of whom was also stabbed, were cleared of murder after telling the court that they were unaware that there might be violence in the area as one of them drove a man there. A prosecutor said that that man was punched by Hassan at a railway station earlier on 25 July. The man left the UK on 26 July and has not been found, and he and others whose whereabouts are unknown remain suspects. |
| October 2019 | Zoe Orton | Deptford, London | 46-year-old Orton was found strangled to death at her flat by police on 21 October 2019. She was believed to have been killed three days after CCTV filmed her leaving Woolwich Arsenal station on 1 October. |
| December 2019 | William "Blaise" Algar | Barnes, London | 53-year-old Algar was a jazz musician who suffered from mental health issues. He disappeared on 1 December 2019 after CCTV filmed him riding his bicycle in Barnes, and his head and torso were discovered in his flat on 3 January 2020. Five people stood trial and three of them were found guilty of another man's murder, but none of them were found guilty of Algar's, despite convictions for perverting the course of justice in relation to his death. One of those tried was a drug dealer said to have fallen out with him over money. The other murder victim, 35-year-old Ebrima Cham, was stabbed to death on 19 December 2019. |
| December 2019 | Natalie Jenkins | Body not found | Jenkins, a 32-year-old woman from Thornaby-on-Tees near Middlesbrough, disappeared in December 2019 and is presumed murdered. CCTV captured her walking in the direction of Middlesbrough's Albert Park after 11:00 p.m. on 10 December, and she is believed to have still been in the area in the early hours of 11 December. Several people were arrested and released without charge. |
| December 2019 | Ulla Derrick | Died in hospital in Swindon from the effects of a fire in Devizes | A sofa in the communal staircase of a block of flats in Waiblingen Way, Devizes, Wiltshire, was set alight in the early hours of 17 December 2019, causing a blaze that led to the death of 51-year-old Derrick and to several others being injured. Police detained a suspect aged 20 before releasing him without charge. |

## 2020s

| Year | Victim(s) | Location of body or bodies | Notes |
| April 2020 | Kyle Whitley | Liverpool | 18-year-old Whitley was stabbed in the chest in Litherland on 13 April 2020. Three people were arrested. |
| June 2020 | Alexander Kareem | Shepherd's Bush, London | Kareem, a 20-year-old computer student, was shot from a white Range Rover in an apparent case of mistaken identity as he rode an e-scooter along Askew Road, Shepherd's Bush, on 8 June 2020. |
| July 2020 | Dean Edwards | Penge, London | 43-year-old Edwards was shot while walking through Betts Park at night on 12 July 2020. Because he had no criminal connections, it appeared likely that the shooter had mistaken him for someone else. A 26-year-old man was acquitted in May 2022. |
| July 2020 | Ahmed Yasin-Ali | Attacked in Maida Hill, London, died in hospital | 18-year-old Yasin-Ali was found stabbed near Harrow Road on 15 July 2020. There have been a number of arrests but no charges over his death. |
| July 2020 | Nadeem Butt | Manchester | 50-year-old Butt's body was found at his home in Cheetham Hill on 5 August 2020, but his autopsy suggested that he died six days prior to the discovery. Butt's death was due to head injuries, and more than one person is believed to have been responsible for it. |
| August 2020 | Unidentified male | Sudbury, Suffolk | Bones and severed legs of an unknown victim were found in bin bags in the River Stour at Sudbury on 27 August 2020. The deceased was a male of an athletic build, but no other details are known. On 25 May 2021 a man was arrested in relation to the discovery of the remains. |
| October 2020 | Tamba Momodu | Telford, Shropshire | Momodu, 20, was shot dead in a car park on 13 October. He had moved to Telford from London after being acquitted over a death in the capital in 2017, and police think that the shooting that caused his own death had been ordered or carried out in the belief that he had been acquitted wrongly. Four men were put on trial for Momodu's murder in January 2025, but in March, the judge halted proceedings, discharged the jury and ordered a retrial for January 2026. |
| January 2022 | Scott Cooper | Ryde, Isle of Wight | Cooper, 33, was found stabbed to death in a shower on 4 January 2022. A man was found not guilty. |
| February 2024 | Brian Low | Aberfeldy, Perthshire | Low, 65, was shot to death in the Pitilie area of Aberfeldy on 17 February. He was found on remote land there and had been walking his dog. The death was initially treated as non-suspicious, but a murder investigation was later launched before being made public on 27 February. |